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MEET CRAIG SOTKOVSKY

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I’m Craig Sotkovsky.

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I’m a Ground Zero volunteer, cancer survivor, entrepreneur, author, speaker, father, and someone who has been knocked down more times than I care to count.

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I’ve survived addiction, childhood trauma, bankruptcy, divorce, major surgeries, cancer, and the kind of losses that can make you question everything.

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But I’m still here.

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For more than 30 years, I’ve been learning one lesson the hard way:

Pain can either destroy you or transform you.

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I chose transformation.

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That became the foundation for Gro-Win Through Pain and the story behind my book, Everybody Pays a Vig.

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Today, I share what I’ve learned with people who are facing their own moments of uncertainty, failure, loss, and change.

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I don’t speak from a textbook.

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I speak from experience.

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I’ve been at rock bottom. I’ve had to start over. I’ve had to look at my own mistakes, take responsibility, and figure out what comes next.

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My message is simple:

You cannot always control what happens to you.

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But you can decide what you become because of it.

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I’m here to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.

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I’m The Shaman From Jersey.

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And this is my story.