Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackib, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.

Good boar, welcome. Nice to be with you. Thank you. It's so great to have you. As I mentioned before,

we hit record such an honor and privileged to have you on the show. You are a living legend.

And as I was mentioning, my old friend, Lister Rankin, we've had on the show multiple times,

speaks so highly of you, so it's just so great to have you. Thank you.

You know, many of our listeners are likely familiar with you, but for those who are not,

would you mind just talking a little bit about your background and journey, which led you to

writing your latest incredible book, The Myth of Normal? Do you want me to begin with my

beginnings or my professional work? Where do you want me to go and take? I think just tell people

a little bit about your beginnings and your professional work as succinctly as possible. I know

you have such a great breath of work that's going to be difficult to do, but I'll say in five minutes,

tell us what you can. Well, I'll tell you what personally is that I was born in Budapest,

1944, January, the Jewish parents, two months before the Nazis occupied Hungary.

You can imagine what my first year of life was like and it left me with significant traumas.

I then integrated with my family to Canada after the revolution against the

Stalinist dictatorship in Hungary that occurred in October 1956. A lot of

Hungarians left the country then refugees and we ended up in Vancouver, Canada,

where I've lived ever since, where I entered medical school after three years as a high school teacher.

I became a physician and in my medical work, both in my personal life, having to deal with

that dichotomy between my success as a physician, my popularity as a doctor and

successes in other areas of Endeavor that was my own unhappiness, the difficulties of my marriage

and the challenges of my children. In my mid-40s, I had to begin to ask myself about what's going on

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