S E164: Stephen A. Discusses His One Regret
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🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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In a moment of personal reflection, Stephen A. Smith discusses the one thing he wished he had done before his mother passed away.
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| 0:00.0 | This is here and welcome in the building. |
| 0:12.9 | Loree Favors is here. |
| 0:14.4 | We're having a conversation. |
| 0:16.1 | And I just want to ask you, because I'm always fascinated. |
| 0:19.7 | Let me just say this publicly for everyone who cares. I am incredibly proud of not just you and |
| 0:27.1 | your career and everything I just when I sit and I watch where you are it tells me the possibilities right it tells me that everything |
| 0:37.4 | is possible right and I know some of the things that you've gone through to |
| 0:42.4 | get to where you are. |
| 0:44.2 | I just want to ask you as you move in the world and as you increase in your territory and |
| 0:49.6 | power and fame and money, are there any regrets? |
| 0:53.0 | One of them would be procrastinating or writing my book, which you've been getting on me about for years. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah it's been more than a decade. It's been more than a bit. I've written a couple of chapters now. I'm on it now. |
| 1:10.8 | I'm on it now. That's one. Believe it or not on a personal level without getting |
| 1:17.4 | too deep into the weeds. My mom, God rest her soul, she passed away a couple years ago and lost a long bout with cancer. |
| 1:27.0 | One of my biggest regrets is that she never saw me get married. My mother was incredibly proud of me. She had a strong belief in me. And there was |
| 1:39.4 | very little that I did wrong in her eyes. But the one thing that she always wanted to do was to see me |
| 1:48.2 | married. And I came close, but I never pulled that off for her and that's a huge |
| 1:56.6 | huge regret for me because to be the wonderful woman that she was the |
| 2:02.4 | greatest woman that I've ever known. |
| 2:05.4 | That would have been the ultimate tribute to her to say that I'm sure without a doubt that I have |
| 2:11.0 | found somebody that I believe in the way that you want me to |
| 2:17.4 | believe in them and it's not a woman's fault it's mine I did that because I was fixated and growing up poor and starving |
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