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Welcome to another show. Where are we? We are in 2026 for those who aren't keeping track. I just think about when I started in 2013, back in November of 2013, I just started the blog, the overwhelmed brain. And then like a few weeks later, I started the podcast.

And this will have nothing to do with today's episode, but I'm sharing it anyway because

sometimes thinking about this just reminds me of where I've come from.

And back then, I was married.

Back then, I was working in a hospital, and I was I was married. Back then I was working in a hospital and I was doing computer work and IT work and things

like that.

And six months after I started the show, my wife wanted to divorce and I quit my job.

So a lot of things were happening at that time.

And it really pushed my resilience.

And you might say, well, you quit your job.

That's your fault.

Yeah, for sure.

But I quit my job to do this.

I quit my job to follow this. I'm not going to say I'm

following my dreams or I'm following my passion. I just took a hell of a risk. I took a chance.

I said, this is what I want to do. I want to make this work. And probably a good four years or maybe three years of doing the show, I was living off of savings.

I was living with my mom because after the divorce, I moved and I moved in with her and she was very gracious,

and I helped her with some of the bills and other things.

And it was very nice because I hadn't seen my mom in years.

And it was nice to get to know her again from this new place I was in life.

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