Where did this vision come from? Is that something similar, something else?
Well, I can go into it a little bit deeper.
I was born into an abusive household and raised inside of an evangelical Christian cult.
And because of that, right, that is the reason why I had no healthy understanding of relationship.
Because in those coercive, controlling environments, no one wants you to know what healthy relationship is,
because then you would hold them accountable to show up that way.
So it's to their benefit for you to not know and for you to assume that relationship is proximity.
That those who are in proximity to you, you're in relationship with, and those who are in proximity to you,
as long as they are maintaining that proximity, that's a relationship.
Well, that's not true, right?
And we can look at examples like something simple, like when you hear a couple that got divorced and you,
they never really fought, there didn't seem to be a lot of animosity, but one of them just says like,
it just got to the place where we eventually felt they were roommates.
They were in proximity. They were living in the same household, and yet there was no relationship happening.
There was no curiosity, respect, and accountability.
And so, which is what I posit that all ethical relationship requires.
And so it came from this deep desire to understand how to be a healthy part of the world
and to understand how to be a healthy leader, an ethical leader,
somebody who could create powerful change in the world from a place that empowered others
rather than exploited others in the way that I had seen.