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One of the best decisions I ever made here with Daily Stoic was the decision to use Shopify.

Shopify is the backend for the Daily Stoic store.

If you've ever done our courses, those are done through Shopify.

If you've ever bought a signed book from me, you've done that through Shopify.

If you've ever bought anything from the painted porch, that's also through Shopify.

Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10%

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at Shopify.com.uk.uk slash stoic. That's Shopify.com.com.uk slash stoic.

Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline

and justice and wisdom. For more, visit daily stoic.com. The history of stoicism is obviously a very male-centric thing.

And in today's episode, I wanted to talk about where Marcus learned to be Marcus.

And the answer is he learned from his mother.

Marks Ruehers,

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