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Hernan Lopez StartOut Award Speech



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thank you thank you Scott thank everyone

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[Applause]

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when was the first time you knew

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I bet most of you knew as teenagers even

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younger

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some of you later in life

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first you're just curious you spend a

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lot of time online doing research

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now let's get in it

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you're afraid because people like you

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were misunderstood

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do you look for others like you first

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you know quietly then more openly you

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met some of them casually for you know

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coffee some of those lend to long-term

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bonds

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and along the way you develop a thick

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skin an ability to stand up for yourself

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and to let criticism and judgment roll

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off your sleeve and then one day you're

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ready to take the leap to tell the world

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then you found out who your true friends

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were but you also had some explaining to

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do

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it's not a lifestyle dad I Was Born This

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Way

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I'm speaking of course about being an

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entrepreneur

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[Applause]

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I came up as an entrepreneur in my 40s

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decades after coming out as gay I always

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had it in me and I'm sure a lot of you

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had it in you from early on

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it's tough to be an entrepreneur and it

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can be tough to be gay depending on

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where you are in your life and where you

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live

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but at the same time there's that little

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voice inside of you that's telling you

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to try a little harder

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to knock a hundred doors to get one open

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to pick yourself up when you fall in

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and along the journey I was helped by so

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many people and learn one thing

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that the day only has 24 hours and you

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only have two hands so at some point

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your ability to accomplish anything is

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going to be limited by the quality and

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the strength of your relationships but

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your ability to bring others along with

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the journey and your own ability to help

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them realize your dreams

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I want to thank the board and staff or

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startup for the ogubey Trailblazer award

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and for everything that you guys do to

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celebrate lgbtq entrepreneurship

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and I want to dedicate thank you

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[Applause]

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and I want to dedicate the award to the

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many teams that been very fortunate to

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be part of throughout my life from Fox

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to glad

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from wondering to Danvers and the team

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that the proudest of my husband's car

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are my kids thank you very much

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[Applause]

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