Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose, the place where we listen, learn and grow together

every single week. Now, I just want to take a breath for a moment because 2020 has been a truly,

truly transformative year. It's been an incredibly transformative year. And I say the word

transformative because I feel that a lot of the language we use to define 2020 right now is

obviously, and naturally so validated, so negative, it's fear-based. It's based on things going

wrong, plans falling apart, of course, the loss of things, events, but most importantly, the loss

of people, right, the loss of humans, the loss of friends or family members. And I want to go in on

this podcast and speak about each of these elements in more depth and with more specificity.

But it truly has been a transformative year and it's funny when you heard that year, 2020,

you always knew it was going to be a big year, but I think we all thought it was going to be a

big year in a really powerful and good and positive way. And then what we're seeing feels the

opposite. And so we all go, well, when's this year going to end? When's it's going to be back to

normal? When's things going to be back to the same? But see, here's the thing. In January 2020,

Kobe's loss made us question time. Right, when Kobe Brian passed away, I remember it felt like the

whole world just stopped. And the love, the honor, the focus on Kobe Bryant and his children and

his wife and their family and the loss to the storytelling industry, the athlete industry and

and even more so to his actual family and friends. And of course, we know Kobe Bryant was a guest

on on purpose as well. So someone that we deeply valued as part of our community who gave me an

opportunity to sit with him and speak about the power of storytelling and how we could transform

the lives of young people through sports storytelling. But in January 2020, Kobe's loss made us

question time. It felt untimely. It felt like it was too soon. It started making us question how we

use our time. What retirement may mean to people, what honoring people while they're alive

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