That's so what do you got ? WW when , when in your life did you think to become such an inspirational writer , such a progressive and helpful ? Well , yeah , I , I think uh a lot of that stems from my relationship with my friend of mine that passed away from sickle cell disease was he was someone that I watched Battle for years and never complained .
So when I was actually an athlete at UC Santa Barbara , they used to have me come and speak at like the basketball events for the team to represent them at like dinners and charity events and stuff . And so I was actually just speaking , doing public speaking before I became an author . Um And then I actually had some um really cool opportunities while I was a player as well to go and visit like children's hospitals .
I mean , that was beautifully said and I appreciate you taking the time to go through my whole origin story , which has a lot of crazy turns in it . Um But I think all writers tend to have that typical uh yearning to like be creative in a way that makes sense of like their past that sometimes is odd and sort of different . But uh yeah , this new book is one that I wrote , you know , kind of after feeling like I think the world needed a little bit of hope and inspiration and positivity because , uh , we all know there's plenty of bad things that happen out there .
So then I just started writing it and , you know , here we are . So , um so , well , you already got the basketball star thing out of the way I feel like , so now you can be like a writer like , oh , you can be , you are , which is incredible . Um I love that your dad asked , when's your next book ?
Um So my theory is as Children , we know what we want to do when we grow up . Uh when you were little , were you wanting to be a basketball star or you , were you wanting to be a writer ? Completely a basketball star ?
