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.

No one is invisible to my mother. Radiating energy and warmth, she's drawn to supporting those

who at this moment can't stand on their own. I feel a glow of pride for her. I can see how helping

others regenerates her. As a young student, I sure say is happiest when she is caring,

looking out for others around her, supporting those who need her help. It's a lesson she learns

from her mother, and it's a theme that plays out in her adult life now, in her podcast

that accidental actorist and in her book, Beneath the Tamarind Tree, a story of courage, family,

and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram. But there's another lesson her mother teaches her,

in quite another way, that even the most caring and giving amongst us must learn how to receive

help too, and the importance of both giving and receiving to help regenerate us.

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

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