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Welcome to Citizen Folks. We've got a special guest today.

Former college basketball player and host of aim podcast aim is

ambition in mind, which I also believe is a business that

is a business that you run. Doug Elks, nice to meet you, buddy.

Thank you so much for having me on the podcast. I'm super,

super thankful to be here. Sure. Yeah. So give me a little bit

of background on, you know, you're upbringing where you came

from and how you got to where you are today.

Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I am some from Rally North Carolina.

I grew up in North Carolina. It was awesome. I from an early

age kind of had to learn a lot and mature very, very quickly.

I grew up with an amazing mother, a mother that poured into me,

led me, became a great friend, someone that I looked up to,

worked tremendously hard. And I also grew up with a dad who was

addicted to drugs, alcohol, really, really tough situation.

And so I think early on I had to really kind of just

either accept that. That was my circumstances or you kind of

be a victim and make excuses and be sorry for myself.

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