We keep it moving, yeah, we keep it moving, yeah, we're going.

We keep it moving.

Yeah, we're too.

Hello, my gente.

Welcome one and all to a brand, spanking new episode.

Fresh out the kitchen, we've been cooking in la Cucina, making you a delicious, bold,

flavorful, spicy,

caliente, sizzling fajita platter of the low-life podcast ready for you to sink your chompers into.

I'm your flaming hot and spicy. Seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, tuck your finger

like an iced coffee sipping, mushroom microddosing hot mess of a host.

No, Dan, so on.

And I'm so happy to be here with you today.

There's no place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you right now.

I hope you're having a great day and a beautiful week and you're feeling good.

But if you are struggling with your mental health, if you're feeling like shit right now, if you're depressed, anxious, just feeling overwhelmed, well, don't you worry, boo-boo, don't you fret. You have come to the right place. We're about to turn that frown upside down. We've got a great show in store for you today. This is a very inspiring story. I love this week's guest. Before we get into this week's conversation, though, I got to rate my mental health on a scale of one to 10. I'm actually feeling pretty good this week. I've been taking some time to just take care of myself, which I often neglect. And that's a problem. Like, I don't go to my infrared saunas, and I know that actually helps me out a lot. Sometimes I'm eating on the run, so I don't feel like I'm eating a well-balanced diet, but I've been working on that this week. And it makes such a difference when I just take a little bit of time to give myself a fighting chance at winning. Do you know what I mean? Like, if you just pack a snack that's healthy or make sure you allow for some time for you to get your steps in or to get outside for even 15 minutes. I've been doing things like that. Having Shammu has really helped too because, of course, I have to walk him and go outside, and he's so

energetic. This little pug of love, my God, like they tell me the vets, people who have

pugs, Frenchies, flat-nosed dogs, they always say that your pug is going to just change one day,

probably at around two years old. That's when it happens for most. Three at the latest.

But they basically just go into retirement mode and they no longer have all this energy and they don't

get super excited and they don't want to play with you and they don't want to be as adventurous.

Like that's going to happen and you're going to miss the times when you had a very excited hyperdog who love to do everything with you.

Like there comes a point in time in a pug's life when they just slow down.

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