Welcome to the final day of your five-day growth challenge. We've reached our fifth and final day of

celebrating our 500th episode, and it is also the fifth year anniversary of this podcast. Today's episode

is going to be sharing strategies about embracing a new identity. Growth often means stepping

into a version of yourself that you haven't really met yet, and this episode will help you make that transition. And remember, if you leave a review today, you'll be entered to

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with you. So stay tuned until the end for your final step in taking some action during this

challenge. Embrace an infinite identity. My word for 2023 was rebirth. And like, I don't

tell you, man. Like, did it come to life for me? Did that word just

like make itself true in my life? Yes, but not in the way that I expected. To be honest,

nothing about me changed in my life until about late August or early September. So I haven't

spoken publicly about this experience because I'm still

working through a lot of everything that I had learned, but I would love to share about my

first ever alone trip to a place called Sensei. So I went to Sensei and I wasn't really excited to go.

I had a mentor. I had my husband and I had R.C.

O, oh, look across from me and say, you got to step away. Like, you got to get away.

And they saw in me what I couldn't see in myself, that I was working so much to compensate

for something, anything. And if I was being very honest, in my family, come from a long

line on both sides of addiction. And so I think in today's society, some addictions are celebrated

and some addictions are pushed aside. And so we know addictions that are not so healthy. And I think

I got to a point where I got really addicted to work. And it was the only

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