A lot of people think I'm anti-alcohol, I'm actually not anti-alcohol at all. I don't really think about it all that much.

What I do spend a lot of time thinking about is how can we get more awareness in our life?

Because if you talk to anybody on the street and you ask that person, would you be interested in having

an organic spiritual awakening without even really understanding what that means, I would imagine

that most people would be curious or interested in that, in the idea of a spiritual awakening.

And so if we can do things that can facilitate more awareness,

then obviously that's something that we want to learn more about.

So that's why where I like to approach this conversation.

It's not about not drinking or not smoking or not doing whatever.

It's about how can I optimize for awareness.

How can I solve for awareness? awareness.

Hello friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show. I'm Light Watkins and I have conversations with ordinary folks just like you and me who've taken extraordinary leaps of faith in the direction of their path, their purpose, or what they've identified as their mission in life, and in doing so they've been able to positively impact and

inspire the lives of many other people who've either heard about their story or who

witness them in action or people who've directly benefited from their work.

And the goal of this podcast is to expose you, the listener, to as many people as possible who have found their path and to humanize them and their journey and after hearing story after story hopefully eventually you give yourself even more permission to move further in the direction

of whatever feels like your path and purpose because what you'll see is that anyone who does that has had to overcome

many of the same obstacles and challenges and adversities that you may be dealing with right now.

And when you hear that they overcame them,

then you give yourself permission to overcome them as well.

And so today we have a solo episode.

It's just me, and I'm opening up about one of the challenges and

obstacles that I chose to give myself permission to overcome many, many years ago that happened to have the biggest

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