Before you dive into our first episode of 2020, TEXT ME!!! 7742179756 I want to hear your thoughts on the podcast in 2019, and what we can do in 2020 to make the episodes even more enjoyable for you to listen to!  Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated :)

Joe's story is quite unique.  He was actually born in Korea.  He was put up for adoption at the young age of 5 which is how he ended up in Rhode Island throughout the majority of his childhood!  Amazingly enough, Joe reminisces about how although he was raised Korean until the age of 5, he lost the ability to understand and speak Korean by the time he was 6 years old.  He tells an interesting story about the communication between him and his birth brother when they reunited about less than a year after Joe moving to The States.

To go along in line with his interesting start to life, Joe fell in love with history, but you'd never know that now based off what he does.  Joe takes us back to when one of his professors gave him some advice that he decided to take which completely pivoted his life.

Towards the end of the interview, Joe describes how him and his brother ended up reuniting with their birth mother in their late twenties.  They hadn't seen her in nearly 25 years!

We also get to hear the story of how Joe somehow managed to get a second date out of his wife, Jill, when after his not-so-great first date appearance.  They now have two daughters Hannah (12) and Gracie (9) who have incredibly bright futures!

Thank you so much for being the first interviewee of 2020, Joe!  We greatly appreciated you sharing your life story with us.  You've been on an incredible journey your whole life and we're so fortunate to have you as a part of our community!

P.S. Be sure to stick around for Joe's outtake recorded at the end of the show!
P.P.S. Look up the String Cheese Incident ;)