A few nights ago, Neil and I got into a deep discussion about the need for integrity and how it seems to be less and less common in the world and more and more accepted as just the way things are or have to be.

We felt strongly that today's episode needed to be on

honesty and integrity, in business, in our personal lives, and in recovery.

Neil shares his perspective as a recovering addict and I share some examples of business

and personal times where I've faced the option to be honest or yield a temptation to

cut corners and we share why we believe honesty really does pay off in the end.

Hi everyone, welcome to today's podcast episode.

Hello.

We're here with Neil.

And we are going to discuss something that came up for me in business

a few days ago and it reminded me of something that's been a theme in my life in business.

Neil and I got into this big long, one of those like really good

juicy conversations.

Jeezy.

It was funny.

Till late at night and I said we need to do a podcast episode on this.

So we are going to talk today about the topic of

honesty and integrity. So I want to start this off by a quotation from one of my heroes, Gordon B. Hinkley. This is from a book that I feel like really

shaped my teenage years. I've read over and over into adulthood too, but it's Gordon

B. Hinkley standing for something,

ten neglected virtues that will heal our hearts and homes. And he talks about honesty and

how honesty is achievable and we must strive for honesty and all that we do and he says it is possible

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