Hey you guys, welcome to Home with Havela. This is a podcast where we have good conversations

about life and God. But also we like to answer those questions that you want to figure

out. We believe that living the abundant life is absolutely possible. It's not just

something we can do. It's something that we should do because it's available. So why

not take advantage of it? And we are jumping into our next series. Now last month we had

an entire series on relationships and don't forget to check that out. We talked about

marriage. We talked about co-parenting. We had a sex coach on here. It was an incredible

month. Make sure if that's your curious moment, go back and listen to that. But this week

we're going to talk about self-development. And I think it's really important. The reason

we picked this topic is because we're headed into the holidays. And the holidays, I don't

know about you, but the holidays are just triggers. They're just triggers for how we grew

up. They're triggers in their relationship. They're triggers in our expectations. And

so we know that the more self-awareness you have, the better you are at life and the better

you can navigate stuff that comes your way. And so one of the things we wanted to do is

have some conversations around self-development and encourage you with steps, practical things

you can do every single day to develop your life and to stay powerful in your journey.

So it was a really easy moment for me to think about who I wanted on this podcast for

this series. And my number one person, Jay Valetin. Jay Valetin and I have been friends.

I want to say 25 years, maybe 24 years. But we have been friends forever. And then when

we moved to Reading, we led more revolution. And Jay and I would travel and talk on about

healthy sexuality and the feminine, femininity and masculinity. Obviously, either of us would

take a different one of those. But Jay and I really, we just got to go really around the

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