Stop being the thing that they are saying “you are” Be the thing that you want to be...

0:00I was 19 years old. I had a terrible reputation for sleeping around and being promiscuous. And I came back home for fall break and I felt terrible because I just felt like I'd ruined my reputation in the first 3 months of college. And so I looked at my dad and I was like, "How do I get everyone to stop talking about me like this? Like how do I get everyone to to to respect me and change how everyone's perceiving me?" And I was trying to figure out some story or some marketing thing to like rebrand myself. And he said, "Son, stop being the thing that they're telling you are. Be the thing that you want to be and then they will eventually catch up." And it took two years of stop being a for eventually my reputation to turn around in that community. At the end of the day, I thought it was something that I had to say or something that I had to do or something that I had to prove. But it really was just proving to myself that I wasn't that person. Ashley's had to start walking the walk before the talk caught …