In my opinion, radical honesty, transparency, and this is why I value it so much now,

it begins first and foremost with me acknowledging truths to myself,

which are oftentimes quite uncomfortable truths.

And then I can give that gift of transparency to whether it's my partner,

like the two of you are beautifully doing or my community or the world at scale, you know,

whomever it is.

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I believe a lot of us that go into this field or that gravitate toward it, right?

I'm just using the traditional, like, universal way.

We refer it right, the helpers, the caretakers, right?

The fixers.

We can all, I think,

identify with a personality characteristic, most of us that led us be the helping or desired to be

the helping professional that we are. And what I've come to realize, I call that conditioning,

right? That's a pattern. That's as far as I see it, how we learn to show up in our relationships.

For me and for many of us, I feel like we are predisposed.

That conditioned pattern sets us up to do that really successfully.

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