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Bjorn, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative.

Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Absolutely.

It's really, I'm really excited to be on.

Yeah, it is my pleasure to have you.

So I actually found out about your story because you wrote in.

And, you know, I think when I saw the words professional skateboarding, I was like, okay,

as a, you know, avid surfer and snowboarder and board sports junkie who will pretty much do anything that involves a board under my feet. It was like, yes, I definitely want to hear this story. But before we get into all that, I want to start by asking you, what social group were you a part of in high school? And what impact did that end up having on the choices that you've made throughout your life

and where you've ended up today? So the social group that I was a part of in high school was

I was definitely the like snowboarder kind of broie guy. Uh, I had a crew of friends, but like snowboarding

and skateboarding was like my whole life. Like everything,

like nothing else really mattered. I really like just I would like I would like I would sit

in class and draw up designs for like my my snowboarding extended. It's like a creative expression.

So it's either like it's it's like a creative expression so it's either like uh it's it's like with

tricks or with features and i was like really industrious and like really into building stuff so i would

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