Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson - Paying It Forward with Viral Do-Gooder Zachery Dereniowski

Episode Date: December 29, 2025

If your social feeds include people down on their luck getting unexpected, life-changing help, hopefully you revel in the feel-good moment! Now, hear what kicked off this phenomenal, philanthropic mission for Zachery Dereniowski - a.k.a. @MDMotivator - who has raised and delivered millions of dollars to those in need. Zach reveals how one encounter with strangers rocked his OWN world and why, despite his massive impact and more than 50 million followers, he struggles with imposter syndrome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We wanted to do something that highlighted our relationship. And what it's like to be siblings. We are a sibling reverie. No, no. Sibling reverie. Don't do that with your mouth. Sibling Revely.

That's good. Here we go, here we go. Here we go. Starting another podcast. It's all her Hudson. I know you can't see video right now unless this is posted as a clip. But I'm in my daughter's room.

I've got the stuffed animals behind me. I've got her door covered with purple pictures. There's a lot going on in here right now. But this is my life. I have to move from room to room. You would think after this many years of doing a podcast, I'd have a dedicated space. my dedicated space is the children's bedrooms and currently the boys have late days so they're

sleeping in their rooms my daughter at a regular day so now i'm in her room sitting at her makeup desk which if you could see this it's i'm not going to show you because it's too much there's so much stuff going on right now she's only 12 i don't know maybe i did something wrong Anyway, we're here, we're chilling, and it's Christmas time. I love me some Christmas time. I did a Christmas movie. I don't know where it's at on the charts right now, but it was doing very, very well. Had a blast.

I have coined myself Mr. Christmas. Because in a short span of time, I had a movie, a Netflix movie that was Christmas. I did a gingerbread baking show that I did. hosted which was christmas and i was on the great british bakeoff the celebrity edition celebrity i guess that's what i am you know the definition of my celebrity might be different from sort of like a brad pitt you know what i mean but a celeb nonetheless and uh it was an amazing experience and i fucking won got a paul hollywood handshake in case you haven't seen it and so i'm mr christmas that's who I am.

Anyway, we have a cool guest in the waiting room right now. MD Motivator is his Instagram handle, and that's how I know him. He comes across my feet all the time. His real name is Zachary Derenowski. And he just spreads love and joy and happiness and generosity, you know, his vulnerability, and he's extremely heartfelt. And it's nice to see.

because today it's all bad shit every time we turn on the TV every time our algorithm picks up something that might be a little negative we just get fed all of this horrible shit but Zach is doing it correctly he's doing it right um he's raising money for people he's giving money away he's helping people's lives so let's just bring him on and have a discuss hey Oliver where are you I'm in New York City where are you how about yourself I'm in my daughter's room at my house, if you can't tell. I've got pink and purple all around me. I've got stuffed animals.

You know, this is my life. I've been doing this for four or five years, and I have no dedicated podcast space. I just hop around from my kid's rooms when they're not in school. They must be honored. Her room looks great. No, it's not, they're not honored. They come home and they're like, dad, like, were you in my room doing your dumb podcast? I'm like, yes.

like why why how do you know this because you left your computer here and and now the dog came into my room and he ate my trash i'm like oh god i can't win what are you doing in new york we're doing a few videos so we did something with big brothers big sisters this morning they have the foundation there's a big conference here and it's surprising people here in new york with a banking app called chimes so yeah it's nice here so i got to get into this because i've you've come across my feed you know forever you're in my algorithm which i think is a good thing you know what i mean which means that you know there is some there is some positivity and some some bright light to my algorithm although it can get dark at times you know what i mean yeah this scary place man i know i know

it's crazy but how did this all start because you're canadian you grew up in windsor i was just in vancouver i'm going actually back to vancouver uh tomorrow i was in toronto did a movie in toronto My parents lived in Canada for years. Where in Canada did your parents live? They lived in BC for five years. My brother played hockey, so they moved up there with him. Yeah, it's gorgeous out there. Yeah, yeah, it's beautiful.

But I was in Toronto in February. It was snowy, snowy snowy snow. Yeah, it can get cold there, especially January, February the time of year. So how did you get to where you got? You know, I mean, I was looking you up and sort of researching you a little bit, and it definitely wasn't the initial career path. How did this all happen? I grew up my whole life.

