It's that transformative power that food has to take strangers and make them best mates or spouses or wives or husbands.

And it's this wild experience, this magical tool I think we have in life.

Hey there. I'm Matt Diabella and welcome to my short form podcast, Three Rules.

Each episode, I ask a guest to share three rules that help them find success and happiness.

Today, I'm joined by Master Chef Australia 2021 winner, Justin Narayan.

Justin's story goes beyond the competition.

He's really a creator at heart.

From crafting small batch hot sauces to running a pop-up taco shop,

Justin has turned his passion for sharing food into a platform for creativity and

entrepreneurship. I'm really curious what your three rules for success and happiness are.

Let's start out with rule number one. I was trying to think of like cool ways to say it,

but it's just journaling. Like every day,

um, finding a notepad and a pen physical. Um, I got a very specific pen 0.1 felt tip and I'm all

skin. Oh, I haven't, I haven't got away from it yet. But it's just, it's just therapy. Like I,

I love it. Just getting your thoughts out there every day. And I think this is more about, it's just, it's just therapy. Like, I love it. Just getting your thoughts out there every day.

And I think this is more about, it's more about grounding gratitude, but also just letting, I don't know, for me, it's kind of like your brain kind of disconnects from your hands.

And like, it's almost like your soul like what's in you

you get to this point where it's like I don't even know I had this in me some of these thoughts

some of these ideas and so um that's something that I think I've done since I was 13 or 12

I picked it up very early on I grew up like in a church context and I think we like journal.

I had a youth pastor talk about journaling more of a spiritual discipline and it kind of

started like that for me and I still would consider it almost like a spiritual discipline.

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