After working all these in jobs, I remember crying in Griffith Park to the

alarm I wanted to go and she told me literally she said your job is not done yet.

And I didn't understand what she meant.

That kind of stuck with me, like my job is not done.

And so now this became like my job and kind of more

infatuated with it because of my natural desire is to help people.

So that personality test when I was in high school about being a doctor helping people is still there.

That's at the core of who I am.

Me being the oldest, as much as I hated being the oldest, but I do get joy taking care and making sure people are good.

Even though I hated it, you know, and I used to run away from that responsibility, but like it wouldn't leave me because that's at the core that's who I am.

Hey it's like it's like who I am.

Hey, it's light Watkins and you are listening to at the end of the tunnel which is the

podcast about hope about hearing hopeful stories about giving hope about inspiring hope within others and of course about being inspired.

If you are a regular listener of this podcast, but you haven't yet rated or reviewed the podcast,

what are you doing? No seriously I would appreciate it if you could leave a review so we can help other people find their way to these inspirational stories. We don't want to hog all of the hope and all of the inspiration for ourselves.

We want to share it with as many people as we can and leaving a review, believe it or not, is the best way to share it.

And in the meantime, I want to tell you about my guest this week, Mr. Joseph Bradford.

So Joseph is a Kansas City native who grew up with a young single mom and he was the

oldest of five siblings and his father passed away when Joseph was only seven years old and that catapulted him to the role of the man of the house where Joseph found himself cooking and babysitting and helping to take care of all of his siblings while he himself was at a very young age and then later their house burned down and he and his siblings spent several months in a shelter for battered women.

And Joseph dreamt of playing basketball and maybe even becoming a basketball player in the NBA,

but life circumstances kept getting in the way.

And when Joseph finally came of age, he just wanted to get as far away from Kansas City as he possibly could.

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