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Douglas James

Navy veteran and founder of LeadFi.ai, a real-time financial lead-qualification platform, known as "The High-Ticket Client Guy" digital marketing entrepreneur.

Oct 28, 2026

9:12
yeah.
9:12
Yeah, dude.
9:12
So, you know, your kids like you're there are sponges, you know, their daddy's Superman, like anything he does or mommy does.
9:18
It's like gold.
9:19
They take it as truth, you know, and, you know, I saw things growing up that, you know, I should I should never see.
9:25
So I now have like an example of what not to be of a parent, you know, so I want to pour the best I can into and into my kids.
9:34
But what I found, you know, through that experience of, you know, trauma, going to bed, not knowing if I'm going to eat, you know, physical, verbal abuse.

9 MINS LATER

18:23
What was that? Like what, if you can recall, what was the thing that just turned everything on for you?
23:57
(laughs)
23:57
I graduated with like a 1.3 GPA, right? So I was not a good student at all.
24:02
I, I could not sit in class and take instruction.
24:04
Again, we're entrepreneurs, business owners, we wanna be in control, right? So, um, and I didn't wanna be homeless and disown my family and, uh, you know, I was, uh- you know, kind of like a...
24:12
I had a really rough upbringing, you know? I, I grew up in a home where there was, um, emotional, physical, verbal abuse.
24:19
My dad, you know, abused drugs, alcohol.
24:21
I'd see it and ha- had to endure things a lot, you know, kids should never endure.

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33:38
Right.

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