I knew I wanted to be a doctor. And I finally got accepted into medical school after years and years of working towards that. And my dream was to become a doctor, but it was also to live in Sydney, Australia, like, in Australia. And I got accepted to the University of Sydney Medical School. And I started there in January of 2020. And when you say 2020, everyone thinks the pandemic.

And when you see the pandemic, everyone has an emotional response to that. and school went online immediately when I got there medical school I tore my ACL I needed surgery from my knee a week later that me and my girlfriend of six years we broke up and she was like my identity and my happiness

and I didn't have any new friends because it was all online and I was afraid to tell anyone back home how I was feeling because who might have complained and it was just this too much a all at once thing in my life and

it was the middle of one night I went for, I was a I was living with one of my roommates in medical school. And I knew I was going to, like, cry or just be in a really, really dark place. And I didn't want to, like, let him know that I was feeling. So I went for a walk one night. And I just started to, like, sit down and I was crying, just sitting down on the ground. And these two women, in their mid to late 30s, they came up to me.

And they just said, hey, are you okay? And I said, obviously, I'm fine. One heard of them to see that I tears. So I was trying to wipe it. And they said, what's going on? And what they did in that moment, Oliver, changed my life forever. They just sat there in the wet cement and they listened to this stranger from Canada, cry and just talk about what was going on in his life.

And I'll never forget that next morning when I woke up and just that relief of off my shoulders and realizing that like talking to a stranger, as weird as it was, made me feel like I was moving out of that dark hole that I was getting myself further and further. And I was really questioning my life at that point. And then I started, I told my parents back home, how I was feeling and then my med school classmate was like I said I want to I don't forget exactly what I said to him but I just said something along the lines like I want to be like that

for somebody else so I over a few weeks I thought why not blindfold myself and hug strangers because maybe there's other strangers out there that need a hug or need someone just to listen to and then after that my med school classmates was like maybe there's people online like are stuck in their homes that could connect to that that you're not going to meet maybe you should make videos. So that's how the TikTok journey started. And MD Motivator stands for medical doctor motivator because I was just trying to motivate myself down a path. And yeah, there's way more to it. But then at that point, that's when the video started. So wait, going back, you were in Australia, broke up with your girlfriend, which of course can be very difficult,

especially if you have wrapped up your entire identity in a person, which essentially is a codependency, you know what I mean, which isn't healthy at the end of the day. No. So for you, what kind of a place did you get into? I mean, I know the girl was gone, but when you were having that moment and sort of questioning everything, were you questioning your career path? Were you questioning your motivation in life? You know, or was it just pure heartbreak and sadness?

I mean, I was 28. I felt super alone. I was in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. feel like I wasted money, time. I didn't have a plan B to fall back on. I was in my classmates who I knew there was some in that class that I would pay anything for them to be my doctor. Some I'd pay anything for them not to be my doctor.

I knew I was somewhere in the middle. So I knew at that point that this wasn't my end all be all. Like what's my purpose? Why am I here on earth? Like what's my life meaning have? Like I just felt so alone, lost, confused and not knowing where to start in that conversation. So it was like paralysis too.

I don't know where I was at. Yeah. Well, it's so interesting because it is so true where a stranger who reaches out and cares and asks the right questions and opens themselves up to you opening up can really be cathartic in the sense that there are no judgments, there are no pressures. you don't know this person. Yeah, exactly. I mean, in a way, it's therapy, but even better because you can just let it all go. And there's something sort of special about that, you know.

And so when you started to make these videos, at what point were you like, oh, shit, wait a minute, this is actually affecting people. It is blowing up right now. This is my new path. I mean, like the first time I started making videos, it immediately people were messaging me saying this video say i don't know how much true this is saved my life and just stream language like that so i knew right from the from the get-go that the

videos were impacting people um but it was the first time all over that in 28 years i felt purposeful and myself so i didn't know what that was going to lead to or how long it would lead for or where it would go to but i knew i found something for the first time that was confident whether you agree or disagree to me making content that I felt myself. So that was how I felt confident enough to tell my parents that I'm going to quit medical school and I'm going to move back home on their base and make TikTok videos. How did that go? How do you think it what?

What do you want for your kids more than anything? Right. Well, happiness. Because health. Yes, for me, right. Because it's just all of us. Yeah. If you have a good parent or guardian, if you have support.

