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Success Matters: Pain to Purpose

What if your life path had been set before you’d even been born?That’s what happened to today’s guest Steven Russell.

The son of an abusive father and a mother who had been forced into prostitution, Steven was taken into care at the age of 6 months.

Steven moved through the care system from the age of 6 months to 16 years, living with 9 foster families, in two care homes and changing schools five times in the process. Steven says he could so easily have ended up in prison or a coffin and nearly did after an incident where he was stabbed in the head at the age of 19.

After that incident and…

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