Chris Koerner

My mom, raised by a single mom, she was a waitress.

She bussed, she waited tables at this Mexican restaurant.

I bussed tables.

And then everything changed when I went and served a two-year mission for my church.

I went to Hungary.

I learned Hungarian and I knocked doors and I approached people on the street as an extreme introvert for two years.

And that just like completely rewired my brain to make me embrace failure, embrace embarrassment.

And

And just not care anymore.

What sort of failure did you see knocking doors?

Everything.

Like we were selling Jesus.

We were teaching people about our religion.

And in a post-communist European country, in most countries, that doesn't go over well.

In Hungary, it especially didn't.

It was especially difficult.

And what did that teach you about people going door to door like that?

It made me grateful for America, honestly.

Because these people, that's all they knew.

They had lived in like this communist society for decades and all they knew was darkness.