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Damien T. Dubose

Damien T. Dubose

Senior Financial Analyst at Adobe, author of America's Ethical Archetype, and interdisciplinary thinker exploring psychology, philosophy, and American political identity.

Sep 6, 2026

BlessedHOST
2:16
From your perspective, how does someone genuinely reconnect with their purpose?
2:23
I mean, I think that they need to find their purpose.
2:26
So once again, it's going to be common themes that you hear from me when I'm speaking.
2:30
It's a development process.
2:33
I don't look at individuals as individuals, you know, when they're early in their stages of development.
2:42
I look at it as an individual has to emerge from their youthful adolescent collective being, right? I think we have emotions, we believe, you know, that we're pursuing personal purposes, but until those things become conscious and are rooted in our judgment, I don't look at that as a true individual.
3:08
I mean, because part of the work that when I'm doing my research and I'm reading through Young and Carl Young and reading through Eric Fromm and even through some of Aya Rand, the whole idea of an individual was not, that's like a recent idea within the last couple of hundred years.
BlessedHOST
5:49
How do modern systems, social media, hustle culture, and comparison shape our mental and emotional health?
19:43
how would like your, your, your path, like kind of help them
19:46
guide them to where you want to go.
19:47
So I will probably break this down in a couple of pieces.
19:50
So for one, I look at being cooperative.
19:53
I don't, think that one person should wear all of the hats.
19:59
That's not how I see society.
20:01
There are people, like, I always joke with people I talk to about this.

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33:24
Like, What's that call to action or the thought process to get to where they may need to be for that call of action, right? You know, like some key things that they may need.

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