Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Being 'the good one' — quiet, kind, agreeable, always putting others first. It’s praised, rewarded, expected. But over time, the weight of it can settle in the body like something unspoken. What happens when being ‘good’ means abandoning parts of yourself? When pleasing others comes at the cost of your own voice, your own needs?

There’s courage in choosing differently, in making space for your own truth, even when it’s messy or misunderstood. And with that choice comes the possibility of something softer, freer, and far more real — a life shaped not by who we think we should be, but by who we genuinely are.

Featuring Sarah Beckett - @sarahleebeckett
Filmed in Suurbraak, South Africa.

This is our second film together with Sarah. If you missed the first one, you can see it here - youtu.be/XbPWvQW_lSk

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Filming - by Michael Raimondo
Editing - by Justine du Toit
Sound mix - by Tamryn Breakey-Volschenk
Colour grade - by Daniel de Villiers

All music tracks used in this film are sourced from Music Bed:
Youngblood - by Afterlife Parade
Did I Find You or Did You Find Me - by Nick Box
Ascend - by Zachary David
The Art of Connection - by Cageless Birds
Light Through Water - by Steven Gutheinz
Clearing - by Lane King

A huge thank you to these guys, who gave so generously of their to time to help with translations, enabling us to provide subtitles in the following languages:
Arabic - by Mohammad Al‑Therwi
Croatian - by Davor Bobanac
Czech - by Katarína Božek
Dutch - by Karla Greven
English - by Justine du Toit
French - by Amélie Macoin
German - by Tanja Pütz
Greek - by Vicky Polychroni
Indonesian - by Ary Nuansa
Italian - by Grazia Gironella
Korean - by Hotae Devin Noh
Portuguese - by Sibylle Steinpass and Lucivani Valvassori
Slovenian - by Tadej Pasar
Spanish - by Paty Aguirre
Ukrainian - by Olesia Lutsak

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