Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career

or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another.

And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck.

So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change,

we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take

to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear,

takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story

and the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck,

Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as

rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback

loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better Up

to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life.

Now that I'm trying to understand my grandmother, I start to wonder,

might her unlived dreams have been the subconscious fuel that propelled me halfway across the country?

And what do they mean for the life I'm about to lead?

Sometimes it's quite apparent to where we come from. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree,

but when Courtney Martin loses her grandmother, a troubled woman with an obscured history,

a different story begins to unfurl. Before becoming the author of multiple books,

including Learning and Public, lessons for a racially divided America from my daughter's school,

Courtney is trying to forge a bold intellectual life from the small, small world of her upbringing.

As it happens, her grandmother's story starts feeling like a key to that riddle.

In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, breathtaking music and mindfulness

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