"Heather Seitz's In Search Of Heroes Interview Was Awesome Part Five" by Ralph Zuranski
"Heather Seitz's In Search Of Heroes Interview Was Awesome Part Five" by Ralph Zuranski
Ralph Zuranski:Well was it your mom that gave you the will power to change things in your life, I guess sort of fear that you were going to miss the mortgage payment? Was there anybody else that gave you will power to change things in your life?
Heather Seitz:You know my grandparents were a huge factor when I was growing up. My mom had me very young and it was really an interesting mix and I wouldn’t change it. So she basically raised me as a single mom, but with my grandparents. Since she had me young I kind of had this wild, free spirit, yet I also had a very conservative, very respectful, I mean my grandparents went to church six nights a week. They raised five children and were just very conservative.
They were also entrepreneurs and business owners though. So I got both sides of the equation as far as personality and between all of them, I mean they were all very entrepreneurial. My mom had a real job for a handful of years, but there was always something on the side. She was always doing a network marketing business or a side job or something like that. My grandparents were always on their own and always working on this next project and this next adventure.
So this kind of idea of going to corporate America or just getting a job like that just wasn’t ever in the cards. It wasn’t anything that even computed to me, so it was kind of like, you have to make it work and that’s pretty much what I knew growing up despite the fact that college was not an option and things like that. It was like, you’re going to college and there is no let me think about it thing, but more than that for the discipline and so forth. At the end of it all I was surrounded by people that dreamed and had vision and just expected things to happen.
Ralph Zuranski:Are there any other heroes in your life other than your grandparents and your mom?
Heather Seitz:You know the definition of a hero; it’s hard to say is there any one hero or are there a handful of heroes, because I really think and not to sound cliché. Everybody in their own right is a hero to somebody. I look at my neighbors and I just adore their daughters and you see the way they look at their parents and its like, just what they’ve been able to do and obstacles that they’ve been able to overcome.
They were both foreigners from Europe, came over here and have made their lives very successful and I think that everybody is a hero to somebody and in their own way. I’m very fortunate, because pretty much all the people that I surround myself with, I look up to and they’ve just done phenomenal things so it would be hard to pinpoint one or two people. I’m really, really fortunate in that everybody’s out with the same goals and the same level of integrity and just trying to help other people and just good hearts.
Ralph Zuranski:That’s great. Why are heroes so important in the lives of young people?
Heather Seitz:That also goes back to what I was saying a bit ago about, I feel we have this crisis here with the education, morals and with everything involving children. Who’s raising the kids now, you know, in many cases its under paid teachers that are restricted because of all the lawsuits and its really tough. Then if you’ve got parents who haven’t made the best decisions then there are really no role models for kids.
So they need to have people that they can look up to. They need to have people that they can say, I identify with that person or I want to be like that person then that person needs to be able to reciprocate back and provide. One of the things that I’ve always wanted to do, we have a homeless shelter here for women and children and to be able to set up a program and probably independent of that, because sometimes there is so much red tape and politics that go along with institutional type charities.
To be able to set up something where you bring the moms and the kids in and have a seminar for the moms and say look, here’s the thing, you don’t have to be a victim here and everybody has their challenges and here are some of the skills to overcome this. At the same time have the kids in another room and teach the kids to dream. Teach the kids that there are things out there that there are opportunities for them and they’re not going to be stuck with anything. Teach them that they’ve got so much to look forward to.
The things that I saw as a child were crazy I mean my brother’s dad was not a very good person. He was involved in drugs and things like that and by statistics I could have absolutely been on the streets and used that as an excuse. So I don’t take a lot of excuses from people, because you absolutely have the power to change that. I think that kids need to have those role models that are there to show them hey, you’re not stuck with this you can do something with your life.
To be continued...
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