Yeah.

It was very...

Well, it's based on a true story.

And it's very, very realistic when you're watching it.

It's so cool.

And that is... what shook me to my core that day.

And I'm like, okay, I'm Catholic.

I should have written it down, but yeah.

But can you walk us through what that cycle looks like in everyday terms?

Yeah, I think that the best way to kind of walk through it is to talk through a specific example.

So just making up an example from patterns that we sometimes see in my clinical work.

Maybe there's a child who has some developmental delay, but it's from an underrepresented background.

When they go to a pediatrician, they may be less likely to suspect a genetic condition.

cause, less likely to refer to a genetic specialist, and sometimes may even have an unconscious assumption that maybe the family couldn't afford the cost of genetic testing.

And I want to be clear that that's an implicit bias.

I

What are you guys doing? Which nonprofits? How does this work?

Yeah.

So we have some core pillars that we like to stay within, human trafficking, clean water, education.

And we want to make sure that we are, excuse me, homelessness is one other one, but we want to make sure that we're partners.

And so what we do is we shut down the office once a year and we have what's called a giving summit.

And we have some of those core partners that have signed up saying, hey, we want to be a partner with Simple Modern.

We want to be able to receive those funds from you.

Are there any current projects in process or future projects in the HR space that you're excited to introduce and roll out there?

Mm-hmm.

And that built a strong sense of confidence for myself.

Almost a little bit of an egomaniac, I would say [laughs] when I was little, little, right? Really quick story.

I, I took, like, dance class for the first time, and my mom picked me up, and in the car on the way home, my mom said something like, you know, "How was it? Do you like it?" I'm like, "No, I don't really like it, but I am really, really good at it." [laughs] And so that was...

Like, so my little kid life, I was really, really strong.

And then I think, you know, as I got older, the mid-teenage years, a lot of that got kind of, I don't wanna say beat out of me, but really kind of, it was hard.

Like, I really struggled-

[laughs]

But what is the goal of the review in the microdrama world? What are you hoping to achieve? And how can we then come together to move things forward in a positive way as your groups and other groups hopefully?

Brian, yeah, we've seen so much change.

We've seen so many good things come out of...

I don't know if they're from our reviews, but as things have become more localized and better localized, I think we've seen a lot of good change.

But points of reviews...

For me, I think it's become like I have a lot of people who are like, what is Megan watching? And now I kind of feel loyal to telling them what I'm watching and why.

I also love keeping tabs on the growth in the space.

They're all terrifying.

So at the time, were you thinking about dabbling in teaching, or was this just a way to stay busy while you were still applying for the other corporate roles?

Yeah.

It started as a way to stay busy, so it definitely was a way for me to have some flexibility in when I worked.

Which was great.

Have some flexibility in where I worked, contribute to our household, those types of things, but it was more just like I needed that mental health job.

And so I started, I wanna say it was October by the time I got my license, and I had started.

And I then was approached by the principal who had a first grade teacher who was going out on leave, and it was a medical leave, a surgery right before winter break.

I'm curious to know, was there a pivotal moment?

There's a whole lot of things to even get close to getting to that.

Absolutely.

One of the best, I'll say, aids through this process really comes down to the state of Texas and the, I want to say ease, but that's kind of a loaded term, right? With the probate process and the fact that typically one executor or independent administrator will be named.

So that part of the process alone helps because ultimately the court names one primary decision maker.

that acts as the fiduciary or on behalf of the other heirs in the estate in totality.

So that can be a big help, but it can also be a hindrance, you know, depending on the family dynamics and or that person's worldview and how they kind of see themselves.

and their role.

You know, these are some type of solutions that agents don't typically have readily available.

So what would that look like?

So a lot of the workshops, for example, have a crossover between our own personal grief that we might be bringing to that space and the cultural grief that exists between all of us.

So one example of one of the first workshops that we're opening with this summer is going to be a workshop about how to host a funeral for roadkill.

And the person who's running that workshop, her name is Haley Tenner, and she works in corporate sustainability.

And through doing her job, she recognized that she had a lot of personal grief that was coming up around the ecological crises, climate change, global warming, things like that.

And she didn't have a place where she could talk about that.

It's not something that can be individually pathologized.

Can you encourage people, whether they're going through the loss, they're watching a loved one and knowing they're going to pass soon, or in that time after, how can we be open to reaching out for help and then accepting it when it's offered?

What kind of story do you personally enjoy, and what kind of story don't really work for you?

The billionaire CEO as kind of like a filler, as, like, the one that just kind of, like, fills in the gaps when I just want to escape.

There's been a new kind of feel that's come out, especially on, like, the space, you know, um, the, the stories that have a little bit more of, um, of, like, a layered characters that reveal over time.

And, um, you kind of don't get everything right at the beginning.

You just kind of are drug along with a little bit of mystery and wondering.

And you can do that with the billionaire CEO storyline too, but I find, like, when you lean in a little bit more to the intelligence of, of a story and a little bit of mystery instead of giving me, me all out at the beginning, I really enjoy that.

I really like werewolf stuff.

So if you have the chance to ask platform founder, what kind of question based on data will you ask?