I was tired. I was exhausted. And I think that really came from the conformity and the complacency

and the redundancy of how I was living. My priorities were out of order, chasing the salary

and the title and the deals and the bigger book of business and the comparison and competitiveness

that comes along with a lot of that.

And it didn't feel so good.

I was drinking too much, and I was neglecting my health.

And these are the things when you take that good,

hard, long look in the mirror every morning,

and you start putting on clothes that don't feel right to you.

And you start going to clothes that don't feel right to you. And you start going to places

that don't feel great to you. And you're spending too much time around individuals or events or

experiences that you're not really looking forward to. This is the stuff that really takes a toll on

you. And that's what was happening

to me. So it wasn't cancer. It wasn't alcoholism to the extent that I was checking myself into rehab.

It wasn't financial strife that we weren't able to pay the bill. It wasn't even that there was

anything wrong with my firm. These were the things that I was struggling with. It wasn't even that there was anything wrong with my firm.

These were the things that I was struggling with.

It was all me.

Back for his second appearance on the podcast is Greg Scheinman, who's the founder of Midlife Mail,

a pioneering platform that is dedicated to helping

men navigate and thrive in their middle years. So Greg made his first appearance on the podcast

back in 2022, and that's where we unpacked his backstory. And in this episode, we dove deeper into

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