You know, fortunate that I did. My parents have no idea about social media. or what I was doing. They knew how hard I worked or what we sacrificed financially to be able to do that, to go to medical school. So they just saw I wasn't happy and I wasn't healthy. So they let me move back home in my small town in Canada, Windsor, Ontario, like you said.

And my friend at the time never recorded a video. He played high school basketball with me. He got a camera. He believed in what I was doing. He volunteered for two months for free. And then it immediately just, it took off. but if it wasn't for my parents support if it wasn't for my friend

if it wasn't for those you know what's crazy is all over those two women that night to this day I have no idea that effort created that and I haven't been back I'm going back to Australia for the first time next month

with a mission to find them wouldn't that be amazing if you were able to yeah you know I mean incredible oh oh December man this is one of my

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that i have trying to pass on to my kids which is just be happy you know stay healthy sometimes that's uncontrollable but just be happy and good and be a good human being you know what i mean walk outside every day and enjoy the air because it's not going to last very long you know what I'm saying so just enjoy yourself don't put so much stress on yourself you know and you're right I mean that is the impetus that's the catalyst for what why you have become so successful and why you are following your life's passion and sort of how you stumbled into it which is cool too were you like this before, you seem like you have such a really beautiful sort of sensitive nature about you. Was this who you always have been? That's the coolest thing to me is that like, I'm not trying

to hype myself up. My hometown, I always said, oh, he's doing it for the video, the cameras, but then I have friends or people that I've just, I don't even friends with just new from like high school or passing by. I worked with a McDonald's. Like, this is how Zach's always been. And it's cool to see that. I guess I've had that impact. Obviously, it's completely different in the video. world. But yeah, I love talking to strangers. I love hearing people's stories. I usually like being on your side of the stick where I get to ask the questions. I can just listen. I know. That's fun. Yeah, it is because you get to learn so much, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you and I are not dissimilar in that I'm not a very surface person. I'm not a small talk person because the truth is

that's where all the good stuff is. You know what I mean? It's when you get specific and you're really asking the questions and not just sort of hey how are you how was your day you know it's like well what else i've explained this story probably at least a hundred times to like the six-year relationship this this you're the first person asked me about the identity and happiness thing or make a comment on that person so yeah you do pay attention to the details really well oh yeah i have a lot to still learn in relationships oh dude i don't think we ever ever stop learning ever stop evolving you know that's the beauty of self-analysis is if you really love it, which I do, it can be painful as shit, but it's also, you know, it just expands your mind and expands your character. It will never end. And I'm

constantly on a search one way or another, you know, what's it? How do I feel this way? Or how do I remedy this? Or how do I be better here? Or not only that, but also just giving yourself grace and forgiveness and having compassion for yourself when you do go off the rails yeah i think we hold ourselves sometimes so rigidly to you know what is right that once we slip a little bit it's like you hit yourself over the head when really it's like no dude we're human beings man yeah like we fail we make mistakes we can wallow in the darkness for a while that's okay you know what i mean i i don't i don't think that's a bad thing as long as you know how to get out and there's a ladder you you You know what I'm saying?

Absolutely. Yeah. So when you started to realize that this was a business, did you wrestle it all with sort of, you know, your philanthropy, essentially, your emotional philanthropy and commerce and sort of how those things match up? It's been a really weird journey. So, like, a few months into making videos, me and the videographer, I said that volunteered at the time, we were sitting at a pizza shop having lunch. And I got this email from YouTube saying, you just got paid. six hundred and forty six dollars mm and I go to his name's Patrick Patrick we just got paid six hundred and forty six that was the best amount of money I've ever

received because I was like we're helping people but we can still pay our bills by doing this though I can to be here so I had no idea that this could be like a business or a revenue stream like the I had such delusion when I did this like if this didn't work I don't know where I'd be today to be honest with you I'll be working somewhere, I don't know, I don't know what I'd be doing in Windsor. But yeah, it was a really interesting to see that it's a space where you can obviously self-fund and create. But we've created verticals. We have a non-profit called kindness is cool.

So 100% of the donations go in and then 100% go directly to the people that we impact. So I've learned that people not always want to help charities, but people always want to help and support people. that never seems to go out of style in terms of people connecting with stories right on an individual basis um so there's that aspect there's the non-profit then there's obviously like the streams from like the platforms and then brands that have also sponsored that allow us to give at a at a greater scale of course like what you're doing with the chime yeah and we wouldn't be able to do otherwise so it's been really awesome whether it's celebrities or brands that have sponsored and allowed us to create such life-changing things but the biggest videos

are always the ones where we crowd fund for individuals or families and 100,000 people donate $5 and we're able to give away half a million dollars to a family. Just, yeah, life-changing opportunities. How do you decide on your subjects? I mean, like, they decide on me, right? It's just like you talking to me, just like it's an energy thing. I'd say about 80% of the time, it's just random. There's no vetting process.

