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Hey, welcome to the Daily Drive podcast. My name is Bro, and we're just taking a few minutes

money through Friday this summer, talking about

identity theft and not the cyber kind, but the kind that hacks into our being and steals our

God-given identity.

And my way of thinking is way too many people.

I used to be one of them.

Just go through life, not knowing who they really are. And that's why I thought we would just spend some extended time talking about this the summer. And we've been exposing some lies that the original hacker uses to pull us away from the truth about who we are. Lies like, I am what I feel. I am what people say about me. I am how I look. I am

what I do and how well I perform. And maybe this is the lie that's been keeping you stuck.

I am what I've done. Men, there's nothing quite like the past to hack into your soul and wreak havoc with your identity.

I'm talking about things that were done to us, things that were said about us, less than flattering nicknames and labels we heard on the playground,

all kinds of bad memories and grudges and bitterness and anger and even hate, rolling around on the inside of us, eating us up.

Not to mention all the personal regrets over things that we have done.

I mean, the past and the failures that come along with it can absolutely paralyze you, can it?

And I've made a bunch of past mistakes, got a bunch of failures, and I know I'm not alone.

And I don't know what it was for you, but perhaps it was a

DUI, or maybe it was an affair, or maybe a failed marriage, or maybe a financial collapse,

or maybe you cheat it and you got caught, or maybe you flunked out of school, or maybe you got

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