Welcome to the Awake with Jake Show.

I'm your host Jake Woodard, and it is my mission to help you break through mental barriers,

gain clarity, and awaken your heart so you can live more free and fulfilled.

My intention for this show is to create a safe container so you can heal, awaken, and transform your life.

What's going on, my soul family? Welcome back to another episode of the Awakely Jake show. On today's

episode, I'm going to be dropping in and sharing with you how the process of

surrender works.

Now, I want to start by telling you a story of something that happened to me yesterday that

I've never experienced in my entire life before.

I got a text around 10.30 in the morning for my good buddy, Johnny.

And Johnny asked me if I wanted to go do a hike. And I love hiking, so I'm always up for a good hike. Now let me tell you something

about yesterday. It was about 95 degrees out and very, very warm. The hike that he asked me to do

in the Adirondic Mountains is a pretty challenging hike.

Now, I hike quite a bit and I really enjoy nature and I really enjoy getting out there

in hiking. So I knew for myself that this would be, I would be fine. I would be okay doing this

hike. Now, John has recently got back into hiking, so he's just kind of getting into

hiking shape again. And I thought to myself, I said, are you sure you want to do this hike?

And I actually said that to him. And we kind of laughed about it. He's like, yeah, yeah, bud, I'll be

fine. So we set out on this hike, and it's about three and a half miles to the summit. it's a pretty good three and a half miles like it's pretty good incline and for those of you that hike then you'll know what I'm talking about when there's certain spots that are big rocks that you have to kind of climb around and go up and there's creaks that work through and different

kind of things that are challenging on this trail. So the whole way up is progressively getting

harder and harder and harder. And I'm noticing that John is really struggling along the trail.

About every 30 feet he's having to stop. He's having to stop. And I kept asking him, I said, are you all right? Are you good? Do you want to turn around? And I'm being very supportive along the way while making some jokes as well, right? And so he kept saying, oh, bud, I'm good, I'm good. And he's like, listen, I got an ego a mile wide. He goes, I am getting to the top of this mountain no matter what.

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