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Brendon Burchard

πŸ‘€ Speaker
921 total appearances

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The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Ended up recruiting in the South right during and right after Vietnam when no one wanted that.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

So he'd be spit on, things thrown at him, just awful.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Yeah.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Wow.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

My mom, she had grown up in Vietnam under the first war, what used to be called the Indochina War, which was a French-Vietnamese conflict, which was before the American conflict.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

It was a French-Vietnamese conflict.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Her father was a French soldier with her mother, who's Vietnamese.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

He got killed when she was, oh gosh, 8, 9, 10.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

So she got shipped to France for the child of war program.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

She speaks French?

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Speaks French, yeah.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Grew up in convents, basically.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

So she grows up, has a terrible time there, abused, treated really terribly, separated from her family in France, separated from her mother who was still in Saigon.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

And so mom has terrible, she turns 18, 19.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

She's like, I'm out of here.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

Goes back to Vietnam, meets another American, marries him, comes to the US.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

He's terrible to her.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

They get divorced.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

She ends up meeting my dad.

The School of Greatness
Stop Living by Your Preferences and Start Living Your Vision | Brendon Burchard

So my dad had to go to Vietnam, come back to the U.S.