Mm-hmm

... and I think you gotta follow those chills, and that resonated with me on a deeper level.

It was like, why? Like, why me? Why was I doing this? Why, you know? And so I reached out, you know, it was kind of the, it was a f-, um, that in the fall of my senior year, I was kind of just, I had this big sports job lined up in New York and, you know, I was also writing, working on this writing platform at the time and, you know, I just, I re- remember I reached out to Simon's Facebook page in this like period of confusion and I said, "Here's who I am and here's my story and here's why I'm reaching out." And someone on that, um, Facebook page reached out to me.

His name was Steven Shedletsky, who was at the time, he was like Simon's right-hand man, and this was like 2014 for context, in the fall.

And he took me through this whole why discovery, um, process and he handheld my, you know, path through it and, you know, the sentence we landed on was to create opportunities that empower others to discover and express who they are so that they can do like the work meant for them.

And I think like what's really in that is a sense of like I've always been one who has wanted to create ways for people to express because I think when you express yourself, you, you call in the right people, the, you build the right tribe around you.

And then I also think from there, when you do that and you understand at least where you wanna go, you can maximize your, your fullest potential when you know how to communicate it.

Mm