This is a spoken YouTube interview between Josh Trent and Leslie Manookian. In this excerpt Leslie returns to reflect on strong audience reactions to a prior 2020 episode, describes channeling foresight into creating practical solutions, and emphasizes rebuilding communities to create a better world. She notes personal dedication (not doing it for money), heavy workload and lack of sleep, and a sense that this moment is a historic opportunity.
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We get to rebuild the world we want to live in and we will. And we start by doing that in our own communities. And the thing is as scary and uncomfortable, it's frustrating, it's intimidating, it's all these things. We were born for this day, we were born for this time. And we get to actually create the world that you and I have been talking about and envisioning for so many years.
Leslie, welcome back. We have had quite the journey since you came on in 2020. How are you?
Hasn't it been crazy? Gosh, it was May of 2020, like.
Something kind of a movie. I feel like we're living in a movie.
Leslie, I remember you saying that, that after the recording that you had so many comments and stuff that it was one of the craziest responses you've ever had. And we're kind of in another one of those crazy situations. But I'm doing really well. I've taken all of that foresight that I had about what was happening and focused it in on trying to create a solution. And so that's what I've been doing. And I'm pretty. Even though I don't have a newborn baby like you do, I'm under slept as well because I'm working so much. And you know, I just do everything I do because I care. I'm not making any money out of it or anything. It's just because I want to make a difference on the planet. And so it's very exciting.
Give people a little bit.
It's an exciting time to be alive.
You know, it is. It's an exciting time to be alive. And whenever has growth, if you look at a tree, when a tree grows through a rock or concrete, it has to go through a bit of a transformation process. And that's what we're going through. We're going through a transformation process. A lot of the comments on our episode, we're going to link that right below. It's episode 344. That was when we talked about a lot of things that were very polarizing. But one of the comments that I received time and time again were people trying to discredit you and people saying, well, she's not a doctor, you know, what's her background, blah blah, blah. So let's just take a breath and let's just share your background quickly with people so they know this has been a long journey for you. 15, 20 years of you doing very intensive research. So share people with your background. If they didn't watch 344. Sat.
