Oliver Blu
Summary: How I went from a broke 20 year old to traveling coast to coast in 4 years.
When I was young I would say "I want this" or "I need this." And when times got tough I'd keep saying that. Now from what I've learned throughout life is when times are rough, don't say "I Want" or "I Need."
Say instead...
I wasn't a privileged person by any means. But I still acted as such. Until the day I bought my first phone for myself; then did I realize that times finically were gonna be tough.
My ego took a hit and I was spiraling down the drain of depression because I could gauge from that first time buying a phone at the age of 16 that life was not gonna be a cake walk.
So whenever I got paid I'd spend what I could on crap I didn't need then justify spending the rest as "well I'm buying what I need"
I did everything I could possibly do what I wanted within the town I was living in. But I wanted something more. So I moved out of my home town completely by 2019. By 2020 I was living in Wisconsin for 3 years. Managing stability somewhat.
But I still had dreams of moving even further...
I had been to New York & traveled the east coast. Now it was time to go out west.
I now had to save up money to move to California to go make movies! Yet unfortunately, deals went through, money was swallowed, and the opportunity of my lifetime was now a dream yet again.
At 25 I had traveled more states and done more than anyone in my family at this time. And I hope to travel even further soon.
I had to move back home. I had no car, no money, no home, no food, barely any clothes. Until my bandmate let me pay rent for a place to stay until I got back on my feet. However that proved to be difficult. After the loss of my father due to stage 4 pancreatic cancer a few months prior, I wasn't in the best shape mentally speaking.
But then 3 months after moving in. Getting 2 jobs & a gym membership. I started to bounce back. Soon, an opportunity came calling from 1,000+ miles south. It was my buddy and former Army Airborne Ranger Austin Harwick!
He was calling to talk to me about our usual sort of stuff working out, life, the job, etc. But the job was this time very much the focus of our conversation. He sounded like an entrepreneur. Turns out he was in business with one. After personal conflicts arose he had space down in Texas for me so I saved what I could to get a plane ticket and flew down a week later.
Now that I'm working for an ambitious company thats focused on allowing people to succeed in their own way. I've slowly found my way back on track finically and mentally. And I always come back to this quote from one of my favorite podcasters...
"Mental Health Is Not Your Fault, But It Is Your Responsibility." - Marcus Parks, LPOTL
I took care of myself; had adventures as well a some misadventures. You never know where you'll land if you don't take off.
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