Will Guidara - You can speak things into existence.

After 350+ interviews for the What Got You There Podcast, this is the most impactful story I've heard. Will Guidara shares the remarkable of his mom
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I I love talking about my mom.
My mom and my dad were both in hospitality, my mom was a flight attendant for American Airlines my dad had run a variety of restaurant companies and when I was about four my mother was working in first class and she was very good at what she did and over the course of a month or so she kept on dropping stuff in first class to the point that it became alarming and they went to see a doctor which ultimately led to her being diagnosed with brain cancer it was a malignant tumor which means that it wasn't like a golf ball, easy to remove in its entirety, it had you know had little fingers kind of and so they remove as much as they can from your
brain and then they used radiation treatment to kill what remained. Now the problem was radiation treatment back then was not not nearly as refined as it is now and so right after the surgery my mom still had use of one of her legs and one of her arms and could talk and get around and still drive. In the years that followed her physical condition deteriorated to the point that she was rendered into a quadriplegic um unable to move at all and hardly able to talk. This was when I was four and what I would come to find out later in life is that the doctors didn't believe she would live longer than another six seven eight years.
Now my mom loved me recklessly. My mother lost her parents when she was a kid she never had like a strong family unit after that and when when she had me it was like her biggest dream in the world finally come true she had a family/ I actually joke sometimes that she loved me so much had it not been for her sickness I don't know how long my dad and her would have stayed together because she definitely loved me a lot more than she loved him. When I talking about non-verbal communication what I was talking about was even though she couldn't talk the way that she smiled that me showed me so clearly that it was not possible to be loved more than she loved me but she loved me so much that I became her reason to live and she decided at some point along the way she never told this to me directly because I think everyone wanted to Shield me from the fact that she might not live all that long that she was going to see me graduate college and a woman that was told by doctors she should live until I was about 12, just kept living and living and living and living.
She and my dad were meant to come to my graduation at Cornell and had like hired a medical van and like did all the training to figure out how to get up there for it, but two days before my graduation she slipped into a coma. I graduated, through my hat in the air like one does, ran to my car jumped in the car drove from Ithaca New York to Boston where they lived at the time I went straight to her hospital, my dad had already gone home for the night I sat in a chair next to her hospital bed and fell asleep on her lap. In the middle of the night I woke up and she was awake, and this woman with whom I had not had a proper conversation in years was able to talk fluently and we had a full conversation she said, “You graduated?” I said “yeah”. She goes, “How was it?”, I told her all about it then she ultimately slipped back into her coma. I went to get the doctors she passed away that night.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? Jay-Z said you can talk
things into existence. I mean I know that's true because of her. And it's important to lean in to the one word because she would say that out loud to my dad, “I will see him graduate.” Talking things into existence means saying them out loud because if you don't have the conviction to say something out loud over and over and over again you're not going to accomplish it. People say it's ridiculous, people say like no I don't want to jinx it. It's like no you need to manifest it. It doesn't mean it'll always happen but at the very least you can know and believe that you gave it every ounce of your being.