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So I've realized over the course of the last couple of days that I had a dysfunctional

gear that really helped me out in business most of my life that I don't have anymore.

And that was the ability to compartmentalize really emotional things and put it off until

I had time to really address it. The last couple of days here, I have really sort of

secretly or maybe not so secretly really been hurting over the passing of one of our

Burt's Big Adventure kids Malachi. We've been talking about it a little bit on the show.

But I have so much going on in my business world right now and in my personal life that

when he passed, I thought that I could lean on this dysfunctional habit that I had that

really has helped me over the years in business. And I think I probably learned it when I was

much younger dealing with my parents in the dysfunctional way that I grew up that I could

put it off, you know.

Follow away and find it away. But I haven't been able to do it. And I know that because my

fiance and I were out at dinner last night and I had in the middle of a conversation,

I was doing fine. And then I get a text from my best friend out in California after

I posted something on Instagram that I'll talk about in a minute. And as soon as I started

writing about Malachi, I had to excuse myself from the restaurant. I go outside, I start

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