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Mark, welcome to the Unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us. That's Chris. Serini, thank you so much for having me. It is a pleasure to finally meet you. Yeah, likewise. It is my pleasure to have you here. I found out about you because you wrote me. And as I was mentioning to you before here, we did an entire series on cults when sort of the nexium narrative was just dominant in the

news. But you have another side of this story, which I was really interested in hearing about.

But before we get into all of that, I want to start by asking you, what social group were you a part of in high

school? And what impacted that end up having on your life and the choices you've made?

God, in high school, I was one of those people that tried to have a bunch of different friends

groups. But I think I always wanted to be in the cool group. I think a lot of us wanted to be

in the cool group, but I struggled to be that cool. But I was I always wanted to be in the cool group. I think a lot of us wanted to be in the

cool group, but I struggled to be that cool, but I was also really academic. And obviously

living with, as I'm sure you saw, I lived with Tourette's for 20 years. And in high school,

my Tourette's was very severe. And with that, I did, I was just such a people pleaser because I was trying to get

everyone to accept me because the Tourette's and I didn't want to make people feel uncomfortable.

So I did my best to try to be in different groups. So that's my answer to that question. How would

what was the second part of it? How did that affect your life?

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