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Welcome back to the quote of the day show I'm your hope Sean Crox and the

Sean Crox and calm it's throwback Thursday and we are turning back that

clock all the way to episode number 559 in our feature speaker Jay Morrison

today Jay shares an incredible story of turning his life around and he

demonstrates that no matter what your life's been like in the past, no matter

what mistakes you've made no matter who you thought you were, you can turn it

around you can create something brand new in your life because the future is

not relegated to the past the future is something that you can create from

the now starting now here's Jay I grew up in poverty to a single bomb 17

years old I watched my mother sell drugs to give us the extras I've visited my

stepfather in prison for several years doing 13 years in prison for all

robbery of various charges there was six of us in the two-bedroom apartment we

grew up on welfare on wake on food stamps and we lived below the poverty line

so early on I had this urge and this ambition to get money and as I became

a teenager my environment showed me that money was gained the fastest on the

street corner and growing up in my household my stepfather came home from

prison he had a heroin addiction and he was emotionally and physically abusive

so abusive he would knock me down stand over me and say I don't care if you

live or die so I grew up angry I grew up in poverty I grew up frustrated and at

15 years old I began to sell drugs on the street corner at 16 years old I left

home dropped out of high school at 11th grade and became a full-time drug

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