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Today is another amazing conversation, so let's get started.

Hello Hua, it's such a pleasure to be seeing you again. I know we met, I think for the second time actually in December at Bill Washes event in Las Vegas. It's so great to see you. How's everything going?

It's going great. Great to see you again Sandy.

Yeah, so great to see you. You've got such an interesting background and I've heard bits and pieces of it and I really want to hear it from you and for the audience you're an optometrist big real estate investor and just really incredible background because of the you know

immigrating into the United States and I'd love to have you share your story with

our audience. No absolutely absolutely, thank you.

You know, my parents left Vietnam after the war,

and so my dad actually was the one who rescued about 35 people on a wooden boat. My mom was pregnant with me at the time and so I was born in the refugee camp in the Philippines and moved around to a lot of different places before we moved to the US when I was about 8 and a half years old.

And so I went from up north all the way down and so I was like in 13 different schools before we landed in New Orleans and that was the fifth grade.

And so when people ask me, where are you from?

I claim New Orleans, but I've been around so many different places. And so growing up in New Orleans, but I've been around so many different places. And so growing up in New Orleans was, you know, a little trailer, very humble beginnings, $3,000 trailer my parents purchase, but it was our first home, you know, and a very rough area of New Orleans and my dad passed away really young and so learning how to work at a very young age by 10, I was already working in the family business with my mom and so became a really young entrepreneur early on and so work ethic was very ingrained at a young age, but you know my mom was never allowed to go to school as a woman being in Vietnam and so you know I academically really wanted to pursue that American dream.

And so I worked really hard, weren't to school, worked,

you know, was the first one in my family

to be able to go to college and become a doctor.

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