“There’s so many times in life people try to change you,” Green says. “And sometimes, although someone may think they’re changing you for the better, it could be for the worse. And where [Kerr] helped me was, he didn’t try to change me. His whole thing to me was: How do you channel it? How do you channel your aggression, your passion? How do you use it, get it to where it’s always working for you, or never against you?”

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“Like, No. 1, that person isn’t a pushover,” [Green] says. “I’d rather not deal with someone that’s a pushover. Because I know in life, sometimes you need to be told no. Sometimes you need to be told you’re wrong. And someone that’s just going to agree with me on everything I say or do, never tell me I’m wrong, they’re not good for my life. They’re usually there to get something out of you that they want. And when you kind of see that (strength) out of somebody, you know it’s not about what they want. Because if it was about what they want, you wouldn’t be there. That means a lot to me.”