Aneesh Raman

Good.

Thank you for having me, brother.

And I got to say, congrats to you.

You were just like on the up, spreading the good word out there about how we can find our because.

And I have been...

following that and appreciating it.

And we're in this moment, I think the most disruptive moment to work in human history, but it is laced with such incredible possibility around all the things that you've been coaching folks to pursue.

And so I'm just grateful for the work you do every day to inspire belief in more and more people and get them on a new path.

It's kind of the big existential question that's defined my career because it's shifted.

I would say up until about 10 years ago, my because was to fit in.

I'm the child of immigrants, grew up in this country wanting to succeed, saw that as both validation of why my parents sacrificed so much to come here, but also a way to feel accepted, feel a belonging in America.

And so a lot of the early chapters of my career were to fit in at the most basic level, to feel valued by this country.

And that didn't mean I was doing it, I think, soullessly, like I was doing it with real purpose around impact.

I was a war correspondent for CNN.

I became a

speechwriter to President Obama.

Like it was all good work that was trying to impact the world for the better.

But a lot of what was driving me and led me to change jobs every two years and to really be restless about growth and opportunity and chasing this title or that title was this idea that I just wanted to be successful in other people's eyes.

It was relative worth.

And about a decade ago, I started to better understand my skills.