Alan Placer | Guest: One More Thing Before You Go

I came from a very broken home and was abandoned by my parents and siblings at 9. Raising myself, I thankfully made a conscious decision at that age to become a "good man", whatever that meant. After high school i became a firefighter/EMT because I thought it would make me a better man. While decorated with many rescue awards, I retired after responding to Ground Zero on 9/11.
Broken, I went back to work at my family's retail business which was a nightmare. Soon I wound up divorced and raising my high-functioning autistic son alone. I started an ecommerce business with products I invented as a side hustle. That company is now a multi million dollar corporation and my son is a proud, independent man.
Today I spend much of my time contributing to groups like Order of Man and others to help others overcome fear and achieve their visions. I am an experienced podcast guest and am making rounds again as I start writing a book.

That Thing About 7- Stories up and Walking Through The Valley of Death

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Jan. 7, 2022

That Thing About 7- Stories up and Walking Through The Valley of Death

In This episode we have a conversation with a decorated firefighter /EMT whose career of saving people's lives came to a culmination atop a pile of rubble at Ground Zero on 9/11, when he was seven stories up helping take apart that pile of rubble piece by piece, by hand. He stopped to rest and sat down and when he looked down the street, all he saw was the gray cement color over everything: the buildings, the windows, the street, the cars, he saw nothing but a big corridor of gray. He paused and...

Guest: Alan Placer

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