or for themselves. In the face of power or overwhelming odds. When you advocate for your health in the United States, you are advocating up against enormous corporations, sluggish government systems, and well, a lot of interests that are not yours, but I don't want to bum you out, because the news is good, you do have the power here. Okay, I've seen this happen when people go to a congressional representatives office, sit down with their staff and talk about the issues that matter to them. I've seen the spark leap from one person into the mind of another, where they suddenly got it because the advocate was able to put it together just right to convey that story, your story, and how it relates to the issue that you're advocating for. I always use step therapy as an example. Although step therapy, I've got to say that there's been some good progress in eliminating step therapy, but there's always some loophole, right? So we'll just use step therapy in the course of this talk to keep things simple. If you have had an experience with step therapy, and if you don't know what it is, it basically means your doctor says you should be on medication A, but your insurer or your pharmacy benefit manager says, Let's try medication D, it's a lot less expensive. People say it's great. So then you have to, sometimes they call it fail first. So you have to fail on medication Dq, C, and if you fail on that, then you can get medication B, and then you have to fail on that to get the medication that your doctor and you had agreed you needed in the first place. I think it's fair to say that that's a pretty terrible policy. So if you have had an experience like that, that's part of who you are as an advocate. Okay, it's not you as a human being, just to be clear, it's you putting on the mantle of the advocate. Okay, so all the experiences that you've been through become part of your narrative. Okay? That's sort of like, How do I tell my story to other people? There's going to be plenty of parts that you leave out. Because, you know, take a great movie like the first Star Wars movie, if they put in all the scenes where, like, people had to pause to go,