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.

When I'm here, the friction goes away. In this class is the one place where I feel like,

I'm in orbit, I'm in space, I'm like a fish in water. As I put down my own thoughts and ideas,

everything slows down for me. I feel things. I just get it.

As a student, Chad Sanders often felt like a fish out of water, except in one magical creative

classroom, where he found a sense of belonging and flow. As he starts climbing the corporate ladder,

though, that fish out of water feeling comes back in force. He sees the hierarchies and

in-grown systems around him adding friction to every step he takes. He realizes he needs to do

something bold to regain the pure creativity, the curiosity that lets him walk without friction

and unabashedly be himself. In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories,

breathtaking music and mindfulness pumps so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in

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