Dan Henry

And I called the landlord and I said, hey, you need to send somebody to fix this.

And he says, well, I can't do anything until Monday, so just pay for it and I'll take it off the rent.

Well, it was $300 to fix that.

I didn't have the money.

I didn't have $300.

So I went and I bought four cheap space heaters.

And my girlfriend and I at the time had to sit in between those space heaters to stay warm until Monday for three days.

And every hour, of course, they would trip the breaker and we had to get up

and flipped the breaker.

It was horrible.

Then I had a delivery that week.

I went all the way to this guy's house, again, in negative 16 degree weather, went 15 flights up of stairs because the elevator was broken.

Then I had to go back to the store and all the way back because he wanted something extra.

And the guy stiffs me.

And it was at that moment that I was like, you know what, I'm done relying on others.

I'm done relying on the generosity of others to pay my bills, to make my way.

And I was so excited to go home and tell my girlfriend that.

But when I got home, she had her bags packed at the door and she was leaving me because I wasn't going anywhere in life.

And so this is what I call my hell week, right?

That week broke me, but it also built me.