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Data speaks.

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And this is interview, take one.

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Say someone, they're
sitting next to you

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and they said, How's
work you doing today?

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And this exclusive report,
the Saints running back,

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reveals that he suffers from a
disease called social anxiety

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disorder, and he's
currently taking medication

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to control National
Football League.

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And certainly the most
shocking was Ricky Williams

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abrupt departure from
the Miami Dolphins

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at all, a pro football, for
all intents and purposes.

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It appears as if Ricky Williams
shows marijuana over football,

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with Ricky Williams
being the Hall of Fame.

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If the NFL allowed
marijuana during the years

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he was in the NFL.

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I do think so.

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I'm sad.

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I'm doing great.

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I feel like I've
been on a trajectory

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for the past 15 years or so.

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And it just keeps going
the amount of energy

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we put into caring what other
people think about this.

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And a lot of times people
we don't even like.

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I started to shift that in the
end result is I'm just happier.

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People expect me to be
unique and to be myself.

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So much easier that way.

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So welcome back to
curious questions with me,

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Ricky Williams today,
my guest is literally

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one of my best friends in
the world, Dan libertador.

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So Dan's chert I
remember, we talked

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about the primal triad, the
sun, the moon and the ascendent.

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These are really the
most important parts

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of someone's chart and helps
you understand who they are.

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So I end up walking away from
football, but at the time.

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I have no idea what
I'm going to do.

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And so I started traveling
around the world.

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And I met a guy in Australia
who gave me a book on ayurveda,

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and I just soaked up this book
because it just spoke to me.

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And I found that there is a
school in northern California.

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So I called them up and
they were the semester

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was starting in like two weeks.

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So I drove up there.

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The next day and everyone
there enrolled in school,

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and I started studying.

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I read it.

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And I knew I found my teacher.

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I knew I was starting
to find my path.

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And I had the first morsel of
clarity that I had and not.

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And from that point on, I
started to voraciously study

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yoga and astrology, and
it just kept spiraling

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and as I kept going, my path
became more and more clear.

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And here I am.

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Lately, I've been
coming down a lot,

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once or twice a month because
we relaunched the flowers,

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so I had to come down and
pick up my test samples.

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One thing that I really
loved about Ricky

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was that authenticity
of Ricky and how much,

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again, his passion for cannabis.

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And he surprised
the hell out of me

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about how much he
knew about cannabis.

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I'm used to when I
walk into a room,

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people know who I am and
connected to something.

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And I walk in these
books and they might know

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who I am as a football player.

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And so I have to work
harder to prove that I have

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what it takes to be a
CEO and that if they

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do invest in our
company, that I'm not

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going to blow their money.

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The story that's
compelling for me to tell

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is bringing cannabis
and sports together.

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And I think growing
up, there were

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separated in my
personal experience,

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that separation
played out in my life

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where I found cannabis
and saw that it

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improve the quality of my life.

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But it's a banned substance,
whatever you do it.

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And I call it the Heisman
because I won the Heisman

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Trophy when I was in
college and is just you

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spin on that whole idea
that you can use this

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and it can help
you achieve stuff.

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Yeah Do you think people
owe you an apology?

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No, no, no, no, I
don't ever think

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anyone ever owes me an apology.

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If we're living truly
a truly authentic life.

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It should have that
you should have

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that effect on other
people, because, you know,

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once people start,
you see those things,

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it starts to get people
to think outside the box

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and open their minds.

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And that process is
first you hit resistance,

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but then you break free.

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And so I take pride in the fact
that people were upset, then.

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And we see what's happened
now in the change.

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And I think I've just
learned to embrace

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being a little bit ahead of
my time and understanding

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what comes with that.

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And to the point where
I actually enjoy it,

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I enjoy it, ability to
be out front forthright,

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keep it honest and
not run from it.

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It was a miracle to watch.

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And I know it was probably
unbelievably difficult,

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but I'm a little
bit a little bit.

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And it just is inspiring to me.

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It gave me a lot of
confidence, the strength that

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changed my life.

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When you talked to and to me,
that's really my whole story.

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When you're young and
you have a lot of talent,

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especially in sports, is to
realize sports are, in my mind,

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primarily a way to hone
and to sharpen that talent.

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But ultimately, it's
got to be applied

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to something bigger than just
football to feel fulfilled.

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What I've seen in my
past is through studying

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yoga and astrology
and all spirituality,

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and all the things that I'm
into now, all the things

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that I learned as a football
players would have allowed me

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to Excel in these other areas.

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And I think the
only mistake that we

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make is not listening
to ourselves

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and not listening to our heart.

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I think that's the
only mistake we make.

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And that's the original mistake.

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And all the other mistakes
are essentially, hopefully

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the correction of that idea
of social anxiety disorder.

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When I got into the NFL, social
means being around people.

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Anxiety means something
is not comfortable.

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Well, the way, I've learned
to understand anxiety,

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it's not a bad thing.

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It's information.

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And it's information.

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And when I finally woke
up out of my stupor,

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I. I realize I'm not
supposed to be here.

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And I left.

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And guess what?

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The anxiety disappeared.

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And my life started to become
more vital, more interesting,

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more dynamic.

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The correction was walking
away, taking a year off,

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getting a sense of who exist
underneath the football helmet.

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And then when I came back
after that year off, it was me.

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It was it was more me
as a football player.

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And it wasn't how can I
define myself by this role?

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It was, how can I use
football as a platform

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to do something
bigger with my life?

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