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Sam Robles

Jul 3, 2026

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How
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do you even begin to plan that? The first one happened by chance.
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I was already looking to do something.
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And then a good friend of mine, she was going to go to Nepal to help with a nonprofit.
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And she invited me to be the photographer for that project.
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So I went, I connected with her boyfriend really well, like we're really good friends now.
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He loves football as well.
speaker_0HOST
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How do you really earn that trust from the kids?
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Mm.
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I mean, it is hard to come back.
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So I excelled in, in business, in sales.
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We had a great home.
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We had a great, you know, great cars and living great life.
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And, uh, and I remember I served at my church, and a Mexican, a little Mexican kid came back, and I used to pick him up every morning, take him to church, and he just hugged me and told me, "Thank you for helping me."

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Mm-hmm
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... and they get angry, and they hate you." And I said, "Why? Why would they hate you if you help them?" They said, "Because when they turn 18, they kind of feel like when they were cute and nice, you know, you got money off of them even though you took care of them.

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