Show Transcript

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Have you ever had somebody tell you that you can't or that you weren't good

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enough, that you weren't fast enough, you weren't strong enough?

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There's no way that you could keep up. There's no way that you're going to join the team.

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There's no way that you're ever going to accomplish this big goal that you say you have.

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If you've ever had somebody tell you that you weren't able to do something,

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that you you weren't good enough or strong enough?

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Well, today's episode is for you.

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I have in the studio today, Rahz the Motivator Slaughter, a guy who was born

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with a physical disability and he is no stranger to challenges.

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But what's awesome about Rahz is the fact that with the help of one awesome grandmother,

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he defied those challenges.

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He broke through the barriers and now he's here to motivate you to do the same.

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Today's episode is going to leave you feeling all kinds of good,

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smiling a little bigger, feeling a little more positive, a little bit more inspired,

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empowered to get out there and just make the most of this day.

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This, my friend, is episode 298. This is my interview with Rahz Slaughter.

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Yo, are you ready to flip the script on life? Because those bad days,

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they're just doors to better days and that's exactly

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what we do here at grit grace and inspiration your

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host kevin low he's been flipping the script on his

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own life turning over 20 years of being completely blind into straight up inspiration

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motivation and encouragement just for you so kick back relax and let me introduce

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you to your host kevin low you my friend are so

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lucky that you are right here inside of today's episode number 298. Why?

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Well, because I'm in the studio with one of the coolest guys I have ever met,

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and that is Rahz Slaughter.

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With that my friend i turn it over to the awesome guy of the hour Rahz slaughter

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i was born with my right leg shorted in the other no quadriceps or hamstring

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on that right leg so for the listeners i have a three and a half inch difference

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in length between my right and my left leg as an adult.

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But as a baby, I was premature.

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And when my mother, we were going through delivery, my right hip was pulled

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out of socket pretty much. So they had to reposition my leg.

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And I believe that that was probably the catalyst to some of the dysfunction

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in this right leg, which led to the rest of my life.

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I mean, I had an upbringing just like most people, but I was challenged because

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right from the get-go, I was on the little short bus going to school,

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starting kindergarten.

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And kids made fun of me. I had crutches. I had funny shoes, all of the different

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things that anyone who has a disability,

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and I say disability for those who think about a disability,

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but I feel like my disability turned into my ability, my ability to just really

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focus on when someone tells me I can't, I must.

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And it started at that early age when I was born with this dysfunctional leg.

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Wow, that is so interesting.

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Now, as you would grow older, would it get worse or get better?

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Pretty much from the time I was about, I'd say five to 12 was some tough years.

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I had one surgery, which was totally a experiment.

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Doctor just basically cut my leg on both sides, right and left side laterally.

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And they just inserted two pins.

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And I had a cast for about three months. Did nothing for my leg at all.

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All it did was make me miss some school, which didn't push me back a little bit further.

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I wound up getting left back. And that was the beginning of some learning challenges

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that I would have to overcome as an adult.

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At 12, I was blessed to go to the Shriners Hospital in Springfield,

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Mass., where I had the second surgery, which was called the Alizaroth.

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And this Alizarov, for those who are listening, I had several rings with straight

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pins through my leg, right through the bone.

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And the goal of this apparatus was to straighten my leg and then lengthen it

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so that the doctor told my mother that I was going to be just like all the other kids.

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And I tell you, after six months of going through that painful surgery,

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every day they turn this little crank and it straightened my leg just a little

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bit and straightened my leg just a little bit.

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And they do this surgery because at this time I haven't gone through puberty

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yet. So I'm still going through the growth process.

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And they told my mother I was going to be normal. And at six months,

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my mom comes to visit me and doctor's there and he's got a big grin on his face

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like, Like, oh, this was such a success.

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And my young self asked the doctor one really critical question.

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So, doc, now that my leg is straight, how will it stay that way?

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What do you think he said, Kev? I don't. He says, well, he goes,

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well, you're going to have to wear a brace. Yes.

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And I asked him, I said, for how long? For the rest of your life.

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Now, I don't know about you, but that didn't sound like normal.

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That didn't seem like all the other kids. And if you've ever saw that great

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movie, Forrest Gump, those were the braces that he was talking about.

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No way. Oh, my God. And I was like, I mean, I'm getting picked on with crutches.

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I'm getting made fun of. I'm not able to do gym class with the kids.

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I'm like, you give me these braces on my leg. I am really going to have a tough time.

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So I he gave me the gift of two weeks to go visit my grandmother in Long Island,

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New York, and to take a break between surgeries, because the second part of

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the surgery is now the lengthening of my leg that they got it straight.

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And my grandmother, who is God bless her soul, is probably one of the wisest

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women I've ever met in my life, told me, she said, God made you this way,

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son, and you should stay this way.

