BY AGE 12…

I needed a ball at my feet almost at all times. By age 22, I wouldn’t go anywhere without one. I would say, in retrospect, that there were about 5 defining moments that have led to the life I live now which is full of happiness, ambition, and adventure!

MOMENT 1 - 2005 - Inception:

At age 14 while in junior high, I took a basic elective course called “careers”

A pretty run of the mill “what do you want to be when you grow up” class. We did worksheets with ladder images on them that represented goal setting and how to get to your dream job.

We’d go around the room, “what do you want to be… what do you want to be…?”

I, of course, wanted to be a professional soccer player. I was a little naive then, pretty big fish in a pretty small pond, although I was talented enough at a young enough age that I could’ve

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