Hey there, welcome to the next episode in this series that we have been doing on

unmatched expectations and disappointments and all the things that surround those

feelings. Today we're going to jump ahead a little bit. We're going to jump to,

I'm not necessarily going like directly chapter by chapter in this series, just

kind of taking different themes of the book and trying to work that into

conversation about really tough things, really honest things, real things, things

that we walk through. And so I want to jump ahead to the theme that really is

found in chapter 12. It's called Make the Most of the Almost. That's the chapter

title. And in that chapter, I talk a lot about how to really, and what it looks

like to lean into making the most of being in a situation you didn't think

you're going to be in, being in a season you didn't think you'd still be in,

finding yourself kind of still stuck or dealing with uncertainty or you know

when your plans don't go according to plan, what typically happens is there's

first a disruption and then there's this subsequent season or period of kind of

picking up the pieces of where do I go from here of uncertainty of waiting for

the next opportunity, the next right step, the next open door. And so that's

really kind of that in between that I refer to in the subtitle of Embrace

are almost in between, not quite synunones, that in between of like right between a

disruption and where you thought you'd be there's this weird period of like what

do I do with myself. And so anyway, all of that said in that chapter, I dig deep

into some advice that a friend gave me. She gave me the advice to really try to

look at this as a boot camp season. And I was kind of challenged by that and I

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