00:07It is very nice to be back in the UK.
00:12As you'll likely hear many times this week, you are the future.
00:17But I would like to add to that, that you are also the present.
00:23You are the ones driving the positive and necessary change
00:28needed across the globe now in this very moment.
00:31It was several years ago in 2014 that I was first invited to be a counselor at One Young World.
00:39And in many ways at the time, I was probably a lot like each of you.
00:45Young, ambitious, advocating for the things I deeply and profoundly believed in.
00:53And also looking around and wondering, how on earth did I get here?
00:58And there I was. I was the girl from Suits.
01:03And I was surrounded by world leaders, humanitarians, prime ministers,
01:10an activist that I had such a deep and long-standing respect and admiration for.
01:19And I was invited to pull up a seat at the table.
01:24I was so overwhelmed by this experience.
01:27I think I even saved my little paper place card that said my name on it.
01:36Just proof. Proof that I was there. And proof that I belonged.
01:44Because the truth was, I wasn't sure that I belonged.
01:47I was so nervous. I doubted myself.
01:50And I wondered if I was good enough to even be there.
01:54If what I was doing in the world, albeit important and meaningful as far as I saw it,
01:58was it deserving to have a seat at this table?
02:04But one young world saw in me what I wanted to see fully in myself.
02:09They saw in me just as I see in you, the present and the future.
02:17Okay, grateful once upon the sun.
02:17Sometimes the room feltameled under you.
02:19And I'm satisfied, however, much each other.
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