Will Young made his mark as an entrepreneur and civic leader, helping raise more than $25 million dollars for companies and nonprofits in his capacity as board member (serving on ten boards), and business owner from 1996 to 2011. After writing four business books, a knock on his door in 2011 changed his world forever. Now he writes and records books, podcasts, plays, keynotes, movie scripts, short stories, and blog posts from his own life experiences and failures.
Quote: “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl
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05:20 – The funny thing is, when they came in the house that day, my wife and I, we still joke about it to this day... You have to find a way to look at it, that's exactly what the first couple of years of this was like. It was hard, but you kind of you relax with it. We joked around because neither one of us knew what was going on. I looked at it, I thought, was she cheating on me with somebody? Is she in the mafia, something that I don't know about? Is she living a double life? All these weird thoughts. Then she's looking at me going, are you looking at weird stuff on the internet? I mean, just all these thoughts, because you have no idea nowadays, and then, why are these people in our house?!
10:45 – We had to end up selling our home, we had to end up dealing with all kinds of different issues that weren't documented. So I'm doing the best I can based on what I believe they wanted. Well, there were other family members who disagreed. So that became a big point of of problem.
20:00 - The number one thing is, anybody involved, and I mean anybody, step relatives, uncles, aunts, brothers cousins, friends down the street, they should all be involved in all the decisions for clear communication. Either in writing, in a group meeting, etc, so that there's witnesses that can say, yeah, I saw that all 10 of us agreed with what were doing. I mean, other than what you said, the wills and signed agreements and all that stuff. The other thing too, is just don't pay yourself to take care of your your relatives. I mean, there's a lot of different philosophies on that.
31:50 – We had to have two different attorneys. You can't have one attorney represent you. So you have to have two separate attorneys. It just became this odyssey, I felt like every day I was getting up and having an out of body experience because it was so not my life of crime. Up to this point, I only had some speeding tickets. I had an open container when I was like 19 years old in college. That was it. So here, I was caught in this thing. Thank God she, I mean, she's just an angel. To this day, she's it, she has incredible friends. She's an incredible person. Thank God because if she wasn't, she would have left me in a heartbeat.
40:50 – I think it was smart move. I don't have a legal background. I'm not here to say whether you are guilty or innocent. I love the fact that you're honest. You say, we definitely screwed up, and we definitely didn't do some things that were within the legal process, that's why we got nailed. Then you stepped up and you owned it because you want to protect your family and not get drug through a massive trial of...