It should be noted that this episode contains some disturbing content and might not be appropriate for some listeners.

Last week I was talking to Diane Gibbs who I met during a difficult point when I asked

the sincere question on social media and ended up being on the receiving end of a lot of negativity. We had a great conversation which you can

download if you haven't already listened to it. But this week I want to talk about business.

Diane runs a podcast called The Design Recharge Show and I wanted to know more everybody has different motivations and I don't want to presume to know yours.

What do you get out of teaching?

So I really feel called to teaching so when I was in college I had a rough sophomore year and

numbers numerous reasons I guess. Family things there were just I think you grow a lot in

college and for me that was I just really felt called like I wanted to be there

for somebody else that needed me at that

same point in their life because it is such like a it's like when fertilizer you put

fertilizer on and you're you're just in a hyper zone and I think when you're around other

creatives it happens I don't think it has to be at a university, but it was at a university for me.

And so I, one of my teachers, I think he kind of saved my life with design.

He just didn't, he was was I was trying to explain what was going on and he said

Diane just get your work done just get you know like take the step get your work done

and that was really all I needed like just

somebody to kind of break it down for me and say hey just focus on this and that

really it made a huge difference.

I mean, I would love to find that professor

because he's not at Auburn anymore.

And but he just, him being kind of tough love

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