Welcome to You Are Here, the podcast where we have conversations with people who have

courageously taken the road less traveled. I'm your host Rachel Ree and in each

episode we'll be exploring stories from people who have followed their own path and are living life on their own terms

Know that we're here to meet you where you are and where you'd like to be. This is you are here

Sarah Bauban is someone who I've been familiar with since 2021 or so

when she first came on to the scene into the world of digital collectibles as an artist who caught the attention of Gary Vainerchuck or

Gary Vee as you might know him on social media. We talk a lot about her upbringing of growing

up in an environment that yes did did foster creativity, did foster the arts, but also the expectations of going into a quote-unquote stable career in health care.

Let's dive in to learn more about her journey.

In every other conversation, we've talked a lot about your business,

women and weapons, which we will definitely get into,

but it's been less so about your own personal journey and how you started.

So when you think back to your upbringing,

would you say that it was an environment

that fostered your creativity,

or was it more traditional and conservative or a mixture of both?

You know, I want to say maybe a little bit of both.

So I think one thing that was really cool is that my parents always really fostered my creativity. My entire family is very artistic. My dad's mother is a painter and then pretty much my entire family in Iran are all artists. They're either architects or graphic designers or painters or music producers or you know something in the arts.

And so I think my parents recognizing that art was something that I was very passionate about at a very young age.

They really fostered that. They put me into different like art classes.

There's a place called Art House near us that I was taking classes there for

maybe like two years or so.

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