This week on the Colin and Samir podcast, we're joined by a very unique guest.

His name is Houston Craft, and he's a storyteller and a kindness advocate.

Houston uses his storytelling abilities to spread stories about empathy, kindness, and love,

all with the goal of giving people the tools to practice more of these emotions on a day-to-day basis.

He travels the country doing talks and workshops, and we wanted to bring you this conversation during the week of Valentine's Day, a week where we hear a lot about love of a specific kind.

There are actually many different varieties of love, and more importantly, empathy.

Personally, I believe that empathy is one of the most important emotions to exercise if you're

trying to connect with others. Whether that's through a business, a relationship, through

content, or just through day-to-day communication, empathy is incredibly important. Also, Colin was

busy editing on the day that we recorded this podcast,

so this conversation is just between myself and Houston.

He's a great storyteller, and he ends this podcast with one of the more powerful stories I've heard from him.

We also have some surprise guests pop in while we're recording,

so stay tuned for that and expect some interruptions towards the end of the podcast.

All right, we hope you enjoy this special edition of the Colin and Samir podcast featuring Houston Craft.

All right, man, I've been wanting to have this conversation for a while.

I think we've been trying to plan this for months.

Yeah, I just wanted to see you for months. Yeah, that's true. And now we're here. I love a good excuse.

So I don't remember exactly how we first met. Maybe over oysters in Yes, Therey's backyard.

That's, yeah, that's how most people eat. Yeah. Which I'm not a fan of Ooste's at all. Yeah, these ones were

particularly delicious only because of circumstance. Yes, because of the company. Yeah. Yeah.

But after that, I actually remember specifically, you know, after hanging out a little bit,

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