But what I do know is that I want to make a difference and I want to be a part of the journey of people’s lives.” “Quite frankly, I didn’t even know all that. “Don’t think for one minute that you’re not important, or that you can’t make a difference that can change somebody,” Hosoi said, wiping a tear from his eye after hearing in great detail about the pivotal role he and his story had played in Novak’s recovery. Now skateboarding is back in my life, and I’ve never loved it more.”įollowing Novak’s introduction, Hosoi also spoke about his own fight against addiction, the five years he spent in prison because of it that effectively ended his career as a competitive pro skater, and his own redemption arc. “Now I’m blessed with the ability to to be reunited with the people that believed in me before my addiction robbed me of my life. How can we work together to create a better tomorrow?’” Novak said. “I just celebrated seven years of continuous sobriety and that all came from me believing in someone else and for someone else recognizing the behavioral change taking place in my life and reaching out to me to say, ‘Hey, I believe in you, I want to support your cause because I see what you’re doing on this earth to make it a better place.
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