One of my most vivid memories is bringing my daughter home from the hospital in the first day.

And Kendrick-O-Mar's album, Tipa Butterfly, coming out the day we got home,

Kendrick-Gamar released this fantastic album.

I put on headphones, was listening to the album while holding my daughter while she slept.

And it was like in the

morning, sunrise coming through the window, like very picture perfect moment, hearing this album for

the first time, holding my newborn daughter for the first time. And just having this really,

really beautiful experience with the music and the emotions of your child being home. And that

experience stuck with me. The album stuck with me. And I kept listening to it.

I just knew that there was a story that I didn't understand. It just became more and more curious about

what he was saying. And that's when the kind of light bulb went in my head and was like, I want to

learn more about this album. What if I studied it in the way that I used to study music in college?

That would become the premise for what dissect was that initial idea.

Like, what if I took this album as seriously as I used to take Beethoven or Sostakovich in college?

Today I've got another bite-sized plot twist podcast episode for you, which is a shorter clip from a past

episode where the guest

shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life that directed them toward what

ultimately became their path and their purpose. And sometimes that looks like getting

betrayed by a friend or maybe getting fired from a job. Or in the case of today's guest,

Cole Kushna, he found himself sleeping on floors and living

the struggling musician life while he realized that he needed a different path. So Cole decided to go

back to school for music, even though he couldn't read musical notation at the time. And that

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