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And those are the words that hit home for me at, and I just turned 13 and I've

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never had another surgery on my leg since because I truly believe that if this

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was my destiny, this is the way I was gonna live.

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And I went on to do some other amazing things, whether it's the athletics or

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working out, fitness, and we'll share with them a little bit of that later.

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But that is really the early years of my story of going through those two surgeries,

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those two major surgeries and coming to the epiphany that, you know what,

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we all have disabilities.

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We all have things that are a little bit different, but we have to embrace them

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and embrace those challenges so that we can move forward in life. Yeah.

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You know, God bless our grandmothers. Yeah.

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Absolutely. Yeah, man. Okay. So I have so many questions.

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So my first question is, so continuing on, the leg was now straight.

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Did it end up remaining straight even though you didn't wear the braces?

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Absolutely not. it went right back to the way it was.

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And I love that you shared that question because as over the years,

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it pretty much, I mean, I became well-versed in biomechanics and human anatomy.

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And I learned that it was a failure from the start.

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And that question that I asked the doctor purely was some inspired question.

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I don't even know how I came up with it at that age, but now knowing that you

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have to have a quad and a hamstring to have the knee flex and extend. in.

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And so it went right back. But what I will tell you is that that leg is, has been strong.

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I have a strong right glute and my lower back is tight at times,

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but it just functions in it. And we adapt.

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And that's something that I share with people all the time, whether it's speaking

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or coaching is that we have the ability to adapt to our, our surroundings.

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So our bodies can adapt and we can actually embrace those challenges and become

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stronger in other areas if we're willing to do the work. Yeah, absolutely.

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So now like today, are you able to walk on that leg?

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Absolutely. I walk, I ride a bike. I just finished riding a hundred miles for

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the multiple sclerosis ride here in South Florida.

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I work out five to six days a week. I've been a bodybuilder for the last 25 years.

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And I don't believe that the leg has stopped me from doing anything in this

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world that I want to do. Wow, wow, wow, wow. That is incredible.

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Last question about the leg, because this is just crazy.

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So as an adult, how much shorter is it than your other leg?

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So I'd like to say that I'm standing at six foot four now.

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I am a strong five foot three man with a three and a half inch difference in my right and my left leg.

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My left leg functions 100 percent perfect.

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And God bless that. That's the strong leg. I always say I have one good wheel. Yes.

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Amazing. So do you do you have like something with your shoes that helps to balance it out?

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No, I walk on my toes. so I never liked

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that the Herman Munster boot I had

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it when I was younger yeah and if you

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guys I mean we're all probably the same age so a lot of the listeners will

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understand that I never wanted that it made it very hard for me to do the things

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that I wanted to do as a kid I wanted to run and jump and and do and ride my

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bike and things and having that big plastic piece on the shoe inhibited that

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so I've never gone back to that I will share with the listeners that because

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Because I walk on my toe and I've run,

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I don't run as much anymore because I don't want to put that much wear and tear on the body.

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I do understand that we don't get a set. I can't go in for an oil change.

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So, you know, I do have a little arthritis in my right toe, which hurts at times.

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But, hey, you know what? A little pain for some gain is no problem with me.

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Yeah, absolutely, dude. So going back to your story, you spent that time with

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your grandmother. mother.

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You guys had this massive kind of epiphany,

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You reset your mindset. From there, I have two questions.

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I'm going to ask you both questions and you can go from there.

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My first question is, I know in my own situation, sometimes grandparents' ideas

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of what we should be doing is different than our parents.

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And so I'm curious when you went back home, what maybe your mom or dad or whoever

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thought about this idea? and then just kind of understanding how life as a kid went from there.

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As a parent and adult right now, I can tell you that my mother allowed me to make that decision.

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And it was a decision that I don't think she had a lot of knowledge and understanding

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of, but she could see the conviction.

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And like I said, my grandmother told me when she said those words that God made

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you this way and you're going to stay that way, there was no one on this planet

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that could have got me under the knife again.

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So it really wasn't a conversation. It was more of a conviction in it.

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Hey, this is what's going to happen.

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It's my body. It's my leg. And I'm blessed that my mom was willing to allow

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me to to make that very mature decision at the young age of 12 and a half, 13. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

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Amazing. Way to go, mom. I love it. So, so now getting back to you as a kid,

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I mean, cause you're still a kid.

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I mean, even though you're pursuing forward, you have something quote unquote wrong with you.

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I'm curious how it went the rest of kind of time in school.

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I mean, as far as bullying or you just doing life, how did it go?

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Yeah. So I wound up moving from upstate New York, living with my mother to living

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with my grandmother. After that decision, I wanted to be in Long Island.

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I just saw that it was a great opportunity for me to learn. They had more resources

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for me, things like that.

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So I started school that year in New York, in Long Island, and it started all

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over again. I mean, a new school, very affluent area on Long Island,

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and kids were kids, you know, they were a little bit mean.

