Tim Storey
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916 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Sep
Tim Storey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And with the sports side of things, I started to realize it was school clothes. realized it. Birthdays of Christmas, realized it. But it wasn't something that I talked about, but I saw that something was different.
Yeah, and I think that it's something that all of us that are watching right now and listening, we've all faced what I call a life interruption. An interruption is a disturbance. It is like a knock on the door that you do not expect. It's a call at three in the morning. Usually something is not good. If you have family members, you wonder like, what's wrong?
So the life interruption was my father wanted to get my mother food. So he called a local restaurant, ordered food for my mother and my father. And it's an interesting thing. The reason he ordered food for my mother is because we had eaten that night. And I just asked her this about two months ago. And I said, well, why did you need food?
And she said, because this was common when you're cooking for five kids and they keep saying, do we have any more? Do we have any more? It's easy for the mother to sacrifice and then say, I'll find something else to eat. She said, but that particular night, I had nothing else in the house.
So your father went to get me food and he was going through a green light and a person ran a red light, hit him, and then my father passed. Now, so it was an accident. The man that was driving did not do it on purpose. He was looking down for paperwork. But the interesting thing about it, he was actually a police officer who on duty, in the police car. So that was a very strange thing in life.
For one day, my father was there. And then the next day, he was not. And there was a lot of added pressure to pressure that we already had. But when I'm saying all this, it's not like a downer because we found our way through the storm. But that's just the reality of what happened at that time.
I was fortunate enough to have three older sisters and then a brother. I have a sister eight years older, seven years older, six years older, and then a brother three years older, and then I'm the youngest. So my older sister is just a leader of leaders and still is. So she was very wise in the area of education. So even when we were in tough neighborhoods, she saw that we all did our homework.
We knew how to really pull together. Everybody knew how to do the dishes, but at a high standard. Our house was small, but always very, very clean. Those things were important because we were able to rely on each other. So instead of there being pain and then panic, And then separation, there was pain, probably some panic, but then we learned to try to come together to heal each other.
I think what happens is that if you were to watch the movie King Richard and see Venus and Serena Williams, so that is a good part of the parts of LA that we were raised in. There was a lot of challenges in that area, but there were in inner city Detroit, Chicago, New York City, certain parts. But I was raised in an area where you really had to guard yourself and
You had to really make sure you made the right choices because the wrong choices at an early age could really take you to the wrong place fast. So I have people that are my cousins. They are the children of my aunts or uncles that are still incarcerated to this day. And I've been around a while. They're still incarcerated to this day. They're in jail. They're in prison.
So they did not make the right choices. So going to church was a big thing for me. I found that to be a safe place. I found sports to be a safe place. I played the traditional American sports, basketball, baseball, football, and my coaches were fantastic. My coaches played a real key in my life, in my development, in bringing out the champion that was inside of me.
One hundred percent. Because when you think of my sixth grade teacher, now that we had moved out of Compton, we were in another part of Los Angeles. He was Caucasian. And he said to me, Tim Story, can you stay after class? I stayed after class. He says, I think you are brilliant because I think you are brilliant. I want to see if you would like to read one of these books from my library.
And I chose this book on the life of Michelangelo. But for this guy to call me brilliant, I'd never heard that word before. So he literally branded me brilliant is the way I say it in my talks. But the thing that I was wise enough to do at that age is not push away what he said. What he said, I think you are brilliant. I didn't question it. I took it and I just put it here.
So people like that made a big impact on me and definitely has encouraged me to be what I am today and encouraging other people.
What happens is that the teacher says to me, tell me a story. Can you stay after class? And then there's like a, ooh, all the kids listen. So I go to his desk. He offers up three books. He says, you got to be done in three weeks. You have to check it out like you do at a library. He had a card. I had to sign it. I was only in sixth grade.
I read the book and literally all these years later, I'm like 30 years of age and I'm living on top. I'm already known as the life coach to the stars. I'm talking to people like Charlton Heston, Elliot Gould, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Vidal Sassoon, Lee Iacocca. And my life had exploded into this amazing place. getting over a thousand invitations a year to speak.
And I'm going to Maui to speak, 30 years of age. And I'm sitting in first class with this very classy lady next to me. And she's in her 70s. We started to talk and she says, young man, I've been watching you before we got on the plane, you walk like you walk on clouds. And I said, oh, that's interesting. She goes, no, you have this real thing about you, this real piece about you.
And she says, tell me about your background. So we talked a little bit. I could tell she was very, very smart and was definitely somebody that was accomplished. But at that point, I didn't know who she was. So she said, who are some of your early influences? And for some reason, I decided to tell that story of the sixth grade teacher. And I said, and he gave me a choice of books.
And she said, well, which book did you choose? I said, I chose a book about the life of Michelangelo. And then she gave me a kind of an interesting look. And she said, do you remember the name of the book? I said, yeah, it was The Agony and the Ecstasy. She goes, do you remember the name of the writer? I said, yeah, it was Irving Stone. And she says, that would have been my husband.
My name is Gene Stone. And she started crying. So the fact that Jean Stone's husband, Irving Stone, wrote that book that helped change my life when my sixth grade teacher gave it to me. And she was the editor of that book. And then we became friends. She was a very powerful lady in Beverly Hills. I later moved to Beverly Hills, not far from her. And we became very good friends.
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