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His book is titled, Messed Up Like You, How ADHD and Anxiety Didn't Stop Me from Becoming

a Successful Entrepreneur.

Welcome to the podcast, Rick.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me. We were talking a bit about

life in Latin America before we hit record, which was interesting, but we'll get to that a bit

later on. And so, you know, you've got your book. You've got quite the life. You had trouble

early on, which you talk about in your book.

Could you tell us a bit about your travails before the light began to shine at the end of the tunnel early on in your life?

I'm still following the light, but, you know, it started as a pretty typical rural childhood.

I grew up out in the country.

I had ADHD.

And back then we called it ADD, and they had some other words.

They'd throw on the end of it with hyperactive disorder and some other terms.

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