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Natalie Brunell

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  1. “There's one person in my family that's going to make it, it's got to be me And I want to help them and build on the legacy that they.”

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  2. “that's how long the immigration process takes. I mean, there are so, so many things I wish I could fix about the immigration system. But yeah, we waited in line. A very, very, very long time. And you know, until you become a citizen, you at least at the time in the 90s, like my brother, for example, he didn't qualify for grants or scholarships when he was going to school, things were really, really tough for him. That's why I've always felt like I felt guilty in a weird way because I was lucky. I was five. I assimilated very quickly. I learned the language very quickly for my parents and for my brother. My brother was older, he was 16 and a half when we came. It was so much tougher. So, again, that for me, it was like I have to make it.”

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  3. “Because everyone from Poland comes to Chicago. It has this massive community. So the way that my parents were finally able to come is because of my mom's brother. So he married an American and he came out earlier. And then there's an application process. So we came out, I was five years old, and then I had to wait another 13 years to become a citizen. So I was 18 years old just in time for college when I got my citizenship. I had my alien registration card until then.”

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  4. “Hey, mom and dad, I'm going to Hollywood, and I think that normal parents might say, hey, that's probably not the best decision. That's a little risky. And my mom was like, you know what? Go do that. Go dream big. You can do it. You can make anything happen. Like she just. Really represented this idea that the American dream stands for, which is that you can do anything coming from any background if you just work hard, if you get an education, if you're a good person, just go for it. So that has carried with me. And I think that that promise has died for a lot of people or they think that it's dead. And that's why I think Bitcoin is so imperative for everyone to study because it restored my hope. It restored my belief in not just the American dream, but really this universal one that I think.”

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  5. “Brother and I had our rooms because we were living in a small apartment and they crack of dawn getting up to scrape the car of the snow in Chicago and getting home late. I was just like, wow, this sacrifice is something that I can't take for granted. And so I always wanted to work to justify all the sacrifices they made. I think that that was my driving force. And so it's funny because if you read the book too, you'll see I kind of struggled in terms of they wanted me to become a doctor or a lawyer or work in government because they associated all of those with economic stability. And here I am saying I want to work in television.”

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  6. “That's interesting to hear from you because I do think that my mom made the biggest impression on me of anyone in the world. And that started very young because I just watched her work so, so, so hard and dream so, so, so big. But it was almost as if she was dreaming for her children because, you know, by the time you reach your late 30s, early 40s, and I'm around the age that my mom actually decided to come to the US or was finally able to. And not a lot of people would take that chance and make all those sacrifices to say, you know what, I'm going to just move. I don't know the language. I'm going to pick up everything I have and start over from scratch. And I don't know what's going to happen. I have no certainty, but I'm going to do it because this will offer a better life for my kids. It was so selfless. So watching my parents work as hard as they did growing up and the conditions that we sort of lived in where my parents were willing to sleep on the sofa and my”

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  7. “Well, thank you so, so much, Preston. All right, put up your QR code. Where do I send the Bitcoin that we talked about? I really, truly, that means the world coming from you because you're someone who I've looked up to for so long. It's an honor to be on your show. I'm a long, long, long, long, long time listener. You've taught me so much. So thank you. That's just such an honor to hear from you.”

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