Welcome to the CLS experience. I'm your host, Craig Siegel. I'm a Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of The Reinvention Formula.

I'm a global, transformational speaker, facilitator, coach, mentor, advisor, investor, eight-time marathoner, and a soul having a human experience.

But most importantly, if you're listening to this podcast, you should know that my mission

is to hit you with a nugget or a download that changes the way you think and charts you

on the course for a huge breakthrough in your life, both professionally and personally.

You'll hear from some of the most dynamic

and accomplished guests on the planet

and some cute little solo mini episodes as well.

I will challenge the guests for your benefit.

Let's go deep.

Yeah, I mean, you can say things like almost everyone,

probably everyone. It's the human condition to be insecure in some way, shape or form.

You know, my older sister was smarter than me, you know, my dad was hard on me.

Like, whatever. We all have stuff like that, right?

Like, I wasn't the smartest kid in the class, or I was the best athlete, or whatever.

We all have these ideas about ourselves. Well,

in any given situation in adulthood, the brain's job is to take what you know and keep you safe.

So it's going to take those things, which are usually faulty, right? They're usually not the actual

truth and predict what might happen.

Well, that's actually not all that useful because what's in front of you as an adult has nothing

to do with, you know, your third grade teacher was a jerk to you and made you feel like

the dumbest kid in the class.

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