Hey, everyone. Welcome to He'll Survive and Thrive. My voice is a little wonky right now because it's

honestly early in the morning. I just woke up and these are probably the first couple of sentences

that I've even said yet and I haven't even had any caffeine. So hopefully we're going to get through

this and really get this voice sounding normal again. But I, you know,

I woke up this morning and last couple days I just have slept really poorly. Like I haven't slept

well. I know part of it is just my age. I'm 44 going through perimenopause. But I got to be

honest, I feel like a lot of it is just exhaustion, burnout, just, you know, going and going and doing

and doing. And I know you guys can relate to this because you're in the same boats. A lot of you

are parents that follow me. A lot of you are kind of in that age range, that like 35 to 50, I think,

age range where we're kind of like in the thick of it, where raising

kids, we're, you know, full on in our careers. And we don't have the same energy that we

obviously had in our 20s, but yet we're doing way more than we did in our 20s. Now we're starting to like take care of

parents and there's just a lot to manage it. You know, adulting is not for the week, especially when you

have kids and like there's just so, so much going on. So I wanted to sit and kind of have a chat because

I mean, look, these are just things that I go through that I feel and I know you guys can

relate um I used to think that being you know the strong one was I don't know I kind of thought it was

like a flex I'm like look at me go it was something that I was actually really proud of I always

had it together I really did really proud of. I always had it together.

I really did.

And now looking back, I'm like, geez, man, how did I even think that that was even normal?

I was the one that people could really lean on.

And I still am a person that people can lean on.

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