Oh, wow. We're all just having these thought always thinking and a lot of those thoughts aren't

positive because we have over 60,000 thoughts a day, 80% from the day before, 90% of those are

negative. So we say, okay, the solution must be mental health because our thoughts are the problem.

But the truth is they work in unison and once we feel safe enough and we learn how to regulate our nervous system, then we can move through that feeling.

And that's what clears out the mind.

You can't think your way out.

You have to feel your way through it.

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What I didn't tell Sam Kbert, who is a TEDx speaker, bestselling author, former Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is now podcasting, who's now helping people with regulation, and a whole

host of other things, is that I have been working with a former Zen monk for the last couple of years, working on some of these very same topics.

So I was super excited to get Sam on the podcast. And Sam, thank you for being here.

Yeah, Onica, I'm stoked to be here. I'm excited to see where this takes us,

and I'm here for it all. And that's amazing. You've been working with a Zen monk for the past

couple of years. That's very cool. Yeah, you know, I had to figure out what I needed to let go of,

what baggage, what self-doubt, all of those things to be able to be a better me for myself and then for those around me.

But let's unpack your journey a little bit because you had a number of businesses in Silicon

Valley. I mean, you're again, a TEDx speaker. You've done so many things in that area,

Silicon Valley 40 under 40, three-time bestselling author. Talk about

that journey and then what led you to kind of leave that behind. Yeah, I mean, I was just wearing a

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