Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

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you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

fulfilling life. Let's go.

Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to Episode 690. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset. Who this As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I've been hosting a lot of these in-person events where I help people find a bit more optimism in their life through guided reflection. And I usually spend some time afterwards talking to people taking pictures. And recently, I've heard a couple variations of the same question. Or more really, it's like just

statements of exasperation. People saying to me, case, where have all the good men gone?

Or case, where have all the good women gone gone and it's usually from someone who was obviously

attending my event maybe they listen to my podcast maybe they attend similar events but either way

they're quite grounded they do a lot of inner work they're quite self-aware and the result is

they haven't quite found their person and they're frustrated. They're frustrated by the process of

coming across people and almost relationships and misaligned people and people who don't know

themselves and people who are at war with themselves and people who don't know what they want

and people who lie and are dishonest and just want validation, right? They come across all that and

they're frustrated and here they are now and they're just like, right? They come across all of that and they're frustrated.

And here they are now. And they're just like, man, I don't know. Where have all the good men gone?

Where have all the good women gone? Do they exist anymore? To them, it seems that all that's left are like

the scraps, the mediocre, chaotic people who don't have self-awareness, who aren't being honest, who don't

have emotional intelligence. And I've heard variations of this question, where have all the blank

gone so often men or women that I want to offer some perspective here, some hopeful perspective

on this in case it resonates with you. And I'll start with a quick reframe that I think is really

important. If you are asking yourself, where did all the good men go? Right? I'll just use men for

this example, but men, women, whatever you're looking for. If you're asking yourself, where did all

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