It's just going on talking to strangers. So sometimes I'll be able to. there for like 10, 20 minutes, sometimes six, seven hours until like it's just like the right conversation, the right opportunity, they're being kind. And then you get to snowball all the boat. And yeah, got to do that every day. So when you raise money for people, though, how do you sort of vet them or how do you sort of choose them? I mean, you sort of in a way catch feelings for some of these people. So I don't go in there thinking we're going to crowd fund for them. So if there's ever like an opportunity, say we give you all of her like Super Bowl tickets, but I find out that

you're struggling to pay your rent bill or you're about to get evicted, if there's more to the story that kind of from a financial standpoint will always crowd fund for the individual or family but I don't go in there assuming a crowd fund

even like my mom so I show my mom all my videos before I post them they should be like Zach you've done too many crowd funds people are going to stop donating there's never been a time all over where we haven't reached our crowdfunding goals

minimum at least $20,000 up to like I said over half a million dollars so they find that and then it's what we do with the So at first, it would just be, all right, here's the $7,000 or the $20,000. But we've learned that over time, obviously, that money doesn't solve money problems. No, yeah. Sometimes it creates more.

So now we have financial advisors. We set money aside. We create beneficiaries. Money goes directly to either houses, cars, education funds. And we've gotten so many people full-time jobs because I'm going to hire good people, right? Yeah. You want to hire a good person. So we're able to essentially almost like vet that through a video.

And people to this day that I know I go back and they're like, this is our best worker we have like a year later in my own power, other cities that we've done this. So, yeah. That's amazing. No, I think that's so smart, you know, because, again, you give someone a half a million dollars in a bag. It's like, uh, wait a minute.

I mean, I don't care how good of a human being you are. You get that urge to be like, I'm going to go buy some shit. I'm going to buy. I would, right? I'm going to go buy something that I shouldn't buy. right now, you know, and then that can snowball into a bad play. But in the video, it looks like we're giving a half million dollars, so you evoked that like emotional response.

So we can get a viral, which we can crowdfund more, which then we can obviously create a longer term impact for them. And do you have, as you've established and created relationships along the way, and with higher powered people, are you able to sort of source Super Bowl tickets and all of these incredible experiences? It's been like any layer way, inbound outbound um the answer is yes a really cool example of like an inbound outbound relationship is we did a video where we gave a car away with chris brown at one of his shows but that only came to

existence because his 12 year old daughter royalty watches all my videos and she wanted to do something kind like me in the videos chris heard that and because of that chris wanted to do the video he never does that kind of stuff because he's inspired by his daughter that wanted to show her that so it's cool to see the ripple that it creates inbound outbound and in that family tree or whatnot, too. That's amazing. It's so contagious. Like you were saying, well, it is. How it can be so negative.

Yeah. But positive sure, it takes a little more work to get that ball moving, I guess, down the hill. But I think it's a bigger ball that's way more powerful. Yeah, no, you're correct, you know. And I just, because sometimes people, I'm sure you've gotten hate. Everyone gets a little hate. Like, oh, you're just making that money. And, you know, you're exploiting people's feelings.

for a dollar or whatever the hell, I'm sure you hear. But that's bullshit, in my opinion, because you, we are, we are, we can make money and help human beings. I mean, there's, isn't that the purpose of every job? Of course. Of course, dude. Yeah. You should get yours while you give it as well.

There's absolutely no doubt about that. But I do my absolute best, my manager or anyone can attest, like any situation where I feel like there's more to do, we always do the most, even if that's a detriment to me, because I don't really care. It's just my time. I really feel honored and responsible to have a following of 50 million people that have the power to change a person's life. Crazy, right?

