Hey there, it's Rohan. Have you ever felt stuck? Like you'd really like to make a change in your career

or your personal life, but you just couldn't move. Most of us feel stuck at one point or another.

And here's the interesting part. We actually already have the ability to get on stuck.

So why don't we do it? Our coaching partner better up, suggest that because we fear change,

we talk ourselves out of it. Maybe even overthink or overcomplicate the steps we need to take

to keep ourselves from taking action. Our internal antibodies to change, that is to say fear,

takes over. As a quick reminder, we're collaborating with Better Up by using meditative story

and the episode themes to coach you through challenges like getting stuck. If you're feeling stuck,

Better Up can help because here's what their coaches know. We like to think of ourselves as

rational beings, but what really motivates us is positively charged emotions that act as feedback

loops when we need to act. After today's meditative story, I'll share a brief exercise from Better Up

to kickstart the change you'd like to make in your life.

One, two, three, four.

I've always loved my side gigs, sitting in the jury box on lawn order SVU,

narrating museum tours, wearing a foam banana costume in the streets and convention centers,

smiling while strangers tell me I should have stayed in college. Which, by the way, I did.

I'm used to my jobs being part of my creative life, a way of learning things and getting inspired.

I thought this might be another interesting arrow in my quiver,

but I had no idea, zero, what I was in for.

If you already love Beth Lysick, it may be from her six books, including Everybody Into The Poor

and ED on the Greens Green. Maybe you know the beloved porch light storytelling series she

co-founded, or her spoken word performances, or her film work. But Beth's various side gigs over

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