Hey, what's good? This is Rich and you're listening to Paychecks and balances where it's all about navigating your finances and career so you can achieve the freedom you want.

And if you're new to the podcast, this is more of an update episode.

So if you haven't listened to P&B before, I encourage you to go back

and listen to whatever was before this one or whatever was before that one and so on. And if

you've been around for a minute, I've got some exciting updates and there's a reason that I've

been quiet over the past few weeks. And I wanted to talk a little bit more about that today.

And I also just wanted to talk a little bit more about what's been going on over the

past few weeks because I've been as stressed as I could possibly be because I had someone

reach out at work about giving a talk to one of our black employee groups about mental wealth.

And for me, I didn't just want to give a presentation with a bunch of slides,

you, in terms of a therapist, in terms of having a life coach, supportive friends,

mastermind groups. There are a lot of things that have positioned me to be where I am today. And

there was something about this talk and the level of vulnerability that it was going to require,

given that I never told my story in this

level of detail before.

And I found that once I actually started to talk after not sleeping the night before and

after actually having a panic attack in the past couple of weeks and being so stressed that

I could really get nothing else done, finally the talk talk was upon me. And once I got going,

it was actually pretty hard to stop talking. And I don't know if you've ever given a talk like

this, but after this talk and after I turned the camera off, I was jumping up and down, tears

streaming down my face. And at first, I thought it was just the relief of having completed this talk, but then

I realized it was actually a personal breakthrough. And when I say a personal breakthrough,

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