What's up, my friend, fellow human being on the journey. It's quite a journey, isn't it?

You know, I was so excited to be able to interview this week's guest because I was made aware

of his work on a much greater scale because of this conversation

and because a good friend of mine recommended that I chat with him, he is incredible.

I mean, I just loved this conversation so much.

And, you know, in the context of human relationships, community, giving, everything,

like candor, authenticity, just like making it so that serving the world is more important

than our bullshit. I mean, I don't know that there's anything more important, that we are always

more committed to what matters to us over everything. And I think that's a really challenging

equation or mathematical, you know, calculation to make in our heads most of the time, because

being ourselves is not often celebrated

and the cost of not being ourselves is immense. And just the amount of pain that we experience

in relationship often causes us to build survival strategies or coping strategies that don't

allow us to experience relationship in an authentic and free space.

We're constantly on guard, vigilant, which makes so much sense.

Because if love, quote unquote, hurt us, which is really just hurt, hurt us, someone, you know,

as they say, hurt people, hurt people, and healed people, heal people.

And I think we're always this healing in motion.

We're always expanding or unlayering another part of our psyche, another part of ourselves.

We're growing constantly. There's always going to be opportunity for growth, opportunity for

improvement, to be a better human. And that's because we're

always going to learn more about ourselves. And even once we get to the place where we feel as though

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