Tulsi Gabbard

And that politician was exposed.

And that for me was just like, oh my gosh.

Made a change.

You can make a difference.

You really can make a difference.

And so I was at 21 at a kind of a fork in the road.

I was thinking about maybe I should go to school because I thought I was going to work in the TV and film industry.

I went to community college first and studying TV and film production and understanding the power of storytelling and so on.

But ended up at this juncture where...

I thought, well, I can go and get like a degree in political science and talk about like policy and how do you do this and this and that.

But I've already seen how it can be done.

There was an opportunity as an opening to run for an open state house seat in my neighborhood.

And I thought, well, I can talk about it or I can do it.

And the odds were not in my favor.

I was 21, didn't have a bachelor's degree.

I wasn't like one of these young phenoms who started like a successful tech company when I'm 16 or anything like that.

And I was running against people who were very well-established, an engineer and a doctor and a nurse and people who were... All of us running for office for the first time.

There's no incumbent.

And I just figured...

I have the opportunity to take action and offer to serve.