Hello, what's going on. It is nice to have you back.

Bonjour. Come on. Ola. Come on sa va. Ola.

Come on sta.

I mean, my Spanish is super limited, so it's stopping there.

My French, though, I did go to French immersion school, and my mom wanted us when we were kids to learn another language.

She speaks like, I don't know, seven languages or something.

And she wanted us to learn another language, not only to be able to bridge ourselves internationally but also to stretch our minds to go outside of our myopic you know very um self-focused

culture that we can have sometimes you know i found this very fascinating when we travel to

other countries we sort of are like, oh, you don't

speak English. This is at least true in my experience of, you know, being a Canadian and traveling

the sort of like narrative that we travel with is like, oh, they don't speak English. Maybe we should

learn their language since we're in their home, God forbid, right? And I think that's really such a bridge to so many things,

which is learning things that are challenging for us, but also not expecting people to always

meet us where we are and sitting on this pious throne of, this is what I think, this is what I

believe, this is where I'm at, come to me versus let's

grow and expand towards each other. And every opposing belief is really about expanding your

own belief in order to integrate and just understand another. To understand someone's point

of view, you don't have to agree with it. And that's,

we're in a real polarizing time where two people can't be right at the same time. And in relationship,

in conflict, it's so important that we can recognize that our partner can be right, but we

might not agree with them. Because two people can experience the same thing

very differently, especially when we experience something like a conflict, we usually bring so much

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