Jesse Solomon
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Is there a but?
Is there a but?
Yeah. Yeah, nothing bad had ever really happened to me until I was diagnosed with cancer. So it just kind of made sense in a weird way. I was like, oh, This is my thing.
Yeah. Yeah, nothing bad had ever really happened to me until I was diagnosed with cancer. So it just kind of made sense in a weird way. I was like, oh, This is my thing.
I was always very grateful, but like... objectively like grew up in the suburbs. Dad was a Jewish lawyer, like loving family, grandparents, um, got into like the best music school in the country. And dad paid for me to go, like didn't have debt. Like, and I was super grateful about all these things. And then I got a job at the best talent agency in the world. And I was living in New York.
I was always very grateful, but like... objectively like grew up in the suburbs. Dad was a Jewish lawyer, like loving family, grandparents, um, got into like the best music school in the country. And dad paid for me to go, like didn't have debt. Like, and I was super grateful about all these things. And then I got a job at the best talent agency in the world. And I was living in New York.
I was like, life's great. Wow.
I was like, life's great. Wow.
And then I got cancer.
And then I got cancer.
But it's been like, honestly, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. I wish I didn't have to go through it to get that perspective.
But it's been like, honestly, the greatest thing that's ever happened to me. I wish I didn't have to go through it to get that perspective.
For sure.
For sure.
But now I get to give back in ways that like not everybody else can. And I feel like I help people and. That means a lot to me.
But now I get to give back in ways that like not everybody else can. And I feel like I help people and. That means a lot to me.
Yeah. And, like, having kids will be so meaningful to me.
Yeah. And, like, having kids will be so meaningful to me.
And, like, finding my person and all that stuff.
And, like, finding my person and all that stuff.