This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Primal Potential is about you.

Your ability to change is not defined by yesterday and doesn't need to wait until tomorrow.

Your transformation is now.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton.

I'm a little nervous about this episode and I don't usually feel nervous.

I don't even know that I've ever felt nervous to do a podcast episode.

Certainly some episodes have been hard.

You know, the first time that I shared that I was getting divorced years ago, that was

a little hard.

And definitely the podcast episode that we recorded to let everybody know that our daughter

had died was hard but it wasn't nervous to record those episodes.

I'll tell you what we're talking about today and why it makes me a little bit nervous.

But I want to first say that one of the most important things we can do when we feel

a little bit of like trepidation or reservation is move forward boldly.

So that's what I'm doing today.

Today we're talking about expectations.

More specifically we're talking about unmet expectations.

Every few months I post one of my favorite quotes on Instagram and I keep reposting it

because I think it's so important and I know that it's so important to many of you because

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