Mick Hunt

Thank you for having me.

It's a pleasure to be here with you.

And I was telling you before, I've been such a huge fan of yours for over a year and just seeing all the amazing things that you've been doing.

So this is like a bucket list moment to get to be interviewed by my favorite host in the world.

Born and raised in an area in the upstate of South Carolina, so Greenville, South Carolina area.

Me as a kid, before I know the story you want to go to, was the most competitive person in the world.

Like, I grew up in a family of athletes, of business leaders, and competition was the norm.

So I joke all the time, me and my uncles would have challenges to see who could tie their shoes the fastest, right?

If there was something that can be competed, if there was a competition, we were doing it.

So I was one of the most driven kids that there was.

I wanted to be the best athlete on the team.

I wanted to be the smartest kid in school.

And so me growing up from the age of like three or four, I was trying to set the mark.

I was trying to set the standard.

That was me.

Alana, it was not an unusual circumstance in my home growing up to see my mother...

being physically, emotionally, financially, sometimes even sexually abused by my father, who she was married to, who lived in the same household.

But I also knew that I couldn't make that feel normal.

I knew it wasn't right.

And...