In this episode I speak with Nicolas Buteau.
This is not a conversation about entrepreneurship or success. It begins much earlier — with abandonment, exclusion, and the long process of learning not to reproduce the suffering one has lived through.
We move from personal history to a deeper question: what happens when someone who has every structural reason to close down instead chooses care, generosity, and the creation of space for others.
Identity appears here not as a fixed label, but as a constant negotiation with the world — race, sexuality, class, belonging, and the invisible systems that determine who can move freely and who cannot.
It is a conversation about the transformation of suffering into a conscious refusal to reproduce it — and about building spaces that reduce pain in a world that continuously produces it.
A philosophical dialogue on care, power, belonging, and the ethics of what we create out of our own history.
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