What Ellen DeGeneres Taught Me About Resilience and Storytelling

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She'll send me text messages just breathing life into me, and they seem to come at the most perfect time. But something that I knew right away was you rearrange your schedule and drop everything, no matter what, when you get to go be around people that you know, have so much wisdom and just you get to be in their magic. It's like just the way that they live is going to upgrade your DNA. And I'm not even kidding, because it's the way that they think, the way they live, and the way they view the world. And so again, rearrange the schedule and got my butt in the car and drove up to L. A in crazy traffic. I think that it was just the coolest thing to be able to witness such a raw talent being Ellen DeGeneres, like, in a small room and watching her craft. Now, if you guys didn't know, that is how she got her start. And then she started acting, and then, of course, she had her show and now she is making a bit of a comeback. And I literally love what she is coming out to the world with. So I'm very excited for people to see what she's about to do. And I wanted to be in a room with someone who has experienced so much, gone through so many things, and is so resilient. Anytime that I get to be in a room with someone who has been through multiple cancellations of themselves in their life, that is the person that I want to learn from because I want to know how you come back from being in the highest of the highs to the lowest of the lows. And to me, these are the people that I want to learn from and follow. And being in a room with someone who is just so fine tuned and honed in on their talent in their craft, being her standup comedy as well, watching her timing, watching her take these small, minute, mundane topics of everyday life and make them the big things. To me, this was like just watching her and learning the craft of making the little things the big things for storytelling on podcasting, for storytelling on stages, for storytelling through marketing. 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