Im so excited to have this conversation with you. You know, as a fellow saint louis and i followed your political career and you actually represent the district that i was raised in. Oh, wow. Yeah, like im from florissant. Yes. Yes. I used to live in floors. Yes, i have heard. So im just excited. And so lets just dig in. Im talking to you about your new book, the the forerunner. So i want to talk about this, the opening. So you go in really deep, really quickly with the book about some of the pain and the trauma that youve experienced in your life. What made you decide to open the book with what many could consider to be one of the worst experiences that you had had in your life up to that point . Yeah. You know. Its something that you know, i still im still working through it, but its something also that affected me so, so deeply because, you know, the the Sexual Assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. It
Of the pain and the trauma that youve experienced in your life. What made you decide to open the book with what many could consider to be one of the worst experiences that you had had in your life up to that point . Yeah. You know. Its something that you know, i still im still working through it, but its something also that affected me so, so deeply because, you know, the the Sexual Assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. It was when i was still like trying to, you know, find myself, quote unquote. And i blamed myself. And i went through the next 20 years blaming myself every single time that happened. Oh, it was because my shirt was cut short and my, my, my shorts were really, really sure. It was because i was out walking with friends when i met them and you know, and i was dressed a particular way so that, you know, so thats why it happened. So when they took me out on the date, they just assumed that th
What made you decide to open the book with what many could consider to be one of the worst experiences that you had had in your life up to that point . Yeah. You know. Its something that you know, i still im still working through it, but its something also that affected me so, so deeply because, you know, the the Sexual Assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. It was when i was still like trying to, you know, find myself, quote unquote. And i blamed myself. And i went through the next 20 years blaming myself every single time that happened. Oh, it was because my shirt was cut short and my, my, my shorts were really, really sure. It was because i was out walking with friends when i met them and you know, and i was dressed a particular way so that, you know, so thats why it happened. So when they took me out on the date, they just assumed that thats what i wanted. Or, you know, like i, i made all of these exc
Im so excited to have this conversation with you. You know, as a fellow saint louis and i followed your political career and you actually represent the district that i was raised in. Oh, wow. Yeah, like im from florissant. Yes. Yes. I used to live in floors. Yes, i have heard. So im just excited. And so lets just dig in. Im talking to you about your new book, the the forerunner. So i want to talk about this, the opening. So you go in really deep, really quickly with the book about some of the pain and the trauma that youve experienced in your life. What made you decide to open the book with what many could consider to be one of the worst experiences that you had had in your life up to that point . Yeah. You know. Its something that you know, i still im still working through it, but its something also that affected me so, so deeply because, you know, the the Sexual Assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. It
Yes. Yes. I used to live in floors. Yes, i have heard. So im just excited. And so lets just dig in. Im talking to you about your new book, the the forerunner. So i want to talk about this, the opening. So you go in really deep, really quickly with the book about some of the pain and the trauma that youve experienced in your life. What made you decide to open the book with what many could consider to be one of the worst experiences that you had had in your life up to that point . Yeah. You know. Its something that you know, i still im still working through it, but its something also that affected me so, so deeply because, you know, the the Sexual Assault that i experienced before, most of it happened around it was like my early twenties, late teens, early twenties. It was when i was still like trying to, you know, find myself, quote unquote. And i blamed myself. And i went through the next 20 years blaming myself every single time that happened. Oh, it was because my shirt was cut short