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American Income Life Agent Matt Ficarra - Rock Bottom - YouTube
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The moment that really sticks out to me is when I was staring up at the sun, not
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able to move, not able to reach out for help or let anybody know that I was down
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there. I accepted the fact that I was going to die. I was going to drown. I just
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kind of surrendered.
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My father actually was the first union business manager in Syracuse to sign
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with National Income Life. When I told him about the interview, he said,
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"Absolutely you should go for it, it's a great company." I figured why not.
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I had just ... after my two year mark I had bought a two-family home and then two
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short months later is when my life completely changed forever. July 30th of
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2011, started out like a lot of my Saturdays back then. Running in the field,
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helping families and then I decided to go out to my friend's camp on Onota
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Lake. Went out on the boat and when it came time to leave, my friend's father
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who owns the boat said, "Hey Matt, we're about to leave if you want to take one
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last jump, now's the time." Went to jump off the boat, slipped,
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hit my head on the bottom of the lake. Immediately, as soon as my head hit the
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ground, I knew that something bad had happened. I was 100 percent
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conscious, unable to move and trapped underwater. When I got down to my last
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ounce of breath, I got very, very calm, accepted it and basically said, "God, take
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me." And that's when somebody dove in, scooped me up and saved my life. I
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remember that I was in a lot of pain at that time and people just kept telling
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me, "Don't move your neck, don't move your head."
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Then I did and the pain immediately went away. That's the point
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where I became paralyzed.
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The first thing that the doctor told me was, "I'm sorry, Matt, you'll never walk
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again, you won't live independently." People talk
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about being rock bottom in different parts of their life and this
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injury, being paralyzed, took me to rock bottom, and I just knew that I had to
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come up with some sort of a plan to overcome this and figure out what I can
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do. I had to fight to be able to lift my arm, to be able to pick up a
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spoon, a toothbrush, to do the simple things in life that we all take for
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granted.
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I had been so successful and on such a track for success
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American National Income Life that as soon as this happened I
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wanted to get back to work the next day. I wanted to get back to the track that I
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was on. When I was healthy enough to actually start driving, I went back into
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the agency. I transitioned into a recruiting position where I was
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the director of recruiting for New York State. That allowed me time to do
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physical therapy, work from home sometimes, just kind of focus on
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my health and kind of ease my way back into the career. The accident policy
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that ended up paying me over $50,000.00. Not only did I not lose what I had, I
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also was afforded to the opportunity to get back to driving and get back to working
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within the first 10 months of my accident.
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Sometimes in life there's a curve ball thrown and you got to still swing at it
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and hit it. I just did what I had to do. American Income Life is my
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life and has been in my life for the past 10 years.
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Without it I don't know where I would be today.
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