Dr. Susan Monarez

Thank you so much.

This is truly an honor.

I mean, I think I've followed you for so long and

you know, you've been such an inspiration to me and your Ground Truth sub stack is required reading.

I know I read it.

I hope everyone does.

It's absolutely such a delight to be on with you.

And yes, this is the first time that I've had a live conversation to, you know, to a large group.

And primarily I waited because I wanted to have a conversation with someone like you who

really understands the technical depth and the breadth and the complexity of everything that we do in science.

And so it's truly a pleasure to be on with you.

It's called The Road Best Traveled, and it is a passion piece, and it's a place where I hope that people can amplify those individuals, the ideas, the inspiration in the health space.

Really inspired by the journey that I've taken facing headwinds and really having to make

some critical decisions about how do you choose the best path when, when you are in a place where, of course, there's many different ways that, that one can, can go forward.

And I'm, you know, I found a lot of inspiration from people like you and others that when I was going through everything, you know, I just, I just, you know, I,

found a place of optimism and found a place to be inspired and i want to put a forum forward where people who are similarly you know who have who have been through different challenges and and what inspired them and how do they keep moving and some of the biggest challenges that we have in health and and what are we who are the who are the change makers that are helping overcome them and what do we do so it's really just it's going to be a passionate place for me well and i want to

That's the skinny.

I mean, you know, I don't know that I saw it as a privilege at the time, but yeah, when we, when I was a child,

you know, my father was idealistic and he, he wanted to become a dairy farmer and an organic dairy farmer back in the seventies before that was really a thing.

And there was no economic path for him.