Oh, hey there. And welcome to the weekly part two. So if you haven't listened to the weekly part one,

I highly recommend that you listen to that first. In that part one, I tell you about a new program

that I'm introducing called the weekly. I tell you about the concepts, the ideas, and why the

weekly is really important for coaching and self-management and self-care and self-coaching.

And I invite you to join me in 2026 to my weekly program based on the reasons why I created it

just for you. So in this session, I want to talk about coaching. I want to talk about

its exquisiteness of what it offers. The first overall concept that people who have

coaching understand differently from people who don't is how optional unnecessary suffering is. So if you think about your life,

if you think about there's happiness and there's joy and there's greatness and there's also pain

and there's struggle and there's frustration. And that's normal. Perfect. That's a beautiful life.

But so many humans layer on top of that,

that yin and yang of life, positive and negative life, so many people layer on top of that

unnecessary suffering. Suffering that wrecks you emotionally and prevents you from achieving,

prevents you from evolving and can, if you let it

ruin your relationships. And so that piece, I think, is my mantra. That's my goal is to help people,

humans, reduce unnecessary suffering by using the tools of life coaching. And in order to do this, you have to truly understand that

suffering can only be caused and created in the mind, in the brain. Consciousness is what creates

suffering. Now, consciousness is also what creates your life. It creates your joy. It creates all of

your pleasure, all of it, right? But when you have consciousness, you have the ability, the skill,

the habit of creating unnecessary suffering. And the reason this is, is because of the way that we've evolved, because of the

way that our brains have evolved. And the most important thing to the brain will always be and

always has been survival. Now, this isn't a bad thing, right? We want to survive. We want to maintain

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