Hi, my name is Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

Podcast. I'm so glad to have with me today, Jerry, my lovely wife.

Thank you, honey. And today our topic is why clarifying expectations will save your life and

leadership. And I will add your family or anybody that you are living with right now.

And we're trying to address in these podcasts really the two primary challenges that monks have

dealt with over the thousands of years of history. The first is my own solitude with God,

how I wrestle with the spiritual issues that I'm confronting living as a monk.

And so we've been talking about we're living in shelter and place right now, most of us around the world, some kind of voluntary quarantine.

And so we've been talking about in the last few podcasts about grief and loss as well as the dark night of the soul.

But the second great challenge for monks, if you read all,

their literature, is their community, how they live together and struggle together week after

week, year after year, decade after decade. Right. So we have a lot to actually learn from monks'

example of living in isolation and how they deal with intensive community.

And that's why we're addressing in this podcast,

why clarifying expectations will save your life in leadership

because it's so key to living in healthy community.

Now, COVID-19 may be forcing us to do social distancing,

and so as a result was a lot of togetherness for families.

And now in some cases, like ours, you've got multi-generations living in a house,

and that togetherness is actually really intensified.

Right. And actually, when we talk about the kind of living arrangements we're having right now,

I am

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