Kiah Williams

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TED Talks Daily · What to do when you’re told there’s nothing left to try | David Fajgenbaum and Kiah Williams · 28 Feb 2026 podcast

And I've just seen this multiple times, the value of an email or a phone call and what it can be to changing fundamentally the destiny of our organization, but also our ability to serve tens of thousands of more patients.

For us, there is an opportunity if you have, in some instances, individuals can actually donate their unused medicine as long as they're in sealed containers, unexpired, da, da, da, da, da.

So there's an opportunity for you to potentially donate.

The other thing I would just say is this is TED.

Like y'all are well-resourced, well-connected individuals.

If you want to see us come to your state to bring a full solution for medication access to your state, reach out.

I don't think anyone who's ever worked with me would say, Kia's a hopeful, optimistic human, which is kind of a weird thing to say, considering I'm doing social entrepreneurial work and trying to have impact in this world.

So like, why am I doing this?

And how do I get up every day and continue to do it?

And I think a lot of it comes down to like,

you know when you are having personally experience when you are living at the edge and you're like i just gotta put one foot in front of the other i gotta make sure i have what i need i have to make sure there's a roof over my head i have to make sure there's electricity because the electricity got cut off like you're not necessarily thinking about the hopes and dreams of the future that you you want to have you are thinking about living today and making to tomorrow

But I think that in and of itself, I've realized is a form of hope because you do not just lay down and die candidly.

Like then this is something I say to myself because I'm not an optimistic person.

I'm not a very hopeful person.

Well, Kia, you have options and hopefully you choose to make this world a better place and to keep going.

And I think that what you referenced around like, so how do I make this all work in my head is...

At the end of the day, now that I am not in that situation where I am worried about basic needs, like, it's such a privilege to be able to choose the hard things in your life.

For so many people in this world, that is not a choice that they have.

That thing is sitting right in front of them, staring at them every single day.

So the fact that I have food on the table, good health insurance, a roof over my head, I get to now choose

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