Welcome guys and gals to the man talk show. I'm Connor Beaton and today on this special episode. This is a very special episode because this is the first time that I will ever be having a conversation like this.

And I think it is the beginning of probably many more.

So in this episode, I'm going to interview an anonymous person.

This person is completely anonymous.

You won't know who they are, their identity, their name.

But they are a client of mine. And in this episode,

this individual and I are going to unpack his past. And so he's going to share stories

from his past. He's going to share his family system and share a little bit of insight into

what it was like to grow up in his family dynamic.

And we're going to talk about some of the challenges that came out of that space.

So he grew up in a very volatile, abusive home where abuse was not only present for him, but for the other members in his family.

Addiction was present and a lot of different things.

So you might hear parts of yourself or someone that you know their story in his story.

And you might see parts of your upbringing while the circumstances might be different in his

story. And the whole point of this episode is that he,

I'm going to ask him questions that sort of walk him through parts of his journey and, and how they

shaped his life, how abuse as a young boy shaped his life, how sexual abuse at some point shaped his

life. And we're going to talk about how those things

not only impacted him, but drove him to create what he's built because he's a very successful

entrepreneur in the world. He's got an incredible business that is very, very successful. And we're

going to talk about how that part was shaped, but we're also going to look at some

very sort of prescriptive anecdotal pieces. So one of the questions, one of the main questions

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