You are listening to the Take a Break podcast with Rachel Hart, episode 90.

Whether you want to drink less or stop drinking, this podcast will help you change the habit from the inside out.

We're challenging conventional wisdom about why people drink and why it can be hard to resist temptation.

No labels, no judgment, just practical tools to take control of your desire and stop worrying about your drinking.

Now here is your host, Rachel Hart.

Now listen everybody, welcome. I have to tell you something.

You know what? I recorded this entire podcast episode yesterday.

I did it while the baby was sleeping. I was very proud of myself for being really efficient.

Baby was sleeping. I was recording.

And I sent it to my lovely podcast producer, Pavel yesterday and he wrote me this morning and he said,

I've got some bad news, Rachel, that audio is unusable.

That was not what I wanted to hear, but I will tell you this.

I learned the most amazing thought years and years ago when I was living in New York.

It was before I was a life coach, I was working in communications and I had a really amazing boss who before she was working at this organization,

she was a reporter for the financial times. She had covered the wars in the Balkans.

I mean, this woman was really a badass and she had a lot of experience writing.

And whenever we would be working on documents together, whenever we would lose them, which I don't know why it happened,

but we would lose documents a lot. Speeches, press releases, whatever we were writing, somehow we would always lose them.

And she would always say, don't worry, Rachel, it's better the second time around.

And at first when she shared that thought with me, I remember thinking, no, it's not.

That's crazy. But you know what? I worked with her for years and I realized it is always better the second time around.

And so that's what I told myself when Pavel told me that this audio wasn't going to work.

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