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Timothy Martin

Soccer goalkeeper

Oct 2, 2026

3:55
Can you share those with us?
3:58
Absolutely.
3:58
Um, so the, the first object I chose, and it was intentional, was the mirror.
4:04
Um, because how often have we looked at a friend, a loved one, uh, and said, "I really wish you could see yourself the way I see you"? Um, and when we're in our dark times, a lot of times when we look at that mirror, we, we see a snippet in time.
4:21
We don't see our full biography.
4:24
Um, and that's kind of how I started off to kind of level set everyone of let, let's take a pause and look at ourselves.
4:30
Um, and, and then as we progress through the book, uh, you know, the, the f- one of them, of course, um, is a, a river.

15 MINS LATER

19:31
Can you share that with us?
15:34
Let's talk about that.
15:36
So I had the pleasure in my government contracting day to run a government contract called Survivor Outreach Services, which was a 20-plus person contract that helped National Guard Gold Star families navigate the red tape of when their significant other passed away.
15:54
And not only did it help navigate the red tape, you know, benefits, et cetera.
16:01
One of the other things we did is we used to put, we put Gold Star families there at Churchill Downs for a day at the races.
16:07
We put about a hundred family members on riverboats in Kentucky and West Virginia.
16:12
We did all these small community events to bring people Gold Star families together.
16:18
And one thing I noticed is when you got them together, you had a conversation.

17 MINS LATER

33:49
So let's, let's

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