Hi guys, it's Rachel and I'm here. I'm back. I'm finding myself in a really interesting

place in my life and a really interesting place in my career and at any time I have,

I mean, frankly, anything that I've gone through in the last decade I have walked through

with you guys while it's happening and I think this is no exception and also this feels maybe

like a more important thing to process than anything that has come before. So I am not going

to devote every episode of my podcast to the work that I'm doing right now but I do think

I wanted to talk to you guys about where I'm at after last week's episode. So if you didn't hear

last week's episode, this is probably a great time to go listening on that if you'd like to understand

kind of what's going on in my world but in this week's episode I want to talk about what it looks

like to make a mistake and what to do with that because well first of all that's what I'm going

through in real time and secondly I think it's really important to have conversations about when

we get things wrong and where we go from there because I think there is a bit of fear for so many

people about definitely failure. I mean that's a massive fear that so many people have and

something that I've talked about a ton over the years but when I've talked about failure I've never

really looked at it through the lens of having done something where you hurt someone's feelings

or you offended someone or you made a mistake that you wish you could take back and that's the

world that I'm living inside of right now. So what do you do with that and how do you move forward

because I think that there is an instinct when you mess up to sort of give up and if that's what

happens you don't learn anything you can't grow you can't change you can't evolve and given

everything that's happened I feel like it's really important for me to talk to you guys about

it because I know I'm not the only one who's ever messed up so this week I've been thinking a lot

about how you can sit in the discomfort of making a mistake and also how can you find the lesson

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