What's up guys? Welcome back to build. Today, this is a different episode.

Today I want to talk about something hard, something a little bit more on the emotional side.

So if you are just in here for business advice today, maybe skip this one.

Maybe fast forward to the next track. Maybe switch to the game.

I want to talk about and share a story with you guys.

And really, I think it centers around how to trust yourself and the tools that I have used

to learn how to trust myself again, coming back from an incident that occurred in my life about

six years ago. And it's really something that I haven't

shared much um i've like alluded to pieces of it i've never shared the whole story and i think that's

because it feels complicated and i also think that i don't like to think about it and so i don't know

how well i remember it but i'll qualify it with that today and tell you guys i want to share because

i had someone come to me this last week and share a situation that was going on with a relationship that they had where essentially this person was telling them things and they were believing that person more than themselves.

And these were really bad, bad, dark things this person was saying to them.

And I felt like a very manipulative,

insidious, dangerous relationship and it reminded me of a time I went through in my life six

years ago. And I shared it with them and I could tell how much it helped. And I figured,

you know what, like if it helped them, it might help more people.

And so I wanted to share it with you guys. You know, six years ago, I was in a season of my life

where it felt hard. Like, I was running a company at a level I never had. I was trying to

essentially, like, be the gap when there was a ton

of gaps in the company. Like I think I had like four missing leaders. Like there was so much going

on. And I had a ton of personal commitment I had just taken on in my personal life. And I felt like

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