Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

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Greatness Mindset today. Do you ever feel pressure or judged or critiqued because you don't have kids yet?

And I think you don't want to have kids is that correct?

Yeah, no it is so I want to actually hit on all of those because each that you mentioned

pressured judged or critiqued.

So let's stick with pressure judged or critique because those are very distinct flavors.

So at this stage, I don't get asked as much anymore because I've been talking about it so consistently and trying to be as loving and just straight up as possible about the fact that I've never wanted kids and real about the fact that I've never wanted kids. And real about the fact that I chose, consciously

or unconsciously, a man who already had a child.

So some part of me clearly wanted

to be a step-mom because I am and I love my

stepson and he's awesome so there's that but I've never wanted to have my own

biological kids why is that do you think you know, I also never wanted to get married.

I just think that we're all kind of born with these innate desires and sometimes we adopt the expectations of our family, of society,

of the culture that we grow up in, for whatever reason I feel like I popped onto this earth with a very clear inner

compass of the things that I would like to explore or learn or experience and

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