This season, we are talking about opting out of systems and taking radical

responsibility for every area of our lives. And I know that many, many of you are

filling this poll and this stirring right now. COVID, it was a catalyst for many.

I know many of you were already kind of in this world and in this community

prior to that. But I'm loving the feedback I'm getting from this series.

Thank you so much for your, for all your kind words and sharing your stories.

And today I kind of wanted to take a different angle, a different approach, because one

piece of this that we haven't really talked about in this season is that when we are opting out,

we're doing that idea of choosing the hard thing but the good thing, right? We talk about that a lot.

It does a lot for our life. It brings a lot of richness and meaning and purpose.

But it also takes more time when we are growing around food, we're educating our kids ourselves,

we're taking responsibility for our health. And so today I wanted to address

how I manage that tension because there's some definite tension there. I hesitate to use the word

balance. I might have used that word in the past. The longer I go, I realize that balance is really

overrated. Balance is a myth. And really the people I know who are movers and shakers in the world,

balance looks very different for them or is not really balanced at all. They come to a different sort

of place in their life that feels good and works for them, but it's not how normal culture would

define balance. So in today's episode, I'm going to take you through some of my principles

and how I think of this, how I manage all the pieces of our old-fashioned on-purpose life that

has a lot of moving parts and a lot of nuance. And hopefully you'll get some takeaways from this as well.

You're listening to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast where ambitious people master the art

of returning to their roots. Have you found yourself disenchanted with society or wishing you could

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