Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black. And it is such a joy to welcome our guest on this episode, best-selling author and renowned spiritual

and thought leader, Panash Desai.

His latest book is called You Are Enough, Revealing the Soul to Discover Your Power, Potential,

and Possibility.

Benash, thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, thank you for having me on.

It's great to be with you both.

Well, it's great to have you here. You say it is essential now more than ever that we look inside ourselves and

embrace the truth that we are enough. And I'm wondering why is that often hard to do and why is it so

essential? It's essential because I've now had the pleasure of working with people for over 20 years

consciously from all over the world and have had the pleasure of meeting people from all

walks of life.

And there's one commonality that we all share that we all have to overcome.

And it's just the feeling of not being enough.

You know, it's the root cause of every addiction. It's the root cause of why we're not experiencing the intimacy that we want in our lives. It's the root cause of why we can't hold down a relationship. It's the root cause of why there's any dysfunction in relationship. It's the root cause of why we're not able to earn the money that we deserve to earn and take care of our families. So what I've discovered in all of my work with people is this one singular commonality.

And so as it relates to this time, it's more important than ever because we're living in

the age of radical personal empowerment.

And what we have to do is look to ourselves to empower empower ourselves, to relate to ourselves from a deeper perspective.

Right. So we have a body, but we're not our bodies. We have a mind, but we're not our mind. We have

feelings, but we're not our feelings. There's this story that we have, but we're not the story.

Right. And then we've created this kind of identity, this self-image that we believe that we need to belong in the

world. And the problem is that as much as we've perfected the art of pretending and trying to

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