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  • What is the most difficult thing that you've ever done?

  • When I had a kind of too much cards when I got over my fear when I went in the ocean, I drove all the way down to the pools floor.

  • It was crazy doing a backflip into a pool.

  • I went on a zip line, going on a roller coaster math test about climbing some really hard math homework trying out for the soccer team climbing a large staircase.

  • I did the hard course of the zipline park that I went to stand up to police learn how to swim because I'm scared of water.

  • A little, uh, doing a 20 page paper in my 12th grade english class, coming into terms with who I am fighting a drug addiction on my own.

  • Very, my dad, I wrote an eight page final in college in two hours before the deadline and I got an a, I'm an immigrant and I think the hardest thing I've ever done is try to try to adjust to The us, honestly, anything involving math or science, I don't know, I guess waking up and try and life again every day I came out to my family when I was 19.

  • get myself to certification, deciding to start seeing a therapist moved to new york, probably attempt to climb at the half tomb near somebody graduating from Cornell law school, move all the way from Tennessee to new york, switched career paths, probably leaving a relationship that was not good for me and was not what was going to help me grow, terminate an employee data.

  • In high school, I got bullied and had to give a speech and when everyone's looking like kind of down at you like, and then I got up there and did it.

  • I felt like a sense of accomplishment.

  • I think the most difficult thing I ever did was moving to the US rebuilding myself, leave my country, getting into Columbia, Survive, high school in Detroit.

  • Uh, I was playing football in 7th grade in Bloomington Indiana.

  • If you know anything about indiana and martinsville, it's one of the birthplaces of the Klan.

  • Um, so we had to play football game Knowing that the Klan was in the stands on the other side, managed a team of 40 people to quit my job learning math, taking my first flight from new york to Denver, all by myself, try to walk when I was paralyzed.

  • I worked in child protective services for a number of years and I've had to do a number of removals, Think about it to my dad, boot camper walking from katmandu universe going through life, being deaf in one ear and that's about the hardest thing I can do I have done and I accomplish it.

  • I did a search one at a location.

  • uh there was one by a cold burying my daughter.

  • I had to overcome my shyness, had to go and find my first job, going to school part time, the graduate school part time and working full time and having Two jobs at the same time, a big work project that I didn't think I would get through, but I did get through it deciding to change careers midlife.

  • When I was 17, my brother was in medical school, medical school, called up the family and said uh Mr franco, you have to come pick up your son, there's something wrong with him.

  • And we brought him to new york hospital and they diagnosed him as a chronic schizophrenic.

  • At 18, I told my dad dad go take care of Dominic, I'll run the business dealing with my mother's health and the challenges that come with it, quit smoking, Opening to the mystery of my life.

  • Having to say no to my brother, having to break up with the next girlfriend, bury my mother, put my dog to sleep.

  • I think confronting someone with an uncomfortable subject area.

  • Being a good husband, have to evict tenants of mine that they couldn't pay the bills starting my own business, losing contact with my father.

  • Five short pieces for clever, stuck.

  • It's a very difficult piano piece.

  • It really made me sick.

  • That's an army brat, moving around two different classes, different schools, different countries, different states.

What is the most difficult thing that you've ever done?

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