You still have your worth! Part 2

14 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker uses the image of a battered $20 bill that retains its monetary value despite physical abuse as a metaphor for personal worth. He recounts a turbulent upbringing—being born to a 14‑year‑old mother, running away at 13, experiencing homelessness, cocaine addiction, and 19 incarcerations. Despite this cascade of trauma and hardship, he realized he still possessed hope, worth, and value. This epiphany propelled him to become a motivational speaker, delivering talks in jails, prisons, courthouses, and churches, aiming to inspire others to recognize their intrinsic worth regardless of past suffering.

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You see this $20 bill? It's been crumpled up, been spit on, slammed down, stepped on. But yet after all that abuse, it still has its value. It's still worth $20. It did not lose its worth. That's what I discovered about myself after being born to a 14-year-old teenage girl. I found myself not wanting to have a good life. I ran away from home at the age of 13. I found myself homeless, sleeping on the street addicted to cocaine and would eventually be incarcerated 19 different times and did years in prison. One day I realized that after the abuse and the trauma and the pain and all of the addictions I struggled with, that I still have my hope, that I still have my worth, that I still have my value. I would go on from there and begin doing motivational speaking in jails, prisons, courthouses, churches. I even had my own