Hello, I've heard a lot of the commentary and reactions to my podcast episode with Ariel.

And I wanted to take this video to address some of them.

That episode with Ariel was mostly about her story, and now in this video, I'll tell a little bit more of mine.

There's a lot that we wanted to keep private, but some things I'll touch on today.

First, I know that it was a very painful and uncomfortable conversation to watch.

I know for some of you, it reopened things.

For us, it felt like a necessary step to be able to move forward.

We knew we would always get these sort of questions in any context online.

And it felt like the only way to move forward was just to face it head on.

As has been reported in interviews, launching the podcast with a conversation with Ariel was Ariel's idea. She's a stakeholder in the

Rock Bottom podcast and this new channel, and she wants it to be successful. So that was part of the

reason why in terms of having that conversation, we did it together rather than on any other platform.

We knew it would draw a lot of attention, and I know that some of you have only seen

15 second clips of me putting my foot in my mouth, but I hope for those that watch the full hour that you took something away from it.

You know, any clip that you see on TikTok is just one small snippet of an hour-long conversation of three years of trying to work through this.

After discovery, I started an intensive program of therapy,

group therapy, and work to really try to understand

what I had done, why I had done it, and what it meant for my relationship and my life.

This involved a lot of facing rationalizations, denials, minimizations, all of these mental clouds

that help you continue behavior that you know is hurtful and you still do it

anyways. So it let me face the truth and acknowledge in no uncertain terms that I cheated on my

wife with an employee of my business and it caused her immense

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