Even if we accept the idea that a safe life is a small life, many of us reassure ourselves that we'll take the real risks later someday when we get rich enough or successful enough or popular enough.

Or in other words, we'll take the risks ironically when it's safe to do so.

But I can tell you from personal experience, that day never comes.

If you've been a long time listener to this show, you've heard to be say probably a lot of times, you can't stand out and

fit in at the same time. And if you never make anything, right, or if you only make what you're

comfortable making, or if you're making say something and you never share that thing, I find it's my obligation

to call you to that.

I think you're hiding.

And once you start hiding, something bad happens, you stop growing.

Part of you goes to sleep.

And even as my own experience, when I reached what I thought was my creative zenith. It took an avalanche almost

killing me while I was on assignment in Alaska. I literally almost died in an avalanche. And that was

required to wake me up and reveal an even deeper level of what was possible for my creativity.

I had to get really real with myself after I looked death in the eye.

It sounds dramatic, but it was true.

And so now I meet people who get stuck at a point where they are just living in this little comfortable

bubble without realizing it.

I feel so compelled to help do whatever I can to wake them up.

That's what this show is about today.

And to take these risks, not just one time, but to take them over and over and over again,

requires getting out of your head and tuning into your heart and into your gut.

Now, these survival instincts, right, that we were either born with or that have evolved to keep us safe

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