Hey, what's up and welcome back to the Jason Gattis podcast.

What you say? That's right. I changed the name yet again of this podcast and it just feels right.

I feel less boxed in.

I want to be able to talk about whatever I want to talk about.

And this may evolve and change again.

And this is the natural evolution.

Today's episode is about the courage to be oneself.

And believe it or not, that's exactly what I'm trying to do here.

In my own life is the courage to be myself.

Because sometimes I get scared of what you might think of me or you want me to fit according

to your expectations.

You want me to talk about this thing.

And maybe you actually don't, but I might project that onto you.

And then I box myself in like, oh, I don't want to upset someone if I talk about, uh, sports or

something.

That would be a random example of something I'm probably not going to talk about.

But the bottom line is, all of us, including me, get scared to be ourselves in certain contexts and settings in our lives.

If you don't believe me, just look at your own intimate relationship where sometimes you hold back who you really are because you're scared of the reaction.

You are scared to start a fight.

In your family of origin, you might withhold who you really are because you don't want to be judged by your family.

It feels bad.

At work,

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