This is 15 minutes to freedom. I'm your host Ryan Nidell and today's episode I kissed a girl.

So over the course of the weekend I was having a conversation with a new acquaintance of mine. I'll even call him a friend.

Got to Northern Ohio and he was sharing with me that through this podcast he's brought up all these

similarities that he didn't know that him and I would have.

He's a little bit younger than I am and come to find out we have much of the same history,

much of the same story.

From our upbringing to some of things that we would call limiting factors, the only difference

being that I have 10 years of

advanced time on the earth and he has. He's 24, I'm 34. And through that, it got me thinking

about all the different stories that I could share, all the things that would make me even more relatable.

You know, because I look at truly at this point in life, I am just a combination and a culmination of life's events up to this point.

And we all have life events, we all have things that we have been through or

that quote unquote define us.

Now I know at this point I define my own story, but if I look back, there's been some pivotal moments in my life that have some

sort of value, and this is one of them.

So I was a late bloomer, you could say.

You know, in elementary school school middle school junior high high school I was kind of an

awkward kid you know I was lanky and skinny maybe a little bit socially awkward you know

was definitely type that had one or two really close friends and that was it.

You know, kind of stuck to myself. I would have been someone that would have been referred to as

intellectual, probably even intelligent in my own right, but that was it. Like I was not known for anything. I was not an amazing athlete. I wasn't incredibly brilliant. I was just a kid. You know, a kid that had a bowl cut and wore Adidas Samba's tennis shoes.

Like that was me.

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