What's up, everybody? We are so lucky to have Brett Larkin here today. As you know, what we talk about so much in this podcast is on giving people specific tools, actionable ways to move their life forward, to transform, to be better, right? We want to keep elevating. And you just put out your book, Yoga Life, and we're going to talk about the book by itself.

But I think what will be really interesting for people to hear first and foremost is how did you get to this place where you use yoga in such a transformative way in your own life as a grounding tool and in all the different ways that you talk to your readers about as kind of

this anchor in your life. How did you get there? Well, like many people, I suffered from extreme

anxiety. So that was what led me to yoga initially is I was always worried about when the other

shoe was going to drop. It's really funny because when I think back to my pre-yoga life, I'm not really sure how I functioned.

Like, it's kind of like a haze a little bit.

And so yoga became this incredible place where I was able to realize that I was not my thoughts.

I was able to observe my inner dialogue.

And it was always for me so much more about the physical, so much more than just the physical practice. The next evolution,

however, though, and so I did all the typical things that one does when they fall in love with

yoga. I became a teacher. I did advanced trainings. I ended up starting a YouTube

channel, which is now, you know, has half a million subscribers. I put yoga trainings online. I did all

these things. But where everything really shifted was, I had this wild year in which I became a new mom. So I gave birth to my first son. My father

died of cancer. He was living with me in my home. I was his sole care provider. My parents were

divorced. He didn't have anyone else. It was like me and him walking through a death portal

together. And my business, the online trainings really

exploded that year as well. So I was in this 12-month period of scaling my business, giving

birth to my son, becoming a mom for the first time, saying goodbye to my dad. It was humbling because

what happened was that I didn't have time to practice the yoga that I had been doing up to that

point. I no longer had time to go to group yoga classes. I no longer could even do a lot of

the 20, 10 minute routines that I was telling people to do on my own social media channels.

It was so humbling. And I remember thinking that I was in this period

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