Hello, welcome to this special Ask Me Anything episode of Impact the World. Thank you for tuning in on the podcast.

And for those of you who may want to submit a question to me for a future episode, you can do so by leaving a question inside a review. So if you go to

Apple Podcasts and leave us a review there, pop your question inside. And what we do is we go

through and curate those questions and include a few from my portal members community

and try and create a good cross-section of questions.

We had some great questions and I'm going to do my best to answer them.

So let's get started with question number one.

People are so excited and eager to resume in-person interactions as we come out of the past

two years of social restrictions. I feel just the opposite. I experienced freedom, relief,

safety and a newly excavated sense of real authenticity through not having to engage in

person. I discovered a deeper, more sincere level of caring for myself and others during

this time. It's hard and isolating to feel such reluctance to re-engage in the face of a

world of people who are so excited to do that, which I dread.

Am I the only one feeling this way or am I just differently made?

I love your question for a few different reasons.

Firstly, just quickly, no, you're definitely not the only one feeling this way.

I've spoken to many people who feel that way. And I've noticed for myself, and I've spoken to people

in my life about this too, that it's a little bit strange for those of us who got used to

having to be more isolated as we reenter society. So I do think there is a

cultural energy going round of strangeness around reenacting with one another and interacting

with one another again. That said, I love what you focused on in your question, how you share that because of the

restrictions of the last couple of years, you actually found a deeper relationship with

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