You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo, episode number 345.

Welcome to the Life Coach School Podcast, where it's all about real clients, real problems, and real coaching.

And now your host, Master Coach Instructor, Brook Castillo.

Hello, my friends.

This is going to be a very short but very profound podcast episode.

This episode is going to be about one of the most intense experiences of love that I've ever had in my life.

And it just happened two days ago, and it was completely unexpected.

And it's had such a profound impact on me that since it happened, I've burst into tears probably four times just thinking about it.

So I want to kind of give you a little bit of the backstory so you can know what led up to it and how I experienced it.

And then I'd also like to give you an opportunity to learn how to have this experience of your own.

So about, I'm going to say six months ago, seven months ago, I had an experience where I was being attacked online.

There were a lot of lies being said about me, lots of untruths, and a lot of people coming after me, and criticizing me, and saying horrible things about me online.

And it was terrible. And I had a really good friend of mine come out and say some things that weren't true in a way that was really derogatory and heartbreaking for me.

And during that time, I was actually quite public for the people that are on social media.

And during that time, I had many people reaching out to me privately and telling me that they loved me and telling me that they supported me, and that they knew that what was being said were lies, and they were sorry that I was being attacked in such a public way.

And of course, I appreciated all the people that had reached out to me.

Also during that time, there were very few people that publicly defended me and acknowledged that what was being said about me were lies.

And I want to acknowledge those people because I feel like it's really challenging to put yourself out there, put your reputation out there when someone else is being attacked.

The last thing you want to do is have those attackers then look at you and start attacking you. And that's what happens when you defend people that they're attacking you, going to battle with them, and they're going to start attacking you.

One of my friends that did this, and the others of you who did this publicly know who you are, and I appreciate you, but I wanted to talk about Jody Moore, who is one of my friends and colleagues who during this time

wrote a post that defended my work and my reputation and countered the lies that were being said about me.

And this is a woman who relies on her reputation, relies on her business and her public brand to feed her family of four and support her livelihood.

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