This episode: From Struggle to Success: Schwartzen’s Journey of Redemption and Giving Back. 

Here’s what you’ll learn about:

Overcoming adversity and giving back. (0:00)

• Schwartzen Precil shares his personal story of overcoming adversity and giving back to help youth turn their lives around.

Childhood trauma and identity issues. (2:21)

• Schwartzen reflects on his childhood in foster care, including early identity issues and affiliation with gangs.
• At 14 years old, he experienced a traumatic and dramatic time in his life, including getting into fights and feeling disconnected from his guardians.

Family dynamics and personal struggles. (4:59)

• Schwartzen recounts his experiences with a controlling and dominant foster care father, including being forced to run away from home at 14 years old.

Teenage boy’s legal issues and mental health evaluation. (6:30)

• As a 14-year-old boy, Schwartzen faced court charges for trespassing, had struggles with ADHD diagnosis and feeling worthless.

Juvenile justice system and personal growth. (8:20)

• Schwartzen reflects on his experience in the foster care system and how it has shaped his life, including his resentment towards his guardian, and foster care father.
• The speaker describes how his guardian surprised him by showing compassion in a courtroom moment, which led to a turning point in Schwartzen’s life and a desire to change his path.

Personal growth and grace of God. (11:06)

• Schwartzen reflects on his childhood, mentioning a brother who went down a similar path and ended up in prison, and a foster father who fell ill and had to go to the hospital for treatment.
• Schwartzen describes his daily routine as a teenager, including attending school and basketball practice, and being chaperoned by a foster sibling due to his curfew.

High school experiences, identity formation, and sports. (13:28)

• As a 16-year-old, Schwartzen begins to form identity as creator through dancing and basketball, despite challenges from peers and girls.

Mental health, addiction, and faith. (15:10)

• Schwartzen struggles with mental health and performance in college due to partying and substance use.
• He describes experiencing suicidal thoughts and feelings of isolation, with no one to turn to for support.
• Schwartzen recounts a specific incident where he left his body while drunk and high, feeling disconnected from his mind and body.

Spiritual growth and career goals after college. (19:34)

• Schwartzen reflects on his spiritual journey after a night of heavy drinking, feeling a sense of purpose and a calling to help youth.

Personal growth, family, and identity. (21:24)

• Schwartzen struggles with relationships and identity after serving in AmeriCorp Corps and experiencing homelessness.
• Schwartzen discovers biological family through foster mother, learns of 12 siblings in Caribbean culture.

To learn more about Schwartzen’s mission, go to his LinkedIn profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/schwartzen-pr%C3%A9cil-34a39b13b/ Or his website at http://www.heroleadershipgroup.com/

Schwartzen’s Bio: Schwartzen Precil

As a 2019 American Best Book award finalist for Young Adult Non-fiction, “Be Your Own Hero: Turning Obstacles into

Opportunities,” has taken the literary world by storm. Since 2015, Schwartzen Precil has been recognized for several leadership awards and has showcased his leadership development skills at conferences, schools, and community programs across the country. Schwartzen Precil, erupted

as a mentor and community leader as an AmeriCorp VISTA after his undergraduate studies. His advocacy for erasing poverty with leading practices produced healthier outcomes

for low opportunity youth and their families. The decision to liberate himself from a broken background led to a global basketball career that began with the National Leadership award from the National Collegiate Scouting Association (NCSA) during his senior year of high school. 

Providing practical solutions to obstacles face within foster care inspired him to write his first young-adult nonfiction book, “Be Your Own Hero: Turning Obstacles into Opportunities” during which, he searched and found his long-lost family. 

About your host: I’m Drew Deraney, the proud father of three children. For most of my life I’ve been concerned with what people thought of me and how I was supposed to act. I learned not to be my authentic self and instead became a people pleaser, a man wearing a mask.

In a 9-month span a few years ago, I endured four faith-shaking life events that caused me to question my existence.

I became determined to find a better way to live. Through intense self-reflection and awareness, I realized that in order to be happy, I must adhere to my standards of honesty, integrity and truth and needed to break free from the belief system that was anchored in me for close to 50 years.

I found my purpose and my mission in life. I’ve now become the man I know I am meant to be. My mission is empowering men ready to make a change to do the same.

My men’s group and one-on-one Coaching provide a safe space for men to share, without judgement, and transform. My male clients learn to release their inner greatness and stop self-sabotage, the #1 roadblock keeping them from reaching their goals.

HOW TO CONNECT WITH COACH DREW:

Website: https://profitcompassion.com/

Email: drew@profitcompassion.com

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Drew Deraney was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ where he still lives to this day caring for his elderly mom and his 3 adult children Matthew, Nicholas, and Emma. Drew earned his B.A. in Psychology, M.A. in Applied Psychology, and two psychology research publications while at Fairfield University; a scholarship from the Healthcare Financial Management Association; and his M.B.A. in Health Care Administration from Baruch College / Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NY. His hospital career spanned 24 years where he was co-chair of the Leadership Institute, spoke at JD Power, was one of three leaders interviewed by The Commonwealth Fund, received his Communicating with Empathy Trainer certification and is a Certified Patient Experience Professional. Four years ago, Drew founded Profit Compassion LLC, an entity to coach and empower mostly men to create resiliency and authenticity as Chief Resilience Officer. Drew is the podcast host of ‘From Caving in to Crushing It’ and recently became a best-selling author with his book ‘I’ll Have What She’s Having’ - Memoir of a reformed People Pleaser.