Building Resilience through Adversity: Overcoming Misdiagnosis with Dwayne Morton

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Welcome to When Not Yet Becomes Right Now, the podcast where we dive deep into the moments of transformation, the times when not yet shifts into right now and everything changes. I'm your host, Jen Ginty and this podcast is all about those pivotal moments in our life journeys. You know the ones when the hesitation fades, when we take that first step, even if it feels like a leap. It's in these moments that growth and healing begins. Each episode will explore stories of resilience,

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Jen (01:13)
Welcome to When Not Yet Becomes Right Now. Hi, I'm your host Jen, and I'm here with a phenomenal guest. His name is Dwayne Morton. And Dwayne is an inspirational speaker who works with athletes in mental performance and is a former international basketball player. Last March, Dwayne discovered that he was misdiagnosed with a rare blood cancer for 18 years. In 2022, he was caught in the crossfire of a police shooting as a bystander.

He has overcome both obstacles while maintaining his integrity, authenticity, and most importantly, his faith. Welcome, Dwayne.

Dwayne Morton (01:51)
Thanks for having me, Jen, and thanks for your listeners for giving us a platform.

Jen (01:56)
Yeah, absolutely. Let's get into it. Tell us your origin story.

Dwayne Morton (02:02)
Origin story. So for me is I grew up in a small rural town in Western Kentucky. And so it's amazing because like my aunt and my mother always told me I was special. And as you go through life, you know, those knocks that little kids take, you you lose part of that special part. And so I feel like if I would have listened, I've been way more special.

but like my aunt used to curl my front of my hair like you went to the S like the Superman S and you know, always told me stories about Luke Skywalker and Superman and and so I think that's really important because it also gives us a chance to really talk about hero's journey to part of it. And so, life wasn't always easy in the, in the small rural town. there was times where your light would always get dimmed and there was times that your light would, you know,

shine and then it would be like oh no, damn it and so for me I Really big into athletics And so my origin story actually that's really where my mindset and all that stuff started and gave me a platform to grow but really grow into the type of identity that I am now and so played basketball throughout All the way up to my junior year. I quit my mother my grandmother passed away

So it's first time i'd ever dealt with death so I gave up the really the only thing I loved just because I wanted the time to grieve So I don't openly really talk about that very often, but that was really the reason why And so I actually went back out my senior year and I had gotten better but the coach cut me because He labeled me a quitter and so from that moment on I was like

I'm not quitting anything unless I truly desire it for myself. And so that part led me to how I got to overseas and that's how, you know, became a former international basketball player. So I would say that aspect would be like chapter one slash two. And then all that kind of just like got me up to now.

Jen (04:25)
so this blood disorder that you are diagnosed with, could you tell us a little bit about that?

Dwayne Morton (04:32)
Sure. So what it is is it's called polysathemia, which now not as big of a deal. It's actually something that people are So when I was first diagnosed with it, there was like 200,000 people in the world that had it. So it was classified as a rare blood cancer So it was a blood disease that turned into a blood cancer Also, I was given five years like it wasn't until I talked to my brother last week that he like reminded me because he remembered the conversation with the doctor and was like, yes about five years

I talked to another physician and he said it's probably about 15. So through that You diagnosis is really difficult because it's like a you know, it's like a prison sentence and so because then you identify with whatever you got diagnosed with and so I think

For me, in my mindset, I tried to overcome it for four to five years, off and on, more on. But I would try different things in my diet, different things that were like, hey, can I... So to explain what polysynchromia is, is it's too much iron. And so the best way to explain this is like, if I have a river and I have different ships or barges that are flowing down the river,

If you put two or three, you know, that's the normal amount. But mine was like 10 wide and so it just jammed up. So my body was greatly deprived of oxygen. And so the symptoms of this are similar to sleep apnea, which that is what I got diagnosed with in April is severe sleep apnea. So I could have had this all fixed within probably a month time. And so that's the other thing is like

In some aspects I feel like I was robbed and they thief me a time, right? but I also I I believe in grace. I really do. I believe that like I should practice grace even in times that I don't want to give race because I want the same aspect of other people to do the same thing for me, right? So I truly believe in the golden rule and so

You know, I'm not upset at the doctors the doctors. I don't believe they really were trying to do harm to me or you know to still time or anything like that and so I really wanted to let people know like it things happen for reasons and I'm not a person who believes in like coincidences or like I didn't go I went through this for a purpose and so I think it was to make me have a bigger purpose and so I think I answered that

pretty well about the blood cancer, but I will tell you one of the stories that happened when I was overseas actually is the reason why I accepted that like I did because I ran into a little boy who was about five years old and so he was starving. I didn't know that at the time and so there was a thing where

The community gives us food. take the food, cause like, we were looked at as, different symbols of, this basketball team coming to these, these cities. And so it's kind of like if the Beatles rode up, to, different cities in the sixties, like basketball. And when I played, it was 1996. So really the global expansion of basketball allowed me to do this. And so they really looked at us as like we were Chicago Bulls.

