You are listening to the Life Coach School Podcast with Brook Castillo.

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.

So the sound may be a little bit different on this one, because I have my headphones in my iPod,

or what did they call it? I don't know. Those little, those little,

I had funs that you stick in your ears, and I'm driving back from Denver to my house in Vail.

And I wanted to record a podcast. I have a two hour drive, and I've been thinking a lot about

what it means to live your best life. A lot of people lately have been saying to me,

you are just living your best life, and I'm here for it. And watching me live my life, a lot of my

friends, watching me live my life, and just being just so excited for me. And like it's astounding

that I'm making all these choices and doing all these things just for myself and for what I want to

do in my life and create my life. And it's got me thinking a lot about what some of us do to not

live our best lives, to not step into that full version of a full, technicaler life that includes

so much positive and so much negative, but is so alive. And what I've really come to realize is

that when we want to live our lives on fire, we have to be willing to grind out the pain. We have

to be willing to have our hearts broken. We have to be willing to fail. We have to be willing to

see what we're made of. And that is not an easy ask of ourselves. And so I want to talk about

how we can all do that more, how I've been truly doing my best to do that in my own life.

So I can find all the nukes and crannies and areas of my life where I'm not yet healed,

where I am still compulsive, where I'm not showing up as the fullest version of myself. And I want to

say that from the outside, a lot of my friends have just been like, oh my gosh, your life is so

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