From Skid Row to Stardom

Life Changing

BBC

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 735 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

After moving to Los Angeles, 12-year-old Dan Edozie and his mother were left homeless and begging for food. Life was not easy: they slept where they could, sometimes on public transport, sometimes in the refuges of the city’s infamous Skid Row. But a chance separation from his mother was about to change his fortunes forever.

Dan tells Dr Sian Williams how this life-changing moment allowed him to take control of his own destiny and set his sights on sporting greatness.

Producer: Elaina Boeteng

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi Curios, I'm Dara Brien.
0:03.0	And I'm Hannah Frye.
0:04.0	And we are back for another series of curious cases.
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0:11.0	I would like to know if anything in the universe is truly invisible.
0:14.0	Why do we lie?
0:16.0	What happens to our brains when we fall in love?
0:19.0	We tackle the mysteries of the universe to audacious
0:21.5	experiments and expert insight. Curious cases. Listen first on BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, music, radio,
0:32.6	podcasts. You're about to listen to the latest series of Life-changing.
0:42.5	Episodes will be released weekly wherever you get your podcasts, but if you're in the UK,
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0:53.0	Hello and welcome to the series that hears from people who've had an extraordinary moment that's fundamentally changed who they are and how they see the world.
0:58.2	Today, Danny Dozy.
1:00.2	Now, I don't want to tell you too much about Dan before we hear from him.
1:04.5	Safe to say where he is now is a very long way from where he started.
1:10.1	And that his transformative moment happened before he had even reached his teenage years.
1:17.4	Dan's here. Hi.
1:18.6	Hello.
1:19.8	It is very good to see you.
1:21.5	I just noticed when we were chatting before the microphone started,
1:24.8	you've got a sort of mid-Atlantic twang there.
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