Dallas Hicks, also once known as Dallas Ryan, was born in Sacramento, CA on November 6, 1980. An only child with no siblings, he struggled to fit in while growing up mostly raised by his Mother on Christian principles. Deep inside, Dallas felt no sense of Christ. He knew something was missing but was young in the faith and not fully developed in Jesus to know what to expect. The first 6 years of elementary, Dallas was in a Lutheran School. He was taken to Church and taught to upkeep the Christian values his Mom instilled as a child. Dallas was primarily raised by his Mother, Linda Francis. His father left when he was 5 years old due to his involvement with drugs and his abuse. At age 7, his Mother remarried finally presenting a male role model in his life that actually cared about him. However as soon as Dallas turned 14, he ran away from his mother and went to live with his Dad. Dallas’ Dad never treated him like a Father should… bashing him for the way he dressed, calling him names, telling him he would never be anything and so forth. Dallas started believing the lies and walking around in hopelessness. He was fed up with his father and left, refusing to go back to his mother cause he wanted to prove to everybody he could make it on his own. He lived in his car on and off for around 3-4 months. After realizing he couldn't make it alone he finally called his mother when he was 17 from a payphone crying, saying "HE HAD NO WHERE TO GO!” https://dhixmusic.wixsite.com/home --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mentalimpactent/message