Maybe becoming isn’t about becoming someone else—maybe it’s about returning to who you were before the world told you who to be.

In this solo reflection, Kirby sits with the lessons from his conversation with Chris (64) and Kaitlyn (26)—one of the most healing conversations of the season—and opens up about his own becoming: building Kirby Studios in Bangkok at 26 with no idea what he was doing, the 2020 health crisis in New York that changed everything, and the slow shift from chasing success to living from the heart.

He gets honest about the parts of himself he’s learned to hold with compassion, why he still gets triggered even with all the awareness, and the reminder from Chris that stayed with him most: the process of becoming matters just as much as getting “there.”