Your choice of degree, was that something that was there sort of... family input on that? Was that something you wanted to do yourself? You'd thought about doing that during high school? How did you arrive at the choice that you made?

When I was younger, I didn't have a great deal of direction.

Today, I live as an out gay man married to my husband.

And even though growing up in the 80s, I thought it was a very modern time compared to the 1950s or something like that, compared to the times we're in now, 2026, I guess acceptance was not fully there.

And so because I lived in the closet, I wasn't really thinking about my future all that much.

I was dealing with a lot of pain and focusing on more short-term solutions.

Initially, I was a public relations major, and I went to school in the American South.

How much of the nature of the job that you were doing in terms of media relations changed between, let's say, the early 2000s or the late 90s and later on when you got back?