Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery. On this podcast we decipher what really matters

as we unravel the chaos and day-to-day work to learn how to build an essential life.

Like by popular demand, we have Anna McEwan, who of course is my wife, but also by far the most popular guest I have on the What's Essential Podcast. Welcome again to the show.

Is that true?

It's true, but you don't deserve it to be true right now because you just did something very cruel to me.

Which is that you brought in a container of M&Ms.

And that wasn't, you know, even as you put them on my desk, it wasn't like, oh, this is a nice offering.

It wasn't even, this is a peace offering for you. This was, I don't want to eat any more of these so you can.

And that's what you did. And it's working very well because I'm doing it. This is very wrong of you.

Yes, it is. And you're almost 100% right.

Actually, I was gorging myself on dark chocolate-covered peanut butter cups and I didn't want to be alone.

And so I brought in your great temptation and...

No, but that's...

I felt a little bit better.

No, that's even worse than you're making that out to be because what that means, and I didn't realize this until now,

is that you kept the good chocolate for yourself and brought me the fake false sugar.

That's why we still have them.

That's why we still have...

You always find me in the chocolate covered the dark chocolate peanut butter cups.

So I actually thought those were for me.

Actually, they are for you, but they are for you.

But the reason we still have these M&Ms, not that anybody listening to this has to agree with us because, you know, people have their things.

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