I was going through heartbreak, financial stuff, losing friends, also losing this

individual who I found out was fraudulent. I stayed in bed and just a lot of

NyQuil, a lot of weed and whatever else I can get my hands on at that point and it was just like hoping someone would come save me and it was just avoiding the world for so long.

I had to move back home with my parents.

It's extremely embarrassing, but it's like instantly within a month.

I feel so much better because it's like I feel safe.

Like I'm sleeping in my childhood bed.

I wasn't isolating myself anymore.

And we do that a lot. When Chihit hits the fan, we isolate ourselves and we make our world smaller.

So we just make things worse, as bad as they are.

Hey friend, welcome back to the Light Watkins show on 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.

Today we have another bite-size plot twist episode for you.

A plot twist is a shorter clip from a past episode

where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life trajectory where they found the gateway to their calling.

And the idea behind sharing their plot twist is to inspire you to lean into those plot twists whenever they happen in

your life because usually when you get turned around from what you thought was your

path in life what's actually happening is you're being detoured toward your actual path.

And sometimes that turnaround looks like you got laid off or you were betrayed or you got divorced.

Or in the case of today's guest author, rapper, and spoken word artist

humble the poet, it was getting duped into believing that he had a lucrative music

deal when in fact he didn't.

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