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Your Journey is Just Beginning

Your Journey is Just Beginning

He’s a good man, with one hell of a job. Amazing video of a thank you speech to his team at Chicago HQ. Poignant and honest, and while he talks of the hope he has for these young people that have helped him return for another four years, down here in NZ, I take my hat off to them too. Most, if not all of them, work for free! So very relieved you are back. Hope is alive and well. Here’s the video.


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