Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

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in front. Today on the show, I'm talking to Case Kenny. He is a writer and podcaster,

and he is the man behind the mindset journal. Today, we are going to talk about mindfulness.

Case Kenny, welcome to the American Glutton Podcast.

Hello. Thank you for having me. Appreciate it.

All right, dude. So I start with you. Like I just want to say, I want to say to you that I think

your message is so powerful and what you're doing is so powerful because for 15 years, I struggled

very hard doing the correct actions or actions that could be conceived as correct with a really

screwed up mindset that really got in the way. And so I kept failing over and over again, really

because mostly because of how I thought about what I was doing, the I was getting in my own way.

So I think the message you're spreading is certainly an undercut to like, you know, you can

lay out a path for somebody to do something. But if they're thinking about it incorrectly,

it's very difficult to do it. Yeah. Well, I mean, you're certainly not alone in that. And I

think what you just said is such an apt description of why I think mindfulness, which is really what

I'm passionate about is so powerful because I used to think my as a regular guy, pretty masculine

guy, pretty type A guy, I used to think something like mindfulness was for sensitive people,

people who talked about energies and people who had healing crystals in their apartment. Now for me,

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