Harley Finkelstein

I mean, again, when we lived in Montreal, I didn't experience any, there was always food on my table.

I always felt like, you know, I didn't always have all the stuff that I wanted the, you know, the Air Jordans, but I had one pair of Air Jordans.

And so I didn't, I didn't live a life of, of where I didn't have enough growing up.

But I remember moving to South Florida and that was the first time I think that I realized that other people have a lot more than I did.

There were gated communities everywhere, but we didn't live in one.

There were incredible private schools everywhere, but I couldn't attend one because it was too expensive.

It was sort of in that age group, in that sort of range where I began to realize that my father wanted to have a better life than he did, that he was he wasn't living in a community where we were the average or we were above average.

We were living in a community where we were below average.

I remember asking my parents why I couldn't go to private school.

There were these beautiful private schools all over Boca Raton with these big, beautiful gates and these wonderful buildings.

And I remember asking my parents, why can't I go to Pinecrest or St.

Andrews, which are the two big schools?

And my mom said, we can't afford it.

It was like $30,000 a year, which was an insane amount of money for my parents at that point.

And I think that's actually around when I began to get my first chip on my shoulder.

Something didn't sit fully well with me.

And I think the way it manifested was

ambition, competitiveness, some insecurity.

So, I mean, there I was going to a public high school in South Florida.

I was a, you know, I was a short Jewish kid from Montreal, Canada, moved to South Florida, had no friends or family.