Which is one of the most popular teams at that time and so people would come from all over to watch us And so they would always feed us and you know, always give us their best. Well, i'll be honest like What they were offering for me to eat. I wasn't going to eat. I just like I I have a very picky, I'm a very picky eater So it looked more like pig slop and you know, I was just like hey i'm not gonna eat this like i'm good So I pushed my plate up

and um a little boy came by and he asked like you know through my interpreter if he could have the food and my interpreter gave it to him and you know like said he could you know after I I okayed it and he grabbed the plate and he just started shoveling in like he hadn't seen food so it was a very humbling moment for me because I've never had to worry about those three things that you know three the three essential things I've never had to worry about food water or shelter and so

For me, it was a very eye-opening experience. And so when I got diagnosed, and also when I talk about the shooting part, I don't believe it was through guilt, but I can't tell you if it is or it isn't right now. I don't feel like it was, but some people will interpret it the way they want. But I always look at it as like other people have it worse. And so for me, it was easier to push through than to me being like, oh, why me?

And so because honestly, as you know,

Our nightmares are probably some other person's dream.

And so that diagnosis, like there's parts of the diagnosis where I went through different phases. There was phases where I was trying to overcome. There was phases where I was trying to be content. There was phases where I was trying to learn entrepreneurship. I was trying to learn how to communicate. There was parts where I was like, I was completely like rediscovering myself. So that was

That's kind of the beautiful part of it is that I had a clean slate, which, you know, right now, as I'm talking to you, I have a, you know, I feel like I have a clean slate too, after I found out I was healthy. So it's like, I'm going back to these different points of time.

Jen (10:31)
Yeah, can see that. One of the things I practice, DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy, and one of the distress tolerance coping skills is it has a bunch of different things in it, but one of it is comparisons.

where you can compare yourself to another, maybe another time in your life, or you can compare yourself to something else that maybe a person you know that's going through something. And sometimes that can be really helpful for people. I myself have not really found that helpful in my own space because of, mine's a little different, it's trauma, know, it's childhood trauma and it's that kind of thing. But it is something that can help many people to

understand where they truly are at. My son, when he was four, he was diagnosed with Asperger's, which is a form of autism. They no longer call it Asperger's. It's just part of under the umbrella of autism. you know, I really, I was so upset and I blamed myself for this. I'm like, why did I give my son autism? And, you know, I did throughout the time.

start to do the same thing with the comparisons like, well, he's healthy. He's getting what he needs. We are lucky enough to be in a state that is going to help him through a Medicare program, that kind of thing. yeah, comparisons can be a lot healthier for people to be able to look at their own lives and see a positive way forward.

Dwayne Morton (12:15)
Right. So and then there was like I want to share because I really haven't shared very much about just The cons or everything i've been pretty much positive But I feel like let's talk to my brother. He's like hey kind of need to speak a little bit about the cons too So just to kind of give you an idea is right after I got diagnosed. I went to go see My grandmother

So I was over there and she told me she was like, you don't look she she told everybody she's like he doesn't look sick He looks healthy. So I was always having that for the first few years because I look athletic I just was out of shape, but I couldn't keep When I like Found out that something was wrong. I couldn't get up three flights of stairs. And so what's crazy is the day before I ran two miles

So I knew something was wrong. Hey, I can't get up three flights of stairs. So it wasn't just me being out of shape. So I had to gradually like lose myself. Like because, you know, with me wanting to be at athletics, I always want to take care of my body and things like that. And also I was, I was going through some stuff that whole year, that whole year was heartbreaking. Um, and so I met someone who, uh, manipulated the situation and

So I was dealing with a lot and then it was like, oh, yeah, here you go by the year By the way, look, we're gonna take everything away from you. And so that's kind of how I felt and

The main thing was I always move though. That's what I was explaining just to create some type of movement because I knew that that was essential. Like I always was like, okay, maybe if I did this, okay. And then I would try it and I would be like, you know, and I don't believe in failure. I believe in lessons. And so there was all these different lessons. And here's the thing. None of that would have cured me because we weren't going after the root cause.

