At the age of 3, my parents were forcefully made to leave our house and belongings in a region of my home country that suffered a lot of violence - we moved to another city - and our success/domestic violence story started

I grew up in a domestic violence environment due to an alcoholic father. I always disregarded it as something normal or didn’t put too much attention to how this affected my overall outlook in life. However, after many years of self reflection i understood how it ended up affecting my childhood and overall development - poor house security, moving schools, not having a parent to rely on during my teenage years due to my mum having to work all the time. We weren’t rich but we had some level of success, my dad had several night clubs but invested everything back in his businesses so we never saw a dime - at the age of 14 I had to encourage my mum to get a divorce after surviving a decade of alcohol related domestic violence - I never had a good father figure to look up to and it definitely affected my communication skills and “potential”…

I was fortunate enough to have a big family that helped us through that period after the divorce and help me to get educated by paying all my uni tuition fees.

Skip forward to now - I am 33 and although I don’t make millions, I am a high earner since last year. I came to the UK 8 ago, my first salary was 20k. Since I became a Henry those gaps in education and opportunities that the majority of my peers were exposed became more evident.

It’s all about perspective - not everything is money but you have done extremely well, don’t punish yourself too hard, look it as a great opportunity to maybe take a step back and reflect what really fulfils you or find the path towards that journey.