Hello, hi, hi, mom. Yes, hi. Um, hello? Um, Mom. Yes.

Hi.

Um, okay.

Was it sounding where to you?

No.

No, I was just lying down on my bed, so I maybe, I wasn't getting enough reception. I was making love to taxi.

Oh, okay. Well then I guess now would be a good time for me to tell you that this call is being recorded.

For training purposes?

Yeah, that's amazing. So this is an episode about perfection and imperfection.

First though, I really wanted to thank you again for all of the emails you've been sending and all of the compliments and feedback you're giving me on social media and the occasional hug on the street. Those are very cool too. All of it means a lot to me. That's part of why I wanted to share this episode with you. I was figuring it out as I recorded which is a little bit different and definitely felt more personal than other episodes.

For me, normally I kind of think it through and want to talk about something that I've already figured

out where this was like problems in real time. So I felt like we were

at that place in our relationship where I could do that. I've said this before

but it bears repeating. Since we've launched the podcast I've been feeling so

anxious and so vulnerable and it really kind of surprised me to feel that way.

I can't remember the last time I felt like this.

And I've been really determined to get to the bottom of it

and ultimately stop feeling that way.

So the way that my brain works is that when a problem like that arises

feeling anxious, depressed, scared, whatever it is, I immediately start running

what is kind of like a virus scanning software in my brain.

Like I'll be doing other things and at the same time there's like a part of my brain that's just

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