First-person personal narrative by Mick Hunt describing a formative childhood moment (age 10) that became the driving promise behind his later ambition to become a successful business leader and ensure his family’s well-being. The speaker frames his mother as the motivating ‘because’ and explains a lifelong commitment to provide security and success for his siblings and mother.
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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.
