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Hello and welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Ayanna Yam. Today I'm speaking with Gave's Taurus.

And that was just moving to me to see how much our neural architecture and our psychological

architecture is so heavily formed by connection. Gave's Taurus was born and raised in the countryside

of the Philippines. She's a psychotherapist, organizer, and artist, focusing on the interplay of

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