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Who were you before the world told you who you had to be?

We have had the good fortunate of connecting with Nobel Laureates, titans of industry, rockstars and rising stars across dozens of industries and we have always found their stories about who they were early on to be most fascinating. Below, you’ll find members of the community sharing their responses to this key aspect of their stories.

Clinton LeClerc

For fourteen years I toiled in restaurants, content to work a mundane job so long as it paid the bills. I don’t believe I was discontent, but in retrospect, I do believe I was entirely unfulfilled. Read more>>

Jacy Kirby

Growing up in a small town, I learned many ways of being a man I am still working at unkinking almost ten years later from my psyche. To many who have grown up in a similar fashion, drinking and working until your body can’t anymore is just a way of life. Read more>>

Alicia Mathieu

I want to be really vulnerable with this answer. The truth is, the world didn’t tell me who to be—I was just living in it, and honestly, living ‘of the world’. I was making poor choices and headed down a path that wasn’t very good for me. It wasn’t until I learned about my son Levi’s diagnosis that everything shifted. Read more>>

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