Tom Ellsworth

I'm going to wait.

Pat, tell me when I can just say my point.

What?

No, I'm good.

Everything because of the choices I was making professionally.

I was engaged at the time.

That didn't work out because I was sharing a part of myself that men wanted to be saved for them only.

And the fact that I would pose nude or dance in very little clothes or show my body was making them feel like I was taking something away that was meant to be for them.

It was really hard for me to go home and see my dad and look him in the eyes and not feel super embarrassed.

Seeing my grandparents was just mortifying.

There was even a time where my brother and sister didn't want to go to school because of how humiliated they were to be related to me.

I lost everything because of the choices I was making professionally.

The future looks bright.

A handshake is better than anything I ever saw.

It's right here.

One day you're going to be the president of the United States of America.

No one, including Michael Ali, who can stop you from becoming a president.

Dream big.

Have a vision.

Because if Barack Hussein Obama can be a president, Suhaib Jawad cannot be a president.