You know what I mean? Are you global? Have you gone across the, I mean, are you going to cross the ocean at all? We're going to London, actually, in a few weeks with crime. Speaking of sponsors, we're going to do a Logan Paul and KSI. But I'm not a lot global. Hopefully next year we can expand more globally. I'm really excited to hopefully do this in other countries and have people like my

myself that speak other languages, be able to do it in their countries. Because I'll speak any other languages. You can create a whole, you can create a whole network. Yeah, that's, that's, that's cool. You could under your banner, you know, you can create a whole global network of people like you. And you know what? I'll give you another example of a really cool story that how I knew that I was doing the right thing.

I was just starting to make videos. I was in my hometown. We brought 100 kids to like a local water park. And this dad and these three daughters, I think they were 10, eight, and six at the time, came up to me and they said, we watch your videos. Can we take a photo? Sure. So they're about to walk away and the six-year-old tap my elbow.

And she came up to me and she's like, just want to let you know that my dad shows us your videos every night before bed. And last week we were at the grocery store and there looked like a guy that he was hungry. So when I went home that night, I took my bigie bank and I cracked open my piggy bank because I want to do what the guy in the video does. Oh, my God. Wow. And that was when I felt like my videos were doing something that I'll never see that had a purpose.

It was an energy transfer. Yeah. The ripple effect, right? That a one-to-one will never create. Ooh, December, man. This is one of my favorite months. My favorite winter month for sure. Christmas is coming.

And it's such a special month. It's when my family and I really, really slow down, celebrate, being. together. We've been talking about heading to Japan of all places. My sons are obsessed with anime. They want to go to Japan. So we're thinking about it. We are in Colorado. There's no doubt. But after Colorado, we are thinking about Japan. The kids are very excited about skiing Hokkaido, which is incredible snow. I've seen it all over social media. I've been looking at videos, exploring Tokyo's neighborhoods and eating their weight in ramen. Trips like that are truly unforgettable. And what makes it even better is staying at a place on Airbus.

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Please enjoy responsibly. Who would you call if the unthinkable happened? I just fell and started screaming. If you lost someone you loved in the most horrific way. I said through y'all 22 times. The police, right? But what if the person you're supposed to go to for help is the one you're the most afraid of?

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It's something I've struggled with in certain aspects of my life. There are certain parts of me that are extremely vulnerable. I'm very sensitive. I'm not afraid to cry. But there are certain people in my life or certain hangups where vulnerability is hard for me. And that's just based on psychology. I mean, we can go way back into childhood and life, right? But when you're able to be unafraid, essentially, that's what vulnerability.

is you're just unafraid to be yourself and afraid to express your feelings. It opens up so much and you're right. I've never thought of it that way. It equals relatability because everyone is vulnerable whether they're masking it, pushing it down or not. Vulnerability exists within all of us. Everyone's got a mask. Yeah, when we are able to be vulnerable,

you are, you can sort of, you've got the key essentially to those who want vulnerability, but who are afraid to express it. You never know who needs that key for you to, you unlock that key in them. You never know who that person is, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I dig that. I dig how it, how sort of equals relatability.

You know, it's cool too, Oliver. If you go back to my old hugging videos, I haven't posted them in a while, I'll always say, hey, how's it going or whatever I'll say when they come in a hug? And the first thing people always say before they say what's going on, I'm good. Mm-hmm. Right? Mask, mask. Yeah.

They're not, right? They're coming in for a hug, but like, I'm good. You're not good. It's like, it's a macho response. is to, I guess, shy or hide away or, I guess, be normal. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. How's the celebrity aspect been for you?

Meaning, like, you get, people know who you are now. You get recognized. You sign autographs. Is that fun? No. I get recognized, but, like, I don't want to be recognized because I want to make videos in disguise, right? I'm a guy that makes videos that makes people happy.

It's really cool. The coolest part to me is those, like, six-year-old girl stuff. Like that one I gave you with the piggy bank. That's the celebratiness of it to me. I just, yeah, I don't, yeah. That's, I live in a small town, so I'm not usually in LA on crazy red carpets or. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But when celebrities want to get involved and it's able to, like,

their fan base is being, like, exposed to, like, this type of content in a new light. It's just really cool to see. Yeah. And so as far as growth goes, you know, we're always expanding and thinking. about how okay how do we keep this going like how do we how do we how do we how do we how do we just make this thing as big as it can be what what plans do you have sort of for the future for that yeah so right now it's one scaling the giving so we're at a point now where we're giving away like cars homes like it's at that point where it's i don't know where else you go in terms of i guess

it would be like infrastructures whether so but how do you do that like how do you give away a home explain how that might work sure um Mostly it's from the crowdfunding at this point. So those ones that were able to crowd fund a couple hundred thousand dollars for them, whether it's paying for the home or if it's a smaller crowd fund, then we're able to get a lease for like three years or fully furnished home for them to get them back on their feet. And this is all coming from crowdsourcing, meaning these are all just people who are donating.

