Welcome to the rewire podcast.

I'm your host, Ryan Stumann,

and I'm here to rewire your mind for success.

You were put on this planet for success.

You were created to succeed,

but the force of average is after you every single day,

my brothers and sisters,

and this podcast is the one thing that's designed

to help you fight the force of average and excel in

every area of your life. We're glad that you're here. When I was a young man, I was confronted

with violence a lot from people that I love. Now, I was very difficult to deal with child,

but I think a lot of that was because I didn't have my father in my life. Well, I tell you that

because as a child, I learned that if I did something wrong or if something wasn't pleasant

to the adults in my life, then they would physically harm me. I remember one time my stepdad

and I were at the car wash and I was probably 13 and it's two three o'clock in the

afternoon on a Wednesday it's been busy Wednesday's half off day and I bet I've armor all 500 sets

of tires for the day at this time my stepdad showed up in a bad mood and he's like oh you're

doing it wrong and I was like I never even seen you armor all the tire Like in, and in reality, that was me being a smart ass kid. But in reality, I never seen that motherfucker armor all attire. And I'd armoured 500 that day. I think I knew what I was doing better than anybody. And I, that wasn't the only day I had ever done that. I'd done that for hundreds of days at that point. And instead of, you know, just calling me out or verbally

scolding me, took me behind the car wash and choked me until my capularies and my eyes exploded.

Then proceeded to tell everybody the reason why I looked that way wasn't that he choked me or

beat the lemon shit out of me. It was because I had a drug problem. I have a 13-year-old son, and I couldn't

imagine doing that, Tim. First of all, he has never made me that angry. I mean, he's done a lot

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