My guest today, Kamala Wekan, has trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas,

served as a US Army infantry soldier, walked 550 miles across Spain, co-founded, built

and sold several technology companies in Silicon Valley, and watched others he founded

come tumbling down, which we talk about by the way.

Co-founded Avenger Capital Forum invested in some of the biggest endeavors in the world,

but the most difficult and transformative thing he has ever done is to learn to love himself.

And that did not come easily.

It only happened as so often it does, after he been pretty much brought to the edge of

personal and financial collapse, and more or less dropped to his knees in every way.

This led to a complete and profound shift in focus from external accomplishment to kind

of a softer metric he never saw coming and would never have validated before that.

The act of finding and then loving himself.

Not an easy thing for a guy who'd lived life on very different terms till that moment.

And Kamala detailed his journey, along with a pretty simple set of practices in a short

book that he wrote initially years back as a way to reconnect with his stifled love of

writing and also to memorialize what he'd figured out.

The things that he was doing to step back into this place of self-love so he could share

it with friends and stop sort of like repeating the conversations over and over.

Hitting publish, he was kind of terrified of what people in his world might think, but

also believe that nobody would ever see it.

He just kind of self-published it and sent it out to Laurel himself and said, you know,

figured I'll just refer people to it when they ask me questions about why I'm so different

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