Tell Me Your Story

Plug: Author of, Wrestling Through Adversity: Empowering Children, Teens, and Young Adults to Win in Life. peaking Points: 1. The US recently commemorated the 22nd anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, when the tensions around the globe are higher than ever with war in Ukraine and the October 7 th Israel-Hamas conflict, where children, teens, and young adults were brutally slaughtered with what some commentators are calling barbarism. My storytelling in this book is a metaphor for how to grapple with life in the 21 st century that begins with Phil Nowick, a wrestling coach, who was a junior investor at Merrill Lynch on 9/11 and subsequently died. Phill’s life is emblematic of all our lives, when he showed us how to sprint faster away from the towers, while his lungs burned like wildfire. He wanted to climb the corporate ladder, like many of us, but was accused of being too nice, lacking the killer instinct, but was great at analytics. He told the truth, as he saw it. 2. Phil inspired me to write thi