My Life Began the Day I Lost $250,000

It took hitting rock bottom for me to learn the real meaning of success

Michael Thompson
Forge
Published in
4 min readSep 24, 2019

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The phone rang. This was it, I thought. At last, all the years of struggle I’d endured were about to be worth it.

Growing up with a severe speech impediment and social anxiety, I had a very limited view of what I was capable of accomplishing. But as I grew…

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Michael Thompson
Forge
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