A man raised by a drug-addicted mother and removed by child protective services was adopted by a compassionate couple. He uses his painful early life as his "why" to fuel his work as a coach and mentor.
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But the more and more I spent time coaching and mentoring people who wanted to understand how I'd achieved what I'd achieved. Why was I so driven? Where did this kind of Persona and personality come from? I realized I had to start talking about my why to borrow from Simon Sinek. And so for me I'm my why is that I was born to a drug addicted teenage mother who was exceptionally abusive to me and I went in and out of the child welfare system a number of times. Although my biological mother Julie met met a couple whom eventually became my adoptive parents after a number of episodes they of when I say episodes and air quotes abusive episodes she'd give me to the the people that ultimately became my my parents. My my mom, the woman who raised me asked to take me away from Julie and that was the most selfless thing she could have done. After a really horrible first number of years with her.