A pivotal experience in nursery school taught him to never again allow anyone to make him feel embarrassed or small.

“I remember being like four and I was in Nursery School and the teacher yelled at me or I got in trouble and I felt embarrassed I felt uncomfortable and I remember saying to myself at as a four-year-old I'm never going to feel embarrassed again ever”

A strong family foundation and community involvement during childhood helped him maintain his ambitions.

“I think for me like my family was like super important and always kind of kept my you know my ambitions you know big you know always been a big uh Daydreamer always always been a dreamer”

He credits his stepfather and other male role models for providing him with love and a positive foundation despite a broken upbringing.

“Even though I had kind of a broken upbringing, I always felt very fortunate that I had extremely positive male role models around me. I think that that was like um super beneficial for me and and kind of becoming you know who I am as a person.”

He believes his upbringing, which exposed him to both church ministry and street life, made him a well-rounded and versatile person.

“I wouldn't change my upbringing for nothing but for the reason that I got to see it all it I was well-rounded I was very well versed in the church and Ministry and all of that but I also you know got to see the street life up up close and personal too”

Alex Scott views her difficult upbringing and the trauma she experienced as essential components that shaped the person she is today.

“you have to take the good bits and the bad bits and it's what makes me me”

H. Foley acknowledges that his family is somewhat trashy after realizing that his uncles cheered for a child who engaged in a fistfight.

“it was like that scene from Goodfellas that he popped his Cherry all the uncles were like yeah you [ __ ] them up I'm like god dude we are some [ __ ] Dirtbag”

Casey Rocket describes having a tumultuous childhood marked by frequent moving, parental instability, and significant behavioral issues.

“I would get kicked out of their houses like every day sure so yeah oh just being horrible [ __ ] robot being incor yeah lighting lies just being a monster it well just not listening to rules and whatever so you were a handful as a kid oh I was absolutely”

Dave Smith characterizes his upbringing in Brooklyn as having experienced periods of financial instability and transient living situations.

“I lived in I'm trying to count it up there okay 1 2 3 4 five six seven the circus nine nine no but it was all within this neighborhood coup like we just kept getting like kicked out in the apartment a couple landlords like we weren't going anywhere”

She believes that her childhood experiences with her parents' divorce and family living situations contribute to her identity as garbage.

“my brother and I did not live in the same house wow where did he live does that count as garbage yeah this is the show this what we're talking about”

The absence of his father contributed significantly to his early involvement in gang activity.

“Uh yeah, a lot of the the reason why I got into trouble because my dad wasn't around because I didn't have that father figure. So I look for it with gang banging and I found that with my neighborhood”