Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.

I'm Karen Hunter, and you know I'm on a 40-day journey, but also in this podcast, the goal this year is to be my best self and also to challenge you to be your best self. So I'm going to be

dropping some life lessons, things that I have learned over my 60 trips around the sun almost. And

I've also been talking to other people, some elders like a Jan La Van Zant and Dr. Rosemary,

Mealy, who have given some life lessons, because I asked for the life lessons,

please can you share? Because wisdom is in short supply. Unfortunately, we're in a world where

it's not even sought after or practiced. So I'm going to challenge everybody. You know,

this life is not meant to be lived in a bubble or in a vacuum

or by yourself. This is a collaborative effort. And by that, I mean, you get better in community

and you get better by talking to people who have seen and done some things that you haven't done.

So I think the asking of the life lessons of the elders is absolutely what we should be doing in our own lives.

Some of you have elders in your life that you don't talk to about things that are, you know,

transformative. They've lived. Okay, if you have an auntie or a grandparent that is 70, 80, 90 years old,

please sit at their feet and talk with them about the

things they have learned. And while the times are different, you know, it's not different wisdom.

Wisdom is age old. Okay. So I'm going to be dropping life lessons, not just from me, because I've

done some things and I want to definitely share with you in this space, but also this is a time that

I'm encouraging you to go talk to some people who know some things about life that you may not

because that's how we get better. All right. So today's life lesson is when you're in a situation

where you look like you're going to crash, drive into the crash, drive towards the crash,

don't avoid the crash. And I know you're like, what? What? Okay, so several years ago,

I mean, it might have been about a decade ago. I was coming home for my radio show at Sirius XM,

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