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I wasn't as financially as fortunate as a lot of them.

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But what I will share is that the school district did a very good job at at

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least making sure that I didn't feel so disjointed.

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Being I was the only African-American student in the class at that time with

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a disability, they did the best they could.

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And then when I wanted to play sports, they tried to block me.

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So then my grandmother and I found a way around that by signing a letter at

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that time saying that we would not

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hold them responsible for anything that happened to me by playing sports.

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So then I was able to participate in gym and play soccer and do all the things

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that I wanted to do as a young boy, just kind of going through time. Yeah.

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Wow, wow, wow. Dude, that's incredible.

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Again, way to go, Grandma. I love it so much.

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Now, you talked about getting really big into fitness and stuff.

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When did that really take place?

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So I, it started pretty much about eighth grade and I saw, I got to see you

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and we all saw Arnold and, and all of those movies.

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And I learned that, you know, I said, if I'm going to have this disability,

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why not try to build the strongest body possible?

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And I had a, luckily I had a coach who was a wrestling coach and a track coach at the time.

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And he said, Hey, you know, you look like you could really do great things in the wrestling room.

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And at that time, I still believed that I I was going to be in the NBA.

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So I was like, well, I want to play basketball. Well, he let me have that dream until I got cut.

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And then he came back to me and said, hey, you know, you might be good in the wrestling room.

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And I could do some pull ups because I had crutches as a young kid.

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So my upper body had already started to develop.

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And I got into the weight room and I started to work out right then.

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And I've never stopped working out since I was 13. I worked out this morning at 6 a.m. Wow.

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That's incredible. man. Yeah. Wow. And so when you leading up into like the

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age of graduating school and stuff, I mean, what did you have plans to do after school?

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Yeah. So I got into wrestling and I became wrestling was that number one thing for me.

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School wasn't the thing because at that time I was struggling with academics

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because I was dyslexic and ADHD and I was undiagnosed.

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So when I didn't read a book really all throughout high school because I skipped

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the words because I couldn't comprehend and pronunciate them.

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And that struggle got me to have a wonderful 1.62 GPA leaving high school.

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So I was an academic gimmick, not star.

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Oh, my goodness. Yes. So so I'm assuming you maybe didn't have college plans when growing up along.

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Everybody was going to college. So I said, hey, that's just what I need to do.

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And I was blessed to luckily to have the wrestling.

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I got into college, went to that that big school that you shouldn't go to when

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you don't have anybody to tell you this is not the way to to go.

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Don't go sign all these papers and get all these loans.

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But I recognized quickly that I should go to junior college after signing up

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originally at a D1 school and putting myself in some deep debt, got out.

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And then about a year and a half into my college years of wrestling,

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I found myself financially strapped and I had to make a decision.

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Should I take care of my grandmother, get a job and do the things that I knew I needed to do?

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Or should I try to keep struggling in school. I dropped out of college at that point.

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And I started working and my first job was a personal trainer.

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Okay, so that's where that begins.

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Interesting. Yeah. Well, so I am curious about the personal trainer job because,

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you know, I mean, you mentioned, you know, you're only five foot three.

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We've talked about this issue with your leg.

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How was that being a trainer with with the people that you are working with?

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Would they gain inspiration from you?

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Would they be kind of in disbelief? Anything like that?

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Yeah. The first job I went to get, I remember a buddy of mine who was the most

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unathletic male on the planet.

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And he was a personal trainer.

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And his uncle was a the head manager there, the facility manager.

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So I'm like, oh, I know he can be a trainer. I can be a trainer.

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I went over, asked for the job, signed it. And he said, oh, we're not hiring right now.

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Now, I knew at that minute that he was bullshitting me.

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And the fact of the matter is that he basically was saying, hey,

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you know, you could work the front desk.

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And I took that job. I worked the front desk. I learned everybody's first name,

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last name, kid's name, everything. thing.

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And within a short period of time, people were seeing me at the gym. I became a gym rat.

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I was working out consistently, hanging there out and helping everybody in sight.

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Everybody who had a question, everybody who was struggling.

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And before you knew it, I had built up a pretty good name for myself as someone

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who could contribute and share inspiration when it came to their body and their fitness.

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And I had a full book within probably about four months.

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Wow. How long did you end up sticking with that? Yeah, I stayed at that first

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location for about a year and a half.

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And then I took the leap of faith and decided that I was going to join a gym

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in Manhattan because that's where, you know, the big money was.

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That's where all the celebrities and actors and athletes were.

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And I went in and got that my first job in New York Sports Club.

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And the rest is history, man. I fell in love with the human body.

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I fell in love with helping people transform their minds, understanding that

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if you were going to transform your body, it first started with the six inches between your ears.

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You're not going to do anything to your body if you don't believe in it.

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