So I had started giving lectures about trans issues. I'm someone who has experienced a lot of healthcare disparities in my life, I have been turned away from medical institutions, I have been denied care I have been interacted with in very, very insensitive ways. And I'm not talking about names and pronouns. I'm talking about things that would make you get up and leave the doctor's office, which I've done before. And I don't necessarily need to get into all of those on the fix SLP podcast, however, being mindful that you never want to be someone's negative experience. I started the platform transplanting when I began giving guest lectures at places like universities and hospitals in culturally responsive care when working with transgender people. And that all started back in maybe 2015. Ish. I didn't really have the big social media platform back then I think I didn't really start that until 2018. But what I had been doing was going around and talking to various institutions about how they could better accommodate trans people just in their interaction style, not asking insensitive questions, making sure that they understand who the whole person is in front of them, not boiling things down to gender that are unrelated to gender, not having conversations that make people feel uncomfortable for unnecessary reasons. For instance, if you're an SLP, and you're working with a trans person, and you have a surgical history question on your interview forum, knowing that you shouldn't ask an open ended surgical history question to a transgender person is something specific to transgender cultural responsiveness and the way that I tell people to circumvent this because obviously, you still need to know things as an SLP. About surgical history. If you ask someone, have you had any surgery to your head, neck, heart, brain or face or you know, any dental surgery? Do you have anything coming up any surgeries coming up that you're gonna be intubated for? Have you been intubated recently, you can change your questions to adjust to the person in front of you so that you don't make them uncomfortable. Because you know, what you don't want to hear about is someone's bottom surgery, you don't need to know that. You don't need to know any of that. And making them feel like they might have to share that with you can create a moment of panic or trigger trauma in that person, and there's no need for it. So knowing who's in front of you, and also, by the way, you don't actually need to know anyone's full surgical history as an SLP. Really, we just need to focus on pointing I know that you're not watching from the heart to the brain, and that's what we need to think about and any, you know, recent or upcoming intubations those are the things that we need to be asking about. We don't need to be asked for a full surgical history, I never disclose my full surgical history because I don't want I don't want my medical providers focusing on things that are irrelevant to our clinical interaction started going around talking about things like this about 10 years ago. And from there, I started to learn how to use social media, I am 44 years old. So it did, it was not a natural thing for me to learn how to do that I feel like my 11 year old knows a whole lot more about social media than I do, and started using social media to reach people and I started putting out free education, I was putting out free slide decks on things like interacting with your transgender colleagues at work, what to do, what not to do, interacting for SLPs interacting with transgender students in schools, what to do, what not to do, advocating for transgender patients in your hospital, what to do, what not to do. And I branched into things about advocating for people of all neuro types, you know, accommodating autistic party guests that your holiday party, making sure that you're, you don't make racially insensitive comments, and I started bringing in collaborators, I had been kind of giving out free education, asking people to donate to a patreon to keep me going. And then I started bringing in collaborators to talk about their own intersections and lived experiences, especially because a lot of my followers were SLPs, I went into the SLP community, and I was like, you know, I want to hear about your intersections as a Black SLP as an autistic SLP as a disabled SLP. And all of that was, it was really great. And I learned so much that I thought, You know what, this should be its own platform. And it should be a nonprofit, because I certainly shouldn't be benefiting off of other people's work. And that's where CREDIT was born CREDIT's, revenue, it goes entirely back to the contributors, including my own, which just goes into overhead. And the way that that is different from taking a DEI CEU from elsewhere is that most of us get paid maybe between 50 and $200, to give a webinar one time, that then leaves on in perpetuity in a large platform that gets $99 A year from you know, half of the SLP world. And that's a huge business where the minoritized person has come and done some emotional labor, and they only benefit one time. And that, to me feels unacceptable. So if you're someone who works for one of those places, and that's something to think about when you're asking people for their labor, you know, are you compensating people equitably? And what does that even mean? And is it fair and equitable to compensate people one time for something that then a large organization where people take various administrative roles, and then reap the benefit of that person's labor. These are things that we deal with as minoritized people, people expecting free labor of us all the time, I am wanting to talk because I give away a lot of free labor. But I also feel I do I give away a lot of free labor, I do now have better boundaries around that. However, I also feel that I have a position of privilege. In this situation, being that I'm white, I have a job that now pays me a decent salary and gives me health insurance. And those are things that allow me to feel like I can give my time away. But that has not always been the case. And I have fought with people who want me to work for free when I haven't been able to work for free. And that's the ask for most of us who work in this sphere is you know, why can't you do this for free? Well, our time is worth money just like every other expert.