Hi I'm Ernie Wasserman with Jesse Chappas from the Ultimate Health Podcast.

Welcome back to another Focus Friday where we give you short bursts of information and

inspiration to set your weekend off on the right foot.

And today we are talking about embracing the

unexpected and this topic is just so timely we had Megan Telner on the show this

week telling her quote-unquote natural birth story.

And that story just took a number of turns

that she would have never been able to predict.

And in the end, she has this beautiful, healthy baby boy and it just worked out and

Marney and I decided we would share with you guys a couple of times in our life

where things took unexpected turns and in the end worked out for the better.

And I'm sure many of you guys can relate to a time in your life when things went a completely

different way than what you would expected and it ended up working out well. And something that actually really stuck with me from our episode with Megan

is that she said that you can only plan for what you know,

not what you don't know, and I think that's a really valid point. So I want to give you guys some

perspective on something that happened to me in my life where I had to embrace

the unexpected because I had no idea that it was going to happen. So I was actually

married long ago before I met Jesse and wasn't for long I was only married a year and I was

in a relationship for about seven years and at the time I thought this was it.

This was the guy I was going to be married to and that was the way life was going to go.

But of course you know things in life happen and relationships break down and things just fell

apart and we realize we were not right for each other and we decided to separate and

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