please welcome kwame omwuachi!plause ) >> trevor: welcome to the show. >> it's great to be here. how are you doing? >> trevor: i'm fantastic, man, but congratulations on an amazing book. >> thank you. >> trevor: and a really, really fascinating story. >> thank you. >> trevor: i mean, you've done everything. in your teens you were in a. gang. in your 20s you sold drugs. competed on equip top chef." you opened your first restaurant, it tanked. >> don't give away the book. >> trevor: no, that's the thing. it's less about what happened and how it happens. that's what makes it so fascinating. you're only 29. >> it's a journey. i would say every part of my life has been extremely difficult or extremely rewarding, and it's a journey. so, like, you don't really notice it until you put it down on paper. >> trevor: right >> and you read it through and you see it through. >> trevor: what's interesting is you tell the story growing up in a world where you you were lucky enough to go to a private school, but you lived in a plac