Okay, so there's a little different format this week. I am joined by my better half Skyler

Grant. We've just celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary.

Took a little trip with a family down to Laguna Beach, California.

And here we are set up in the gymnasium of an Airbnb.

It's pretty oddball, but that's kind of representative of our 25 plus years together,

so I suppose it's just perfect. So for a little background, for those who don't know us, which I assume is most of the people listening here.

We've been together since 1988.

I've documented some of my epiphanies and chivalrous pursuits of Skyler through my writings.

And we've had a very particular approach to our relationship and commitment.

In some ways, you might even think of it as a traditional approach.

Yeah.

We were dating, I guess if you could call it, for seven years before we got married.

So really, it's been over three decades of cohabitation.

And we have really, I think we've found commitment, and I've written about this a number

of times, but we have kind of dispelled this myth of commitment as being limitation.

And it's often associated with limitation and things that you have to give up.

And I suppose our mutual pledge to each other.

And unconditional love has allowed me to pursue a lot of very uncertain dreams and unlikely career paths

and take chances and risks with my life that I wouldn't have otherwise done,

knowing that in failure, and there have been many, that I always had that bedrock of comfort

in failure held by our commitment.

And that's been very liberating.

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