All right, my friend, how you doing today?

I'm great. How are you, sir?

I'm very good. Thank you for being here.

Thanks for having me.

I was saying you're my first guinea pig with this new format, so I appreciate you

diving in and just go on head first into the deep end.

So thank you for being here. I appreciate it. Thanks for having me. So tell me a little bit about, you know, obviously I read some of the information that you sent over about your life and your history and some of the things that you've been through of which it sounds like it's been a lot. So I want to acknowledge that first and foremost. But what were you hoping to maybe get out of this conversation? Is there a specific question or is there something that you were hoping to get from

spending some time together? You know, I think just talking about some of the experiences I've had

and getting your thoughts on how to handle them moving forward and just the perspective around

those thoughts might be helpful for me. Yeah. Are you trying to make sense of how your life experiences have impacted you?

Or are you trying to make sense of what to do with the impact that they've had?

Probably, that's a great question. And I would say both, but probably the first one first would be in that order, first and then the second one. Okay. How they impacted me and then what to do with them. Maybe give 60 to 90 second Coles notes. Do you guys call them Coles Notes in America? No, but we can pretend we're in Canada for me. Yeah, Canada has Coles Notes, you know. So we'll call them Coles Notes. You know what I'm talking about. And give me a little bit of a rundown of what's taking place in your life. Yeah, sure. So, you know, growing up in a family of five, the youngest of five, being raised by a single mother primarily, grew up in a very wealthy town, but we did not have a lot with regard to money. We were just very lucky

to have grown up there. Family and I helped each other through everything and my mother being

a lead for that. Growing up in that home was also an alcoholic home. My father was there for a while

until around my age of around eight or nine. And by that point, my siblings were much older.

So I was home for a lot of the tail end of that relationship falling apart and experienced

a lot of that as a child.

So what I learned at that time was how to internalize my emotions and how to hold back things

and just be quiet.

And I didn't want any of that backlash coming my way.

So I sort of took that and then I went from there into just trying to get attention from my mother in a positive way.

And I learned to do that by being good and doing things for other people, which I think was wonderful.

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