Hey, pulling the thread listeners, I want to share something special with you this week.

It's an episode of a podcast I'm enjoying called Need a Lift, hosted by Tim Schrever. Tim has

years of experience working as an educator and with the athletes and leaders of the Special

Olympics movement around the world. And through his work, he has found that the best way to

build community to connect people is at the soul world. And through his work, he has found that the best way to build community

to connect people is at the soul level. And that's why his podcast, Need a Lift, features guests who

have transformed painful moments in their lives into purpose through spiritual rituals and practices.

Guests like best-selling novelist Minjin Lee talks about why she creates complicated characters

who hold this secret to our transformation.

Writer Simon Sinek on why idealism belongs in the workplace, an Olympic athlete Michael Phelps

and his wife Nicole talking about the importance of cultivating an inner life in competition,

mental health, and in their marriage. Need a lift

is truly the antidote to the hatred and despair we're all exhausted of hearing, giving us hope

that change is possible. In this episode, the office's Rain Wilson explains how we can quiet

the world's chaos and deal with our collective sense of overwhelm by

believing in something bigger than us. Okay, here comes the preview. You can hear more Needalift

episodes wherever you get podcasts. I'll never forget a kind of a mystical, transcendent experience I

had when I was maybe 12, where we were at a Baha'i youth

gathering, we'd been doing like some service work, and we were all sleeping outside, and it was a

clear night, just all of these stars, and thinking about them, how distant they were, and how beautiful

they are, and feeling the presence

of the divine in my life through the stars.

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