I was vegetarian for a long time and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

Running gave me a focus to start looking after myself to eat properly and focus on building up my strength.

Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

The only concept or experience or core belief that I can attribute my other-ness to is that I just started out a weirdo and I stayed a weirdo. And it took me a long time to embrace my outsidership and see it as a strength rather than a weakness.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline character and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo I did sports jujitsu and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13 I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working sports and school I hardly ever had free time.

Growing up in Huntington Beach you were either a traditional sports athlete a skateboarder or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years did a little BMX racing as a kid and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

You know we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.