Eric Cline
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can't explain the love of a kid until you have a kid.
Right.
So I couldn't explain what I saw unless you were there and you saw it with me.
She walks through this door and she had a light, an aura around her.
And she came straight up to me.
And this was three days.
I was broke, broken, helpless, hopeless, desperate.
homeless, like literally everything.
And she walks up, sits down and we have a conversation.
I have $8 to my name, not knowing if I'm going to go back to Chicago or am I going to go into a halfway house?
How old were you?
I was 28.
28.
28 years old from 13 to 28, heavily addicted to drugs and alcohol.
Crack cocaine was the one that brought me to my knees.
Smoked crack for six years of that 13.
It was rough.
It was rough, man.
My journey has not been luck.
It's been hard work and not giving up and showing up every single day.