Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 619, how I ended up on a Hollywood TV show and how to spice up your life today.

I am Jeff Sanders, and you have reached the podcast that is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast.

I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer, and to learn more about those options, head

over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking.

Now, in the episode this week, I'll break down how I actually ended up on a Hollywood TV show,

why it was one of the weirdest and yet best hobbies

that I've adopted in years, and why you should burst your own routine bubble and do something

a bit outlandish. Let's get to it. So before we dig into the Hollywood TV story, I do have one quick update for you, which is that just a few weeks ago, I had surgery.

And this was a surgery that was a long time coming, about 10 years in the making,

which is a hernia surgery.

I know, so fun to hear the TMI details of my life.

But I wanted to share this with you in part because about eight years ago, I had back

surgery, a very intense sciatica that led to this extreme experience. And I broke it down on

the podcast episode number 277, if you want to hear that. But the long story short is that for the

last 10 years, I have had an umbilical hernia.

That is a hernia that's right above my belly button.

That's where it was the last decade of my life.

And my doctor 10 years ago when she told me about this, because I brought it up to her,

and she said, yes, this is definitely an

umbilical hernia. And the best protocol is to just live with it if you can for as long as

you can. And once it bothers you enough, then surgery is really the only option to fix it.

There's really no other kind of natural protocols you can try and delay it, but eventually

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