Digital Social Hour - The Ugly Truth About Political Programming | Annabella Rockwell DSH #828

Episode Date: October 25, 2024

Uncover the shocking revelations of political programming on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🗣️ Join the conversation as we dive deep with a guest who transitioned from a former Democrat to a proud conservative. Discover the pivotal moments of 2020 that reshaped her worldview and find out why she believes young women are emotionally manipulated by political agendas. This episode is packed with valuable insights into the media's influence, the role of spirituality in personal transformation, and the controversial topics of today. 🌍✨ Don't miss out on this eye-opening discussion about political programming, societal shifts, and personal evolution. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Let's get into it and explore the truths behind the headlines! #selfimprovement #timelesspoliticians #dailywire #edmundburkeconservative #personalexcellence CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:28 - Rockelle’s Political Evolution 02:39 - Importance of Changing Your Mind 07:27 - Media's Impact on Political Beliefs 08:44 - Significance of Critical Thinking 12:49 - Big Pharma and Its Influence 17:28 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) 19:58 - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Discussion 22:28 - Benefits of Veganism 24:20 - Role of Religion in Society 27:10 - Impact of Private Equity 28:19 - Personal Excellence as Rebellion 29:05 - Final Messages and Takeaways APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Annabella Rockwell https://www.instagram.com/annabellasjustagirl/ LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's a girls' dinner. Really fun. Politics came up. Everyone's like, who are you voting for? And she goes, oh, I'm voting for Kamala. And I was like, oh, god, OK. Why? Abortion, the only issue.

And I was like, why? Why is this the number one issue that people are voting on? So many women have been programmed to think that this is the most important issue. Rockwell here today, former Democrat. Former, yes. And now what are you? A proud conservative.

Okay. Yeah, right-wing extremist, perhaps. Whoa, that's a big change. In what year did that take place exactly? It's an evolution, right? But definitely 2020 is, I think, when things really clicked and I started to see the world differently. Right, 2020. So after Trump started to see the world differently. Right. More clearly.

So after Trump left? On the cusp. On the cusp. Yes. I voted for him the second time. Oh, wow. The first time I actually worked on the Hillary Clinton campaign. No way.

Yeah. What? In 2016. What was your role there? I did field in Virginia. Wow. We won that area. So I did my job.

You did your job. At the time, you thought you were doing what was right. Yeah, for sure. And then what were some things you witnessed there that made you question stuff? I didn't question until it started maybe 2018. I also worked on the Andrew Gillum campaign, who is the, if you don't recall, he was the Democratic candidate running against our current governor ron desantis so he was like the really really progressive democrat that was going to maybe be the governor of florida

thank the lord we failed at that one but it was really close it was like 50 000 votes damn yeah ron's been crushing it so crushing it florida could have been a lot different then yeah oh my god 2020 like we were free. We were fairly open. There were a couple of weeks that we weren't, but witnessing that is what really sort of snapped. I was like, okay, I have so much freedom and ability right now to continue living my life. And I think isolation is really dangerous for people. Like I was living alone and I was like, I need to see my friends. I need to be social. I need to do things. The fear mongering that's happening up north, like that's going to make people sick and i think i mean we're seeing it

right like people are still kind of in psychosis there's still people that wear masks in their cars like i was physically sick when i was in la during covid really like it was so bad that the mental stress just made my body yeah like physically sick yeah it was terrible and that was how a majority of america other than florida and maybe a couple other cities in Texas, I don't remember, but you guys did great with how you handled COVID. Yeah. I mean, we felt it here, but just the juxtaposition of Florida versus the rest of the country. I mean, being here, it really like it changed the way I saw things for sure. So 2020, what was that? Like, was it a defining moment where you switched or was it just a compilation of a few events? There were a couple moments, right?

