Episode #146 – The Boy Who Learned to Hide | Howard Steinberg

so it really goes really deep in terms of words and etymology and what they mean so this is why like it is really hard to really crack the matrix because there's so many levels and layers to it you know howard welcome to the conscious man seven podcast how are you today I'm doing well, Todd.

Thank you.

Nice to be with you.

Yes.

Nice to talk to you today.

And, you know, I was reading your book and I found it quite interesting because, you know, it started from a place where I thought it would finish.

And when I started to read it, I knew that this would be an interesting read and not also be a story that we can share with my audience to give them a little bit of hope and belief in themselves.

Because I find that today we have a lot of people and mostly men that think there's no way out, that challenges are too difficult to overcome.

And, you know, we always hear about these success stories, but a lot of people don't really know or understand that behind every success story, there's actually a lot of trauma pain fear blood sweat and tears grift disappointment failures some catastrophic as well and i think your story has pretty much all of them you know so today we're going to dive in delve into a little bit about that and we're going to start talk about You know, we're going to start with the boy who learned to hide.

So take us back to that August afternoon selling fizzy drinks in the park.

What did it feel like when your own body wouldn't stop demanding your attention weeks before anyone had a name for what was wrong?

Yeah, I can remember that pretty vividly as even though it was what, 57 years ago.

Yeah, a friend and I were little entrepreneurs, and we were dragging a cooler full of sodas through a park in Queens, New York, trying to make some extra money selling cold drinks to sweaty, hot people in the park.

I was, for a while, I had these symptoms of a lot of fatigue.

I was losing weight and so thirsty.

Just couldn't satiate my thirst.

Couldn't quench my thirst.

And so drinking a lot, peeing a lot, and And here I am tearing into these cans of black cherry and orange soda and adding more fuel to the fire raging inside, which was type 1 diabetes.

Back then, they called it juvenile diabetes.

And went to the pediatrician, and I didn't know any of this.

It's like my parents thought, you know, it doesn't look right.

Let's take him to the doctor.

Doctor knew right away or after I left, you know, peed in a cup and they tested, oh, boy, full of sugar.

Called my parents.

My father had a little butcher shop in Queens and my mom would help out at the store.

so it really goes really deep in terms of words and etymology and what they mean so this is why like it is really hard to really crack the matrix because there's so many levels and layers to it you know howard welcome to the conscious man seven podcast how are you today I'm doing well, Todd.

Thank you.

Nice to be with you.

Yes.

Nice to talk to you today.

And, you know, I was reading your book and I found it quite interesting because, you know, it started from a place where I thought it would finish.

And when I started to read it, I knew that this would be an interesting read and not also be a story that we can share with my audience to give them a little bit of hope and belief in themselves.

Because I find that today we have a lot of people and mostly men that think there's no way out, that challenges are too difficult to overcome.

And, you know, we always hear about these success stories, but a lot of people don't really know or understand that behind every success story, there's actually a lot of trauma pain fear blood sweat and tears grift disappointment failures some catastrophic as well and i think your story has pretty much all of them you know so today we're going to dive in delve into a little bit about that and we're going to start talk about You know, we're going to start with the boy who learned to hide.

So take us back to that August afternoon selling fizzy drinks in the park.

What did it feel like when your own body wouldn't stop demanding your attention weeks before anyone had a name for what was wrong?

Yeah, I can remember that pretty vividly as even though it was what, 57 years ago.

Yeah, a friend and I were little entrepreneurs, and we were dragging a cooler full of sodas through a park in Queens, New York, trying to make some extra money selling cold drinks to sweaty, hot people in the park.

I was, for a while, I had these symptoms of a lot of fatigue.

I was losing weight and so thirsty.

Just couldn't satiate my thirst.

Couldn't quench my thirst.

And so drinking a lot, peeing a lot, and And here I am tearing into these cans of black cherry and orange soda and adding more fuel to the fire raging inside, which was type 1 diabetes.

Back then, they called it juvenile diabetes.

And went to the pediatrician, and I didn't know any of this.

It's like my parents thought, you know, it doesn't look right.

Let's take him to the doctor.

Doctor knew right away or after I left, you know, peed in a cup and they tested, oh, boy, full of sugar.

Called my parents.

My father had a little butcher shop in Queens and my mom would help out at the store.