A personal account of financial collapse and the path to living authentically. The speaker reflects on bankruptcy, broken relationships, and learning to stop caring what others think. Recorded May 2024.
For 27 years, I'd focused my entire life to create this someday vision and this dream. And I was going to be a wonderful dad and a wonderful husband and multi millionaire and travel the world. And here I was sitting in my office, dead broke. We were about to ready to file for bankruptcy. And if I was honest with myself, and I was that day, I was not a good husband. I didn't have a lot of friends, I had no relationship with my parents. I was so worried about just trying to achieve success and so worried about what everybody else thought in order to achieve that success and what I had to do to look good in their eyes. I just, I guess woke up that day. It's like, I can't live my life like this. This isn't what life is supposed to be about. And I was just so lucky and blessed that that happened to me. It was a life changing event. And literally from that point forward, I honestly just don't care. I mean, I care. I guess that's not the right word. But I don't allow it to affect me what other people think or whatever. I am me. And either you like me or you don't. I mean, that's just the way it is. I don't want to change for anybody.
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