Jen (14:18)
That can be so hard. Knowing or thinking for so long that this was some sort of disease or disorder that was going to keep you down and then getting 18 years later into it and finding out, that's not what I had at all, is a mind blow. I can only imagine how disruptive that had to have been for you.

Dwayne Morton (14:45)
Yeah, so it was disruptive but also the shooting played a part Okay, so the shooting happened. I was dealing with ptsd and survivor's guilt and so it was like on all the time it was like, and I was like Hey, can we just like? Because I would you usually I would wake like I would go to bed and would be like hey It'd be really cool if I could just lose this, you know, like I'd be praying to god. Hey, please take this away. Like I would love to just see what I could do healthy and

After a shooting, ended up being like, Hey, I appreciate this miracle that you give me. And like, I'll go more into detail of the shooting, but like, then when I wasn't thinking about the blood cancer or the having to deal with it, that's when we found out I was misdiagnosed. So it's kind of like out of sight, out of mind. Um, and so it's, and everything was very divine timing too. So that's the other part is like, everything was like right when.

Things needed to change but like they needed to change from my purpose other thing i'll tell you jen is like I don't believe things happen to me anymore For a while. I was playing in that victim mindset. I don't do that anymore But I look at all these things that these two Traumas have brought to me Being able have the platform i'm able to have being able to have these relationships that i'm have able to have so I think that's really important is that like

Looking back, I can say, okay, I can appreciate it and acknowledge it for what it is. It sucked, but like it brought me to a higher level of myself.

Jen (16:23)
Yeah, I think when we go through very specific, what many people would consider very negative circumstances and experiences, it helps to be able to look on it and say, what can I learn from this? And that's really hard to do when you're in the middle of it. But when you can learn to ask that question.

I think it's really important for us to be able to understand our circumstances that way. So you have this blood disorder and then over two years ago, get into, as a bystander, into a shootout.

Dwayne Morton (17:10)
Yeah, So so it wasn't me in a shootout. I was just I was I was driving by so I was but I was the bystander But I was driving by so think about being in this truck just to kind of like You know if people are able to close their eyes like I'm a big person of visualization so I visualize it a hundred thousand times because it still blows my mind of What happened? So if you close your mind you close your eyes, it just visualizes

had my three year old niece in the back seat. That's the other part of this. So, this story also has a part with like, I'm I'm the protector, right? Someone actually put me into

gave me the responsibility of some of a small child. And so for me also the the blood cancer, I'll share this real quick and I'll get at the visualization is like I decided not to have a wife or kids like so at 29 I was like, hey, I don't want anyone to carry my burden. So I want to like kind of make sure everyone understands like so my niece is like my everything my other my my older niece is my everything too. So like I have two wonderful nieces. So I have the little one.

We're going to get ice cream. I have to go to the bank. We go to the bank first and I made that decision. So I just want to let you know, like I take ownership. I made the decision to put us in this, this situation. So if you close your eyes and so I take a right-hand turn outside of the bank of the drive and it's probably not very far. You have the courthouse and then you have the police department. And so

For me, I'm driving about 45 mile an hour. And so, I'm not pushing it. That's the thing is like, I'm not pushing it. So I had another vehicle that was in front of me. It was a big utility vehicle. And so what happened was like, and normally in that place, I'm driving on the other side of the rope, the other side of the lane. Like I'm driving not on the far left lane. I'm driving on the right lane.

I passed the car and I could have got over and I didn't so I'm really letting you guys really understand the situation But I'm also like this is probably the this is definitely the first time I've went into this detail And so what I saw was three men at the front of the sheriff's office So what it was was two police officers and a criminal Now again, I don't know this at the time. This is all you know as I find out so what happened as I'm driving by

criminal there was a the police did not search him okay he had a hidden gun in his waistband and he had a knife that was attached to a rope around his neck so somewhere someone messed up and so as I'm driving by the criminal takes the hidden gun out of his waistband shoots the police officer point blank

another police officer and him trade-off shots as i'm driving through and a bullet hits the truck doesn't go through the truck it actually hits the c pillar and so the c pillar is where the hood and the bed like meets so it's like okay where the hood and the bed there's that piece of metal so it's not like really thick it's just it it's just it's kind of rounded and so if that bullet

goes to the left, it misses the C pillar, it takes me out. Okay. If it goes an eighth of an inch to the right, it takes out my little niece. And so once you think of these odds of this miraculous thing, and so

Jen (21:07)
no.

