Hi, it's Brian Rose, and welcome to London Real.

If you're listening to this podcast, it means that you're excited about learning and creating real change.

Well, me too. That's why I started broadcasting this show eight years ago.

And over that time I've learned that change only happens when you take action.

Maybe you've been thinking about what steps you could take in order to live a better life. But you're feeling stuck or don't know where to start.

I understand and that's why I created the London Real Academy to help people take that first

step towards everything from starting their own business

to recording their first podcast to speaking publicly or just to leading a healthier

more productive lifestyle and today I'm offering you a free one-to-one phone call with one of my

London Real Academy coaches who can speak with you directly about your personal

challenges and how we can help. There is no cost for this and no obligation. So if you're ready to take action go to Londonreal. TV.

forward slash change or click on the link to book your free coaching call and start your journey today.

Now, on to the show.

If we can't find happiness and peace within ourselves. We can never find it in the world around us.

Well I was born in 1950 so my teenage years were the 1960s.

And during those times, it was very troublesome.

So much prejudice.

So I joined the civil rights movement and counterculture and I was really trying to find myself.

But then there was another problem.

I saw so much apparent hypocrisy and contradiction in religion.

Hate, sectarianism, prejudice in the name of a loving God.

And I either had to just reject the idea of spirituality and religion,

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