Leading up to it, you know, I got sober. So I stopped drinking, started to have a connection with a higher power. I think that's really important, the spirituality component, because when I was a Democrat, I was kind of like obsessed with it. Like leftism is definitely a religion. And if you look at it, like the Marxist roots, it makes sense. Like you have to remove kind of like obsessed with it. Like leftism is definitely a religion. And if you look at it, like the Marxist roots, it makes sense. Like you have to remove kind of a spiritual presence. Government is God. And I fell into that. And there's a lot of rituals in that, right? So as I was kind of on my own faith journey, exploring things, that the chains broke a bit, it didn't have as much of a hold on me. And so I was able to kind of see things clearly. I joke, like, I'm sober now. I'm

conservative. Like I was drinking and I was a Democrat because like I didn't know what was going on. Yeah. Dang. So you were pounding. I'm not going to say that, but it's just different, different mental state, right? Like I'm level headed all the time. I'd love to see videos of you in this Democratic state. Yeah. Maybe after the interview. Wow. I can't even picture it because I just met you now. So do you believe young women only vote on one issue? Yeah, I do. And my concern right now is that young women are getting emotionally manipulated by the left. Because of the abortion issue? Full stop. Yep. The abortion issue. I actually was at a dinner party the other night. It was a girl's dinner, really fun, lovely. The host, politics came up, right? I didn't know her that well. And everyone's like, kind of, who are you voting for? And she goes, oh, I'm voting for Kamala. And I was like,

oh, God, okay. Why? Abortion, the only issue. And I was like, why? And of course, it's always followed with, I mean, I would never get one, but I just want women to be able to have access to their health care. It's all like, it's just fake. It's all fake. It's not health care. It's also completely preventable, right? Women don't have to be in that position. I think there are so many other options. Imagine if we pro-life, pro-choice came together and instead focused on pro-education, right? We could have initiatives in schools for young women, maybe teaching them how to track their cycles, how to know their bodies. You can't get pregnant every day of the month. Why is this like the number one

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Like, they're bigger things. They're just bigger things, right? But so many women have been programmed to think that this is the most important issue. And that is why I said before, like, the emotional manipulation of women is very concerning to me. And the fact that Kamala is a woman, it's very reminiscent of 2016. And the messaging around it, like you're obligated to vote for her because she's a female. No, I'm not. And I think that that's just very, it's convincing. Um, and it's scary because I think she could win.

Yeah. I think a lot of women will vote for her just because she's a female. Yeah. But it's good to change. She's also a communist. Right. Yeah. we'll go there. But similar story to Amber Rose with you then. Yeah. So I love that she spoke at the RNC. I know she had a lot of pushback. I think it's great.

Candace Owens interviewed her really recently. I think there's a lot of power in stories of transformation. We're allowed to change our minds. And when I changed my mind, a lot of friends I had that were on the left, like they, they kind of fell off. I, you know, I didn't have permission to change. Whereas as I started to evolve, I noticed that a lot of people that maybe had more conservative or Republican values, like were, were embracing me. And even when I was more liberal,

I would still try to have discussions with people. And I was always able to like kind of talk to Republicans. But if it's the opposite, like if someone that's conservative is trying to maybe challenge someone that's liberal, there's just not as much open-mindedness, which is so ironic and hypocritical. It's true though. It is true. That's how politics should be. You should be able to talk to the other side yeah it should be a dialogue right and i think at the end of the day like we probably agree on 80 of the issues but the media and the people in power focus on maybe 10 to 20 percent of what we're divided on like the abortion issue right which should be so far back like it should not even matter they've

debated that for my whole lifetime, I feel like. Right? Crazy. I've seen that in the news for like 20 years. Forever, and it's so unnecessary. And I also think that it is like kind of triggering for people to talk about that all the time. Granted, I'm talking about it now.

But I do think at the end of the day, we have a lot more commonalities and differences, and we're being forced to have this division. It's not organic. it's orchestrated yeah well I grew up pretty left in Jersey which is pretty left state and I thought Republicans were evil growing up and I just realized it was a lot of programming honestly from the media how'd you change your mind Trump 2016 or 2020 16 yeah I was early yeah I remember getting shit i posted a photo of trump in like 2017 2018 got so many fus like people unfollowing me and stuff you're so badass

well back then it was but now it's like more normal to back him i feel like if you liked him in 2016 and then you got to live through those next four years it was the best four years ever yeah i was like i told you so yeah like it must have been so fun like oh just riding the high yeah the first three years i was like oh my god this guy came with the tweets and then finally i snapped out of it and i was like holy shit excuse my language he's so good he was such a good president well the tweets were wild to be fair the truth the tweets were wild yeah but like bring back tweets like i just told bo i want him back on twitter yeah like that'd be great that would be i miss him on twitter because twitter now is crazy it is i mean it's better in a way because there's more truth yeah but it's almost like there's too much free speech it's lawless yeah they're going after like jewish

