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I am so thrilled on this episode of Giving Credit to have a really inspirational guest,

Daniel Blue, of West Education. Daniel, thank you so much for joining you today. Hey, Anika, thank you so much for

having me here. Absolutely. So you have a really inspiring story of what you've gone through

to figure out what you wanted to do and ultimately get to where you are with your family,

with your company, and all the great things that you're doing around finance and

credit and education. So I'd love for you to unpack a little bit of that for our audience.

Yeah, so I was like to start at 18 years old, right? 18 years old is when you are supposed to kind

figure your life out and know what you want to do. And at 18 years old, I was told to go to college.

That's what society told me to do, right? So I went to college, dropped out three months into it because I'm thinking,

man, this whole college thing is, it's not for me. It's not speaking to me, right? So I dropped

out of college. I ended up getting my daughter's mom pregnant at the time. And then I was addicted to oxycod. And for those who

don't know, oxycotton is a really nasty, nasty pill that is levels above like percocet,

Laura Tab. It's basically heroin in the form of a pill. Right. So I'm 18. I dropped out of college,

just got a woman pregnant and I'm a druggie. And it's a really

expensive habit. It's $60 a pill, and their pills is so, so small. And I'm doing one or two

pills every day. So $60 to $120 every single day. So at this time, I'm lost. I don't know really what I want in life. And I end up

through networking and looking at my life now, I'm 33 years old. I've been clean over a decade.

Congratulations. No, thank you. And nowhere in your shape or form am who I was back then,

thank God. But networking back then thank God but networking back

then and networking now has served me well right I'm a college dropout I didn't come for money

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