12. What’s a goal you have for yourself that you want to accomplish in the next year?
Over the last ten years, I have been speaking in schools, I have realized a need for something that we currently lack in our society. I don’t want to give away to much information because I am launching this program shortly, however, I have seen a desperate need for people to learn how to grieve. In all the schools I have spoken in, and all the people who have listened, so few have known the stages of grief. Therefore, I have developed a service, a series of groups that will open nationwide and hopefully internationally, where people can go and learn the grieving process and also share their grief with others just like them in a safe, nonjudgmental environment at no cost. I believe a huge deficit in our society is happiness, which is being suppressed by the pain we internalize from the traumas of this life. It is my goal to offer people a completely anonymous and autonomous place where they can go to heal with like-minded individuals. We know for sure, sharing is caring, and this is something that could change the world as we know it! Thank you for the opportunity to share my initiative. It is coming soon!!
"seek first to understand, then to be understood"
8. What are you happiest doing, when you’re not working?
This one is easy. When I am not working, my passion is and will always be, my family. Spending time with loved ones is something I gave up for many years during my active addiction period. Today, I seize every opportunity to give and receive the love of my family.
9. What do you want to make sure you do before you die?
I am already doing most of the things I hope to achieve before I leave this earth but aside from the obvious things such as help provide an opportunity for my children and such. I want to see Vatican City before I die. Some of the most brilliant minds in history came together there, and I would love to stand on the shoulders of the giants.
10. How do you want people to remember you?
I would love people to remember me as a man who did his best in life. A man whose passion for helping others far superseded his desire for anything else aside from my family. Lastly, I will answer the last part of this question in question 12.
11. What are some causes you care about?
I care deeply about mental health. One of my biggest goals is to help eliminate the horrible perception and stigmatization of mental health. We are all perfectly imperfect people, and there is nothing wrong with being different. It is what makes us uniquely great. I hope to help people learn to celebrate our differences, as opposed to condemning them. I also care greatly about helping people learn how to live healthy lifestyles. Medicine free and void of obsession and compulsion. I hope to show people that we can all be happy if we could just learn to surrender to our pain and learn how to process it and make it into a positive wherever possible. I care about finding natural ways to beat autoimmune disorders and diseases such as cancer. Most of all, I care so much about showing people that money and power are only caveats to despair. True love comes from within us, and to keep what you have, you must give it away.
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