I welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast.

My name is Joel Mark Whit.

And I'm Antonia Dodge.

We talk a lot about a meta model in personal growth here on the podcast that we named the

hat model or actually a friend of mine that was a coach introduced me to this model I mean

over a decade ago.

And it was so intuitive I immediately began sorting all of my personal growth work into

one of these three categories.

We did an entire podcast on the hat model while back.

But I think that we want to dive a little deeper into this concept so that you the listener

if this is something that is intuitively and instinctively accurate to you as well,

you can start using it to sort your personal growth work also.

So we recommend that you go back and listen to that particular podcast, we'll go over

the model a little bit and then we'll do a bit of a deeper dive in a series of podcasts

this time to talk about all the different arenas of life that you might be able to understand

your growth work while applying it back to this model.

So hat stands for Healing Achievement and Transcendence.

And the coach that introduced me to this model effectively said that every time we're

doing growth work, we're doing growth work that is either healing work, achievement work

or transcendence work.

And healing achievement and transcendence are very different styles of growth work.

And so it's important to understand what you're doing because each of these categories

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