An even more important piece of sustainable business and leadership, besides learning about how to practice sustainability in travel, tourism, and outdoor recreation, is our relationships with other people. This is ort if a hot take as someone who studies environmental sustainability, but there is no point in learning all you can about preservation and conservation if you cannot communicate your education to other people. I learned quite a bit from the phenomenal expedition crew. I learned from the lectures, I learned from all presentations given to us by expedition leader Scottie, and I learned from the people who worked on the British and Chilean bases, but I learned the most from talking to the other guests on the boat. I met some amazing people from all over the world. Worldliness, in my opinion, was the shining star of practicing leadership. I had a wonderful conversation with a man who lived in London. It was quite late and people were getting antsy for Christmas and for being away from home for so long. I was at the bar with him and his wife, and he began asking me about what I study, and seemed very curious as to what I, a lowly Texas A&M undergraduate student, had to say, especially as he was in a miscellaneous IT field. He wanted to know why I thought some countries devoted a lot of time and energy to climate conservation, if I thought that all countries, even lower-income ones, should devote more resources to this cause, and why. I found these questions very thought-provoking, or perhaps I was in a state of thoughtlessness for far too long. In fact, I thought these questions were more complex and interesting than questions from the majority of my classes. I tried to explain to him that the burden of the climate crisis does not fall on these periphery countries as they have not been major contributors to our warming planet. I explained that, although I fully support resource devotion to preservation and conservation, it is not at the fault of countries that have unstable economies to clean up the mess of the polluters. As I am writing this, I can recall his questions were much more specific and controversial and my answers were much more interesting, but the trip gets farther and farther away from me, and I can’t seem to remember all of the late-night ramblings of my field. My time abroad, more specifically, the people I met abroad, has changed my perspective. I have gone into detail in a personal journal of mine how the beauty and serenity of Antarctica have changed how I see consumption, but this post is not about consumption; it is about leadership and relationships. I had no initial impressions of the trip. I suppose I had initial biases about what it means to be a global leader, and I had biases toward people who solely devote their studies to economic gain and corporate ladder ship, but I did not know what to expect of this program. On the back end, I have an even greater appreciation for diversity and alternate perspectives. Hearing people of a different generation than I, from a different place and in a different field, pry at me for information about environmentalism and economics, has given me a stronger desire to explore and meet people. I love talking about my passions, and I love talking about them to people who will listen, and this is a pillar of sustainable business; meeting people who will listen to a young woman from Texas who thinks she knows how to save the world. My photos are dedicated to the friends I met and to the existence of humanity.