André Duqum

And how actually, in my experience, when you find that thing that both you love and are your gifts and the world needs, like life puts fuel on the fire for that.

And I'm sure you've experienced that with your own social media journey and your business.

Like when you find that intersection, it's a big amplifier.

Yeah.

Spirit, dolphin, alien.

Yeah, that's, I think that's so great.

There's like a lot of compassion that needs to be brought in, I think, for people that

Go on this journey and especially, I mean, I know where I grew up, I'm sure where you grew up, starting to like explore these ideas and empower yourself to go against the grain from what everyone else is kind of assuming and has been living by is not always the easiest thing.

Like you're going to have a lot of friend groups and peers and...

family members who know you as your old self.

And if you're going to stretch into a new version of you, that is going to also correspond to the death of an older version of you.

And that is, can be a painful process.

And, uh, it's, uh, I think it just breathes in some space, like, like this is the journey.

This is what we're here to be doing, you know, and it's a lifelong, uh,

process and when you grow there's like when you get further you see further there's always more ways to expand and grow and contribute and and so I think that reminder of purpose not being what you do but who you are is is something we all need to hear more and more now because we're fed by this

consumerist, capitalist society that your worth really is and how much output you have, how much performance you have, the amount of money you make, the views you have.

And I think there's so much impact that comes from changing one person's life deeply.

It's noble to be able to like, we want to turn up the heat on the planet.

We both want to build and scale and support a lot of people.

And