Paul Rosolie

And she had the incredible compassion and presence to actually, I mean, you know, after talking to that many people and being on the road 300 days a year and being Jane Goodall, this living legend scientist.

to actually do something so mundane as look at some kid's writing.

And of course, when I went to publishers, they said, who?

Who said that they would endorse your book?

Because everyone had said no.

Every publisher in New York had already said no.

And then after that, HarperCollins took me on.

And they said, well, if Jane Goodall thinks it's a good idea, then we think it's a good idea.

And it became Mother of God.

And then because of that, you know, Jungle Keepers, Dax, everything else was stemmed from that.

So had Jane not been the legend that she is truly in every moment, my whole career would never have happened, which also means that those thousands of heartbeats and thousands of acres in the Amazon wouldn't be protected because we never would have started Jungle Keepers.

And she did that not because you're special.

It definitely is, I would say that Jane's, we could do four hours on just Jane, what she did for humanity, what she did for science, what she did for women, what she did for wildlife, the amount of other people that she inspired and gave careers to.

everything she did for me.

But to me, that presence of mind when you reach that level to not be worried about your own travel and your own schedule and busy with getting some rest and that she actually looked at it has informed how I operate.

And indeed, like you say, at this point, as strange as it is, people will stop me on the street and say,

hey, I watch your videos every night with my kids.

Or someone will say, how do I get your job?

I've been watching you for years and I'd love to help conservation.

And so it's made it so that I follow her example where it's like you stop what you're doing and you pay attention because you don't know that might be the next kid that's out there saving a river or the next person that makes an innovation that makes it possible to clean rivers or whatever it is, whatever their dream is.