“Our time is on loan, only ours to borrow
What I can't be today, I can be tomorrow”y
— Paul Weller
What I can't be today, I can be tomorrow”y
— Paul Weller
Richard lived in Gramercy Park, Manhattan just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. After 9/11, Richard became depressed, even suicidal. He lost his job, he lost his friends and he even lost his live-in girlfriend within a year. No one could understand what Richard was going through. How could he be depressed? Richard had acquired over $2 million, 3 real estate properties, a 43” live aboard sailboat and commercial warehouse in Seattle which he converted into a loft live workspace for his friend, Dan.
Richard went to several psychologists before settling on Dr. Natalie Brown, PhD BOD NDRI. He saw her 3 times a week at $300 a pop. Richard was serious about getting healthy. He was prescribed Prozac. Thats things got weird.
Richard started acting erratically. He started making wild stock trades. He lost $400,000 in a single trade before the market opened.. He attacked friends verbally. He started experimenting with alcohol. That led to cocaine, which was an immediate antidepressant that actually worked for Richard.. Unfortunately, cocaine led to some social mishaps at Richard’s cousin’s wedding. He no longer has any contact with Dan, his friends or his cousin. Richard was alone living in Manhattan, He had planned to give the warehouse to Dan as a gift. Instead, he sold to the warehouse to Dan’s childhood friend Jace for $2,000 a month, since Dan and Rich were not speaking.
Dan had made a joke about how their friend Greg would make a great bartender. I took Dan’s advice for Greg. Richard would never consider leaving his position. He had status. But Richard had also been banished. He learned that without friends and family there is no point in having millions of dollars. Having been cut off from his friends and currently unemployed, Richard left Manhattan and trained to be a bartender.
Richard was a genius at getting executive level software sales jobs, He was a fish out of water when it came to bartending, even with schooling. But men at Henry’s Tabern in Portland broke him in. He had never punched a clock. He had no discipline. He didn’t do things that he didn’t like to do. The bartenders at Hernry’s knew that he was “suit” but they also knew a good man when they meet one. Blake gave Richard such good bartending training that Richard landed a top bartending job at the famous Little Nell in Aspen Colorado, The Little Nell is a 5 start 5 diamond restaurant.
Richard’s Dad got sick in 2005. Richard had to make a choice; to return to Aspen he had new friends, gold health insurance, a $3,000 ski pass and a job he really loved or go home to Oregon to help his Dad with whatever the he needed..
Richard left Aspen to be with his family. He took a bartending job at a OTB pool hall called Rialtos until he started working with his Dad in 2006.
Richard took over his family’s True Value franchise in 2007. He took over in the midfle of the 2008 mortgage scandal. Banks recalled everyone’s business loans. It was a mess, unless you had cash, Richard he gave to his Dad before he died in 2011.
In 2017, Richard lived a few blocks away from the Mandalay Bay Massacre, 700 country music festival lovers got shot with military grade weapons. A 9 mm bullet pierced a 10 year old girl’s head. Thats not to shock you— it’s to let you know the reality of what Richard has experienced just being a civilian in major cities.
Richard changed.
Now, Rich Healthy spends his days taking care of his schizophrenic sister daily needs, his mothrr’s finances and helping others recover from their bulimia and food addictions with a channel on YouTube.
Richard went to several psychologists before settling on Dr. Natalie Brown, PhD BOD NDRI. He saw her 3 times a week at $300 a pop. Richard was serious about getting healthy. He was prescribed Prozac. Thats things got weird.
Richard started acting erratically. He started making wild stock trades. He lost $400,000 in a single trade before the market opened.. He attacked friends verbally. He started experimenting with alcohol. That led to cocaine, which was an immediate antidepressant that actually worked for Richard.. Unfortunately, cocaine led to some social mishaps at Richard’s cousin’s wedding. He no longer has any contact with Dan, his friends or his cousin. Richard was alone living in Manhattan, He had planned to give the warehouse to Dan as a gift. Instead, he sold to the warehouse to Dan’s childhood friend Jace for $2,000 a month, since Dan and Rich were not speaking.
Dan had made a joke about how their friend Greg would make a great bartender. I took Dan’s advice for Greg. Richard would never consider leaving his position. He had status. But Richard had also been banished. He learned that without friends and family there is no point in having millions of dollars. Having been cut off from his friends and currently unemployed, Richard left Manhattan and trained to be a bartender.
Richard was a genius at getting executive level software sales jobs, He was a fish out of water when it came to bartending, even with schooling. But men at Henry’s Tabern in Portland broke him in. He had never punched a clock. He had no discipline. He didn’t do things that he didn’t like to do. The bartenders at Hernry’s knew that he was “suit” but they also knew a good man when they meet one. Blake gave Richard such good bartending training that Richard landed a top bartending job at the famous Little Nell in Aspen Colorado, The Little Nell is a 5 start 5 diamond restaurant.
Richard’s Dad got sick in 2005. Richard had to make a choice; to return to Aspen he had new friends, gold health insurance, a $3,000 ski pass and a job he really loved or go home to Oregon to help his Dad with whatever the he needed..
Richard left Aspen to be with his family. He took a bartending job at a OTB pool hall called Rialtos until he started working with his Dad in 2006.
Richard took over his family’s True Value franchise in 2007. He took over in the midfle of the 2008 mortgage scandal. Banks recalled everyone’s business loans. It was a mess, unless you had cash, Richard he gave to his Dad before he died in 2011.
In 2017, Richard lived a few blocks away from the Mandalay Bay Massacre, 700 country music festival lovers got shot with military grade weapons. A 9 mm bullet pierced a 10 year old girl’s head. Thats not to shock you— it’s to let you know the reality of what Richard has experienced just being a civilian in major cities.
Richard changed.
Now, Rich Healthy spends his days taking care of his schizophrenic sister daily needs, his mothrr’s finances and helping others recover from their bulimia and food addictions with a channel on YouTube.