The majority of people think their soulmate is the person that is always great sex and always fun to be with and easy that doesn't challenge you a lot, but that's just a totally contorted concept.

Your soulmate is the one that comes into your life to not only love you, but love

you so thoroughly they'll tell you when you're bullshitting yourself and when you're

bullshitting others and when you're being inauthentic and relationship, they will be the most polished mirror that you've ever looked

at and could be the most challenging person to stay in a relationship with because they will grind the edges off your ego in the most loving and

polite way.

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forward slash podcast. Our first question today comes from Lindsay and she says I am so grateful to have found you and your work and to

integrate it into my life. Can you share a life lesson that has repeatedly

shown up in your life and that eventually you were able to overcome. What was that

process like or are you still in your process? Well, wow, there's so many of

them. I think probably the life lesson that rises up in my mind is

just the challenge of relationships and always considering the balance of my own needs versus other people's needs,

whether it be Penny, Angie, my kids, others, you know, because of the situation in which I was raised in, as a child, I felt constantly worked like I never really had much time to play and do the things that I

wanted to do and so one thing led to another in my child life which you know child speaking age-wise was

just never one of it was just really more of an adult's life with farming responsibilities and pressures all the time and then that merged right

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