Hi friends, welcome to the Wabi-Sabi pod. This is episode number 172. My apologies for being out the past few weeks,

we have been on new projects and deadlines shooting, and I'm not able to hit record and speak to all of you.

I've also been doing some internal work going through the process of

seeing the changes through the election in the U.S. And if you are across the world globally,

I'm sure you saw as well what happened. This was a very interesting time for Americans,

and it's a time to go inward.

It's a calling for you to change who you are and where you're going.

So that is what we're going to work on today.

Is making the best of the lemons that are handed to you, taking the deck of cards and playing them so they work in your favor. Take a deep breath in

and take a deep breath out. Now, I'm at my place in Brooklyn right now, so don't laugh. I'm going to

take my Zoom recorder over into the kitchen where you can hear the dishwasher going off.

And I have to make a cup of matcha with a little bit of mushroom powder before we start.

So sorry about the background noise.

But this can just sound like a long, 30-minute voicemail from your best friend.

So here's what we're going to do over the next four years.

We're going to go inward. We're going to see this as a calling to be a better person.

We're going to be kind and loving. And we're going to focus on being good to ourselves.

If you feel like you've been lost, stuck, overworked, underpaid, paying $7 for eggs,

things of that nature, I'm with you and I'm here to help. The Wabi Sabby podcast was created in

2018 because I wrote Kinsugi Wellness, self-help, spiritual, health, wellness, food, beauty,

cultural book where we could talk to each other about how we can go inwards and look to our

ancestors for a lot of healing. So one of the first things that you can do is look at your

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