Hey everybody, Chris here. We're trying something a little bit different than what we normally do for the podcast.

We're doing solo episodes. These are shorter, more contained.

Built around certain themes and questions, I think, are very relevant for us to be talking about.

So wherever you're listening to this, however you're seeing this, let us know in the comments and the feedback, what you think.

And we'll make some adjustments. The classic story structure of the hero's journey from Joseph Campbell goes something like this.

A hero in an ordinary world has a call to adventure.

Basically, a Harold calls them to adventure.

And then there's the initial refusal of the call.

There's a reason that they don't want to do it, and there's a lot of reasons why. And then a mentor appears and then gets them to cross the threshold and leave the

ordinary world for the new world. And once they enter the new world, they go through a series of

trials and tribulations and sometimes it's called the relapse and the resurrection.

And they learn a valuable lesson that

they return to the ordinary world to share with them.

If you look at the story structure of Star Wars, it's literally this.

And the reason why, it's not a coincidence, is because Joseph Campbell has said George Lucas

was an amazing student of his.

Pretty clear.

So two years ago, I put out a call to adventure.

I said, who would like to go fishing

with me in the Canadian wilderness? First of all, people are thinking, Chris likes to be outdoors.

How's his sensitive skin going to handle this? And number two, he likes fishing. Isn't that barbaric?

But all those things are true. I do love fishing in the outdoors. And only one person answer the call to

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