What is up guys? What is up? It is summertime, which in my life means I'm an insane person.

I'm literally going crazy trying to deal with five children and their schedules and their

needs and their mini tragedies. And oh my god guys let me pray to live through this.

Anyway, um hi guys, it's Nicole. What's up? Happy podcast day, happy Friday. If you're listening

to it on a Friday, which is podcast day. I'm happy to be with you guys at the moment, taking a minute

of peace in my recording studio to step out of the lives of little people that have so many

needs and cares and concerns. And as you guys know, most of you guys know I am

a very involved and very mindful parent. I'm a very loving parent. I really, really care about

how my kids feel. And what's hard about that is that it weighs heavily on how I feel. So,

you know, day to day stuff. It has been a bit of a hard summer but we're getting through it.

And I do believe that all hard lessons come with tremendous reward if you choose to learn them.

You know, there's a teacher that I want studied. His name was Colin Tipping. He very recently

passed away, but he has a book called Radical Forgiveness. And he talks about the concept of every

tragedy in our lives, no matter how great being perfect. Because, and people hate that,

sometimes people resent it, but he really teaches beautifully if you're interested, check out his work

about how everything is perfect because we are getting the chance to learn the lesson we need to

learn. So, life doesn't need to present it to us with a different face, with a different environment,

the exact same lesson that we need to learn. We don't have to suffer more than our consciousness

allows. So, when we get a horrible lesson, when we get a painful lesson, if we can learn it in the

moment, if we can really embrace it and mindfully learn it, the universe will not need to present it to

us again. And so, I try really hard. That's one of the things I try a lot in my life, is to learn my

lessons as they happen, to open myself up completely to the experience, and to make the microchanges,

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