people now and like it's yeah it's pretty crazy on there. It is. It is. I think that, though, it's important to practice not taking everything as fact as soon as you read it. It's almost a good social experiment. There's so much nonsense out there. You kind of have to weed through it. It's good. I think it's training us to just not take everything in. Well, they do have that fact checker, which is hilarious sometimes. Yeah. Someone will make a tweet and be like nope you're wrong i think it's the babylon b gets

fact-checked all the time oh yeah hysterical like they're a parody account yeah it's nuts shout out to elon yeah big time i'm a big fan when he backed trump i was shocked i know i couldn't believe it i know and he doesn't even care if it affects stock prices or not. Because at the end of the day, I guess he just wants Tesla to be independent, right? Make lots of money, have jobs, create jobs. I like him because he's living his values. Free speech is so important to him. The fact that he bought Twitter, now now x the fact that he's actually

speaking what's on his mind like he is a man who lives his values i think we need more of that in society i love him way more now that he's doing that and now i know the reason with his interview with jordan peterson i missed it oh you missed it yeah so he talked about one of the main reasons he bought twitter was because his son turned transgender because he believes that person was programmed by the media. Yeah, I remember reading about that last year actually in the New York Post and kind of saying something about it like, I told you like the schools are indoctrinating kids. It's just, it's really, oh.

And like I said, I think like women are more easily manipulated because we're just more emotional. That's something that I had kind of been taught, right, while I was at school. I went to a women's college. Oh, wow. Very academically rigorous, world renowned, great school, hard to get into. I was really proud to go there. I had a great time, honestly.

But in the aftermath, in the real world, I realized I'd been taught all these things that were so counterintuitive to the way the world actually works right like even though I thought gender was a spectrum I also was told that like there is no difference between men and women like first of all gender is a binary it's not a spectrum emotions are a spectrum like full stop right um men and women are different like we don't think or see things the same and that's kind of the beauty of you know this the synergy of men and women and it it's something that i think has just it's so interesting like the language around all of this that if you hear a lie enough times it becomes a truth and i think that's what happened to elon's kid yeah and a lot of celebrities kids

yeah not just elon yeah but a lot of celebrities are super woke, so they're feeding into it, which is really sick. It's sad. It's sad. It's like your kid's crying out for help. Something else is deeper. I have empathy for someone that is so confused and so unhappy that they think they need to change everything about themselves,

and that's the solution. Right. Also, how does it make sense if we're simultaneously telling people that are obese that like they're perfect they should accept everything isn't it the same logic that you would tell someone that if they're perfect the way they are why why do they have to change i don't know that's like some liberal logic no it's never adds up i just don't like that they're pushing it on kids. Yeah. Like, their brains aren't even formed. Like, if you want to do that, I guess, wait. Like, be an adult.

Right. I guess, like, to each their own, right? At the end of the day, if someone's an adult and they want to change everything about themselves, they are entitled to. You know, I mean, I'm someone that's changed a lot, like, ideologically. But I do think that if you're, like like cutting off body parts, if you're taking all this medication, first of all, you're just going to be like a pharma slave for the rest of your life. There's just so much more that goes into it as opposed to like affirming feelings. And like I said, like feelings change, you know, it's like there are phases that people grow out of and

that's not to diminish the reality of what people are putting themselves through. But I do think that there is a level of it being a fad and it's being fueled because it's trendy. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, speaking of like the medical field, you made a lot of posts about drugs and big pharma and stuff and fentanyl. Yeah. I'd love for you to explain your stance on that. Sure. Well, I mean, I'm very anti-drug, right? I think that the opioid crisis has crossed class

barriers. Everyone knows someone that's been affected by it. Like everyone has a story of a friend that was addicted to drugs or has passed away. And where'd that come from, right? Purdue Pharma, the Sackler family, like they knew what was going on, you know, not to say that they orchestrated this, but there was a lot of knowledge and just the whole healthcare system needs to be changed, right? There is too much, there's too much money in pharmaceuticals. And it's interesting because my family was in the pharmaceutical industry and I was kind of always taught growing up, like, don't, don't take things. Yeah. Really? Yes. Like try to be as like holistic as possible. Wow. That's kind of ironic, right?

I know. I know. And Trump's talking about it now too. He wants to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable. I saw that. Him and RFK, both of them. I mean, I love like modern medicine's great. Like I love Tylenol. I take it all the time.

