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Thank you. com forward slash mentoring. Hey there for Capton. How are you? Glad you're back. Uh, no video this week. Sorry, I keep

finding other things to do to perfect the studio. I'm a bit of a perfectionist in that way. In fact,

oh, as I say that, this episode may have extra relevance because of what a perfectionist I

seem to be becoming in my old age. Anyway, you should be able to expect video in

next week's episode. I don't know why I've said that because undoubtedly I'll have to put it off again,

but I'm going to try it really hard for next week to be a video episode. For the last three years,

I have been struggling. Not financially, not career-wise, not food security-wise. So not in the

ways that most people think of as true struggling, but emotionally. Of course, it's the case that

stoicism is a constant struggle with and wrangling of emotions, so maybe this isn't so

surprising, but that's not really what I mean. I mean struggling to,

and this is going to sound odd, maybe. I've never used this phrase before, but struggling to

embody myself. In May of 2023, I traveled to England to work with my co-author to finish our

book. I turned 40 that same month. I also met my wife

the day I arrived in England. For the first time, I was meeting her for the first time. Then I was

married four months later, and we both became first time parents seven months after that. Then I

immigrated to the UK, shortly thereafter, and I've been a new dad, or rather I've

been in new dad mode, for almost two years now. I assumed a lot of new roles in a very short period

of time. Father, husband, member of a different part of the cosmopolis, geographically speaking.

I even took on the role of automation engineer and now strategist in a brand new career field.

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