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Do you find it hard to follow personal development advice because it seems designed for a perfect robot, not a real human?

Me too.

I'm Monica Packer,

and I host the podcast About Progress, where we explore doable but still dramatic personal growth.

It's progress made practical. Listen to About Progress wherever you get your podcast. My Mike, welcome to the show.

I'm so excited to have you here.

I've been sort of teeing you up like the past few weeks that you're going to be on.

And I've been saying how like it's one of those things that like once you know certain information you can't

unknow it you know and I'm a little scared to hear like some of the facts and some of the things

like you're about to tell us but my audience knows that I've been sort of like on this journey of like

trying to I've been suffering with like infertility and shingles and all these things the past few years.

And so I've been like on this crazy like journey on trying to like obviously eat better and watch what I'm consuming and all these things, you know.

And not until the fires happen in L.A. and like the palisades and everything that I realized how possibly like

our air quality was also a factor. I just always thought it was like the food and the water and

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