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All right, I want to talk about first and foremost, that know when I talk about positivity when I've written these books that I've written on positivity

People assume that I am naturally positive they expect me to be this naturally positive person. But the truth is I'm not. I

grew up in Long Island, New York in a Jewish Italian family. A lot of food, a lot of guilt.

And actually my mom and both my A lot of food, a lot of guilt.

And actually my mom and both my biological parents were Jewish.

So I was born with anxiety.

And so I struggled in a lot of ways, right?

I had a lot of fear, anxiety, doubt growing up

and throughout my life.

My mom married my dad when I was five who raised me

and he was in New York City police officer and if you've heard me talk

about him he was you know a really loving man but just one of the most negative guys on the

planet like you would get up in the morning and you would say good

morning dad and he would say what's so good about it. I mean my dad was out

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