Dr. Anthony Youn

And so for him, all he knew was that doctor equals success.

And so he didn't want his kids to be living on the streets, but then his belief was either you live on the streets or you're a doctor and there's nothing in between, like he didn't know.

So then I thought maybe I'll do family practice.

And I told him and he was really unhappy with that.

And one night as I was visiting my parents after I told him I was going to do and he was really unhappy,

It wasn't enough.

It wasn't enough to be proud of him.

You know, my son, like, you know, we always want in our children more than what we have.

You know, and for him, he looked at that was less than what he had.

I mean, I think that is, but you know, what happened is, is I'm at home, I'm visiting for a night and I'm in my twin bed that I grew up in, you know, when I was a kid and two in the morning, the door opens up and my dad tells me, move over.

So here I go, I scoot over and the two of us, two adult males are lying in my twin bed, looking at the ceiling.

And he goes, Tony, if you want to be a family practice doctor, you can.

He goes, you will never pay off your loans.

You're going to be poor for the rest of your life.

You're going to be seeing 50 patients a day.

But if you want to do that, then that is fine.

And then shortly thereafter, after he gave me his blessing, I ended up finding the field of plastic surgery and absolutely loved it.

Yeah, so I mean, I was quote unquote normal looking until probably about the 10th grade.

I went through a growth spurt and my jaw started growing basically twice as quickly as the rest of my face and the rest of my body to the point where when I was a senior in high school, my jaw was huge to the point where I could actually stick my tongue through the gap between my upper and my lower teeth.

and I hated looking at pictures of myself from the side and even if like with my senior photos from high school you could see that it just doesn't look quite right so I ended up having plastic surgery I actually had my jaw broken and set back between high school and college and it really taught me the power of how changing your appearance can absolutely change the trajectory of your life because prior to that I had very low self-esteem you know I had