This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.

Well, John, I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. Yeah, tell us a little bit about you, like where you're from, just a little bit about you.

I grew up in Southern California and I was a product of a father with children a mother with

children they married and had me so I had six older sisters and a brother and I was the youngest. The

sisters were awesome still to this day. I think one of my first awakenings to

challenges in life came when my parents would fight physically.

Luckily I didn't see a lot of it because I was scurried away, but I could feel it, you know?

So when I'm eight or nine, my father leaves, they divorce,

and I've got my great six sisters and a brother, but no father and I wonder, so do most people go through life without a father or what's the deal here?

My mother was trying to get other men friends in her circle to kind to be a

father or uncles and I just thought, so what's wrong with me? Why don't I get a father to talk to and counsel with and you know fish with and all that?

So that kind of gave me an inkling that hey I'm not the same as other people, for what it's worth.

So I then go to school, I get through high school, I'm not a proponent of drugs in high school and clean all the way up until I go to the university and so I had two options. I had a scholarship to be why you and I had and I decided to go to this other school because I had met this young lady on a summer

internship and she was from Florida so I said you know I know it's fully paid at Brigham Young but I want to be with what's her name so

The decision making would be so abrupt that I would say to myself

John are you okay here? be so abrupt that I would say to myself,

John, are you okay here? But then I would stuff it back and say,

you know what, everybody goes through challenges like this. not a lot of parental guidance of my mother tried very hard.

And so that's where I took a big turn.

Everybody at the university knew that I didn't use drugs. And so one, I think it was a winter

semester, all these guys brought all of their marijuana over and said

John can you guard this we don't want to have it around because we're trying to

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