Max Lugavere

And so I felt like...

just absolutely lost.

And on top of that, I was, you know, I had, I had had this job.

So I had, I had had some RIS in terms of like, you know, public notoriety, but it didn't, it hadn't paid me a lot.

So I wasn't wealthy.

I wasn't famous.

So I was like getting broker by the day.

My, you know, my, my personal life was growing increasingly tragic with my mom.

And it was like incredibly upsetting.

And I had to be there for my family, of course.

And my job prospects were essentially in the toilet.

And so it was like a really depressing time.

I mean, it was like rock bottom for me.

But I remember specifically latching onto the word trust, that I had to trust myself, that whatever had gotten me that job that I had gotten out of college on TV with all the accolades and whatever that came with that, that I just had to trust that there was something in me that was gonna find a way.

It was like my balcony moment, I guess, at that point.

And I started learning all that I could about...

nutrition and health lifestyle as it pertained to the category of, you know, conditions that my mom had developed.

And I just started seeding the world with what I was learning as I was learning in real time with no real career, like no path had been laid out in front of me.

There was no precedent for what I, you know, aspired to do.

And again, like having writing a book was not on my radar at that point.