Good or bad, your upbringing is the foundation of who you are today. In the words of every 90s movie bully “you can run but you can’t hide…” So OWN it!
💭 Embracing & appreciating everything I went through
💭 Don’t hold onto the hard times — look back even if it was painful and ask yourself what you can gain from this
💭 Pain allows you to keep growing
💭 Hard times taught me to build from the heart up
💭 Pioneering an underwear category that wouldn’t have existed without the hardships
💭 A Grateful Thread — Every single thing you’ve been through that makes you YOU
💭 Mendid is this crazy thing that keeps me unselfishly pushing
💭 Seeing the Mendid logo reminds me there’s a community of people all striving to become the best versions of themselves
💭 Action sports is the key to so much & it’s such a strong community
💭 Props to my boy Mitchell Bailey for everything he’s doing with Chasing The Cool Podcast
💭 Reflecting on Ryan Sheckler and a bunch of the homies always making me freestyle
💭 Everything I went through took a shy kid who had no idea all this opportunity was out there and made him just keep pushing
The perspective gained through everything — hardships, struggles, sleepless nights was where all of my brands, let alone Malc ’n Beans even came from…
If you’re going through something or can’t seem to shake something you’ve been through… DM me let’s talk! 🙌