Dwayne Morton (21:16)
For me, when I look back, I look at it as the best case scenario happened. Okay? And so I look at it a little differently once I've took away the PTSD and the survivor guilt part out. But I was dealing with a lot. I was dealing with, I felt being the protector of my little niece, who's like one of my favorite people in the world. And so when I got out of the truck,

I didn't know where the bullet hit So I was looking down. I was looking down like it hit like the truck beds look like it It wasn't until I started walking back towards the truck door. I look up and like that's a lot different and so Me being as familiar with like sports and controlling my breathing. I just told myself stay calm control your breathing

freak out and so But that that is how you know and then we found out all this other stuff that happened and you know I found out about the hidden gun and all these things and so these things happened You know, I didn't get all the news all at once like investigation happened like a year later And it came out on the news. And so as I'm dealing with my trauma Another piece of the puzzle comes out another piece of the puzzle comes out

So I was never able to really get over it on my own.

Jen (22:49)
Yeah. So you so you were struck by it? Yes.

Dwayne Morton (22:54)
I

wasn't hit by me. It was the was the truck. Yes

Jen (22:58)
Okay, and your niece was okay. Great, that's wonderful.

Dwayne Morton (23:01)
Yes.

I mean we both would not have been here either like if that C pillar is not there we both wouldn't have been here

Jen (23:11)
That's

awful. I'm so sorry that you went through that. Yeah, that's definitely a PTSD moment. I can understand holding on to something like that. And as you said, you did not receive information right away. It came in drips and drabs is what it sounds like.

Dwayne Morton (23:27)
It kept on coming in it drips and drabs. And so the other part of it is is the the situation was not the best like if I could have The other thing is is like I've been Diagnosed with rare blood cancer. So I haven't been able to be have a stable job stable income I've had you know, I have credit issues. I had all those financial issues So it wasn't like I could just go call a lawyer and be like, hey You know, I need help

So I reached out to the people that I felt like were going to be able to help me and unfortunately they they had conflicts of interest and so that was the other part. So I always was like, hey, you know that ain't gonna that I don't have to worry about having a lawyer. I know all kinds of lawyers. I know all kinds of attorneys. So that I think that's important to know is that when we think that things won't happen to us, like we're still rolling the dice when you know and so for me it was like if I would have had a stable income if I would have been

I would have had those things. That's what I was going to say. Like I'd already was like, and I had certain people on retainers and things like that. And so that's the other part of the moral of the story is, you know, if you can afford it, like those certain things like insurance and things you really need to have. So I really, I really think that's important to know is that, I know that's one of the biggest things for me is like, I wish I would have been at a financial place where

If something like that happened, I would have been able to be taken care of. The, uh, the other aspect of this is I went into talk therapy and I had done talk therapy before it honestly made it worse. Like I love the counselor that I saw. The therapist was amazing. The problem was, was the driving there, driving back. was always, I had always had to bring it back up and always think about it. And so.

I feel like...

We deal with trauma in different ways and it's really more about the person that's going through the trauma how best how their needs need to be met. And so for me, may or June, I met a guy who's a master hypnotist. So this was the first time I ever heard about hypnosis. Now I've heard about it, but I didn't really know it and know someone who could do it. And so he helped me tremendously.

He took away the trauma from the misdiagnosis. He took away the trauma of the shooting. And so what you're seeing is, is you're seeing this.

Being able to be on the side of me, me able to be talked about it, but it's because of like, was able to take, someone took my file cabinet and dumped it on the floor and just picked up the files and put it back in the folder. Like, so they were all jumbled up. And so what happened was he just allowed me to organize, he guided me. He guided me to reorganize and then put them in. And so that's kind of what I did. And so this is how I'm able to talk to you and talk to about mental health. I think that's very important.

is there's different modalities. Yeah.

