Dean Graziosi reflects on how he chased money and success to escape childhood trauma, and what changed when he finally faced his past. He connects financial ambition to emotional avoidance and what it took to break that pattern.
I realized that I had spent my whole life chasing money so hard to do all those things that I had avoided all the craziness that went on in my childhood. Married, my parents married nine times. My dad, extremely violent. All the things that I was like, well, screw them. There was, you know, some crazy things. You're running away from them. I was running away from them, but, you know, I was running so hard that it was like I took this way I describe, would describe is I took all the things, the trauma that we all, you had it. I, you and I know your history very well, right? All that trauma, I just tucked it in a box and I put a lock on it and said, Gotta make money, gotta make money, gotta make money. All of a sudden my brain's like, Hey, we're okay. And I feel like the box, the lock popped off. And the only person in the mirror was me. I couldn't say, no, no, no, I'm too busy to deal with you, Dean. I gotta go make money. It's like, no, you got the money, dude. Shut up. Wow. you- got me. We gotta work on this. That was the biggest byproduct of my life is I became a better human in my 40s. I met the love of my life in my late 40s. All of that happened. I couldn't use that as an excuse. Like, Shut up, you don't need that anymore.
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