Welcome back to the Mike Dillard podcast where we help entrepreneurs like you get the knowledge and skills that you need to bring your dreams to life.

Well, gang, today I have the absolute pleasure of introducing you to somebody incredibly dear to me, my good friend, Kamal Rabat-Kant.

So Kamal and I met at an event in Austin about two years ago

and he has become a friend, a colleague, and a mentor, not just because of what he is

accomplished as an entrepreneur, which is substantial, but because of what he has overcome and how

he chose to face those challenges. Every business owner is going to go through their long, dark

night of the soul, an event or period in your life when everything that can go wrong does go

wrong, the time that breaks your spirit and that can even destroy your very identity. During that

period, everything you hold dear will be stripped away from you,

your business, your money, your security, your confidence, your self-worth. In fact, the only

thing that you will likely have left is the reflection staring back at you in the mirror.

It's not the event or what went wrong that will define you, though, but what you choose to do

in that moment staring at yourself that will. This though, but what you choose to do in that moment

staring at yourself that will. This is exactly where Kamal found himself stripped, broken,

and ready to end it all. And in that moment, he realized that there was one simple thing that he

could do to save himself and turn it all around. And that was to simply learn how to love himself, truly and

genuinely for the very first time in his life. If you're depressed, if you're unhappy, if you're

frustrated, angry, suicidal, or lost, there is a way back and you are about to discover it.

I cannot think of a more valuable or powerful form of transformation than learning how to

truly love yourself.

So without further ado, please help me welcome Kamal Ravikon.

Kamal Ravakhan, welcome to the podcast, brother.

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