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I've heard people share stories before about defining moments that help shape their life and even shift the trajectory of their career.

And I was wondering if you could share a defining moment that you've had and how that helped mold you as a person and also as an entrepreneur.

You know, defining moments, I think, we all have moments in our life that give us, it either jolts us into a level of awareness or a level of consciousness that we have not been,

or there are circumstances and situations that happen to us that shift the trajectory of where we're going in life,

you know, or it gives us different meaning for why we're doing what we're doing.

And I can relate to one instance where I was in my

20s. My focus was business and it was about making money, right? I always say that I chased it.

And a lot of times when you chase something, it will actually elude you. And I'll never forget,

I did a meeting in Dallas, Texas. And when the meeting was over, I was going through the motions.

And this is how unaware I was of the ability that we all have to impact for positive or negative people's lives.

And words have power, right?

And you never know the meaning that people give the words that you're speaking.

And at this specific event, when the event was over, I was sitting there shaking hands,

talking to people, and this girl came up to me.

And at the time, I was in my late 20s, and she was probably a very similar age. And I just remember her looking at me. And I was going through the motions of acting like I was listening, but I really wasn't listening. But she said something to me that hit me like a ton of bricks. And she said, hey, listen, I just want to tell you, thank you. And I was like,

oh, yeah, you're welcome. Thank you. And she goes, no, really, thank you. And she grabbed my hand.

And she said, no one's ever talked to me like that before. And what she meant was, I was just

talking about positivity. I was talking about we all have the ability to accomplish whatever we want to

accomplish. The only limits that we put on ourselves are the ones that we set for ourselves.

And, you know, it was something that I was programmed to cone up through athletics was

positivity and optimism. And she said, well, I just never had anyone, you know, tell me to dream big and that I

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