I've got some bad news. I just got this before recording. Mariana was on her way back from out of the country, and apparently customs found an illegal amount of protein powder in her carry-on. I guess they're holding her for anabolic intent, or at least that's what they said. So she can't make the episode today, and it's just going to be us and Minnie M in the back rolling solo.

I'm only half kidding. She's fine. But she did unfortunately have some delays in her travel. So she couldn't make it back in time for this episode. But we never miss a Monday. So it's you, it's me and it's Minnie Mariana in the back. She's a little shy today. So she's probably not going to be talking too much. Mom's gone. There's no rules. But because of that, today we're going to take

this episode. little shy today so she's probably not going to be talking too much mom's gone there's no rules but

because of that today we're going to take this episode in a slightly different direction than we

normally go self-development has always been something i'm really really interested in and we don't

talk about that as much on this podcast because it isn't directly health or fitness adjacent,

I guess. So I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do it, or at least an episode

about it, since I'm all by myself. And I saw one of my internet friends, Michael Smoke or

higher up wellness, who's phenomenal, if you don't follow him, talk about this recently

from his perspective. And I absolutely loved it.

So today, what I'm going to do is go through five skills that I've developed over the past 10 or so years

that have made an absolute night and day difference in my life, skills that I've worked on that have

disproportionately and positively affected nearly every aspect of

my life that I think is important to talk about it. I geek out about this stuff in my free time,

but we don't get to show that as much on this podcast. And real quick, since Mariana isn't here,

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