Salutations everyone, I hope you’re having a beautiful morning, night, whenever you’re listening to this short episode. Our guest today is my friend Gus Garcia. I thought it would be interesting interviewing him as an ode to adolescence. Gus and I were tight in middle school but drifted a bit during high school and I wanted to kill two birds with one stone, catching up while giving both of us a platform to talk. Ostensibly, he’s a well put together guy. I’ve always seen him as a sort of cool kid, while I found myself a bit nerdier and less charismatic, which I think gives some funny perspective to this conversation. Gus is an athlete, playing a lot of the same sports I’ve played in the past, and in this episode we make connections between our athletic and personal lives. In this episode we both found a lot of things in common, everything from how we plan to pursue the same course in Uni, to the value we place on understanding others, the different escape mechanisms we have, Gus’s understanding of trauma, introspection, fashion/self expression, how money can buy happiness, and much more!

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• 02:13 - Introduction and Current Life Situations
• 05:11 - Choosing a Career in Physiotherapy
• 09:13 - How our personalities find joy in helping others
• 15:20 - How we escape from life
• 20:25 - Reflecting on adolescence and making sense of “drifting apart”
• 27:36 - How early childhood experiences shape our values, a Golf Analogy, and trauma
• 32:40 - Relating this to our love life
• 37:18 - Seeing the “best” in people and why people aren’t evil
• 44:12 - Gus’s philosophy on fashion and self-expression
• 59:10 - How money can make you happy and being comfortable with spending it
• 1:04:27 - Keep it in the Fairway