We've all pretty much decided collectively that the pyramids in Egypt are the most incredible structures in the world, right? They're all probably the most mysterious（神秘的） because it's been thousands of years and we have yet to figure（ 认为） out how they built such wonders. In my head, it went a little something like this. CEO Farrow was hanging out with his Farrow buddy（伙伴）, contemplating（凝视） life. And he's like, I'm an engineer, a collector（收藏家）. I am the ruler of this whole empire（帝国）, and I am yet not fully（充分地） fulfilled（履行）.
And he's like, what if there's something that I could build that could create a legacy（遗赠(物)） even after I'm gone? What if there's some sort of a structure where we could paint on the walls and I can store all my gold? And he's like, but I don't want your run of the mill（磨坊） like square structure. He's like, what if, what if we made it a triangle? And he passes his blunt（(Blunt)人名） back to his Farrow buddy（伙伴）. And his Farrow buddy is like, yeah, dude, triangle's the move.
And so they get to work. They've got to start network marketing to get all of these ancient Egyptians to buy in and help them build these triangles. And thus（如此）, the pyramid scheme（安排） was born（承担）. Now, I can make this joke because I am Egyptian and those are my ancestors（祖宗）. I was born in Cleopatra Hospital in Cairo, Egypt. That is a real place.
But my parents decided to move us to the United States shortly（立刻） thereafter（其后）. And they made two unintentionally（无意地） interesting decisions at that point. One, they moved us to a tiny random（[数] 随机的） suburb（市郊） of Atlanta, Georgia（(美)乔治亚州）. And two, our first day in the United States was Halloween. So you can bet（打赌） we were very, very confused. As a first-generation American, I spent my entire（全部的） childhood aiming to be the embodiment（体现） of the American dream.
I was pressured to succeed and how could I not? My parents had immigrated us across the entire world to give us a better life. But what ended up happening was, I conflated（合并） my success with my worth（价值）. My brand became the girl who got shit done. Now, I have a story that illustrates（(用图等)说明） this, but we're gonna have to go back to 2004. All right?
A time with no Kardashians, no Instagram, no Taylor Swift. I was 14 and the sophomore class president in my high school. And I decided that we needed to build school morale（士气） up. And I didn't want to do it with your run-of-the-mill regular PEP rally（重整旗鼓）. I wanted something bigger and more exciting. So I started routing（按某路线发送） tours to see which artists were coming through our city.
And I found one, Ludacris. Now in the 2000s, you couldn't turn on your TV or your radio and not hear a Ludacris song. So this was kind of a big deal, but I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't even know the music industry existed. So I started cold calling everyone, radio stations, record labels, the grocery（食品杂货店） store. Literally（照字面地）, anyone who would pick up my phone call and anyone who did pick up my call was like, sweetie, that's so cute（可爱的）.
But it's just impossible, it's never gonna happen. And so I wrote an email. And a few weeks after that, Ring Ring goes the home telephone. And it's Ludacris's manager. And he's like, we're in. And I was like, man, and they were in.
They came and they performed an entire surprise concert for my high school, which absolutely helped my political campaign, the following year to be student body president. But what happened after that was even crazier. A few weeks later, Ring Ring goes the home telephone again. And it's MTV and they want to fly me to New York to be on TRL. Now, a lot of people are too young and don't even know what those three letters stand for. And then the rest of us are like, my god, freaking（怪诞的思想、行动或事件） out.
Because if you were a teenager in the 2000s, TRL was our holy（神圣的） grail, right? Yes, so I end up on TRL in my knock off J.Lo Manolo Blonix. Little 14 year old me. And that was like the beginning of me understanding who I was as a person. I graduated high school the following year at 15. College three years after that.
And by the time I was 24, I was a published sports journalist for the NBA, a pop radio music director, a digital director creating brands. And I was a co-host on what was at the time the most popular nationally（全国性地） syndicated country morning radio show. But something interesting happened when I turned 32, hit a wall. And now a lot of us are either familiar with this phrase or will become familiar with the phrase because it happens to all of us and it manifests（证明） itself in different ways and at different times in all of our lives. For me, it happened during a meeting with an acting coach my agent had set me up with. At that time in my life, I was ready for a shift.
I could feel it. I was like, yeah, I'm ready for the next step in my career, let's go. And so I thought I was getting coached to be the star in the next season of Bridgerton, as you can imagine, that didn't happen.