Hello and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and today is my 30th birthday.

So in today's episode, I'm going to share some of what I've learned in my 20s.

More to come on that in a moment, but first we'll start in the same way we always

do by tuning into the sound of the bells. I'm not yet 30 at the time of recording this.

I still have a few hours.

But I'd like to share with you kind of my experience moving into my 30s and some of what I've

gleaned from my 20s.

A lot of people have been asking me recently, what is it like to know that you're

about to turn 30? And to be honest, my knee jerk responses. I don't know. It doesn't really feel like anything.

It doesn't mean much to me. In fact, you know, in my line of work, I've been looking forward to getting

older just because the older you are, the more gray hair you have as a meditation teacher, the wiser you're perceived.

So it's not that helpful being a 23 year old meditation teacher, which is when I started teaching.

So there's been a part of me along the way that has been looking forward to, I don't know, growing into my teachings and allowing my teachings to evolve with time and with experience and getting older.

And trust me, I know there are people listening right now

that are going, this guy's turning 30 and he's talking about getting older.

Come on, come back to me when you're 50 or 60 or 70.

So I get it. But maybe you also remember what it was like to transition into your 30s if you're already beyond that.

And while it does, in some sense it just feels like another day, another year, there is a transition I feel happening and I have been reflecting over the last few months on just what what have my 20s taught me and what has been the

theme of of those years of my life what have they to, and what sort of understanding has come out of them?

I'm not going to do a 20 things I learned in my 20s type thing, that might be a blog post at some other point but I will try to riff from

an embodied place of reflection of what what these years have meant to be and where I see the next years leading.

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