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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Okay, so I had a surreal experience a couple of weeks ago. I get this Instagram DM a text over the weekend says, hey, I'm a producer for Harpo. That's Oprah's company. Would you have a minute? I want to ask you a question. Okay, this is a thing I'll do on the weekend. So I did. I reached out and it was a producer for Oprah Winfrey's show and podcast and they wanted to know she had just read my book The Obstacles Away if I would fly out to Maui to talk about it for this episode she was doing. And I said, of course, I dragged the family along because any excuse to go to Hawaii is one I'm going to take. You take this long road up to her house there in Maui. I'm very nervous talking to the producer beforehand.

And I said, you know, are you guys recording a bunch of these?

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