Hey, this is John Gordon with Positive You. And today, my guest is Patrick, David. Patrick,

how you doing? I'm doing good. How you doing? Doing good. It's great to talk to the legend.

You have an incredible, amazing story that started with you coming here as a, as a young

boy from Iran. Can you talk about that, journey? Sure. Born and raised in Iran, Tehran,

ten years. I lived there six weeks after Khomeini died. My mother was worried about me serving

the military in Iran, so we escaped. Went to Germany, lived at a refugee camp in Germany

for two years, then came to the States. Glendale, California was there for six years before

joining the army. Went to the 101st Airborne. I got out. I wanted to be the next Arnold,

bodybuilder, Hollywood, Mary Kennedy, be a governor, and then I met a girl named Jean-Vierre,

who worked at Morgan Stanley Dean Wooder, and she would always show up in a new car. And

I said, what do you do? She says, I'm a stock broker, financial advisor. I said, I'd love

to do that. She says, well, I want UCLA. What school did you go to? I said, I don't have

a four-year degree or two years. They're not going to hire you. Anyways, long story short,

I got a job with Morgan Stanley Dean Wooder three months later, got into the financial

industry, series seven, 60s, the whole nine. And in a year after that, I started with Trans

America, seven and a half years there, then started my own insurance company in 2009,

grew it from zero agents to today. We have 20,000 agents, agents nationwide, 150 offices

nationwide. And then started a YouTube channel that grew into a media company, and we got

a lot of different things going on right now with Vitamin and the insurance company,

that's my story. It's incredible where you began and where you are now. I mean, what a journey,

what made you want to go serve in the military? So one, when you have a one-pointed GPA,

you don't have a lot of options. That's number one. So I can, that's the one angle. Number two,

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