We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski.

Hello and welcome to the Taking Back Your Power podcast.

I'm Isabel Palacios and I specifically created this podcast to empower and inspire you to create your best life and live a positive

existence. Join me as I interview incredible people, share my journey, discuss a law of attraction,

and guide you into your greatest version. May you always remember your true beauty, your true worth,

and your true power always come from within. So open your mind and your heart, get comfortable, and let's get into it.

It's a little ironic that I chose a quote from poet and writer Charles Bukowski to begin this

episode because he was not really known to be the most positive or optimistic of writers. In fact,

he was a heavy drinker. He was a drunkard and he probably dealt with depression based on his

writings and the things that he talked about. But let me tell you guys, his writings and his poems,

his short stories, all these things were a huge comfort to me when I was

going through my own depression and I was battling depression a few years ago. And I would read.

And it was just like a, you know, when you're feeling low, you kind of like to identify with other things that are feeling low. Like whenever

you're feeling sad, it's natural that we want to listen to sad music. Or if you're

heartbroken, you want to listen to music about heartbreak and so on and so forth. And for me,

literature has been a lot like that. When I'm in love, I love to listen to romantic or read

romantic literature or poems and things like that.

And when I'm sad, I like to go to the more melancholy writings. And that's something I've

been like since I was very young. But Bukowski, there was always kind of an air of optimism,

even in his darkest writings. And if I read you the entire quote, he was very

intelligent, very intelligent, very philosophical, albeit in a very morose way, in a very

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