Previously on a different episode, I talked about authenticity and where you're speaking from

and how that whenever you're stressed or you're going into a type of autopilot mode, it can

feel like you're speaking from almost outside of your body and then whenever you

re-center into speaking from within from an intentional place it feels as though your words and

the flow and everything is coming from inside of you and i just noticed that happened within

the first three seconds of I started recording this.

We started recording and I guess I was just, it's kind of weird to start a podcast

because you just start talking and you're alone in a room.

But I just noticed that switch.

It was cool to notice and maybe you heard it or maybe you didn't.

But I hope you're doing well,

regardless of all that, and hope that life is good for you personally, internally. And speaking of

authenticity and survival mode, an episode or two ago, I mentioned how I had been cutting down my coffee quite drastically. And I am here to

report the unthinkable. And that is that I probably maybe about three weeks ago, like

right whenever I released that episode, I cut out, I didn't experiment.

I was like, let me try one day without coffee at all and just see what it's like, you know.

And I'm not one of these people to tell you to, first off, I'm not one, I'm definitely not

these people to tell you to give up your vices.

I'm not someone to tell you that you need to be unfettered by all-worldly things.

I know that the reality is, is that it's really useful to be as, like, clear-minded and as healthy and as positive as you can for yourself.

But I also know that life is really hard and sometimes you need a little something here

there to help you get by. Maybe that things, you know, like an alcoholic beverage, maybe that thing's a cup of coffee,

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