Rudy Mawer

You know, it's kind of fun.

And I was in a creative writing class at the time.

It turns out when I graduated, this is elementary school, I got a prize for the writing prize, you know, creative writing.

And what I didn't know until maybe two years ago, that that had my name as a Peter Grimes Creative Writing Award.

Every year in the school, they would give it out.

I didn't even know until the other day.

So how I got to this journey was a little bit by accident, in fact, because I was in this international executive speaking circuit with C-level executives from Fortune 500 companies.

And

all of them were all wondering what's next.

And there was a really impactful story where one of these executives bounded off the stage that got given a great keynote address, said, you are amazing, great job, you should do this full time.

And far from, you know, I thought I was going to motivate them and they would be really enthusiastic and welcome this comment.

I could see their shoulders shrug, and they dropped, and suddenly I could see this gentleman was depressed.

I said, what's wrong?

He said, you know, I'd really love to.

I just don't know how.

I don't even know where to start.

So he sauntered off.

I like to say he probably went to the bar in the sorrows, but it was really early in the morning still.

But a couple minutes later, I had an epiphany.

I was thinking, wow.