I used to take Tylenol and I'd go after soccer games when I was normal. I was like popping a pill. And I know that, I mean, it's an amazing time to be alive. We have so much access to things, but too much. You know, like when you're going to a dentist and you have a cavity and they're prescribing you Xanax, that's a true story that happened to me. People do that? Yeah. What?

It's just the mindset around it. It's so, it's too easy. It's just too easy. Like, let's not just pop a pill. Let's like look at the full picture. Like, what's really at the root of this? Yeah. I can't believe a dentist can even give you Xanax that's crazy to me yeah i got xanax easily from a doctor

first day i ever met him easy right so that anxiety yeah that almost ended my life i ended up having a seizure damn because they don't tell you how to taper off it or yeah how to take more seriously addictive so addictive yeah. Yeah. Holy crap. No, for real. Like, were you on Xanax for a while? Yeah, I did. I have taken it, yes. Yeah, it was rough getting off it.

Funny enough, I was prescribed it for the first time in college is when I started to get anxiety attacks. And it's interesting because that's when I was like really buying into a lot of the like feminist doctrine and leftism. And it was so overwhelming because i was looking at things from this like victim lens of course you're gonna have anxiety if you think the whole world's out to get you just because you're a woman you know yeah absolutely yeah that feminist movement was big yeah i remember that one it's gonna research you think so kamala

2024 without a doubt please you entered college happy you left angry and upset yeah with the xanax prescription yeah and that's crazy you should be leaving college excited about the future i know right that's what it was there for yeah to learn an occupation and get a job did you end up using your degree at least um kind of because i studied history and politics i then got my mba i lived in barcelona for a year and And that was interesting because I was very liberal when I lived there. But Spain is kind of a more traditional country. And it was – I remember it was, like, very confusing to me that just the culture was so different. Interesting.

And I was coming from this, like, very staunch, like, leftist lens. So, yeah, I mean, I'm grateful for my experience i'm grateful that i went um you know i went on national tv and like maybe called my college a cult really oops i went on tucker carlson and that i think was perhaps a little bit dramatic but in the aftermath i have had hundreds if not thousands of parents reach out to me saying like, thank you for sharing your story because my kid went away and they're so different now. And I'm like, well, yeah, like this is just par for the course. All the colleges in America are so liberal, but it's now like high schools, middle schools, lower schools, private

schools, Christian schools, whatever. It's everywhere, you know? Yeah. Do you think schools should even incorporate any form of politics? I mean, I think it's important to read the classics. I think it's important to know, to understand, yes, we should have open discussion. We should have dialogue. The problem is that there is no open discussion or dialogue anymore. Everything's very biased. And I think it, you know, partially comes down to, like, personal responsibility of a professor to be the one to not have bias as you're grading or giving people assignments. But that's not happening.

Yeah. And also all these colleges have DEI representatives. And so it's coming kind of from top down, you know, from the administration. So it's very hard to avoid the bias. But, yeah, of course we should learn about politics. Like, we live in a democracy. I love politics. hard to avoid the bias. But yeah, of course, we should learn about politics. Like we live in a democracy. I love politics. Like I love discussion. And I think that so many people have fought for our right to vote. So we should be practicing that. So yeah, I think it's important. What's DEI? Diversity, equity and inclusion. Oh, I heard about this. So

every company has to have a certain percent, right, of each? That's how it works? Yes, yes. It's kind of like affirmative action. But it's a social program, basically. Yeah, do you think it's been effective? In changing corporations from the inside out, yes. And then as a result, our society is becoming more woke dei has actually been reined back in a lot in the last few months companies are saying that they're

not going to implement these policies anymore because they are you lose money you're not making money like do you remember last year the target boycotts yeah okay so target was selling like um i guess just a lot of swimwear for children that had a lot of um like pride month it was just like pride month paraphernalia and they had those like tucking underwear for trans children and people were so obsessed with it and and remember bud light the bud light boycott like those two things right there are a result of some, of like a DEI initiative. Like, let's try to be more inclusive. And then they implement it and the consumer is like, what?

This isn't, like, this isn't what we want. Like, I'm coming here for my, like, paper towels. For real. Can we leave the agendas out of it? It should be based off talent. If I'm hiring people, why would i care what race or age or gender you are yeah it shouldn't matter and if you're skilled at 15 or whatever like i'll hire you and that's why capitalism is the best model also capitalism is like what we need to save america

yeah right well it gets tricky there because big companies have a lot of say in in policies too like big pharma big food they do. With the war companies. So I am a fan of capitalism to a certain level but then I think the companies get a little too much influence. You know what I mean? Because look at what

Google is doing censoring the assassination attempt. Yeah, we are. Oh my God. That's terrible. That's so crazy. They have too much power.

