2016 on paper everything was great you googled my name I was doing well in life I had

succeeded but on paper doesn't tell the whole story I like to remind people that

Google never tells the whole story. I like to remind people that Google never

tells the whole story and due to some a lot of stress, anxiety, deep

satisfaction I'd become a secret cigarette smoker.

And as you mentioned, I would find myself in alleys,

not just in LA but across the country

when I was traveling smoking cigarettes.

But when I was home in LA smoking cigarettes,

I wore this bright green gardening glove because my

wife didn't know that I smoked and I didn't want her to smell it and one day when I

was smoking a cigarette in Santa Monica in an alley in an alley in an alley. alley.

homeless man comes up, asked to borrow a couple of cigarettes.

I'm like, absolutely, looked like dude that's had many other better days.

And we start talking, you know, like smokers do. And at some point he asked me about the green glove.

I tell him I wear it because my wife doesn't know that I smoke and I don't want her to smell it.

Like he looks at me like I committed to crime. Like I did something wrong and he says something I'll never forget. He says,

he says, hey man, you gotta figure that shit out.

Here is a man that I perceived to be homeless who has seen better days telling me who on

the internet is successful that I got to figure my shit out.

Welcome back to at the end of the tunnel, it's light Watkins and I've got another story behind the story of a change maker who was hungry, creative and innovative in his younger years, but then he found himself very much living on

autopilot once he got into his late 30s and 40s and it all came to a head

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