This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

This is the James Altiger Show on the Choose Yourself Network.

Today on the James Altiger Show.

I was scared to death.

I wasn't feeling that I belonged on Wall Street.

I felt like I didn't belong anywhere.

And to this day, in my opinion, for me, the worst feeling in the world

is to feel like you don't belong or don't know where you belong.

I was looking for advice.

I was turning the people, what should I do?

What should I do?

I literally, if you look like somebody that could help me,

I'd come up to you on the street and go,

listen, here's my problem.

Because I still, up to that point, felt so silly, stupid,

whatever the word is childish that I was doing this comedy thing, you know,

you're an investment banker on Wall Street for God's sake.

And I think ultimately what I needed was I needed validation from Wall Street that it was okay.

I was still looking for someone to tell me what to do and I'm an adult man.

And you know, I think it is people start off on that standard ladder

that they were taught some child's life.

This is the ladder you have to go on until you die.

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