This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

I'm delighted to have Ben Azotti here with me

this morning.

We were just chatting about how we have rain on both sides of the East

coast. He is a three-time best-selling author, top 15 podcast host. If you haven't

checked out his podcast, it's amazing and founder of Kito Camp.

And I should mention he's also a really inspiring individual.

So I want to dive completely into your story, but welcome Ben, it's so nice to have you. I'm grateful to be here

with you Cynthia thank you for that introduction. Yeah so you know I'd like to start from the

beginning and so how did your journey start you know you you

weren't doing kido from the very beginning but where you know what got you to

where you are today? Yeah my story is interesting to say the least. My parents, they immigrated here to the US from

Iran back in the 1970s and they did the best they can with what they had their resources.

So my mom was actually growing up, my mom was the assistant manager of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Wow.

And I was pretty much left to my own devices because she had three jobs actually.

She worked at Walgreens, KFC, and she had like another side cake.

She is my superhero.

She did whatever she could do to support me and my sister.

My parents, they were divorced.

So it was pretty much my mom raising me.

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