I was honoured to have been invited to speak to around seventy 18-24 year olds at the 2013 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards camp one month ago. The RYLA directors, Chris and Bill, asked me to speak about what I do and how I got to be doing it, linked to the themes of leadership and community. It was really valuable to take the time to reflect on these questions while preparing for the presentation, and I thought I’d upload a rough transcript of my presentation. It’s cheesy and earnest like it was meant to be.