Mick Hunt

At 10, I made my mom a promise I was going to change her life, that she would smile one day and not feel ashamed to smile.

And so where did that lead me in teenhood?

I was still that competitive person.

I still wanted to be the best because I felt like the only way to fulfill the promise was to be the best dot, dot, dot.

Whatever comes after the dot, dot, dot.

The best student, the best athlete, the best teammate, the best manager at Subway, my first job, right?

The best whatever I was doing, I had to be the best.

Because if someone else was better, then I might not have this promise, right?

Like if I didn't get a scholarship, someone else was.

If I didn't go to college, maybe I can't fulfill what I need to do.

So it just instilled in me and my teens that I needed to be the best.

But also what I realized was,

The easiest way for me to fulfill that promise was through business, right?

It was through entrepreneurship.

The skill sets that I started learning and that I started developing were social skills and communication.

It was networking.

It was understanding finance at a young age.

How do dollars and cents actually work?

And so that became who I became.

I made myself...