Hello, my chickens. This has been a very painful and intense time for many of us with the murder

of George Floyd by the Minneapolis police and the protests and the police violence and brutality

and everything that has come along with that in the last couple of weeks, not to mention the last

several hundred years of this country. So I wanted to do this bonus episode to talk a little bit about

what I think the role of thoughtwork is in moments like this and in social change generally because

I think there's a lot of silence about this and structural issues in the coaching community,

which is one of the reasons that I try to be vocal about it. And I also want to point you to some

existing resources and tell you about a free coaching call I'm going to do later this week as well.

So I'm going to do those things in order and to teach you a little bit. I'm going to point you

to some existing resources at the end. I'm going to tell you about the free coaching call just so that

you don't have to try to remember the details of the call at the end when you want to register.

Okay, so here's the first thing to know. The point of thoughtwork is not to feel awesome all the time.

It's not to get to neutral. Get to neutral quote unquote all the time. It is not about any other attempt to

flatten the human experience or deny our full humanity. Sometimes we are so afraid of our feelings

or find them so overwhelming that I think that we turn to thoughtwork as a way to not have to feel

or suffer, but we think that's what we can use it for. That doesn't work and that's not the point

of it. To me, to me, thoughtwork is a tool that we use to navigate the experience of being a human

in a world that is not always the way that we want it to be. You know, you will have noticed that

I don't teach about keeping your vibes high and I don't teach about the universe having a plan for you.

I don't teach about the universe having your highest good. I don't personally believe in that

kind of divine intention. If you do and that thought works for you, that's great. I'm not saying

you're wrong, but I just think that it's important to really clarify that for me, I come from

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