I hear applause as I walk onto the stage and I recognize everyone in the audience either

from Sundays and church or just sing them around town.

I'm a product that the proverb takes a village to raise a child.

And these people are my village.

When the applause stops, there is this little small moment where it's just silence.

It's just my breath and the audience.

And then, it's game on.

Bakari Sellers made history when at just 22 years old, he became the youngest African-American

elected official in the United States.

His driving mindset of aiming to win every day enables him to serve his community.

But beneath the surface, Bakari is consumed by anxiety about his own mortality that stems

from a close encounter with death at a young age.

In this week's Mediterate Story, Bakari shares how living life in 24 hour increments

empowers us to contend with our greatest anxieties and get more out of every moment.

In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories, breath-taking music and mindfulness

prompts so that we may see our lives reflected back to us in other people's stories.

And that can lead to improvements in our own inner lives.

And wait what?

This is Mediterate Story.

I'm Rahen and I'll be your guide.

The body relaxed.

The body breathing.

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