Hello, hello, hello, hello, and this is Hurry Slowly, the podcast where I like to change the tagline

about what the podcast is about every season.

And this season, I think we're going to say this is a podcast about culture and consciousness.

But, you know, we'll see what happens as things unfold.

So you'll might notice already right away that this podcast, that I sound a little bit

different than usual, a little bit more casual.

And that's a conscious shift that I'm making for this season.

And we're going to get into that a little bit during the episode. So I've had a pretty wild summer over here where I just spent a ton of time in, you know, I was about to say agony, but we're just going to say

reflection, really, really, really deep reflection on a lot of my foundational beliefs.

The core beliefs, perhaps even limiting beliefs, that underpin and that

drive the way that I relate to myself. And in that process, really starting to identify what those beliefs are and then beginning to

start to unwind from them and to even possibly maybe start to rewire and tune in to some new beliefs that might be a little

bit less limiting, a little bit less agonizing, maybe quite a bit more joyous.

So when I talk about foundational beliefs, let me share a little example about what I mean exactly.

So as I've been tuning into this, I would say two of the foundational beliefs that I carry, which seem quite connected, are one is about things being hard, thinking that things

should be hard, and that if they are not hard, that I might be, in fact, doing it wrong. So this kind of

core conviction that things should be hard,

that things should be difficult, that things are hard is one belief that I have been carrying

that influences so much of how I see the world, so much of how I relate to myself, so much of

how I relate to my work. And another one that is kind of

connected to that is thinking about worst case scenarios. So believing that in order to stay safe, in order to protect myself, I need to constantly be imagining

and projecting my consciousness out into these worst case scenarios so that if I, you know, imagine the worst, then I will also be able

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