Hi friends. Welcome to the Wabi-Savi podcast. This is episode number one 18. We are going to do a juicy free gift today and that means a preview of my new book Spirited. I actually have a few chapters that I can share with you here and there along with meditations at the end of the book and breathing techniques.

So the book is free for you if you set up an Audible account.

You can pre-order it now on Audible.com.

You can check it out at audible.com slash spirited.

And I also wanted to share with you today the reason why I wrote this book and why it took

five years. For those of you who feel like you have been grinding forever and that nobody has fucking

noticed you, well, I do. My hands on my heart. I had a really long convo with one of my dear friends

who has been even a publicist of

mine back in the day, almost 20 years ago, Amanda Covielo, and I thought, wow, it's crazy how so many

things come back full circle. Like today, I have a call with a new manager that I met 17 years ago

when I was on the first season of Top Chef.

And he said, I've paid attention to you.

And one of the coolest things about you is that you have stayed quiet and you have just

observed for a very long time.

So for those of you who work with integrity, who are quiet, who are paying attention, who are

taking notes and working with integrity and doing the right thing, there are plenty of people

that see you and they are keeping an eye on you. And it is cool that you've been quiet and

you've put your head down and you've worked really hard. Because you and I both know

I could have spent the last five years pumping and grinding on social media. But instead, I chose

to do the latter or the better thing, if you will, in my opinion, which is write books that are

profound, helpful, useful, and inspiring by telling my truth and the

story of how I got to where I am now and how I got myself out of my own ego, my own addictions,

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