Jen (26:39)
Absolutely. Everyone has a different way of working through their trauma and, no one way is the correct way. there's, as you said, there's so many modalities, especially nowadays. If you asked me 20, 25 years ago about what would help me best work through my trauma, I really wouldn't be able to tell you. And

I tell this story to people a lot. Never turn down the opportunity to try something when it comes to working through trauma. when I was introduced to my current therapist, she was much younger than me. And I, and I was like, she's too young to understand what I'm going through. But she's also someone who was able to, when she was going through her training,

to learn different modalities that therapists my age may not have really known much about. So there are so many different ways to work through trauma and no one way is gonna be the right way. It's just like diets, ways of eating. Then one way is not the right way for everyone.

Dwayne Morton (27:55)
Correct. So the other thing is is like so my hypnotist Really helped me out, but I still had to like Figure out what Dwayne wanted. So that's the thing is like I so like I said, I had this clean slate and so there's this period of time where I'm 99.9 percent percent sure that I'm Misdiagnosed, but I really haven't seen the work of the blood work to be able to say, okay, I'm 100 % So I got that in September

And it was just such a glorious day. was amazing. Like I cannot tell you guys like how excited it was.

Jen (28:30)
How did that happen? How did, how did they just say, you know what, we don't think you have it and then start doing testing?

Dwayne Morton (28:37)
So how it happened was this kind of it's definitely a funny in a ironic way. So in March when I found out my oncologist actually moved to Chicago. So we got a new guy. And so I went in there for a blood treatment and I was actually really needing one I thought in my head and they were like, Hey, let's he can't see you today, but like you're going to have to wait a week because he has to see you to

you to have your treatment and I was like I was I was pissed off I mean I was not happy and so for a week I thought hey this guy is making me have to worry about having a stroke or a heart attack because that was the things that I had to worry about when I let the blood get too thick and the very first time I saw this guy I came in and he was like this is going to be really hard for me and really hard for you

And I was like hard for you. And I was like, cause I was ready to tear him up. I mean, I was ready to just be like, give him a piece of my mind. That's what I was thinking the whole day. And he's like, I don't feel like you have this. He's like, I feel like you have. He's like, I'm looking at your test. And he told me, said, when you did the bone marrow test and like, forgot what year it was, like seven, eight years ago, he's like, what kind of results did you get? And I was like, I had a really low chance of cancer. He was like, okay. He's like,

They put you in a box and they never let you out. He's like if I had seen that seeing you in that box, I would have let you out He's like you don't have this and so He pretty much you know, I was released in March But I still had that doubt because we have these self doubts anyway, and so I was just like, okay, maybe I Trust him but I don't and the other part of this about the whole misdiagnosis is is like

This is actually kind of sparked my spiritual journey into difference of just, and what I'll say that is like my first confirmation of being misdiagnosed happened in April. I was in a zoom group meeting with a friend of mine who just met me and invited me to like, so no one really knew me. That's I wanted to really make sure that everybody understands. Like I do not, I did not know, you know,

I knew the host, but it was like for two days and I had never mentioned about me any of the stuff I really been dealing with. And so she mentioned about this program and I don't really recall what it, how it was, but she was like, I'm going to do something next week. And I was like, Hey, I'm like, I'm kind of, kind of dealing with something right now. And I hear someone come over the thing. says, my guides are telling me to tell you been misdiagnosed. So this is not something I put on social media. There's no like,

Five to ten people probably knew about it. This is what I was dealing with and so That kind of kicked off my spiritual journey, in a different aspect of like, okay How do I understand like and then he said? I mentioned something about the shooting and he said you he's like you saw bright lights that day You know like a bright white light and I was like, yeah I did and i've never told anybody because I didn't want to sound crazy

So i'm telling telling your listeners this because like sometimes things happen And they're unexplained. They're just miracles

Jen (32:11)
Yeah, the universe, I believe the universe sends us signs and it does put us along a path. But yeah, it's, that's incredible that they were able to pull those two things out. Just these messages just for you.

Dwayne Morton (32:29)
Right. And so and like I said, I there was no I didn't know him. He didn't know the story none of that So it was really really amazing. So it gave me a chance to really check um check out my spirit like it was just a different way of like checking my spiritual journey and so um in september when I found out You asked like I I learned through an app like I found out like my blood test and I was like

I was like these blood tests like my blood went down. My blood has never went down. So I was like, okay so that's how I knew that like something like everything was going on the right track and the As I was talking about the spiritual journey I started meeting healers and Doctors or natural doctors. I know we can't say that in America. So like but but that's what it is overseas, know these and so

I met all these people and when I was a young kid, I wanted to be a doctor. Whenever we played things with like Native Americans and stuff, I always like wanted to be the healer or the leader. And so that's where I've like really was able to.

