Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
What can we do for you?
And he's like, nothing.
Because he was just filming undercover.
Nothing.
I don't want anything from you.
And trying to figure out how you can get out of there.
And they start saying, look, if you don't have sex with one of us, you have to pick one.
Because if you don't have sex with one of us, they're going to beat us.
So you have to pick one.
And it's this moment for him where he's trying to figure out what to do.
And then he just starts knocking on the door and comes up with an excuse that he doesn't like the darkness or something.
I can't remember exactly what was his excuse to get out of there.
But he got the footage of that whole situation.
The biggest learning that I've had from all these years covering black markets is that I usually use this line that I read once that I love, which is the wheel of history turns and where and when you were born determines whether you get crushed or raised by it.
And we are the lucky ones.
We got the lottery ticket, right?
We were born where we were.
We got opportunities that we did.
We got access to great education.
And so what I wanted traffic to be also is a great conversation starter for all of us.