Well, hello there. It's Morgan here. And before today's episode, I just wanted to say that you might hear

some air conditioning type sounds in the background, but I think I quieted it enough that it doesn't really

conflict too much with what I was saying as I was recording. So I just wanted to throw that out there.

Thanks so much for joining me here today.

Well, hello there.

It's Morgan here and welcome to today's episode.

Today we're going to be talking about what cautionary tales have held you back.

And I'm going to share one that has shown up in my own life and maybe you can relate to it.

But even if you can't, I hope that it can serve as a prompt for you to think of your own cautionary tale, no matter how subtle it may be, that may have held you back in some way.

So one thing about a cautionary tale is that it's oftentimes just a story. It's just a story that's

being told to warn the listener of certain consequences of certain actions or behaviors. Stories that

remind us of potential dangers or stories that are designed to help us not make certain mistakes.

A cautionary tale could be a fable like the boy who cried wolf or the tortoise in the hair

or a story like Little Red Riding Hood, which are all stories that point to something

that happened that was bad and ended up being bad for the character.

And it could have been avoided if they had taken these precautions.

So in the story of the boy who cried wolf,

it's about false alarms and crying wolf when there was no danger.

And then when the real wolf actually appears,

then the townspeople don't believe the boy

and the wolf is able to cause harm.

So that's like an example of a cautionary tale. Now, those are probably

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