to the best of my knowledge and I have become very convinced about this. If you do not have

a sense of a personal history, which gives you a center of gravity, I don't see how

come you can succeed, you can prosper, you can fly in this world. Because when you have

that a sense of a history, you find out two things for yourself. First, you know what

you're doing. Second, which is, to me, the most important thing you develop in a water

drive and the tenacity to carry out what you do. To me, it's kind of delusional that we

people think that or believe that a history of personal history is the past. It is not the

past. I don't believe it. It is not at all. It is who we are because how a personal history

actively lives within each of us. I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative

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massage welcome to the unmistakable creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

Thank you so much for having me and for giving me this opportunity.

It is my pleasure to have you here. So I found out about you through way of a friend

and former guest at Nikki Groom and when she told me a little bit about your story and

everything that you had been through, I thought, yeah, this is kind of a no brainer. I

definitely want to have you as a guest. So given kind of the background and what I do

know about you, I want to start by asking you, where in the world were you born and raised

and how did that impact the choices that you've ended up making with your life in your

career. Once again, I want to say thank you so much for giving me this opportunity to

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