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The bottom line guys is everybody's traumatized and everybody's running from that trauma.

And often when we are running towards high performance in a really aggressive way, it's

no different than being an alcoholic running in a really aggressive way.

And I see this a lot with like entrepreneurs, like they're like so burnt out, even people

in the personal growth space, like this was me for many years and a lot of my friends

right now, so burnt out, so exhausted, so overworked because they're just like overachieving

because they're running from something impermissible. In my field, in the wellness space,

there's a lot of stigma around psychiatric support. And I think that that is very dangerous

because in my case, it took four months of my early relationship with my child away

from me. I had run my team for decades in a very codependent way. It was all about how

I could serve them and not about how they could serve me. And you have to show up for

your team. You have to be there to support them, you know, if you're having a crisis,

like show up. But I around that time made it very clear the energetic shift of, I'm

not going to hold your hand through your own crisis. I'm not going to give you every

other day personal day. I'm not even really that. It was more just like, I'm not going

to energetically be a first responder to your crises.

You know, we talk all the time on high performance about suspending your opinion and coming

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