You know I often hear phrases that say get to the other side of pain, you know, get to the other side and

or push through to the other side and I listen to that and I say, man, you know, that's a bit faulty because I believe every emotion,

everything you feel, feel your feelings because there are lessons in that. You're supposed to feel pain because there's a lesson in that.

You know, I believe that so much of my pain was my school. Okay, learn this and become an expert in this because you're going to be able to teach other people when you see it in their eyes.

You know, whenever you see a child looking like this, you're going to be able to connect with that.

So when I travel, when I go to refugee camps in Greece or secret places in Turkmenistan, I can always connect with people.

And the reason is because whenever you become an expert in certain types of feelings or emotions

they translate through language they translate across various they're borderless, you know?

And that's the way that I'm able to connect

and feel and say, okay, I think I know what you need,

let's have a conversation or, you know,

here's my hand, I'm gonna help you through this and that's what's worked for me for 12 years so far.

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