Welcome to the win-make-give podcast. Chad Himes here with my friend Bob Stewart. Bob, how

are you today?

I heard you guys were talking about me, so I came back. I heard you guys were talking

about me because I wasn't here for an episode at one point. I'm good. Chad, I'm good.

Well, Bob, I hope it's not your ego that got hurt. And that's why you came back today.

It might have been actually.

Well, then this episode's for you, Bob Stewart, because we are going to talk about the ego and

how to keep your ego in check. So why doesn't it appreciate that you're having this discussion

with me today, Chad?

Oh, I think my wife would appreciate I'm having this discussion with you too. And with me,

as we go into it, she says her job in life is to make sure that my ego stays as small as possible.

Do you have that experience? You get off stage or come home from a speaking tour or something

like that, Bob? And the first thing you do when you walk in the house as your wife just says,

you suck. Something along those lines, just to bring you back down to reality.

Not quite that blunt, but yeah, you know, when you have little kids, that'll keep your ego

in check pretty fast. You know, you come in the first thing you do is step on a bunch of Legos

and then stumble up to stairs. Like, we realize you're not that big of a deal.

So yeah, for sure, there's the home life grounds me in many ways.

All right, Bob. So I was reading, not too long ago, ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday.

I don't know if you've read it, but that book, it was fantastic, highly recommended to everybody

out there. Ryan writes some amazing stuff. And this was a book that I read. I did the dictionary

definition of ego, Bob, and it's a person sense of self-esteem or self-importance.

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