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I'm glad to be back and excited to share a new story with you all today. After putting a pause on things for a brief moment, we're back on track, John joins us, and he's got a story to tell. John is a quadriplegic who happens to be 100% grateful things turned out that way. He was in a motorcycle accident, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. John called that moment in his life his "hard reset" - the chance to do things the way he should of done them in the first place.
Before his accident, John was a womanizer. Addicted to crack and obsessed with women, he found himself spiraling completely out of control, and that went on for years. John shares some childhood memories with us, and life before and after the accident. After listening to his story you'll get a better idea of why he calls himself the "Grateful Quad." He's not angry or bitter with the way things turned out he's GRATEFUL to be alive, and spreading positivity with his second chance at life. And John's also another GIANTS AMONGST US.
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This is...
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Giant Samunstice.
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And we're back.
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After what seems to be a long hiatus, 40 days and 40 nights in complete darkness, right
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through the wilderness, but hey, coming out a better man.
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No, really, but it has been a minute.
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And first off, I hope everybody is in good spirits.
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I'm happy, I'm excited to have the lights turned back on.
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And we're gonna get back to the beeswax.
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What's with the lights being turned off anyways?
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I mean, you just started the show.
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Too shamed.
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That's a fact.
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I did just start the show.
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And that was on me.
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That was my doing.
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I went radio silent.
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I took a break from social media.
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Didn't say anything.
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I wasn't checking my emails.
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I haven't checked my emails.
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I'm gonna get back to all of that now.
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We had a conversation and you shared your story and they were supposed to go out at
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into the ether, share it with the rest of the world, with our listeners, with everybody
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who has been interested and into the unique human experience that has been here on GiantsAmunstice.
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And one of those stories I have for you today, it comes from John.
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John's a quadriplegic, he goes by the name Grateful Quad and get this, he's 100% grateful
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that it came out that way.
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When I first read that I was like, what, how can you be grateful for that?
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You see after getting in an accident that almost took his life and being the way that
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he was before the accident, having the opportunity to wake up, never mind the fact that he was
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paralyzed from the neck down, but to be able to wake up, he's grateful, he's thankful,
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and he's in love with every waking moment.
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That right there is a feat in itself.
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We weren't able to get on the same line together and have a conversation, but John was all
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in.
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He was happy, he was excited to share his story and so what we did, or what he did, was he
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recorded himself, how he was as a kid, how he was as an adult, his life before the accident
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and his life after the accident, nowadays.
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So without further ado, I'm going to let John in his own words, share some of his life and
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his story with us today.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is John.
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Hey everyone.
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In his story.
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My name is John.
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I am known as the Grateful Quad.
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Almost 16 years ago, I was born.
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Yeah, I believe July 9th, 2007, John died and about six or eight years later, the Grateful
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Quad woke up.
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I am grateful to be paralyzed because I was a deadbeat dad, horrible brother, well, I
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wasn't at all what I am now, and horrible son.
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And I now have a relationship with my children, my parents, and my brother, and sister, and
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sister.
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Yeah, that's why I'm grateful because I've gotten nothing but positivity from this, from
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breaking my neck to the amount of positivity I have gained because of it is immense.
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When I was first hurt, I've always called this my hard reset.
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It was always considered to be my second chance, my second chance to do things the way I should
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have in the first place.
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And I've from the beginning taken 100% responsibility because I was a crackhead before my accident.
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From the time I was 15 years old until I was 34 when the accident happened.
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The only thing I was concerned about was girl parts.
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That's what I say in vagina.
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But yeah, that's all I cared about.
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I would do anything I needed to do to get that from whoever I wanted it from.
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And that controlled my life for 19 years.
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It's amazing, the feeling to know that finally at 49, I control my life.
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I am in charge of every single thing I do.
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I do everything with purpose.
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And I don't do things that aren't going to benefit me or benefit someone else.
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And that's something I can 100% relate to.
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Being driven by an urge or an impulse, just acting out with no thought about the consequences,
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whether it's good, whether it's harmful, but seeking that instinct gratification.
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That's that microwave dinner mentality.
