There was, let's say, sexual activity early in every relationship, right?

And that sexual activity created a chemical bond of this feels good and there's great connection.

And there was no conversation about values or vision or lifestyle.

We're having fun.

This is a great time.

We're experiencing life together and we've got this chemical bond.

This time I said, listen, there's not going to be any of that.

I mean, my friends are like in shock, especially my guy friends.

I'm going to get vulnerable here, but it's almost three months.

I spent 40 nights next to her without that activity going on. And talk about self-discipline

for me as someone who's driven by, you know, who wants that a lot. Sure. I was just like,

it's not worth it. It's not worth it until I find out like where this is going. This podcast exists because I love talking

to people and I love going deep. The purpose is to plant seeds of inspiration. We enter a space

of vulnerability and relatability. And what you realize is that we are so much more alike than we are

different. To quote Ram Dass, we're all just walking each other home. And this show is just one step.

I'm Danica Patrick and I'm pretty intense. Welcome to the pretty intense podcast. I am so excited to have this guest on the show today. He's a friend. I have interviewed him before, which, gosh, he's going to be the first person I've interviewed twice. So that's because he's so amazing. And it's Lewis Howes. He is a New York Times bestselling author. He has two books. The most recent one is called The Mask of

Mascualinity. We talked a little bit about the fact that he's writing another book, which is going to be

awesome. So we start off with talking about that. He also has an amazing and huge podcast called

The School of Greatness. It's actually because of being on his podcast and two others when I was

promoting my own book years ago that I thought, wow, that was really fun. I think I really like

doing these podcasts and then it led to doing my own. So Lewis is an incredible human being.

Really is like kind of a man of service and just, you know, that was one of the things we talked about

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