I'm glad you brought that up because we're going to need record of it because people are going to forget. No, there's already like so many videos on it. It's crazy. Yeah, people forget quick though. People forget so quickly. You literally can't even Google the assassination attempt. I mean, that's criminal. I'm someone

that's for less regulation. I think we need it to be easier to start businesses. Also, I think like less college. I don't think that people need to just go to four years of university. I think go into the workforce, especially for young men. I don't know why. I just,'t think that people need to just go to four years of university. No, I'm not a fan of college. I think go into the workforce, especially for young men. I don't know why. I do think young women maybe benefit a little bit more from going to university. This is my opinion, my observation. And I think young men benefit more from just going right into the workforce. I can see that.

I mean, those are your prime years to be spent in a classroom. It's kind of like a wasted potential, in my opinion. Yeah. There's like a lot of money to be made. Yeah. Like I started working at 18. Like that's when you have the most energy. Yeah.

Like why would you want to spend, especially med school? I mean, you kind of need med school, but some schools are so prolonged. You know? Well, now there's AI doctors. I didn't know about that. Yeah. So they could self-diagnose your diseases through this body scan. I think it's called Prenuvo.

And it could detect cancer really early and stuff. And soon there'll be robots doing the surgeries. Okay. Are you a fan of that at all? I'll get back to you. Yeah, AI is such a new thing. It's hard to really form a concrete opinion on it. Yeah, I definitely take it into account when I'm investing.

You know, I think that AI is, it's already, the future's here. It's already happening. And so I'm not someone that's like resistant to technological advances and change. I think we have to embrace them to a certain extent. Like let's not wipe out humanity in the meantime. Yeah. But I didn't know that about the AI doctor. I went to a dentist the other day and they

took photos of my teeth and they put it into an ai software yeah and they told me how many cavities i had it was great how many cavities seven it was bad yeah it was bad but how cool is that like that's really cool there's no human error like they could even find really small ones and they found uh some things in my gum too yeah so who's gonna fill your cavities a dentist or so yeah i'm going to a holistic dentist so they fill the cavities there and the problem with traditional dentists is not all of them but a lot of them use this filling with pfas in it okay forever plastics yeah and that's in your teeth forever forever forever yeah so it's just leeching the toxins in your mouth i just

learned something new and i feel like i'm pretty aware of like anything holistic that that's a newer one yeah it's new the problem is it's super expensive yeah i had to pay eight thousand dollars to fill seven cavities wow which insurance doesn't cover no of course so if you want to be healthy you gotta yeah spend a lot you know oh my god and you have to eat grass-fed meat yeah and that's like triple the price of normal yeah i was a vegan for a long time too oh you fell for that too wow you made massive changes no i fell for all of it sean all of it holy crap the vegan one is almost worse than the democrat one it is and i have this crazy theory that uh the vegan diet is pushed to weaken us like you're not getting enough you can't get enough b vitamins and our brain needs we need b12

we need the b's you're not getting enough so you it like feeds into mental illness you start to have mood swings if you're if you're not if you're malnourished you're malnourished even though you think you're eating enough you're malnourished crazy you're malnourished. Even though you think you're eating enough, you're malnourished. It's crazy. Total scam. Vegans just don't look healthy when you look at them. No. Just physical appearance alone.

Yeah. They almost got me with the Beyond Meat stuff. Right. I tried it. Oh, they got me. It tasted like shit. Yeah, they got me once. And just purely taste. Before all the seed oil then came out, I just didn't like it.

That's good. They got you, though, for a while now? Yeah. Oh, man. The ingredients in there are scary. purely taste before all the seed oil then came out yeah i just didn't like it you know they got you though for a while now yeah oh man the ingredients in there are scary i know so many can't pronounce any of them there's countries banning fake meat yeah i think italy banned fake chicken or something good it's just so weird that like we were able to be convinced that actual meat is worse for us than a chemicals a list of chemicals yeah make it make sense the marketing yeah they're really good at the programming yes you know wow look at you though this is crazy what else were you back then oh my god i mean i could go issue by issue by issue you were democrat vegan yeah it's hard to top those three right there i

know damn i know i had pink hair for a bit oh you were pink hair that's like a meme crazy pink hair lady yeah wow whoever dated you back then must have been a trooper you know well i've always been cute okay looks will get you far for it looks will get you far in america yeah i like that you're spiritual though that's that's important yeah oh we could add atheist to that former list oh i was atheist too though okay i feel like that's well church is just kind of weird vibe like you know what i mean like going to church growing up yeah it's almost like you're forced yeah it's boring growing up it's boring it's forced you don't want to go as a kid. I didn't retain anything.