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It's tasteless, lacking any real nutrients and flavor.
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It was sheer nice to hear that.
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John talked about how later on in life, he started to do things with the purpose, things
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that he thought would be more meaningful to himself and to the people around him.
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That was what he called his hard reset, that time when his perspective completely changed.
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Let's listen to John talk a little bit about how it was for him growing up as a child.
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I am from South Florida, for oral area.
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I was born in plantation.
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I lived in sunrise for 14 years.
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And then I moved up here to Central Florida.
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So ever since I moved from South Florida to Central Florida, I've been in the woods.
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And we've always had property.
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And it was fantastic.
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I mean, I was born in 73.
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So I am a Gen X.
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And thankfully, I was alive when there wasn't cell phones.
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And there wasn't any way to get ahold of you other than your house phone.
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I wish it was like that now, but it's not.
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We had childhood memory, my parents, and another couple, I forget who it was, but we went to
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a place where we were camping.
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And I'm not sure what it's called.
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Anyway, we were in the canoes and it was me, my brother, my mother, and I believe my sister
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was there also.
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I really think so.
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But she was like two.
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Anyway, my mother is not the best canoeist.
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So my father being the man and being the experienced canoeist, he's like all day, all we heard
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was left, right, left, right.
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Because she needed to know what side he was on so we didn't go in circles.
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And one thing I remember is we're coming towards a couple of trees and he is frantically left
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there, right there, left there, I tell him, I'm at a word of paddle.
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And yeah, so we went to a big couple of trees and we still give my mother a hard time about
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that.
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You left there, right, Betty?
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The golden years, those sweet, wholesome, loving memories.
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But coming up, John also had those vices, the urge that impulse that seemed to be out
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of his control and pretty much consuming his time and energy.
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Ever since I was three years old, my mother knew I was going to be a ladies man.
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From the time I was, like I said, three years old until the time I was 15 when I had my
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first sexual experience, she broke my heart and I vowed to never, never let anybody break
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my heart again.
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So I became an heartbreaker.
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And yeah, so when I was in high school, I was a really good looking guy, I felt.
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So I took complete advantage of that.
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And I was probably with close or over 200 girls because I didn't care if it was so much,
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so much about my penis that I would.
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And that was it.
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Sorry, I don't know if you say that stuff on the radio.
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But anyway, it was everything.
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All I was concerned with was that I spent all of my teenage years having sex and most
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of my adult years because until I was 34 years old, when the accident happened, I was with
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someone every single day.
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I would date someone and I would, before I broke up with them, I would find someone
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to fill the space.
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So I wasn't the most monogamous person.
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I was a womanizer, basically, pretty much all my life until my accident.
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So fast forward a few years.
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I was 19 years old, got a job with my uncle.
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He had a mechanic shop and he taught me everything I know.
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I knew nothing when I started working for him.
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He taught me everything I know.
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Also thankful because I could go anywhere, I couldn't help, when I was walking I could
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go anywhere and get a job.
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He was very integral in the things I did in my life and he really helped me out when
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I was young and stupid.
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So I could have jobs from him and fast forward a few years, probably 10 years.
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And a girl had come into the shop, didn't have money, so I offered to do some work
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on a car after hours, you know, maybe in the ladies' band at all.
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So yeah, I was doing some work on a car and we hit it off.
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So I'm real bad about, I'll get with somebody and then immediately we went moving with them.
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Just because I didn't want to be anywhere but somewhere other than my house.
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So I moved in with her and we did it for about 6 or 8 months and one night we were out at
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a bar and she was oddly spending way too much time in the bathroom and I questioned her
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why.
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She proceeded to tell me she was doing cocaine with her friends.
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I immediately asked where mine was because ever since I was 15 years old all I've ever
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been interested in is something to get me messed up as possible.
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I would do pills, I would do pretty much anything I needed to do to get me a fuzzy head.
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So we were hanging out and she had a friend.
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He was downstairs in the first apartment in the whole complex and he happened to be
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a crack smoker.
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Well I quickly became that as well.
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He was over one night and I got outside and I said, you know we spoke in the house right?
