Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Everybody gets on the plane.
I'm the last one.
I'm running to the plane.
Happiest moment of my life.
And I hear somebody call, Mariana, Mariana, Mariana.
And I look back and it's Guider.
And he turns to me and says, happy birthday to your son.
That's the moment that everything came out of.
Oh, my gosh.
crying.
Kiss the ground in the U.S.
when I landed at JFK, yeah.
The whole team was crying.
And the saddest part for us was like, I remember looking out the window and just thinking, it was a terrible 10 days for us.
This is the future of a country with incredible promise and amazing people.
Everyone from the gold miners, the gold traders, to the people working at our hotel, to Kader.
These are all amazing human beings who every chance they had were trying to help us and who are people just like you and I. They're mothers and fathers and who now have their future f***ed up because of politics and leadership.
No, and these countries have enormous promise and potential, but they need investment.
And what we were doing up until that point was that there was actually a lot of investment.
The United States invested, I think, over $100 million in building these military bases.