Hello, guys. Welcome to the Wabi-Sabi podcast. Everybody is welcome here. It doesn't matter what walk of

life you come from, whether you're rich or poor, whether you're black, Asian, Latino, Middle

Eastern, Native American, white, it really doesn't matter. You are my BFFs for life. I grew up in a multicultural household.

That means my mother believed in Buddhism and my father believed in catechism and later in life

Christianity. It means that my mother hails from Japan and my father hails from Poland, and somehow

we all ended up together here in New York City. When I was four years old, my parents took

me to Central Park for a reunion for my family, and that's the first time I felt the glitzen glam

of New York City. Now, a lot of us talk about on this podcast how fabulous our lives are and the trajectory of our life

story takes us all to the same place every week where we can talk about hard things here on

Wabi Sabi. Thank you for listening to our previous episode 113 with my friend Janelle Hamilton,

a woman from a different walk of life from London

by way of Jamaica, who is a publicist and a friend who also is a black female who runs her

own company. It was wonderful to catch up with Janelle. Keep in mind we did record that episode

back in, I believe, November.

So a lot has changed since then. We had a good conversation today to catch up. And it was

fabulous to be able to share a best friend with all of you where we can laugh a little bit about

where we are in our careers. I have friends from all walks of life. I would love for you to meet all

of them through the duration of my career as a podcaster, an artist, a writer, and an author. So I was

recording with Audible the last few weeks. Today we finished 36 pages, which is roughly what we can

do in a day without giving too much energy away. One thought

kept coming up. I cannot get this off of my mind. So I wanted to bring it up today in conversation

with you about the human ego and how we tend to focus so much on the reward in the future

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