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He said, not this.
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Let's just say I went outside with him, took my first hit and she was looking into the
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peephole because she knew what he was going to try to get me to do and she was right.
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But I told her I said listen I'm either going to do it with you or without you.
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I really wish you would have said it without me because I think it would be a whole lot
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different but honestly hey I'm glad she didn't.
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I'm glad she said she would do it with me because I would not be here today doing this
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or anything because I would be dead or in jail.
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So we started smoking crack together.
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Every single weekend we spent probably five or six hundred bucks.
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We had people, drug friends came over and we get messed up with them and they would
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give us some of theirs and we'd give some of ours to them.
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So we were all messed up and one night I called my father.
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He was a few people at the apartment and I said dad listen I can't do this anymore.
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I want to come home.
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Well my father said to me you're not coming home unless you go to the narcotics columnist.
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So I agreed because I needed to get out of the situation completely and I went home.
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My parents were building their house.
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I was on the property in a 31 foot travel trailer.
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I was still smoking crack.
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Still getting it from the same girl and still doing it.
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So it didn't change what I was doing.
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It just changed the location.
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No we can't hide from ourselves because everywhere we go there we are.
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And John found no matter the location where he was at he was still doing the same things.
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Sometimes we think that in order to shake a habit or a bad situation we just have to
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change locations.
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Head for the hills.
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The grass is greener over there.
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Sometimes that isn't always the case especially when the issue hasn't been dealt with.
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And for John like he said him moving, him relocating it didn't change anything but
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him still getting high but just at a different spot.
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And during this time John was also in the car accident.
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Also for about four or five months and got a job from the guy in the rooms.
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And I got probably a month after I got the job I got a motorcycle from my uncle.
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He had taken it on a tow away and he got the title because you know to stay here long enough
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you get the title.
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But anyway he had it.
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I bought it and I fixed it up and got it running and I was dating someone else at the time.
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And she had my car and I rode my motorcycle to work.
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Well that morning at 6.30 I passed.
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I come upon the intersection of 17 and 40 in Delay in Florida and there was a tractor
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trailer on my left side.
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So in the left turn lane there was a big huge truck and the guy across the street didn't
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see anybody because I'm on a motorcycle.
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So he bolted across the street to be the light.
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Well when he did I was right there.
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I was in a coma 26 days at Halifax Hospital.
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After 26 days my parents well I think someone from Shepherd Center came down and evaluated
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me.
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They said yeah we'll take them.
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So the Shepherd Center in Peachtree Georgia they came down and I flew all the way to Georgia
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and about two weeks after I had been there they came to my parents and said hey he's
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not responding so we're going to send him home.
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And my parents said they freaked because they were like they don't want to do with me.
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Later in the afternoon they came back to my parents and said listen we're starting a program
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and he's the perfect candidate.
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So they increased all my therapies.
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I remember what I was getting at the time because I was in a coma and I was in a sub
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in a minimally conscious state for three months and I started to respond and did really well.
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I was there for eight months.
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Normally you're there for maybe 30 days.
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I was there for eight months and it was fantastic.
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I had I like to call them my girls I had about six girls that took care of me and I'm actually
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in there the Shepherd Center in the magazine it's 16 years old but I'm in there in their
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magazine they did an article about me being in that program and how well I did and it's
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not.
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Anyway so I went home I was home about two or three years 2010 so I found a company that
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they helped paralyzed people get stuff in a building a room in my parents garage for me.
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It's evolved since then it's a really really great space.
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So yeah I am 100% at fault for my accidents because anyway you look at it if I never got
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involved with crack I wouldn't have been where I was to have the accident happen.
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There's no way I would have been still a mechanic wouldn't have lost my job.
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So yeah.
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Wow.
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Talk about taking accountability for your actions.
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I could have been handled in a lot of different ways.
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John could have been bitter angry pissed off screaming F the world you know why me but
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he really took the time and reflected on the whole situation thinking to himself it's
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my fault.
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I did this to myself my actions my behaviors my habits the things that I was involved with
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put me in that situation.
