Paul Rosolie

But we're...

Jane was in the hope business.

She always said it, that not losing hope was key to staying in the fight and that we live at a time when that apathy is a poison peddled by the darkness.

They're trying to make you feel disoriented and apathetic and scared and fighting back against that and having conviction and passion and fire and hope

are the only way that we're gonna fight that.

And she understood that and she spent her whole life spreading it, guarding the flame against the storm and tipping her candle to others to light them.

I mean, she just, that was her whole thing.

The thing that I try to communicate to them, and again, my inboxes are filled with people.

I'm from Finland, I'm from Spain, I'm from Georgia.

People saying, how do I get your job?

How do I get out there and do it?

It really is just that.

It's that you throw yourself headfirst into adventure and you just do it.

And, and, and I remember hearing people say that thing, like, you know, if I can do it, you can do it.

And it's like, I remember thinking how hollow that sounds.

Cause I'm like, yeah, you're on a talk show or you just wrote a book and you're going, you know, these, these, these Titans of, of their industries and, and, and innovators saying like, you know, if I could do it, anybody could do it.

But.

Now that we're protecting all this rainforest and that I've lived with the animals and met the tribes and that it's becoming this global movement, I didn't have a PhD.

There's that quote that someone less qualified than you is living your dream life and has your dream job right now.

And I am the poster child for that because I went there with, you know, I failed out of high school and started taking unmatriculated college classes and going to the jungle with my friend JJ and just doing it for the sheer love of it for years, almost a decade before anything surfaced.