Ruslan KD

I had to go to therapy.

I discovered as an adult that I had onset PTSD.

I didn't know that as a child.

I didn't know why I was the way I was.

But as an adult, now married with a family, I'm like, I got to figure this stuff out.

Why do I have these weird patterns and conflict?

Go to therapy, get good treatment, get counseling, get around people that are going to call you to more.

And you could either allow those things to defy you or you could persevere despite.

Dave Ramsey has this quote.

He says, the only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is there's a pile of poop all of us have to deal with.

But those of us that are successful just figured out a way to stand on top of all the poop.

And so that would, that would be my advice.

How'd you get yourself out of it?

I, um, so something interesting happened.

I, um, growing up in San Diego, predominantly black neighborhood, my, uh,

my mom and me, and then there was another Armenian refugee family in the complex.

It was like a eight unit complex.

And I, so I get into music, I get into hip hop.

I love hip hop, I love the graffiti.

This is the early nineties.