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But I'm not gone that route I probably wouldn't have been at that intersection at that point
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in time.
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That takes balls that takes courage to be fully responsible for your actions and everything
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that follows because ultimately with every action there's a consequence good or bad.
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And I thought to myself after hearing that would I have dealt with it would I have handled
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it the same way or would I have played the victim and blamed everybody and everything
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but myself.
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I really don't know but John for lack of better words you took it on the chin like a champ.
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Yeah it's 100% my fault and if you really want to really be truthful about it I ask
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for it because I moved back to my parents house and my father and I were building a
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fishing house so I was on the property where the house was being built in a trail trailer
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and I was sitting in the dining area of the trail trailer and I said out loud I wish I
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could sit on my ass and do nothing for the rest of my life and get paid and I'm sitting
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on my ass doing nothing for the rest of my life getting paid.
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So I think what you want I truly think it was completely manifested my life.
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I'm happy and I know it's not what I wanted but it is what I wanted.
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It is exactly what I wanted and I learned nothing is more important than your time.
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I made a video I said you just got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer how valuable do you think
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24 hours is going to be for you and that's it it's your time so many people don't pay
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attention to what they're doing with their time and it's just passing by it's just it
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keeps on going whether you pay attention to it or not it keeps on going I just I don't
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understand why we don't have a party every freaking day because we woke up and I woke
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up I love that fact I love the fact that I was able to live a quarter of an inch in
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any direction and I would be either out of ventilator unable to speak or dead and if
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the accident didn't happen I would have probably not have stopped doing drugs and I'd either
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be dead in some ditch or in jail so yeah my perspective on life has changed drastically
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when I was walking I had an easy time getting pretty much anything I wanted I was I was
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a mechanic I could literally go anywhere and work because I was I was that good mechanic
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I was I was a mechanic I worked on 18 wheelers down to Honda's well I work on one more so
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it would done from Honda's to 18 wheelers and um yeah just it was awesome I love job
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and I know what happened is my fault 100% all day long and it's given me I think accepting
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it for what it was for what it is and this has made it easier because I I know it's
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100% my fault but anyway um helpful words for anyone it's not the end not at all it
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is me personally for me and not for anyone else it is the best time of my life because
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I'm clearheaded I know exactly what I'm doing every single day and I love it I drive myself
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wherever I want to go every single day I drive myself around it's awesome like to my chair
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a will my old chair to lose six miles an hour and it doesn't sound fast in a car you know
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as big as this wheelchair is six miles an hour it's fast it feels really fast um yeah
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and it's it's fun I don't have the old crap like can't do that because I'm on a wheelchair
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I don't really care I don't I don't miss it I don't miss stuff that I can't do I made
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a video I said I don't consider myself disabled I'm unable I'm unable to do things I'm unable
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to play trumpet I'm unable to walk a tightrope I'm unable to jump in bed whenever I want
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to I don't care that stuff is meaningless in the scheme of life it's it's all it's all
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perspective what you care about what you or what you what you put your emotion into is
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everything you just put your whole self into what you're doing and if you don't love it
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you will not do it for long because I've been doing inspirational videos for almost two
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years now and if I didn't love it and if I didn't have the positive feedback from all
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these people I don't think I would never ever keep up I would never have done it as long
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I've gotten literally in almost two years three negative comments and I just I love you I
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love you I that's all that's all that's all they got and I never heard anything from them
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again it's just you don't have to be afraid of someone that doesn't know you at all it
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doesn't have a second in your shoes does not at all know you for Adam they can't say anything
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about you because they don't know you okay you know people need to understand if they
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don't matter to you like if you're not trying to impress them if you're not trying to get
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them like you or whatever if they don't matter to you at all what they say should be less
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significant I mean everyone puts other opinions on such a high pedestal and I mean the only
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people I care about are my parents my friends and my girlfriend and that's it you you don't
