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Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

From Wolf Of Wall Street To Homeless With Damon West

Front Row Seat with Ken Coleman

Ramsey Network

Careers, Business, Self-improvement, Education

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The Ken Coleman Show is here to help answer your questions about career, passion and talent so you can maximize your potential and get closer to landing your dream job. Do you have a question for Ken? Call the show at 844-747-2577 or email ask@kencoleman.com. Helpful Resources: Free Guides & Resources The Proximity Principle Facebook Community Subscribe to The Newsletter Articles by Ken Learn more about your ad choices. https://megaphone.fm/adchoices Ramsey Solutions Privacy Policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When college football was over for me, I turned off football entirely. Like I didn't watch football again.

0:12.0

Football was my life, man.

0:13.0

And you turned it off.

0:14.0

Turn it off.

0:15.0

Because that is how I dealt with the pain.

0:18.0

Everybody that's an addict, they want to get that first time.

0:20.0

You're always chasing it, but you never catch it.

0:22.0

Eventually I lose my job because I'm not showing up to work,

0:25.0

I'm sleeping in, I'm missing at work.

0:27.0

I got in my car, called my dope dealer up,

0:30.0

and said, hey man, I just got off work early today, man,

0:32.0

you're around, can I come by and pick up some more stuff?

0:34.8

That was my reaction to losing my job.

0:36.4

Within 18 months from the first year of that pipe, I go from working on Wall Street

0:40.5

to living on the streets in Dallas. Homeless.

0:43.0

Living dope houses, sleep in cars.

0:45.0

I've slept on park benches, Ken.

0:47.0

So how does a driven guy who comes from an awesome family

0:51.0

who makes it to D1, which we're talking about a very small percentile of high school athletes can make it to D1.

0:57.6

I don't care how big the D1 school is, very small.

1:00.3

How does that guy get into meth? And well, my guest went from Wolf of Wall Street to living on the street.

1:14.6

My guest today is Damon West and he destroyed his life and yet in the moment of no

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