All right, team, all right Christmas. Happy holidays and welcome back. I thought I would do a little

Christmas message for you. I'm sure that some of you are with family or with friends, maybe some of you

are solo. But today I want to step away just for a brief moment from the usual

deep dives, the psychology, the interviews, the frameworks, the tools that you can use,

and just speak to you directly, man to man, human to human. Because this time of year, it does something to us, quietly, subtly, sometimes painfully,

and most of us don't really ever talk about it. And I'm going to start by just sharing a bit of a

story. So last year, my mom passed last February. And my mom loved Christmas.

And I was reminded of this a couple days ago when my stepfather sent me a video.

And it was images over the years of my mom and our family.

And my mom was that type of person that loved the lights and the decorations and the ugly sweaters,

like the really ugly, ugly sweaters.

But she also loved the good food.

And what was she really loved was the quality time together.

You know, it was a time for all of us to gather, her kids to be there.

I moved away when I was 18, and then I moved

to a different province, you know, hours and hours, you know, a thousand kilometers away from,

from her when I was 23. And so Christmas always represented this time where like all of us

would come together. And so in the spirit of

Christmas, I thought I would, I thought I would just share with you a kind of hilarious story from

our family. And I know my mom would probably roll her eyes if she knew I was telling this story,

but she would also be laughing because that is what would happen in my family.

And then I'm going to share a little bit with you about how these times of the year can really

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