My name is Ty Roxen and I'm a media executive that tells millennial stories on how to pursue your passions

and become a better global leader. It was October 30, 1989 on the fateful day when my spaceship came on Earth.

No, October 30, 1989, I was born and I was born into a family of Nigerians, I'm obviously Nigerian, but my dad is a diplomat.

And what that meant as a child was I basically was moving every four or eight years in those intervals.

And I found myself as a kid always being in between cultures.

You know, it was Nigeria, it was Sweden, it was Burkina Faso, was Vietnam it was the US and that and I just thought to myself

that I've got to figure out you know the best way to be myself and all these cultures I was experiencing a lot of identity crisis trying

to figure out how to find my place in this constantly global world and I think you know very much as a kid I was I was

impressionable so I definitely felt the differences strongest when I was in the kind of also because it was the first time

that I actually became cognizant of the fact that I was amongst Europeans and Americans, you know, up until that point I was I was just with Nigerians and different

accents came into play, you know, things like different sports that people played came into play,

and just pop culture references that I'd been initially

get were just immediately made obvious. I remember saying to myself that you know after

one of those episodes that I that I went home crying I think I was 10 at the time you know my mom would tell me

look you know it's different from everybody else but I remember saying to myself that I can

either keep crying and feel you know lost or I can do something about it.

So being athletic and someone that was always into sports I decided that I was going to do

something about it and one of the best ways for me that I figured out was through

sports. At the time I only knew how to play soccer or what we used to call football and I had looked at the school and I saw that everyone on campus the guys especially knew how to play basketball and tennis and all these other sports.

So I went to the library, I did something a bit unconventional and I checked out every book that I could find on basketball.

I read everything from the history of basketball to the fundamentals of basketball.

I basically wanted to be a student of the game.

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