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Hey guys, thank you for listening to another episode of Truth Talks with Tara. We are coming at you with a new friend, Justin Early. You guys, he is one of my new favorite authors. And I'm just like kind of shook that he's on the podcast today with us to bring the wisdom and share everything that he has been writing and living really in his life. We're going to be talking

all things about what it looks like to practice the gospel, really what Justin calls the story

of God in your family or whether you have a family or not, just in your life. But we are going

to be diving a lot into what it looks like as parents and maybe hopeful someday parents if you're

listening. So we're going to get

to all of that. But Justin, before we do, can you share a little bit about who you are, what you do?

And then I also want to hear like a random favorite thing you're loving to like round it out before we start.

You got it. You got it. So Justin Early, I'm a business lawyer sitting here in my office. That's what I do. I help start companies, sell companies, writes lots of contracts between companies. But I started my actually life after college as a missionary in China for almost five years until I felt called to go to law school. So that was a story of its own.

But during law school, that was 2011 to 14. I went to law school in Washington, D.C.,

where my wife, Lauren, and I had our first two sons. I started my practice in Richmond, Virginia,

shortly after that. And we now have four sons. And somewhere

in the mix, I had an anxiety collapse that led to me, well, I should say had an anxiety collapse,

which was the opportunity by which the Lord started to really work in my life to show me the

spiritual weight of habit and how if you

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