Mick Hunt delivers a first-person account about a pivotal childhood moment (age 10) when he planned his future and vowed to lift his family out of hardship. The core claim: a promise made to his mother became the enduring motivation that drove him to pursue business success and leadership for his family.
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I'm going to get personal. I'm going to talk about my own journey, talking about going from being a son to being a CEO. And my because is very personal. There was a moment when I was 10 years old that I sat on my bed and I planned out and mapped out everything that I wanted and everything that I needed to happen to me and for me. So being a successful business owner, selling multiple businesses, being that leader in my family, all of that at 10 years old, I said that that was going to happen. Now let's go back to sitting on that bed at 10 years old. But to the right of me is my mom in tears. I'm begging my mom to leave the situation that our family is in. I'm begging my mom to take my sister and leave and let me stay home, let me deal with the situation that exists. And my mom looked me in my eye with tears in her eyes and said, I can't because you're my. Because my love for you and your sister. I'll never leave or separate from either of you. And at that moment, I said, okay, my mom is my because. But it was deeper than just saying, my mom's my because. I made my mom a promise and I said, you know what? I'm going to make this happen. I'm going to make sure that you can live a happy life where you don't have to walk on eggshells. I'm going to make sure that all the things that you want for you can and will happen. That was the promise that I made my mom. So my. Because my. My reason was that promise. Everything that I did in life from that day forward at 10 years old was all about fulfilling a promise that I made to my mom and then later to my sister and then later to my brother, that I'm going to be the person that they can count on and believe in and that we're going to have success as a family, as a unit. And that promise, I promise you, to this day, is why I do what I do. And.