Donating their coffee money to get home. Yeah. And it only works. I think then you donate five bucks. And then in 48 hours, you see that great. Greg's got a home or you're able to see and feel in real time where your money's going to. And that transparency is everything, right? Because as quick as you can build it, it can come down 100 times faster.

So it's being transparent and showing where it's going. I think one of the aspects that you said was expanding it to other countries, whether it's other people doing what I'm doing and then traveling more. I'm going to get into the streaming space next year and open to it being. a TV show, as long as it doesn't feel to TV, it still feels like raw and real. Yeah, no, that's great. Yeah, and see where it goes. Yeah.

I love your attitude. It's just kind of like, yeah, fuck it. I don't know. Like this thing, this thing happened because I was upset and my girl left me and I'm crying on a bench in Australia. And it's like, oh, well, the rest is gravy. It's just kind of like. As disorganizes that thought process may sound, it's the first time.

And like for four years, this growth has been like this. And I've never worked something. I guess so effortlessly but hard at the same time where it's one. So I know that I'm very self-aware and pivoted as need be and continue to serve others and the right door should open. Did you have to assemble a team once this thing got big and you're like, oh, oh, wait a minute. I need people.

I need infrastructure. I got a really great team. So I've had a really good team now for about a year. But it's a small team. I have a manager, a videographer, and an editor. Or on the ground. And then that's it. But for the most time, it was just me and my old videographer, the one that I started with.

He was super awesome, too. But his dream was to open, like, a studio where he does, like, portrait photography. He has two little girls, and he obviously can't travel as much as I am. Yeah. So he just set up that this year. And now he's doing that full time. So I both the new. And we're great.

Where are you at with, with, do you have a girlfriend now or what's going on? Yeah. Yeah, we've been together for three years. Okay, good. Yeah, man. I'm not still this lonely single man. her name's Sophia and funny enough i met her three days into making videos in my hometown and i actually caught it on camera it's not on one of my videos our first interaction video

when she first came up on our 22nd interaction so that's amazing they'd have the first first first time they met someone on 4k well if this one if this one is the one forever and ever and you know you're 60 years in what a cool video to have yeah yeah very very grateful for that that's great, dude. And she obviously is extremely supportive in what you do, I assume, right? And she's okay with you being gone and- He's the backbone. And she's able to travel with me sometimes. She also works as a dental hygienist, but she wants to be able to step away next year and come more because these moments are incredible, but I want her, they don't mean much, they don't mean the same unless you're with the people that you love. So I want her to be part of those moments more

with me. Yeah, that's amazing. And what about bloopers? Because there has to be, there has to be a crazy blooper reel. I don't know if you ever put one out, but if you ever thought about it. Yeah, every day. I'm sure you get all kinds of crazy stuff where it's people are complete dicks, number one. Of course, we live in a society where we've got all kinds of different people, right? So there has to be a ton of bloopers. Do you have any good ones? Yeah, I got, I got a boy. I'm out there all day, man. I'm going to like, today we're filming in the Bronx. You don't think I'll get a couple of wild liners. I don't, I don't, I deliberately don't post that because then even if I posted that for 10 seconds of video,

people would just hyper fixate on that. 100% yeah. But yeah, it would be, I have it all. It's in folders, maybe what I'll release into the world. But what is? I mean, is it just sometimes people just get angry or sometimes people are laughing or is it all, does it run the gambit of sort of what, how people react to you that is not positively? Yeah, I think, I think it's, yeah, it's human.

All of the above. Yeah, humans going through stuff. and I can be an emotional punching bag because I'm like starting a conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever felt in danger? When I have like a lot of money on me in like a rougher neighborhood,

but now we have either we have fake money in terms of it's a larger amount of money or there's a security guard like someone that keeps me safe in terms of in the moment. So I'm never, my life's not in danger. Oh, good, good. When I was blindfolded for a year, the worst that's ever happened to me is this, I watch the back. a 14-year-old girl. She had this white skittal. This is a gum, piece of gum. She just threw it at me. In one year, no one's ever punched me. Wow.