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care what you say to me you can't bother me at all I just I don't understand people they
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get bothered by some douchebag saying blah blah blah about you who cares you know he's
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he's even feel good about himself so he's trying to make you not feel good about yourself
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either and that's all it is it's their insecurities coming out in the form of negativity they
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have no power over you no no it's whatever if they can't mess up your job or mess up
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your life anyway other than what they've said I'm gonna shit about them sorry I don't care
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about all about them it's just negative noise that's all it is negative noise that's all
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that it is you're right and whether we give that negative noise the energy and the time
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and the attention that's what's gonna give it the power to pull us down and tear us down
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and split us into a thousand different pieces what a spirit what an attitude John really
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turned things around to find purpose in the fine meaning in life after the accident man
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that's truly something I'm I'm in awe how much it's beautiful and I really I like to
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think because now all I put out is positivity I receive nothing but positive back I've had
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so many people ask me does positive positivity come back to you well I received zero amount
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of negativity on my YouTube channel podcast anything no one has ever said anything I like
00:30:45
like four comments in almost two years I was doing this they were really really stupid
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I like I don't remember them because they're so stupid I don't know oh that noise is my
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timer and I go it goes off every ten minutes to lean back to take your pressure off my
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bottom life is a gift we're given freely every single day every single day we wake up we
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are given it freely to do whatever we want with it be it work play swim in the ocean
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to jump in jacksler it's your life I don't know whatever you do want to do for your life
00:31:38
you're able to and we don't celebrate that it should be celebrated there's no celebration
00:31:46
yay I woke up today yay I'm excited I am grateful for every day I wake up and I get to experience
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I am grateful for that I I love everything I love my life I love people some of them
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suck but generally speaking people are awesome and I tell them every Sunday now if you go
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to my YouTube channel the grateful quad every Sunday all day yes I love being inspirational
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I love the fact that I became an instant inspiration I could have been pissed off I could have been
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angry I could have been disgusted but I'm not I'm in love with my life I'm in love with
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every single part of it even the bad stuff because the bad stuff teaches us what's really
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good about the good stuff that there is good stuff it shows us so we know the difference
00:32:57
between bad stuff and good stuff don't ever let your time run out without having done
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something that even you're amazed at I read a quote the other day it said at the end of
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your life you don't want to say damn I wish I'd done that you want to say I can't believe
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I did that yeah I wish it was a crap out quote but hey that's essentially what it said don't
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regret your life don't live on purpose do everything you want to do because you can
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do well you can do that, you can do it, you can do it anyway have a nice day and please
00:33:42
enjoy the show.
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And that is the beauty of the human spirit.
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John is the epitome of perception being everything it doesn't matter your circumstance it doesn't
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matter your situation what matters is how you perceive it how you react to it and John
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quad. He's 100% grateful for things turning out the way that they did. For him being a
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quadriplegic, he called it his hard reset. An opportunity to do things the way he should
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have did them in the first place. You can find him rolling around smiling and spreading
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positivity. He goes by the grateful quad. He has a YouTube channel. You can find him on
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Instagram. He pretty much is involved with all the social media platforms and he's spreading
00:34:37
his message. He's doing what brings him joy. He's doing what he finds meaningful. I'll
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be leaving all of his links, all of his contacts, ways that you can get in touch with him, ways
00:34:50
that you can reach out to him, ways that you can learn more about him or hear more of his
00:34:55
message and what he has to say. You'll find that information in the description notes.
00:35:01
John, you know, he was real happy, excited and enthusiastic about being able to share
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his story with those of you listening. So thank you very much for sharing your story.
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My man, you're definitely a giant amongst us. And a big shout out to all the listeners,
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everybody that has been tuned in and plugged into the show wherever you are. Thank you
00:35:28
so much. If you find value in it, if you appreciate what's been going on on this side of the curtain,
00:35:35
share it with a friend. I still feel like word of mouth is the way to go and organic
00:35:41
grow is how we roll. I appreciate you all and we've got more to come. Don't forget
00:35:49
the website is up. You can stop by there and say hi. And before I fade out, if you would
00:35:56
like to be a part of the show and share your story or even the story of someone in your
00:36:02
life that has impacted you in a positive way, you could always reach out to me via email.
00:36:08
I'd be happy to connect until next time and very soon. Peace.
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Bye.