My trauma might shock you.. but instead of using it as an excuse, I used it to drive me 🙌

I grew up without money also and my dad wouldn't buy me an ice cream cone when I was six and I told him I was going to be a millionaire so I could buy myself a McFlurry. That was the answer always was, we can't have that because we don't have money. My story was all driven from fear, anger, scarcity. I had such a big chip on my shoulder to, you know, be like you dad or my brother, you know, he was very similar. Said I would never amount to anything. Was arrested for threatening to kill me when I was 10. I count these as my greatest blessings in life because it created that pain that drove me to create something different and not have that pain.

Pain is so powerful you can harness it and I'm not saying you want to live off that, but. But look where it got you. If you find a way that you can transmute that into accomplish your goals, it makes you invincible.