When this happened, I was sobbing in my tent and my mind was racing and I couldn't track the thoughts.

And I just, and I knew, I knew, I knew.

I was just like, I can't, I can't keep doing this.

I can't.

I'm miserable.

And I had felt a certain sense of misery for a long time, especially going out on these assignments. And the more troubling

part of it was so often people were like, you have the best job in the world. You're like, look at you.

And I felt this deep sense of like, why do I hate myself so much? Why do I hate what I'm doing so much?

And then there was this sense of guilt around it all. Like, why? Like, you're telling me everything's perfect, but I feel like

everything's fucked. What is this? And I just rejected it and rejected it and rejected it until I

couldn't.

Today's guest is Corey Richards, whose life reads like a fever dream of both triumph and turbulence.

As a high school dropout battling bipolar disorder, Corey found himself squatting in abandoned

buildings before discovering that a borrowed camera could become his compass to a different life.

And what's remarkable about Corey's journey isn't just his rise to becoming one of National

Geographic's most celebrated photographers, or even the fact that he summited Mount Everest twice,

once without oxygen. It's how he transformed his struggles with mental health into a lens for

capturing humanity in its rawest form, from the Arctic to Antarctica, always searching for those

milliseconds of truth that tell our shared story. And just when he seemed to have it all, the acclaim,

the career, the epic film projects, Corey walked away from an expedition on the world's seventh

highest peak and what appeared to be a dramatic public

breakdown. But that experience led Corey to write two groundbreaking books that reframe how we see

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