Dudes and dudettes welcome back to the anxious truth. This is episode number 166. I had

to go back and look at my screen because I wasn't exactly sure what podcast episode

this was. Not keeping good enough track. Anyway welcome back to the show podcast episode

number 166. Glad you're here. I appreciate your time and attention as always. Today we

are going to do something different, but I say that sometimes and then it's not all that

different, but today it really is different. We have a guest on the podcast today, my friend Laura

Cheetle, Laura Plank Cheetle, and for the first time in the seven year history of this podcast,

this is not specifically a discussion about anxiety or anxiety recovery. Yes, you heard me

right. An anxiety podcast that is not talking specifically about anxiety or anxiety recovery,

but it is definitely related and applicable to the recovery process.

Laura has a very interesting story. She's a really great human being. She's got a lot to offer

and she is going to tell us a story about really being knocked on her rear end by life,

maybe not specifically about anxiety, by anxiety, but other issues, relationship issues and

things of that nature. And the path she has taken since then to pick herself back up,

dust herself back off and get back to a life that she is proud to live and happy to live right now.

So sometimes we have to take our motivation wherever we can get it and our inspiration,

wherever we can get it. And sometimes it's good to put down the anxiety stuff a little bit.

And when I was introduced to Laura by a mutual friend and I heard her story, I said,

this would be a good person for me to talk to on the air. So here we are. I think you're going

to enjoy Laura's story. She's interesting. She's friendly. She's accessible. She's bubbly. She's

very positive. And she lived through some really dark things and the way she came out of it and the

way she is kind of sharing that experience with others to me is just a lot of what the world needs.

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