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As an empath, it's like I see all the world's problems that are happening and I'm just immensely sad. As a professional marketer and strategist, all I see around me is all the leaders of control,. The bad incentives that ensure that everything stays this way. And that is a waitThat is a wait that has remained heavy on me, always has been, and I suspect always will. All you got to do is go on Instagram or TikTok and see all the nihilist memes and you can kind of see the direction we're going in. It's like a generational burden on the shoulders of millennials and Gen Z that bear for the rest of their fucking lives as they watch

John Heers is the Co-Founder and Director of the First Things Foundation, and the host of the podcast, Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?

The First Things Foundation is a non-profit organization that takes young people from the “new world” of the West to the “old world” of developing countries where they immerse, learn the language, and connect with local entrepreneurs and helps empower them to spur organic, ground-up development in their communities. They have active projects in Guatemala, Sierra Leone, the Georgia Republic, Ethiopia, and Appalachia near and dear to me here in the Rust Belt of the United States.

John has a Master's Degree in History from Columbia University. Previous to First Things Foundation, John worked overseas serving the Peace Corps as a water resource manager in Mali, oversaw emergency relief in the Georgian Republic, and taught history for 9 years in South Bronx and Harlem in New York City and Haiti.

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