Max Lugavere

I felt like I had this amazing gig for six years, but ultimately that all I had done was deferred my post-college job search.

But now I was at a disadvantage because I was in my late 20s, so I was essentially unemployable.

And then my mom was sick, and I had to essentially move back to New York to try to understand what was going on with her.

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.