Hey guys, welcome back to Speaker, I'm going to go and this is another Mindsette

Monday episode.

I'm super excited because today we're going to be interviewing a guest, which I'm really

fond of. I always follow his work on social media and I find a lot of

inspiration from his words and a lot of wisdom also you know from what he

shares so without further do I just you guys to Corey Allen welcome to show

Corey I'm so excited to be listening to you. Thank you so much for having me I really

appreciate the invitation. Yeah no it's an honor and I, you know, like I said, I love your, I love what you write and I love how you explain things and it always puts me in a better mood, you know, it helps me logic through a lot of things sometimes. So I want to learn a little bit about you and what got you into, I guess, going down this road of

like mindfulness and being a speaker, being an author, and if you could tell us a little bit about yourself.

For sure.

Yeah, for sure.

Well, first thank you for sharing that the writing is useful to you.

Sometimes I am grateful for that. And also, I like that you use the word it helps you logic

through things because that's very much how I think about these things and how I

write to them is it's you know essentially they're tiny little logical arguments like in my mind it's like

what's the issue how can I define that premise how can I create supporting

information to make that premise more better articulated and then how can I put it into

action you know and that's in one way or another all of the writing has that function

so I love that you notice that. Yeah, as far as my background goes, yeah, I basically just had a, yeah, I grew up in a troubling, a challenging environment and, you know, suffered through emotional abuse and

narcissism and various things like that and had no resources and I just got lucky you know really in terms of I I

stumbled upon Western philosophy whenever I was a teenager and there was no readers in my house, you know, no one in my family reads to this day, you know, other than me.

And I just totally stumbled upon it and really connected with it and then that moved me over to

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