Hello, the lovely peoples. This is Marty, Martha, inviting you to a free masterclass that I have made called

Five Paths to Your Purpose. Probably the most common question I get from people is, how do I find my purpose?

Why don't I feel that I'm on purpose? Well, it turns out there are certain things you have to do to find your purpose, and I broke

them down into five, and I made a little masterclass about it. So if you'd like to see it, just go to

marthabec.com slash purpose, and you will be able to watch it without any charge at all.

Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast. I'm Martha Beck. And today I'm going to talk about how awful things are.

And by that I mean financially.

This is the hardest.

I'm seeing Ankara and Italy and India and Estonia.

And I'm Portugal and Italy.

And I just have to say it all these people oh

Evie from the Spirit Lake tribe in North Dakota I'm honored thank you for being here

sorry I'm gonna get back to what I was saying those of you who have can cope with my ADD are so

loved by me.

So, yeah, things kind of are not great in many, many parts of the world.

The U.S. is not in such great state right now.

Other countries are having it even worse, and I am loving on all of you from where I sit in my place of privilege, of which I am very, very aware.

But there are a lot of people, even in the U.S., who are going through some really hard times, 52% of Americans now struggle to pay their basic monthly bills.

When you have more than half a population of a huge country, unable to pay monthly bills,

and then you have people with billions and billions and hundreds of billions of dollars

in the same country, that is, that's not good,

folks. That isn't good in terms of the future of the social integrity of the country, the way

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