Nothing. I can't remember a single thing. Now I appreciate it, though. Like, I'll go to an Episcopalian service. I go on just on holidays with my family. Now I try, like, non-denominational churches, or I just sort of figure it out on my own, right? But if you, like, open the hymnal,

so many of the songs are hundreds of years old and that to me is really cool like that's very that's very significant that we've been able to like continue having these same songs since like 1400s 1500s yeah yeah i think that's beautiful music is healing yeah like the old music not the new music that is actually harmful it is it's so bad it's so bad i don't listen to any modern hip hop, rap, anything. Yeah. What do you like to listen to? 70s and like 80s.

70s, best music decade. Yeah. Hands down. That's when the vibration was high. You just feel great. I love the Rolling Stones. Oh, can't beat that. Man, Atheist too.

Yeah, I went through that. Was it a little psychedelic trip that changed that for you? No, not at all. It was the opposite. I stopped doing drugs. Oh, wow. Not that I, I'm just going to preface, not that I really did drugs. We have a podcast.

I know you get lots of viewers. I do have a job. No, you're good. I, my spiritual journey, it's been over time. It's been very slow. I think the first thing that I kind of could understand was time. Like I wasn't in control of the fact that like with each day of making a change, like maybe I felt a little

bit better. That sort of evolved into energy. What I put out is what I get back. And then from there, it just like I believe that other people believed. And then all of a sudden I just started to look at my life and the way the stars aligned. And like the god coincidence the god god sentences like there were too many of them for me to to question anymore i was like okay i'm gonna choose to believe in this and then as sort of as soon as i made that choice it was like whoa i just started to feel it all the time like the presence of something i love it because living as an atheist with no purpose is kind of like depressing so depressing nihilism is terrible yeah terrible for people like absolutely i'm sure it feeds into the mental health crisis that we're facing oh for

sure like a little bit of spirituality and put some pep in your step you know touch some uh touch some grass guys yes it was great grass or the beach yeah yeah eat some meat grass-fed meat talk to god simple things you think you don't have to spend crazy money. Well, I guess it's not totally free, but it's cheap. Yeah. The solution is cheap. The spiritual side, yeah, definitely. I want to end off with private equity, which is what you're doing now.

How did you get involved with that? So my background was finance. After Hillary lost, I was like, I'm going to Wall Street because the good little feminist has like, I need to go to a male dominated industry and change it. Side note, I love the patriarchy. Like we're reformed. I think it's great. Like I don't want to pave the roads, you know?

Yeah, I feel that. I don't even want to do that. I want to pay someone that's great at doing that to do that and I will be behind a microphone. So private equity, it was one of those things. I worked on Wall Street, have all my licenses, took a hiatus, worked for this amazing nonprofit called PragerU. That's when I fell into media, right?

That interview with Tucker Carlson just happened. I had the story. It went viral. And then I was like, okay, this is my service right now. I'm going to do this. And then I decided that I wanted to go back into kind of what I'd been doing and maybe fight the good fight as a little bit more of a hobby. Nice. That's cool. Good for you. Um, is it your own company or do you work for, um, no,

I work for a boutique firm. Nice. Yeah. That's cool. Um, anything else? I know there's a quote here. Personal excellence is the ultimate form of rebellion. Yeah. That's your quote. It is. It is. I mean, I have lots of them, but that's my one right now. What does that mean to you? Take responsibility, right? It all starts with like me first. I love a routine, waking up early, you know, working out all the simple things, right? That like keep me healthy and my best self so that i can also help other people in the process and i think that we are examples like how we hold ourselves we have to live our values and my values are you know honesty reliability spirituality is very

important but that means i have to be honest and i have to be reliable and that comes down to like holding myself to a high standard which is personal excellence love it closing messages we got a really young audience here I'd love for you to share some wisdom before we wrap this up okay um get humble or get humiliated bars we'll leave it there thanks for coming on thanks so much we'll link yourself below awesome thanks for watching guys as always we'll see you next time