Is there a story behind your why?
You know, why you're why you chose self-regulation and how you're helping people come about self-regulating?
You know, I guess there's probably the collective and the personal.
When Stephen and I, my husband, first met in 2001 and we were asking each other,
what do you think some of the biggest issues are globally for humanity on Earth at this time?
You know, and again, that's 2001.
And we kept, we were exploring all these different places because we were saying to ourselves,
there isn't anything we can't do and there isn't anywhere we can't go.
We were young, we were in love, we were like, what do you want to do?
You know, and so it came and we're still in love.
And I have to say that.
And we kept coming to stress that it was one of the most debilitating factors for,
I don't care if you're a child or you're a young parent, great example,
or you're a climbing entrepreneur executive or you're aging or taking care of aging parents.
It doesn't matter what career or what stage in life you're in.
Stress is ubiquitous and I think we've never really learned how to manage, regulate or understand it.
Unless we have really dedicated ourselves, unless you are a meditation practitioner,
you're a yogini, you are going to school to study psychology or counseling or whatever,
then people delve in.
But most people don't have it.
And so that was a big part of the why is how can we have a great impact on the world?
For a place or at a place where there's a great need.
Personally, I grew up in a perfectly beautiful dysfunctional home with all manner of stress and trauma.
And I mean, you know, infidelity and alcoholism and drug abuse and mental illness and all of the things.
And when I finally did my ACE test, if you know the adverse childhood experiences test,
you don't know what you got to take.
It's so easy. It's 10 questions, I think.
10 questions and it takes you five minutes to take it and ask you very key questions about your childhood.
OK.
And I scored, I think, an eight out of 10 on the ACE score, which is quite high.
I should be on the streets at this time rather than, you know, happily and lovingly married and having a home and a business.
And but I was really dedicated.
I was very curious.
And that's the biggest why behind my story was that I was living at with some of the worst results of stress and trauma and seeking dearly and desperately to resolve them.
And so that's what I meant by the why is collective and personal.