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Let's go. Hey, you're on air with Ella and this is your host, Ella. Today I am joined by Gene O'Wang.

Gene, I don't think I could even begin to do justice to your bio. Can you tell us who you are and what you do?

Yeah, thank you, Ella. Thanks for having me on. My name's Gene, as you mentioned, and I am CEO of Virgin Unite.

We're the not-for-profit foundation of the Virgin Group.

And I'm also the co-founder of an organization called Plus Wonder.

That's really, we brought it into the world to look at how can we almost have like a relationship reset in the world to bring people together and connect.

Yeah.

In fact, you have written a book called

Partnering, Forge the Deep Connections that Make Great Things Happen. And I just have to tell you,

folks, like just the cover gene of your book, photographs of the people you've worked with,

everyone from Nelson Mandela to former president, Jimmy Carter. Of course, you are tight with Richard Branson.

Who are some of the people that you've worked with that you would love to share with this audience?

Yeah, I think the beauty of this is that over the last 15 years, I interviewed 65 plus

partnerships and collaborations. And some of them are super well known, like some of the ones you just

mentioned, and also President Mrs. Carter, Archership Tutu and Leah. And then we also have incredible

partnerships that are doing things that people will be really excited to meet that you may not

have heard about yet. So there's a whole host of incredible partnerships that I had the chance to

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