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being born without a disability
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helped me realize that it doesn't matter
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how much i have or how much other people
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that we can achieve the same things if
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our heart into something if i can do the
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without an arm that means we were both
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i am not disabled for having less we can
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growing up for me was hard uh because
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the other children let me know that i
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was different so i was
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bullied and i didn't feel like
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it was hard for me to eat those feelings
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so i had my childhood i was
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depressed i wasn't taking taking care of
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i was sitting terribly so i was in a
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for a little while and being
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on that depressed state was holding me
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i was dead i was not growing i was just
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digging the hole and and i didn't start
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until i started putting the blocks
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towards the person the best person that
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but it wasn't until i started surfing
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and that i started getting
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passionate about about fitness because i
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pop up on the surfboard easier i started
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i started going to the gym i started
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i was achieving what you know the goals
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and i was crushing them and
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that was a motivation for me so
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i started getting addicted to achieving
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so i went to live in the united states
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to work and study there i started
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and that's where i met my friend and and
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and one weekend he he asked me if i
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wanted to go train with him to a gym
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north of washington and i was like okay
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because i told him yes to everything
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because i just wanted to
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to keep learning from him and we drove
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a saturday morning 7 a.m i still
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to the suburbs of baltimore
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into a farm and it was funny because we
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in the middle of nowhere a farm we park
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of the gym we open up and
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i see stones i see logs i see farmers
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and just a group of everyday people
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and and i love that i love the the
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that's what made me love the sport so
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you know it was it was it wasn't just
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people lifting things
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it was people lifting things together
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it was january and and they mentioned us
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they had a competition in july so my
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he as a birthday gift he
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gave me the registration he paid for my
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registration for the competition
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and for six months we trained together
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the whole group working together towards
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it wasn't just me trying to be beat
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everyone else it was just people getting
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working together and that's what i loved
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it's just it's not individual
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and and my mind was like how am i gonna
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do this how am i gonna
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lift a stone uh but together
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we achieved the goal of me competing in
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a strumming competition
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arnold schwarzenegger gave gave me the
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which is aware to those people who have
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of a motivational story or
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who their stories are impacting their
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was huge because i know senator is
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for me it was just natural i loved what
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i loved the community that i was doing
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and this helped me realize that people
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are watching me people are noticing what
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and it's helping them so from that
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i was focused on working hard
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to try to help as many people as
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i love training because it helps me see
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nothing is impossible when you put your
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that started when i was a teenager and
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it goes on until today
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and it helps me achieve
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goals goal after goal after goal and i
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how far it will take me but
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it has already taken me
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way farther than i ever thought it was
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stop focusing on the 99 of bad
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that you think you have in your life and
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start putting all your energy into the
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of good that you think you have focus
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all your energy into that and that's
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what's gonna help you
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i think it's very important to to have
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out there as part of competitions
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in in marketing campaigns because
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there's a group of people
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in their houses who maybe have a
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a physical handicap or you may be
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but they think that they are not able
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to do something and for them to
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to put the tv on watch a competition in
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and to see that there's people with less
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achieving what they thought it was
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impossible it's going to give them
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to go out there and crush it themselves
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if i consider myself as an inspiration
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i would like to for me to define what
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inspiration is because someone could
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watch my videos working out or my
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and they could feel oh wow this is
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yes i feel encouraged but
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if that person doesn't take action if i
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didn't change anything on how that
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person thinks about themselves
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to me i didn't inspire them
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and we have to realize that
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no one is going to inspire us more than
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the people who are around us
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we all have the power to show our
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that they could do things if they work
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that nothing is impossible and it starts
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take action go with that attitude
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someone out there is watching you may
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who's really close to you but someone at
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or someone at school who you haven't
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someone is watching you so take action
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i think it's really important that we
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talk about mental health
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because people look at me and and they
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see that i'm missing a limb and they may
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think that that's a problem
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that's a physical health issue
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that i may have had an illness that
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caused that or an accident
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but what was stopping me wasn't
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my physical health it was my mental
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it was me thinking that i couldn't
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what stopped me was what i was missing
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in my head the lack of confidence
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the lack of self-love and and we train a
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at the gym to be strong have strong
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how much time do we spend reinforcing
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our confidence our cell love and
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i think that it's an area that we should
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touch more because in this world in this
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will we settle with enough where we
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victimize ourselves and i'm not going to
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one more minute reinforcing those
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negative thoughts on your mind
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i'm not gonna give you one more second
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that you're not okay we all have moments
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but i'm gonna focus on telling you
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that your greatness is normal
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that is normal i'm gonna tell you that
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that you can do the impossible
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if i spent five minutes with you
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letting you tell me about oh how bad
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how life hates you i'm just reinforcing
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and i'm not gonna do that i'm gonna be
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here to tell you that
