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So a lot of people ask me how to journal because I always talk about how journaling is the most important thing that I think you do on a daily basis for your personal growth because it develops self-awareness.

You start noticing things about yourself that you love, things that you want to change. You start noticing a lot of different things about yourself when you journal.

To this day, I've been journaling for 12 years and I still journal every single day and I learn more and more about myself every single day and it really helps me figure out who I am but also at the same time it helps you figure out where I'm going.

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Okay, so today we're going to be talking about vulnerability. I know it's a hard subject. I can hear all of the gasps out there in podcast land going, oh crap, we're going to talk about vulnerability.

I don't want to talk about it. I'm not one of those people that quote unquote does vulnerability. I'm a guy I played football and basketball and I did sports and guys aren't supposed to be vulnerable.

You know, that's that's what I can hear and that's what I've thought up until, you know, as I've been getting older and starting to mature and starting to read books and seeing all of these things.

And we're going to split us up into two parts. The first episode, this episode, the first part is going to be talking about vulnerability. What is vulnerability? Why are we afraid of it? You know, where does our fear come from of it?

And the second part is going to be how to embrace being vulnerable, how to become vulnerable and all of the positives that come with being vulnerable as well.

So, you know, let's go ahead and dive in. What is vulnerability? Why are we afraid of it? You know, most people in their heads, they think vulnerability. You know, if I'm vulnerable, I'm weak. I'm showing that I'm weak and that probably goes back to our caveman days.

You know, we didn't want to be seen as weak because we didn't want to be pushed out of the pack because we needed to live and stay in a pack of people. You know, probably goes back to that.

We think as vulnerability is a very dark emotion. You know, it's, you know, vulnerability is the core of, you know, fear and anger and disappointment and shame and all of the most difficult emotions.

But vulnerability, besides those things, is also the core of love, of joy, of happiness, of all of the emotions that really set us free and make us feel like real people.

And in our culture, you know, it's hard with the ads that we see, with social media, with, you know, little girls seeing magazines with Photoshop of these quote unquote perfect women, you know, that are Photoshop to look skinnier and their skin looks perfect and they have more makeup on.

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