This is the flavor. We're ready to take some questions. I'm looking for our first question and my question would be I've dedicated my life to creating hope and possibility for the people who need it most.

In whatever form that looks like, if it means giving a protein bar to a homeless person on the street, if it means finding a way to get registration fees covered for a kid, whatever it is, right? Like let's find a way we're all capable.

My question for you is that at some point, the sort of dawns on you, the you have a choice of where to put your money, the choice of conscious capitalism sort of emerges and you say, I get to choose where I go out to eat. I get to choose where I send my kids to school.

When in your life, David, did you decide to be a conscious consumer?

What a great question. No one's ever asked me that. I don't think there was one moment. I will tell you growing up with my mom, who set my mindset to the more I give, the more I receive that I started my giving as a transaction, which is still good.

And yet there was a limitation to the more I give them where I receive because you have to actually somehow receive. And if you don't ask, you kind of empty your vessel.

And so I think the biggest shift in my compassionate capitalism or conscious capitalism was that, hey, stop feeling guilty and ashamed and bad for asking and receiving.

Your intention, the way that I grew up, my life's mission is to help others like yours, whether it's giving a protein bar on the street or doing free training for 22 years or whatever I can do, but you can't do that unless you have more and more and live in a world of more than more and teach people more and more and teach people to receive.

So I think the major shift in my paradigm of giving was actually my relationship with receiving and asking for myself to give to others. And the way that I describe it is, I've always appreciated what I had. So everything I had had added value.

But even though I added value to everything I had, I lived in a zero sum game, not a value ad world, meaning I was, you know, feeling guilty because of all that I had.

And I've always appreciated it. And I knew as I evolved that as I gave away, I acquired the knowledge of what I had, one of the transitions that I've taken is that it's not just giving stuff away.

It's when it's stolen from me, when it's manipulated from me, when I lose it, guess what, I get the same results as if I gave it away.

Right, I started saying when people stole things from me, oh, they needed it more than me. Now I've acquired the knowledge of what I had, or if I've lost it, oh, the universe has a better thing for me to have, I had to make room for it.

I started to incorporate it into holidays with my kids. Every time they got something, I then had them give it to, you know, they receive one toy, they would give one toy away.

And the idea of you can't give what you don't have, believe it or not, was the major paradigm shift of giving to me of when I became a compassionate capitalism, when I got rid of all the shame, blame and justification and guilt and resentment and receiving.

And I cleared and still do stop when I say, oh, I shouldn't ask them now how I get upset with myself when I walk away from someone and say, I should have asked, right, even if it's just their cell phone number, I can't believe I felt bad asking how I could help them or they could help me, it's ridiculous.

So I want to encourage everyone to be more like worry and Kayla and make sure that they get good at asking so that they can give more because we need more open-minded, open-hearted and open-handed people like both of you that just want to receive so they can distribute it to everyone else because we may be better askers and better receivers.

And so that the whole world is in a value-ad state, not a zero-sum game.

Let's wrap it up here on Clubhouse. Let's start with Hussey, Malady, Laurie Burns, Laurie, if you can please unmute yourself and ask Dave your question, welcome.

As you always talk about practicing and articulation, right? So that's what I'm doing. I am practicing to articulate. So, and storytelling.

So my question to you is, what are you like he, like go to's for, you know, when you're learning how to articulate and get to the point and in storytelling?

Yeah, so those are two separate things, both along under the context of articulating, articulating quantitative value, articulating lessons in the effect of the story that you're telling.

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