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That's a loaded junk. That won't amount to anything. He used other words.

My dad was a loving man man but one of the most negative guys on the

planet. He was a New York City police officer. Undercover narcotics.

Like that was shot a few times. He wasn't very positive.

He was a loving man, but as I said, truly so negative.

Like we're literally at the dinner table as teenagers talking about our

future, our hopes and dreams, and there's my dad. Oh, I can see when you guys are

older. The law firm of useless and useless.

That's kind of mindset I grew up with.

And then when I started speaking, he said to me, I can't believe people actually pay you to speak.

We paid you to shut up when you were a kid.

So here's my dad when I did tell him I want to write and speak

and he said, what the heck do that for it?

A couple years later, I got on the Today Show and the show was called Get Energized Today.

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