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i started off
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working on the land a land that wasn't
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mine
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i worked for other farmers picking
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just about any any uh fruit and
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vegetable that grows here in the valley
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you name it if they grow it here we
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picked it
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including grapes jose hernandez spent
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his entire
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childhood working alongside his parents
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in these california
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fields picking strawberries cherries
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onions and cucumbers
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cucumber grows low so you're always on
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your back picking
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and your bucket filling your bucket and
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then you got to go and empty it and get
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your little
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chip that you then turn in for payment
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and uh it's hard work but you know by
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about 11 o'clock in the morning you're
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done
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and you know if you did very well you
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could make
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50 60 bucks but this is his land
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now and it represents to me it
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represents life
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every year his family would travel from
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mexico to california spending months at
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a time
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doing hard labor it's the only life we
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knew and
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to me it was normal it wasn't it wasn't
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a tough life that's why
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i think my work ethic came from
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still learning english jose excelled in
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math and science and by 10 years old
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he knew that he wanted to be an
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astronaut
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after watching the last apollo mission
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on tv it was 1972
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and he told his dad about his dream i
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think what he saw was the determination
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of a 10 year old boy that
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he did two things that changed the
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course
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of my life i think first thing is
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he validated the dream he empowered me
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to believe i can do it he said
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because the first thing that he said is
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i think you can do it
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i mean that is powerful from a parent to
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a 10 year old
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when he empowered me i believed them
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i'm working very hard so so i can
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have all my children to be somebody and
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it looks like
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they everyone has been professional now
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all four of them yeah i'm really really
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really proud of the whole
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all of them the youngest of four kids he
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graduated high school in 1980
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then earning a degree in electrical
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engineering from the university of the
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pacific
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two years later completing his master's
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degree he began working at the lawrence
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livermore national laboratory
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where he was instrumental in the
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invention of the mobile mammogram
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machine
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during his time there he began applying
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to nasa a process that would take him
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12 years he was rejected 11
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times and so i reached this final 100
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not once not twice but three times
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and made it that far three three times i
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was in the final 100 so you could almost
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taste it
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in a sea of more than twelve thousand
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candidates he was finally selected in
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two thousand four
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so don't be so quick to give up on your
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dreams if you failed once or twice
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sure failure doesn't feel good sure
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rejection doesn't feel good
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but if you prepare yourself you come
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back stronger
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and eventually you'll get there two
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years later he got his wings and in 2009
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he was the flight engineer on the sts
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mission on spatial discoveries
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flying a 14-day mission to the
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international space station
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he became the first first generation
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mexican
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american astronaut and he also sent the
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first tweet from space
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in spanish i tweeted uh for all the
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countries especially the u.s mexico
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and the latin american countries good
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luck in the upcoming
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qualifying rounds for the world cup and
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see you at the world cup
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at the end of his 14-day mission weather
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changed their flight path
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forcing them to land in california
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instead of florida
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on the landing site of edwards air force
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base i always call it poetic
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justice why because it's about 80 miles
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from where i used to pick strawberries
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in the ontario
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chino area main gear touchdown
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were there people on your way up that
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doubted you
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because of your background i guess the
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answer the short answer is yes
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you perceived that it wasn't very
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blatant
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but you perceived it but i also
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i think it also had to do a lot with
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having an imposter syndrome
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sometimes you can't help and you say hey
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do i really belong here
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[Applause]
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a husband and father of five jose left
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nasa in 2011
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moving back to stockton running his
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consulting business
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investing his time in the community and
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buying
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his own land tending to the vines
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near where his entire family worked for
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years
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we were out here because we had to be
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here you know it was a matter of
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survival
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now we're here because we enjoy it
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bottling
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the first vintage of tierra luna wines
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in march
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it has a double meaning tara luna my
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wife thought of the name for her
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restaurant because it meant
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earth moon grill but it also has a
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double meaning because tira in spanish
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not only means earth
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it also means third and while his life
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remains
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on this planet for now he's again
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inspired
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by the latest mission to mars do you
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feel like
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i mean i knew it was the hardest
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decision of your life but but ultimately
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the right one for you to leave
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but when you watch stuff like this you
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miss it a little bit oh yeah i
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miss it a lot i miss it a lot and uh
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you know i i understand you know once
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you leave nasa as an astronaut
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uh you're never gonna go back i
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understand that part
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but you never know i mean you got spacex
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you got virgin galactic you got blue
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origin
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all these companies have their own
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vehicles and may want to have
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experienced
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astronauts lead some of the missions
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whether they're for tourism or for other
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efforts that they're trying to do and so
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you know so you're leaving the door open
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yeah exactly the phone may ring one
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yeah i'm still kind of i'm still in
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pretty good shape so uh
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so i'm i'm hoping you know one day the
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phone rings and says hey jose you know
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if we got an opportunity for you i'll
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say hey um put me in coach
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now his inspiring life story is being
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made
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into a movie netflix plans on shooting
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uh early summer or spring diane love
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that
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kadena and canon when you were talking
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to him meeting him
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hanging out with him in person what did
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you feel stood out to you
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the most when you heard his story from
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him
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you know diane it's the story of his
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second grade teacher honestly
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she changed the course of his life
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dramatically because when he was in
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second grade his parents told him you
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know go get your three months of
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homework
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we're hitting the road for work again
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and his second grade teacher
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came to their home and said
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that education needs to be a priority
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you need to consider the future for your
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children
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and right then and there everything
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changed and they stayed in stockton
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and look at what happened and of course
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his kids are going on
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to be successes as well diane he has one
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child getting his phd right now so
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it's just an incredibly inspiring story
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all around and for
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all generations it really is and it was
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interesting to hear him say
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that he suffered from imposter syndrome
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always questioning do i really belong
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here you know what do you what do you
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take away from that when you think about
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all the doubt that he had
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and yet what he ended up accomplishing
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you know diane that struck me too and my
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producer lisette as well
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we were both struck by the fact that he
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felt this imposter syndrome
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despite the fact that he had all of
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these degrees and he had all these
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successes in his life
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he still sometimes questioned because he
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hadn't really seen anybody else do it
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before
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do i really belong here and i think that
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that's something that we see
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a lot of times diane in these
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trailblazers people that are doing
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something for the very first time
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and obviously the answer is that yes you
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absolutely belong here and we are a
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better country for it
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well he made that clear kainen whitworth
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thanks for that story that was great
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