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Jeff, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. What an honor. Thank you. And I just can't wait to get going. Yeah. I came across you by way of our mutual friend, Gary Goldstein. And when he showed me what you were up to, I was really intrigued and thought, wow, this is truly a remarkable story. One we have to tell on the show, one that I felt would really move our listeners towards better outcomes in their lives. So on that note, can you tell us a bit about yourself, your background, your journey, your story, and how that's brought you to where you're at and what you're up to in the world today? You know, how this thing all got started was when I was seven years old, I used to get up every morning at 5 a.m. and I'd go outside and I'd hit the softball up and down the street when a little back baseball bat bat for hours on them where everybody else slept. And I just had Olympics on the mind. I thought the coolest thing ever would to be a member of the Olympic team and march into the parade, march into the stadium, and the parade of nations. And I felt like I think about.

All I wanted to do was being Olympian. That's all I thought about. But there was something that saw that I was very curious about is that that the guys that won the gold medals in the Olympics, they weren't the biggest and the baddest and the toughest on paper. And it seems like the guys that were and the guys that should have won didn't. So I thought that was very curious

and I didn't really know why that was, but it's something that they really needed to understand

because they obviously knew something about life and themselves that the others didn't. And then I

competed in my first cycling championship when I was 12 years old.

And the next year after, my parents got divorced.

And it was the last time I saw my dad.

And my dad was an artistic genius and a design genius legitimately.

And 30 years later, I found out that he died home, us on the streets of New York City.

And this kind of

gave me another glimpse into the world of success. And what I realized was, is that despite my dad's

talent and his obvious will and his technique and his technology, neither one of those saved him.

And so I realized that will and talent aren't enough. It never has been, and it never will be.

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