Welcome to episode 13 of the James Smith Podcast. Today, probably going to be hosting the

podcast, which is probably going to be the toughest one for me to talk about, it's probably

the toughest one for me to explain, and potentially could be the one where I get the most criticism,

but I felt it was something that had to get off my chest and I only actually decided to

do this podcast in the last few hours. And I'm currently sat in the studio on a Sunday

afternoon and the majority of my work gets done during the week, but when we delve into

the topics that I'm going to waffle about, I think you'll start to appreciate how important

even 24 hours is in this game. You know, pushing it off a day or just, you know, doing it

tomorrow could mean the difference between what I'm going to ask people to do today and,

you know, the lives that that could affect. And one thing that's really hit home for

me is the potential reach of this podcast is actually phenomenal. And there are people

whose careers revolve around podcasting who may not even get the scope of the reach

that mine does. And I've kind of taken that quite seriously, that, you know, as far as people

that can talk out in the industry and as far as having people to listen, it's not something

that I'm really willing to take for granted. So, you know, today is going to be probably

a bit heavy, if I'm honest, it's going to be heavy for the listener, but it's also going

to be quite heavy for me. And it wouldn't surprise me if it had different intervals in this.

I'm probably going to have to pause it. And you may hear the edits in between, you may

not be able to say, oh, I like to produce it. And, you know, the reason that I've called

this podcast, mental wealth, you know, the topic is going to be mental health. However,

with me, I kind of have this notion that I had that a lot of people have their understanding

of wealth, not wrong, but not as good as it could be. And I see a lot of my friends get

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