00:11Well, my name is John Meek. I'm the owner of the publishing house Ninaki's Highlights based
00:17in Sofia, Bulgaria and London, England. We specialize in fraternalism and philosophical
00:24titles. I'm also a fellow of the think tank called the Myers Report, which you know is
00:30we're on that website. My contribution is the intersection of fraternalism and real world
00:38international politics. And considering that we're in a time of growth, I'm also involved
00:44in the business development of the Myers Report.
00:51Well, internationally, I've worn several hats. I've lectured internationally on a number
00:59of topics, both, again, international politics. Earlier this year, I lectured on the future
01:06of the Balkans after the Russo-Ukraine war. And I've lectured throughout the United States
01:13and Europe on various philosophical topics. I'm a member of one of the European, or should
01:20I say an associate member of one of the European academic unions. And I've also acted as an
01:26international observer for this year's federal Duma elections in Russia. The state I was assigned
01:34to was Kersk. My first paying job actually was very much the opposite of what I do now. I was
01:44working in
01:45a pet store cleaning the animal cages. And considering what I did years later, it was ironic, because I was
01:57far, far, far, far, far too young to be doing this legally. But it also taught me the skills of
02:04hard work
02:04and doing what you need to do to get a job done, and the value of earning your own money.
02:15As I said, ironically, years later, while I was illegally working as a child, I ended up being
02:23a wage and hour investigator for the United States Department of Labor. That has got to have been
02:29my favorite position. Because on the one hand, it did work for the people. It helped
02:36the people of the United States. But also, the laws we enforced were very fair. I worked with
02:42the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Family Medical Leave Act, the Davis-Bacon Act,
02:49Service Contract Acts, the H-Series Visas. And it was, as I said, it was law enforcement and service
02:58to my country at the same time.
03:05Well, the best, the way I've learned to handle things, and sometimes the hardest way of learning,
03:12learning, is when you walk into a situation, a difficult situation, or you don't know what to do,
03:19you don't do anything. You keep your mouth shut, you pay attention to what's going on,
03:25and then you roll with the punches as they're being thrown at you.
03:33The rule I live by is basically coherence. If you're good, if you're a decent person in your work,
03:41you're a decent person at home. If you're a decent person at home, you're going to be a decent person
03:46at work. There is no such thing as it's only business. Everything is personal. Your personality
03:53bleeds through into everything, and that's regardless of who the person is. The, it's not personal,
04:02it's only business, is merely an excuse.
04:09It's loyalty. Everybody, a true best friend will be there no matter what, whether it's to
04:18help you positively or be that voice of reason when you need it. And he'll also be the person
04:23to show up at the woods when you call them at midnight. That is loyalty, that they're there no matter
04:29what.
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