Welcome to the What's Essential Podcast.

I'm Reg McEwan and I've been thinking about you, maybe you're walking on a beach, maybe

walking somewhere else, maybe on a run, maybe you're tidying up and you are choosing

to spend a few minutes today with me.

Thank you.

Thank you for investing in yourself in what really matters.

I've been thinking about some important questions.

Have you ever felt like it's too late for you?

Have you ever felt that life passed you by, that your dream is gone forever?

Or maybe just too many awful things have happened to you, or maybe you've made too many mistakes

along the way?

Well, if you have, you're not alone, I relate to those things.

By the end of this episode, you will have learned or re-learned, as something that can

help you to hope again, to believe that your story isn't written yet, isn't finished yet.

I want to start by just sharing a story of something that's happened to me that has brought

this to my mind recently.

The story begins 25 years ago, a half of generation ago, when I went to Cambridge University

on a sixth-form trip, a high school trip, really, and we spent not even a whole day there,

but it was a special moment.

The buildings are so beautiful, lawns of green grass, no one's allowed to walk on them.

I think the professors can, but sometimes that changes between the different colleges.

I mean, the university's 800 years old, and you can feel a certain kind of learning,

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