#190 Don't Let Your Circumstances Define You with ERIC NORMAN
The Snack Nine
Mara Marek
4.8 • 582 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Eric Norman, Police Officer, Firefighter, Member of the US Air Force, advocate for mental health and the LGBTQ+ community sits down and chats with Mara about his failed attempt to "come out" to his family, the trauma he endured growing up, how that led him into a doomed-to-fail marriage, working in the COVID unit in NYC, dealing with pain and surviving suicide. That was the longest sentence of all time, but it definitely represents the full range of topics discussed. Eric has overcome so much adversity and has a clear strategy of how to reclaim his life after every down. Incredible role model...
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| 0:00.0 | BeFrank Network |
| 0:02.2 | Welcome. Welcome to the Happy Never After podcast. |
| 0:30.0 | We are right in the middle of our get out of victim mentality, get into taking control of your destiny. |
| 0:31.6 | No, that's very Tony Robbins. |
| 0:36.1 | I'm not going to take that line or Guy Fierrez. |
| 0:43.4 | Anyway, we are here with a very special guest, Air Force Firefighter. |
| 0:44.0 | Yep. |
| 0:46.2 | Renovator of his home. |
| 0:49.6 | Watcher of the renovation. |
| 0:50.4 | Watcher. |
| 0:52.6 | Really good watcher of the renovation. |
| 0:58.7 | Married. TikTok, extraordinaire, Eric Norman. |
| 0:59.7 | Welcome. |
| 1:01.3 | Hi, hi. |
| 1:04.4 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:08.0 | You can't hear the applause, but I can. |
| 1:09.3 | And it's grand. |
| 1:13.3 | Okay, so we met yesterday. Yes, we did. Yes we did yeah and uh you have a very interesting story so I was like before we say any other words |
| 1:20.2 | let's record this because all of my conversations now are recorded I'm kidding |
| 1:26.0 | quality purposes. Okay, so let's walk through a little bit of |
| 1:33.2 | your life. So you, we can start kind of recently. You just got done with physical therapy. Yes? How you feel? |
| 1:40.8 | Today. It was a rough one, but it's a good thing that it's rough, you know, because I had surgery a couple months ago, long recovery for this one, but I'm way better than I was two months ago. So it's good. Did you get new tits? No. No, loki, though, I kind of wish. In a way, if you if you will but no i just basically got like a new |
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