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Johnny Doom is here. And I am fired up to bring you our featured guest today. Rick Sapio. Rick, are you prepared to ignite?

I am prepared. Are you prepared?

Yes, thank you for asking. Rick is the CEO of Mutual Capital Alliance Inc.

An investment holding company founded in March of 94. The company's holdings include investments in financial service companies, medical device technologies, healthcare, and distressed debt real estate.

Rick, give fire nation just a little insight. So share more about you personally and expand upon your biz.

I find that most entrepreneurs like me started at the bottom bottom and went through a really rough time when there were kids.

And I became an entrepreneur really being the seventh of nine kids. And when I was 11, my dad came home for dinner and announced to the family that he had gone bankrupt and was given six weeks to live.

He found out that he had cancer. It was the roughest day of his life. In any case, he ended up living two years.

And during those two years, he taught all of his nine kids how to be self-sufficient, how to take care of themselves, and how to be independent.

Because he knew that obviously my mother couldn't handle it. So after he died, we basically were entrepreneurs.

I did everything from opening a bicycle shop to selling cars, to fixing cars, to delivering the New York Daily News seven days a week, Rainer Shine. I had to get up at 5.15 am for two years doing that.

But you know, it's interesting because my entrepreneurship was born the day my dad died. And I can't even imagine today my kids, I have four children, them not having a dad.

And the worst part of the story is my mother couldn't handle it. And she had a nervous breakdown and she was put into a mental institution.

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