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

Instagram and this is my weekly podcast where I create short no BS episodes dedicated to helping

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 797.

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 want to talk about the idea of a second life. And, you know, you listen to the podcast, so you likely know a little bit about me. I'm fortunate, privileged to have built up a following online and offline where, you know,

people recognize me and people hire me to speak and to create and to write and to do these things and people show up and people see me on the street and say hi. And it's amazing and it's weird,

but it's wonderful and I love it. But I say that because there's this certain idea that case is this kind of person.

We know case based upon what he says and what he does and how he acts and all these things.

I'm known, right?

I'm known for that.

I'm known for optimism and quotes and language and all these things.

And that version of me is very real.

And in a sense, I've earned it. I've worked so incredibly hard to earn that reputation.

And I'm so grateful for it. But it's not the only version of me. And I say that in like a funny

sense in that occasionally at night at home in my apartment when I

have some free time and I just want to veg out sometimes I'll play video games occasionally and

there's one game that I play and you know I'm not great at it and I'm certainly always the

oldest dude played it when I log in and I play. And, you know, these people have no idea who I am. They just know that I'm some older dude playing this game that are not very good at. In that world, in the world of the video game, to the people playing, I certainly am not Case Kenny. I don't have a name that I go by there. So they have no idea who I am.

In that world, I'm not Case Kenny. I'm not a speaker. I'm not an author. I'm not some guy who's all

about optimism. I am an anonymous dude, free to be myself. And I was thinking about that the other day,

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