I would literally be driving around the city or you know the bridges by my house. I used to get the food from 7-Elevens, you know, that they were going to throw away and just because of the date even though it wasn't bad but per their roots they have to throw it away and I literally they used to tell me no because they didn't want to get sued but I was persistent and I just kept going back please man can I, can I get it? Can I get it?

I don't want to dig it out to trash, but I will.

Three or so years into that,

I had gained about 50 pounds.

My cholesterol, my blood pressure, everything was going in the wrong direction.

I walked into a wall, not meaning to.

Thought I was having a heart attack or a struggle.

Turns out it was a severely inflamed pinched nerve.

That was my wake-up call.

You got to do something differently. At one point, I started to question whether I was actually losing it because I wasn't reactive to so many of the things that other people was reactive to.

And I was like, well, maybe I'm the one who was losing it and they've got it all together.

And that's the psychological challenge of being in an environment where it's so chaotic and nothing is normal.

We called up LAPD and I said, what would it cost for us to shut down Hollywood Boulevard?

And the cop laughed.

He's like, they don't shut down Hollywood Boulevard for a race or for kids in a shelter as a charity run.

They shut that down for like the Academy Awards when they're shooting a scene out of Transformers or something.

They're not going to do that for some kids at the Gramercy Place homeless shelter.

And I was like, oh man, I've had zero money and I guess at that point I was 26 or 27 and I just had zero dollars and the company was paying me an amount that just got me by without, I mean I had nothing.

I had projects that I worked for years that fell through.

I had relationships that I thought, oh he's the one and he was not the one at all he went out and found another one.

I had heartbreaks I had times where I was broke and I had times where I didn't know what to do with myself.

I knew spirit and I knew the light but I didn't know how to translate it.

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