I remember at the early age, like my father was selling drugs, I could be in a

cow with him and he'll tell me, hold it son, hold this, hold this at at a young age hold this because it's a police

pull us over they ain't gonna search you your kid my father was my hero and growing up

that's who I want to be like I want want to be like him, and nobody couldn't tell me that different.

And guess what? All my life I knew right for wrong, but I still chose to go this route.

Now I look back at it, It's like this is what all

I seen is right there. It seemed cool. Our father in Cadillac cars, big hats, tailor-made

suits, meatcoats, and looking all,

and all that so I'm older be like my father.

Hello friends and welcome back to the Light Watkins show I'm Light Watkins and I

love to interview ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary

leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their

mission in life, and in doing so, they've been able to positively impact and inspire the lives

of many other people who've either heard about their story or who

witnessed them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

And what I've found after conducting hundreds of interviews with luminaries who found their

purpose is that there was always a moment where they hit upon some sort of internal crossroads where they could either go in the direction of being normal and fitting in or they could go further in the direction of being themselves. And 99.9% of the time, the people who end up finding

their calling, their purpose, their path in life are the ones who choose and sometimes against all of the odds to be

themselves to be authentic and it's really that simple and I think we need to hear

these stories over and over and over in order to build up the courage and the confidence to do the same thing in our lives, to keep choosing authenticity, because it's not just about making one choice in order to find your calling and to properly see it through

you're going to have to make that choice hundreds if not thousands of times

because as you get older you start to realize that the world isn't set up for people to

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