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Dear Mr. McGregor,
My name is Andrew Marshall, I would love the opportunity to volunteer for your team at George Richards. I have felt very passionate about your company since the first day I started to shop there in 2012. Through your clothing I gained and developed a new sense of myself, becoming who I’ve always wanted to be.
Ever since 2001 or so, my life took a dramatic turn, and things went from bad to worse. I progressively became more ill and stopped going out socially due to the circumstances I was faced with at that point in my life.
I didn’t really know or understand what was going on with me until I chose to research about what might have been the problem.
I sat down in front of my computer unconfident I would find anything.
Then finally as the pages loaded, I found myself flooded with information pertaining to me and my situation.
I was suffering from mental illness related issues that revolve around mood and anxiety, social anxiety and bipolar disorder to be more specific.
By 2005 I reached the peak of my illness, I became more depressed and felt very hopeless about my situation, a lot of my peers were moving forward and were accomplishing their goals in life whereas I was not due to the mental illness I was dealing with.
After being subjected to so much emotional pain, I decided it was about time I do something about my situation.
That is when I decided it was time for me to use the given talents I have been lucky enough to be blessed with and become Professionally Crazy. :)
• Empathy • Creativity • Free Spirited• Determination• Speaking Out
One of my greatest supporters is my sister, Natasha Marshall, without her a lot of my growth would not have been possible, she took her time with me and slowly she started to get me out of the house, and the more I risked going out while feeling extremely incapacitated with fear, I got more comfortable and used to being outside.
I then got the opportunity to go on Global News in 2005 to talk about my mood and anxiety issues and how much of an impact it can have on individuals such as myself around the Christmas holidays.
I still feel a sense of pride knowing that I did it, even though it was scary, and through that it opened up a lot more doors for me. There was a doctor who was also featured in this same segment, Dr. Katzman and he offered to help me in my struggle with mood and anxiety.
To this day whenever I thank him for his help he actually thanks me because through me doing the segment a lot of people got to see me talk about my issues on television and wanted to go to the same clinic I was going to because they saw my improvements.
I will not lie and cannot make my situation seem like a black and white or night and day issue, I fought long and hard to get myself out of the situation I was in.
I have had many milestones along my journey coming back into the world becoming functional again, but 2012 is a year that I consider to have had the greatest impact on my life. During this time, this is when I started to prepare myself mentally and physically.
I was going out a lot more, seeing friends I have not seen in years and venturing out on my own. While I was housebound I felt like I had an extreme disability to do any of this.
Now that I am more functional I have gotten back to my dreams and aspirations.
I would love to showcase your company as well to let others know about how much of a role you played in my healing process, and how much of a role you still currently play within my life.
One day in the spring of 2012 I was out with my sister and we drove up towards a George Richards in Scarborough at Kennedy Commons, at the time I knew little to nothing about George Richards since I never heard of your company or even seen it advertised anywhere at all, my sister stopped in the parking lot and insisted that I go in, which I ended up doing.
ever since that day I decided to go into your store I have not looked back, I was so happy that I had finally found a store that carried all of the clothes I ever wanted and in my size!
I love my sense of style and how I dress now, and people have even stopped me on the street to ask about where I shop. Whenever this happens I laugh and proudly tell them I shop at George Richards at Kennedy Commons in Scarborough.
I am at a place in my life right now where I am getting myself back into school, integrating back into society, making friends, connecting with old ones, and I feel so good about it all while looking presentable and confident.
Since 2013 I have been going to Second City which is one of the biggest and most well known comedy andimprovisational training centres in North America.
In 2014 I got the Second City Scholarship which I am proud and honored to have recived as well.
My goal is to get into public releations, become a comedic inspirational speaker and communications consultant to help out others who deal with issues similar to mine, and also to help and inspire people in general.
While moving on in this important stage in my life and furthering my goals, I am asking for your support, which I would love and would greatly appreciate and in turn I would love to help you out anyway I can!
It would be an honor to be sponsored by you, and any advertising materials, such as business cards and flyers, I would gladly distribute them to as many of the places I go to such as at Second City, or on my way to other events, and locations in downtown Toronto, or any other location you feel would fit.
I would love to showcase how much you have changed my life.
Thank you so much for your time, and though my journey has been pretty rough, I am glad to say that I am on to bigger and better things!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Sincerely,
Andrew Marshall,
55 Littles Road Scarborough On, M1B [email protected]
Thank you so much for your time-Andrew Marshall
use your strengths, use your weaknesses.
