Hello, welcome to a new episode of the Mark Ropes podcast.

I'm so grateful that you are tuning into this.

And I get to introduce you to my really good friend, Dr. Jeremy Goldberg, this week.

Now, you guys might know this guy as long-distance

lovebombs on Instagram. He's a poet. He's a spoken word poet. I had the absolute honor and

privilege of him being, he did a spoken word poem for my birthday. He did it live. And it was just so

amazing. So from his heart. And that is exactly how he lives his life. So I'm so

excited to share his authenticity with you, to share his heart with you, his brilliance. We dive in on

so many different subjects and I could literally talk to this guy all day. But before we get

started, if you could do me a huge favor, after you're done listening to this, wherever you do that, if you could leave me a five-star review and a written review.

The written reviews really help me out.

And so without further ado, let's hear from and introduce you to Dr. Jeremy Goldberg.

Obviously very excited to have my good friend Jeremy Goldberg on my podcast this week.

I love the idea of introing you, man, because I'm like, oh, he's a marine biologist,

like a PhD in marine biology, right?

That's correct. Kind of, yeah. I have a PhD in marine biology right that's correct kind of yeah I have a PhD it's more in

social science and human behavior but my background is in coral reef ecology and tropical resource

management so I basically took your two pieces of education and they had a child and now that's what I said. What I said. I've had a lot of

education. So technically I've been many things as we all have. But yeah, marine biology is the

most simplistic way. I swam around. I counted things. I took pictures of things. I type reports.

I managed money. I managed people and

projects. Well, Jeremy and I have had a many sit down. I've been on Jeremy's podcast, which was

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