Glenn Lundy
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108 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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The only thing that's consistently in all of these environments is me. right? And so that just opened up this door, like I'm the catalyst of everything bad in my life. Everything that's ever gone wrong, I'm the catalyst for that. And being an inquisitive person, as soon as I had that thought, I immediately thought, well, wait a minute.
If I'm the catalyst for everything bad in my life, does that mean I can be the catalyst for everything good? And so I started on this journey of self-discovery. I had to figure out what is this ability that we have to create our lives?
Hey, thanks for having me. It truly is an honor and a pleasure to share this space and time with you. You're amazing.
It was super, super fun. I really, really enjoyed that, watching you run, doing your thing, running your businesses and mom and all at the same time, right?
Well, thank you. Yeah, we are blessed to have plenty. I can't take any credit. My wife is the she does it all. She allows me to travel around and have dinner with amazing superhumans with you like you while she's home and homeschools all the kids and takes care of all the you know, all that stuff. So she gets all the credit. But yeah, it's an incredible gift.
I always have someone to play with when I get home from my trips.
Yeah, well, you know, I think we all have amazing stories, right, of overcoming adversity. And what you overcame is something that I might not have been able to, right? And what I overcame is something that maybe you weren't able to. You know what I mean? But it takes the same amount of strength to deal with the storms that come in our lives. And so I personally grew up in just a unique situation.
I grew up. You know, lower middle class. We never went without, but there was never any extra. And my dad is black. My mom is white. And they got together right basically on the backsides. And when that stuff wasn't cool, it wasn't cool for black folks, white folks to be together. And they fought through that adversity to bring me into the world, which I'm so grateful for.
But ultimately, they end up getting divorced when I was 11 years old. And what was interesting, Heather, is my dad, when he got remarried, he married a black woman. And my mom, who is white, she got remarried. She married a white dude. And then my mom and her new husband moved into Greenlaw Garden Apartments at 2600 East 7th Avenue, Flagstaff, Arizona, apartment number 28.
And then my dad and his wife. They moved into Greenlaw Garden Apartments at 2600 East 7th Avenue in Flagstaff, Arizona, apartment number 30, two doors down from my mom and her new husband. And what was really crazy is my dad's new wife, she had four kids already, right? They were all black kids, four black kids. Then they, my dad and her had two more together, right?
So there was eight of us over in dad's house. And then there was just me and my sister over in mom's house. And every stereotype that you could think of, Heather, existed in these two houses. Like dad's house was the black house, right? Everybody played sports. There was sports on TV all the time. We listened to rap music, hip hop music, gospel.
We had chitlins and collard greens and fried chicken and Kool-Aid like everything. Every stereotype you could think of existed in my dad's house. And then over in my mom's house, we had all the stereotypes you would associate with a white household. Like mom was a country singer. My stepdad loved rock and roll.
They hung out at the little bowling alley, the little white trash bowling alley everywhere. Everybody hung out. It was crazy, right? My mom would be whistling show tunes and stuff. It was a real quiet house, right? And so I grew up in these two very different culturally, very different environments. And looking back,
Greatest experience of my life because now I can see things from different perspectives, which I'm so thankful for because I didn't grow up in just one culture. But at the time, it was really tough for me. You know, being a teenager, going through all of that stuff, trying to figure out who you are, trying to figure out your identity, all of those things.
That's already challenging enough as a teenager. But being stuck in kind of these two different cultures, I didn't know like my skin was too dark to be considered white, but it was too light to be considered black. So I didn't really know where I fit. And ultimately I became a chameleon. And so whatever group I was with, I'd become that because I didn't have my own identity, right?
And so if I was hanging out with the cowboys, I was a cowboy. If I was hanging out with the gangsters, I was a gangster. If I was hanging out with the Mexicans, I was a Mexican, right?
Yeah and it really was because I just I didn't have any identity myself and so I was trying to find a fit and all of my relationships were very surface because I wasn't authentic or real like I was everybody's friend but I didn't have any real deep like relationships you know everything was just kind of surface and that's how I made my way into adulthood and along the way
would hang out with the wrong crowds and make a lot of poor decisions. And those types of things only last, you know, so long.
And so it wasn't, it was just a matter of time, you know, before I was like in and out of jail, the drugs, the drinking, you know, all of those things and just burning every bridge that I could possibly burn, which led me to, at one point, I ended up moving out of the state. I had burned so many bridges. I moved out of Arizona. I landed in Southern California.
I spent a little bit of time in Southern California before one day I woke up and had nowhere to go, had no money, had no credit. And ultimately I was homeless in the streets there. And that season, Heather, it was so difficult because what happens with homelessness is first you're homeless, right? And then you start to feel hopeless because every day is the same. Nothing ever changes, right?
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