Andy NearyI help insurance professionals turn brand awareness into business growth.

Business lesson being a “fat kid”. If you just want to fit in, you won’t reach your full potential.

25 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken-word YouTube talk by Andy Neary (uploaded June 25, 2025) recounting childhood experiences with school fitness tests. Andy describes embarrassment during gym assessments (push-ups, pull-ups, sit-and-reach, rope climb), being mocked by peers, and the desire to be someone else—framing these memories as the lead-in to a business lesson about conformity versus reaching potential.

Who remembers that?
You know, I think they created this.
Thing for two reasons.
Number one, they.
Wanted to assess the youth of America. I'll give them that.
But, you know, I think they did it every year just to remind the.
Fat kids how out.
Of shape they were. I can remember.
Walking into the gym.
At Park Lawn elementary, looking up at.
The ropes, looking at the pull up bar, the sit and reach box on.
The floor, and sweat.
Would just come pouring down my face because I could barely do any push ups. I couldn't do any pull ups. My sit and reach could be measured in centimeters, not inches.
And climb the rope, you?
Hell no.
Kids laughed, kids mocked. And there I stood.
All the attention on me, and all I wanted to be was anybody but me.
Anybody ever been there?
You see, my childhood could be summed up pretty easily.