I was really able to be like, it's kind of funny. Cause I always talk about those one to eight years, how they have such a big impact. And so my inner child is jumping up and down, waving its hands, just being like, I told you, like, we want to be a doctor, you know? And so, and that, that's also something to help my mental health is, I met Victoria Raider and so she is one of the biggest

greatest help for me. So she's a quantum healer and she's exceptional. She's like world renowned. That's the other

Jen (34:28)
What is a quantum healer?

Dwayne Morton (34:30)
So quantum healer is where you use your mind and it's, it, so I don't know how it works. Like I cannot explain it to it, but what it does is it allows you to take care of whatever your, your, your issue is. And so just to kind of give you an idea, a couple of weeks ago, I've had severe left knee pain, nerve pain for, cause everything's energy. That's the other aspect. Like everything's energy. And so

It's a way of like using your energy to And like I said, I don't know exactly how I don't even care how it happens I just worry about allowing it to happen and I think that's really important and so but like I've had this nerve pain for a long time and she actually since the surgery and so She was like I feel like someone here needs to have their left knee pain like

Taken away and so five minutes later my knee pain is but like so I've read books on all the on these things and so like I've looked into like dr Joe battali and like all these other people and like she knows them like they see her as a peer so It's been an amazing journey with just that part I just wanted to share that like as I'm going through this

I might not be able to explain it in the science part, but what I'm able to explain it to you is like, I allowed it to happen. I think that's the most important part is like, if you're open to things, things happen a lot quicker. You know, it's the whole manifestation laws, law of attraction stuff.

Jen (36:13)
Yeah, So what are you doing now?

Dwayne Morton (36:18)
So I have my own signature program that is fixing the launch called Show Up to Win. And so it's about mindset. I have always been a big mindset believer. I've always had a pretty strong mindset. And so what it's going to do is to teach people how to overcome adversity.

Unlikely and untimely circumstances and so, know My target audience would be athletes or ex athletes that are going through diagnosis and things like that and so that is one of the The things that like I was like I feel like I could really help people I believe I can help people I know this is this is why I went through all these things the other thing is you know, I was talking about finances earlier and so

I I believe in really helping people. I don't believe in handouts. think handouts are more for the giver than the receiver, if that makes sense. Kind of makes people just feel good. And so what I like is called handups. So it's when you see someone on the ground and you pick them up. And so the,

What I this is my vision my vision is to find people who are struggling with trauma and Take away the stressors so if they have you know, like let's say someone has a car accident and they go into debt I want to be able to have a nonprofit to help them get out of debt So that helps them release their trauma a lot faster But it also so I've got that that I'm working on and also working on the medical part because I think that's extremely important

is like to be able to give someone a clean slate as as

I think that would take away the trauma being like in their face every day, getting the bill. And so we're, working with a couple of people on it right now. so I'm hoping to have it out in March, April. And so it's just like, what we're going to do is we're, we're going to take the viral video, social media stuff. So these people donate money all the time. So might as well use it for the right kind of means to

to get people out of debt who really need to be out of debt and not just give money to people who are just buying nice cars or something. It's kind of, and that's the thing is I'm so purpose driven that I do have an ego. Everybody has an ego, but I set it aside. I just wanted to acknowledge it, hug it, and that's it. It's there. I really want to do it for the community.

You you asked like those two programs like show up to win as a community that I I'm building because when I was younger, I was looking for it. So that's the reason I'm building it, but it's also to keep me consistent. So I think that's important is to build the community to keep me consistent, which keeps them consistent. And so that's the reason why I built that. And so it's, can go right now to show up to win dot info, I N F O and you can go ahead and

Put your information in and it'll actually notify you when the showuptowin.com goes live.

Jen (39:43)
No, that's excellent. Great. And I will put that in the show notes.

Well, thank you so much for coming on and telling your story.

Dwayne Morton (39:53)
you're welcome. Thanks so much for having me and giving me a chance to talk to your listeners and give me another platform. I'm so grateful for this time.

Jen (40:03)
Thank you.

When Not Yet Becomes Right Now (40:09)
Dwayne has been through a lot in his life, medical trauma and PTSD from a near miss during a shooting. All difficult situations that he pushed through and has been able to live on the other side of the pain. I look forward to seeing Dwayne grow his community while helping others to heal.