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Cyan Banister

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  1. “And so we were at odds with each other. It just was never the same after that. And we moved to Flagstaff, Arizona. She quit her job on the reservation as a teacher and decided to become a scientist. So before this, she had an MFA in arts. And I suspect that she wanted to get another degree in science because the man that she had divorced was a scientist. She wanted to prove that she is intelligent. My mother's incredibly intelligent. One of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. So I don't know why she had to prove this to anybody. But she went back to school and started taking up many jobs so she would have one or two jobs and go to school full-time. And at that point, I was pretty much left to my own devices. And she would come home after work. And that's usually when I would get kicked out, or she'd be angry with how I didn't clean or keep the house. And it was just a constant cycle of being kicked out.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Number that I had on me for our child psychologist that I had no idea was court appointed. I thought it was just someone my mom was having me see and that I could confide in him. And I called him and told him what my mother had asked me to do, which was to lie about my stepfather molesting me, which he did not. All happened very quickly after that. My brother was removed pretty much in the next 48 hours from the home, and she lost custody of him. Now, why she didn't lose custody of me still remains a mystery because I was the last child in the house. That made me like the sole focus of her ire after that. And I'm also the kid who refused to fall in line and tell a lie.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Try to perjure ourselves in court. And I really feel that this is when my mother and I completely fell out. I refused to testify against my stepfather and accuse him of abuses that she tried to plant in my memory. And I think this is important to highlight because a lot of people don't talk about female abuse. They talk about usually men. But my mother was incredibly abusive in very interesting ways. You know, it wasn't screaming, it wasn't hitting, it was neglect, and it was the social manipulations. And unknown to me after my mother's truck, and it was still moving when she made the ask for me to lie in court. And I jumped out of the truck and I rolled on the ground and I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran and I ran until I could find a phone and I called the”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “That my sister would harm the baby. And I don't know where this fear comes from. There was nothing rational about it. From my point of view, there wasn't enough room for another kid. And so we had to make room and suddenly one was just replaced with the other. And that was very weird because my sister was my best friend in the world. She looked after me. We were incredibly close. And then she was just ripped away. Luckily, I bonded with my brother. I could easily see how that could have gone south. where I would have been filled with disapproval or I would be upset about having that situation, but he was just really lovely and I loved my brother. But when my brother was three years old, he was removed from the house next. And that was in a really contentious divorce where a custody battle happened and then my mother tried to implant false memories with me. She had us.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “My sister was removed first, but I was told a lie about her removal. I was told that she ran away from home. And it was right after my brother was born. And we went out trick-or-treating. And my child mind remembers it as happening the next day, but maybe it wasn't the next day, but my sister's room was vacant and empty. And suddenly my little brother was in it. And I was expected to just roll with it. And when I asked where she was, I was told she doesn't want to live here anymore. She ran away. But reality was quite different. About a year later or so, I went to go visit my grandparents and discovered that that's where my sister had been the whole time. And my mother was afraid that she was going to hurt the new baby.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “I am. And I think that's been wonderful and incredible for my career. You can certainly look at that and have kind of a victim mindset about it, but I took the opposite path, which was, you know, this is what makes me special is that I don't fit in wherever I am.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “Canyons and explore ruins, and the kids and I would run free and wild. It was a very different time. But I also had a little bit of an accident. I don't know if you notice it. But if you go to the Navajo Reservation, you will see that people speak the way I speak. And there's just not a lot of variation in my tone. And then it just sort of goes up and down in a certain way that's very specific to that region. It's created some confusion for me because culturally I am Native American. And that has always been bizarre when I moved to a place where people didn't understand our customs and the things that we respected and the holidays that we observed or the customs that we had are just not anything that anybody I went to school with after I left the reservation even understood. So I've always felt like an outsider no matter where I am.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Experiencing that really taught me what it's like to walk in those shoes and made me hyper aware of it when I became an adult. The other thing is the culture is just a really rich culture and it's very different than any other place you could ever live. I really recommend that people visit the Navajo Reservation or any of the reservations that allow visitors because it's hard to believe that that's in America, you know, because there's this amazing swath of land with a old ancient culture that they preserve. And there's just a lot of things that happen there that you can't experience any other place. And it's right here if you're in America and your back door. And so being able to go and experience a ceremony or get a guided tour down a canyon is something that I really recommend that everybody do. But when I was little, there were no guides. I would just walk down.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “Suspect that they learn this at home, or they witnessed it someplace else because it certainly was not something they were born with. And I'm happy that I experienced this because there is a lot of prejudice in this world. And I would say there's probably a lot more prejudice than there's actually racism. But”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  10. “Well, first of all, I am white. And so being on a reservation, I was a minority. And it gave me a really unique perspective around being a minority. When I was a kid, I thought I was an albino Indian. I just thought that I'd lost my melanin. And the other kids treated me the same. Because when you're a child and you're small, you don't know anything about racism. You don't know anything about being another. You start to notice these things, but you definitely don't treat each other differently. But as we started to get older, that's when the name calling started. That's when a little bit of the bullying started from other kids. And I can only”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  11. “I was raised on the Navajo Reservation in Northern Arizona. And I had an extraordinary education. And I think I was incredibly lucky to have been educated there because I have about the equivalent of an eighth or ninth grade education. And the reason for this is due to circumstances outside of my control, I became homeless off and on when I was 13 and then homeless officially when I was 15 and became a ward of the state of Arizona. And this was because my mother, she had a very difficult time keeping children in her house past the age of 13. My sister was removed from the house when she was a teenager. My brother was removed when he was a young boy.”

    2024-11-27 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #780: Cyan Banister — From Homeless and Broke to Top Angel Investor (Uber, SpaceX, and 100+ More) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT