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Profound Impact of Loss and Renewed Drive

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The Idaho Painter Podcast | Part 2

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The speaker continues, sharing a deeply personal story about a major turning point in his life: the passing of his wife's mother. He explains that at that point in his life, he felt like a total failure, exacerbated by family members who reinforced this belief. However, his wife's mother always believed in him, even when he wasn't a good husband. Her tragic death became a powerful motivator. He recalls moving back to California with his wife after her mother's passing, only to realize that Idaho was their true home. This event fueled an intense drive in him to work tirelessly, build a home for his wife, and prove himself as a successful husband and father.

Goal: He reveals the tragic death of his wife's mother as a significant turning point, shifting his perspective from self-perceived failure to an intense drive to succeed and provide for his family.

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people were telling me that but my wife my wife's mother always believed that I would turn out to be a good person and a good husband which I wasn't a good husband at that time either and so um tragically she died and how recent was this she was 57 okay so that was that was a long time ago and um but obviously the impact is still there it's still there yeah and and the impact yeah take your time you're good yeah so hard it's like it was yesterday appreciate you going into it yeah yeah so the the impact was I never had the opportunity to to show her that I was going to be successful and and I I knew even though I had family members telling me I wasn't going to be and people surrounding me that I wasn't going to be successful I knew that I would I knew that I had it in me and um you know it just wasn't the right time and you know when she died died that was you know it was just tragic and so as soon as she died I was like you know we actually moved back to California and I we left Idaho and I um and I took a job in California and we were going to move back there CU obviously my wife's mother was like her best friend and so it was a major major tragedy and it was hard to see my wife you like this and so she wanted to move back and be with her dad and so we up and left and um how did that how did that shift you like emotionally and just like from a life perspective did that change your Viewpoint did give you more drive to start like speeding up the process of things it it g it instantly gave me drive and so um cuz I didn't want I want I even though she wasn't with us anymore um you know my wife's father was with us I I knew I had no time I mean you don't know when your day is here and I don't know when the the day people surrounding me is here and so I had to start right then and so I I was very against working 8 hours a day I was um I was very into bodybuilding and pursuing my dreams being a professional bodybuilder and just being a selfish person so that was the end goal like you wanted to go deep into the sport I did I wanted to be a professional bodybuilder and um I wanted to be Mr Olympia and you know and I worked you know for some companies you know in the bodybuilding industry and stuff bouncing around but my wife said let's go back to Idaho and um that's where our home is that's where our life is and we came back to Idaho and I said you know what I'm going to work my ass off and I'm going to build my my wife a home that she deserves and um I'm going to…

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