There's a skittal. And I'm blindfold that I'm as vulnerable as can be security guard at the time. Yeah. Yeah. I was very surprised at that because that was the one when I felt unsafe the most. Yeah. All right. Before we get out of here, what are your hangups? You know what I mean? Like you are offering this amazing experience to the world for anyone who wants to take it, essentially, right? But if someone was, if I was blindfolded, if I were you and you had to, and you came up to me and I started to question you or I asked you to sort of let go and be vulnerable and tell me what, you know, you'd like to be better in your life. What would that be? Making more time for the people in my life that matter. My family, my brother, my parents, my partner. It's been a whirlwind in the last four years. But I feel like it's been really hard for me to find this back. balance of making myself proud and helping people while also still not missing moments of life.

I feel like I miss a lot of moments. And I've been working on that consciously the last year. That's that one. And then also feeling imposter syndrome. Yeah, that's real. Every room I enter in terms of like these spaces. I just, I'm a guy that makes videos. I don't think I have any other.

so it's not like this ego with it and it just uh it's cool to see that it provides value like it makes people feel good but what does that imposter syndrome take you meaning like i i it people don't people are going to find me out or they think that i'm i'm not really what i but people think i am you know where does that come from do you think i don't think people are going to think who i am because i think i'm pretty like just real but i'm Not sure. I don't know. You know?

Good question, I guess. Maybe. Because imposter syndrome, it's kind of like, well. Not good enough? Because actors have that, too, creatives in general, and you're a creative. It's just kind of, you know, you go do these, all these gigs, and you're getting work, and it's all happening in your own series,

and you're like, oh, shit, they're going to find me out. They're going to discover that I'm not that good. Or, you know, it's like, it's this imposter syndrome. I'm like, everyone thinks I'm doing well, but like, when are they going to know? When are they going to find out that I'm not, you know what I mean? It's that insecurity, essentially. It is 100%. No, definitely I felt insecure and feeling like I'm not good enough or the person that is

equivalent to the person in the room that maybe inspires me or I feel in my heart that they are, but maybe they're feeling imposter syndrome. It's just like this, and that's that vulnerability, relatability thing, right? It's allowed and you're not going to feel it. But that one, I haven't figured out a solution to as much as the other one. Well, whatever. We're young. You're young.

I'm not young. You're young, man. Pushing 50, man. Oh, way. Well, dude, this was been amazing. Thank you for talking to me. This has been very cool. And then if you ever get to L.A., hit me up.

I'd love to, like, be a part of this somehow. You know, I'm so down with all this stuff. I really am. It's, we need, it's necessary, especially right now. how divided everybody is and the vitriol and everything that comes up on your feet is kind of like oh god and you get sucked down this rabbit hole and it's so nice to sort of just watch happiness and positivity humans being humans right yeah yeah exactly it's matter what we look like or who we are so yeah thank you importantly thank you for your time yeah appreciate it brother get out there

and do it man i can't wait to keep watching your viz also one last thing if anyone's listening in the next 24 hours, I challenge you to one random act of kindness. Yes, I love that. Including you, Oliver, one random act of kindness today. I'm doing it. I do it all the time, man. Let's go, baby. Amazing, man. Appreciate it. All right, Zach. Appreciate you, man. Love. Bye, guys. Peace, buddy. What a great guy. My God, he's so positive and full of, like, cinnamon sugar. You know what I mean? I feel like if you cut open his cheeks, it's just like cinnamon sugar and just candy and joy is going to pour out of him what a what a good dude and it's so genuine you know it's so genuine um especially when you start from a place like he started where he had an entire life ahead of him kind of planned and then

you know he gets rocked and in one moment shit can shift and change the whole trajectory i guess the lesson there is you know don't be so rigid in what you think you are you know i mean or where you think you should be or or what you perceive that you want um Because sometimes that can surprise you and change. Sitting on a bench in Australia, two women just approach him, boom, his life takes a completely different path. And not only is he doing what he wants to do and helping people, he's making a shit ton of money. And he can't beat that. And he's genuine, as I said.

Like, you can tell. He does it because he does care. You know, there's no charlatan about him in any way. It's not like I'm going to take all this money. And, you know, he's very, very authentic. Anyway, all right, I am leaving now to do a full body scan. So within the next four hours, we'll know. We'll know if the Hudson Express is still on the tracks or if he's derailed.

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