Hey, my name is Andrew. I'm from Ontario, Canada. I'm a senior in high school. I have a ton of questions

I'd like to ask, but my number one is, what is the number one life advice you'd give to someone someone who has not found

themselves yet or is in the process of doing so? Yee yee. Andrew is asking the question.

Bernie Calcote, here we go. On the podcast. Here we go. You have become a fan favorite. No doubt. I cannot believe that. Thank you guys. I really just don't understand why.

I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. Besides the fact that you're just an awesome dude. I think people latch on to, when you're a guest on this show, I think people latch onto it because they could tell

that mean you have a long history of friendship and trust. And after we roll the audio and the camera here in this room, we ended up forgetting that it's even on. And we're just talking.

Right. Yeah. I say this all the time. Like we're just sitting around a campfire, cracked a few beers. And there's a third person in the third chair, which is this email.

Right. I read the question. And me and you talk through it like we're three friends. Right. It's hard. That sounds awesome. But it's hard to do. Unless you actually have the 20 year friendship. Like me and you do. Right. I think that's why they love you. Yeah.

So if anyone out there has a question, you email, GrangerSmith podcast at gmail.com. I collect these daily. I kind of put them in a different categories, depending on your question.

But it could literally be about anything. Me and Bernie have answered just about every kind of question. You could ask whether it's lighthearted or career based or anything.

Throw something difficult, guys, because these have been pretty easy so far. I'm just kidding.

All right. Okay. The challenge accepted. That was a joke. They have not been easy. They're never easy. And as I always say, you know, whenever I get to come on here with Gris, like, we're.

Just giving our perspective and our experience on some of the things that we're hearing. But we always are going to push you to surround yourself with the community that you can process these things with.

Yeah. And always go back to God's word because it'll never, it'll never fail you. I'll never lead you astray. So those two things God's word community. And then, you know, hopefully something we can say will kind of encourage you or inspire you to push into those things a little more.

So it's really a heavy responsibility, but also so fulfilling for us, knowing that right now at the beginning of a new podcast, it's Monday morning, somebody's listening right now somewhere that either hasn't heard this or maybe they've heard it a few times and they have a question.

And right now, you know, they, they listen to something through here and they pull out their phone and they start a new email.

Granger, Granger Smith podcast at gmo.com. Hey, Granger, I have a question. And there it is. And that's a massive responsibility that I don't look at as a burden. I look at it as a huge privilege.

Absolutely.

To be able to share in your question that you've been stewing over for maybe years and to know that right now today in this room, as we hit record on this podcast, a new one is being born.

That's right. Cool. Yeah. And that one day we will have a live podcast with live audience and get to have them sit in the chair with us and, you know, chop these things up. That would be really fun.

Yeah, it would be so much easier to because we could ask second and third questions. Yeah. Yeah. Well, let's start with an easy one here.

Okay. This is this says, Hey, Granger, I'm Kevin from far northern California, AKA state of Jefferson. It's funny that he has to say far northern because he's trying to separate him. So I get, I get what you're doing.

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