It's the morning show that no one knows I know one is talking about I said no one is talking about

But if they did they'd probably say it's the best way to start today with Rachel and Dave

Well good morning good morning to y'all it's me my name is Dave I'm Mary Rachel Hollis yep she's not here this morning

I'm coming to you from the Hallowed studios of the Starts Day morning show and it is me alone today because Rachel Hollis is recording a podcast with a good friend of ours

Who is super super smart about all things personal finance for next week's rise podcast but he lives in Florence Italy is name is David Bach

And so she is going to be spending time with David this morning while I am gonna spend time with you good morning y'all

It's Wednesday it is Wednesday here in Texas I assume that it's Wednesday where you are as well I hope that this morning finds you surviving this quarantine

I hope that this finds you doing your best to make it through hold on Jeffrey the dog is already trying to ruin the morning show that no one is talking about hold please hold please Jeffrey go live your best life

Oh hello good morning have I read all the books behind me I have not read all of the books behind me

Some of these books behind me are romance novels that Rachel Hollis loves most of them to be honest or nonfiction and all of them are books that will fuel your mind

But no I have not read all of them Rachel has read all of them welcome to another day in quarantine welcome to us as a community coming together to reach for more to hopefully try and lift each other up and inspire each other to persevere through what inevitably is going to be a season

That is harder than any of us would have necessarily signed up for but it is here either way so I had thrown out in my run this morning when I run with about 50 people who were able to jump into the run with me

Man I appreciated that it's so nice to normalize the fact that one all of us every single one of us is going through this thing at the same time it is a thing that we are having to process on a very individual basis because we are for the most part quarantining by ourselves and in the privacy of our homes in the privacy of us trying to process what the heck this thing means to each of us

It can feel super isolating and totally alone until you open up to a community like this and realize that we are all going through the same kind of thing Maria asks where is Rachel?

Isn't that the question on a Wednesday morning Rachel had to record a podcast with one of our very very good friends David Bach David lives in Florence Italy where he has been with his family for almost a year's worth of time

He is a genius in all things finance personal finance in particular and so he is going to be a guest on the rise podcast again to talk specifically about how do we think through the things that are happening from the lens through the lens of personal finances

because man there are a lot of things that are happening it is frightening in some respects when we think about finances and we want to talk honestly about what we can do to get a handle on the things that feel overwhelming during this time

So she will be back tomorrow don't you worry about it in real time she is trying to create some amazing content that will help all of us persevere through this season of unknown

So I asked as I was running today if there were any questions that people had specifically knowing that I was going to be in here talking to you by myself without Rachel and I want to just start with the most asked question which was how the heck are we going to get through this?

So how do I keep the faith during a crisis like this and so I want to start just by asking a question of what story you are staying connected to about how well you can handle adversity

because every single one of us has a story running in our head whether it is conscious or unconscious that informs how much we think we can handle or how well we believe that we can personally persevere through

and the reason why this is important is we are about to be tested in ways that we have maybe never been tested in our life

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