Page 8 - January 2021: Hustle Mama Magazine

JACK
CANFIELD'S
WISDOM IS
SOUP FOR
EVERYONE'S
SOUL
HMM: What was life like growing up for you? What kind of family did you grow up with?
I grew up in a fairly typical middle-class family in Wheeling, West Virginia, across the river from Marshfield, Ohio, which is, you know, several miles apart. My mother was very loving but also an alcoholic, which made it somewhat tricky. My dad was a heavy drinker and became violent when he was drunk. When I was around six, my mother divorced my dad, and she, myself, and two younger brothers moved in with my grandmother. My mother remarried. My stepfather had just gotten out of the Navy after World War II. I had a typical childhood. In high school, I played football, ran track, was captain of the basketball team, and joined the swimming team. It was 'huge' in my school to be in sports at all times. I wasn't unusual in any particular way.