Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of the Juicebox podcast.

Today's podcast episode is sponsored by Medtronic Diabetes, who is making life with diabetes easier with

the mini-med 780G system and their new sensor options, which include the instinct sensor made by

Abbott. Would you like to unleash the full potential of the mini-med 780G system?

You can do that at my link, mettronicdiabetes.com slash juicebox.

While you're listening, please remember that nothing you hear on the JuiceBox podcast should be

considered advice, medical, or otherwise. Always consult a physician before making any changes

to your health care plan or becoming bold with insulin.

Welcome, Q. How are you?

How would be better? How are you?

This has been a good morning for me so far. I appreciate you asking. It's Friday, so. That is why it's been a good morning. Yes, exactly. I'm just, I'm doing this and one other thing. Getting my passport renewed. I can't imagine more boring afternoon. But at least I won't be sitting at my desk for a couple hours. I thought it would be cool to have you on and get to know you and to find out a little bit about what's going on at what we're, I guess, not going to be calling Medtronic Diabetes anymore. Can you first let me know a little bit about yourself and maybe how you got into this position? Absolutely. Well, since you asked, I'm going to bore you a little bit about myself.

Please. I don't know if you remember the, you know, the pictures of boat people in the late 70s,

you know, escaping Vietnam after the fall of Saigon. Well, I was one of those bird people. I was

five years old and our family was making this, you know this grand escape on really a rickety river

boat in the South China Sea, so not really a seaworthy boat at all.

And we got shipwrecked, we got rescued by, on this tiny island in the Filipino archipelago.

And my parents and my three-year-old sister were on this journey. So we were in this

refugee camp for, I don't know, eight months, something like that. And then luckily we got

granted asylum in Australia. So that's why, you know, you hear the speech impediment that I have

now. But we grew up super poor in Sydney. Character defining moment, if you like. And I really believe that, you know,

life gives you the tools depending on how you, you know, you get brought up. And when you grow up,

really poor, you get a lot of tools. Yeah. So, you know, what then followed was kind of, you know,

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