... f- I'm believing in myself to do this," when not- nothing was really showing you, you weren't getting a ton of support necessarily from the universe yet that this was the thing you should do.

Yeah.

Firstly, I wanna say that when you're in that moment where it's like, "God, nothing's working," and, you know, clearly whatever it is that I'm doing is, needs to change, the first thing I th- I think you could approach that moment from the lens of deep frustration, almost like nothing's working, and that's proof that it won't work, and it's proof that God is not on my side, and it's proof that I am all alone and that life sucks, and you ...

That would be giving this experience over to the ego, which is exactly where the ego wants you to stay, right? Because that's how it solidifies its stronghold over your experience.

Or you can recognize that that's actually an incredibly beautiful place to be.

To be in the hu- so, so you could use it as, like, the solidifying or you could use it as humility, where you're actually saying, "I don't know what to do.

I've tried everything.

Mm-hmm.

You say this is really all about remembering who we really are.

Well, thank you so much for having me.

I really appreciate being with you.

Well, how does it work? I think, you know, if you think about how most of us wake up every morning, it's like before you've even opened your eyes, the mind, the monkey mind is already going and planning and maybe worrying about what's ahead and your feet haven't even touched the ground.

And then what do we all do? We grab our phone and then we pour caffeine on top of all of that.

And it's no wonder that we're like anxious and it's only noon.

While that's how most people start every single day, what I wanted to do is give everyone some kind of an interruption.

So how did you get from

First and foremost, starting your day 101, why is it important to have some sort of morning ritual in your perspective?

Okay.

So it's not just important, it's vital to have a really intentional morning practice.

If you're someone who wants to be living this life in alignment with what you came here for, which is the way I put it, to remember who you are.

You're here, you came in this planet knowing exact, or I should say, before you came into this planet, before you inhabited a body, you knew exactly who you were, a creation of the divine, an extension of the most miraculous energy, for lack of a better word, because there's no words to describe what you really are.

But you are that, infinite.

love, light, presence, energy.

listen, if you can't listen to your own podcast, who's going to listen? That's what I always say.

Mm-hmm

... not a physical, you know, bound, limited being.

You knew you were limitless and eternal and completely connected to divine, to the divine, and for whatever reason, you chose to kind of forget that.

To go into a physical environment where you are going to believe that you are a small, separate person, separate from everything.

Ultimately, I believe, to go on a journey to remember who you actually are.

Mm-hmm.

But that in the moment that you came into that body, you had all that knowledge of who you are and everything, and then an angel touched you right here, and that's why we have this little thing, I don't remember the medical term for it, above our lip.

Mm-hmm.

We're forgetting who we are.

Yes.

And I would say it's a trend right now because the noise is loud, but it's been the trend from the, from the beginning of time, the moment we could say the big bang happened and physical universe started taking shape and growing to what it's become today.

It's been rooted in one thought, which is the thought that is at the source of all of your fear, which is I am separate.

I am something separate from God, from the universe, from the earth.

I I exist within this skin and this is what I am.

And therefore I only have a certain number of years to prove that I'm worthy enough to live a meaningful life, to get it all in so that I can one day die feeling like I lived a happy, meaningful life.

And you know,

[laughs]

That is a brilliant question.

You know, I [laughs] it's funny 'cause when I was in the conversation with, when iHeartMedia had, had come to me and said, "You know, you gotta have a podcast.

Let, let's build something together," and the idea to take these daily morning emails that I used to send out a long time ago and turn it into a podcast came up, they were...

I, you know, I said, "I want it to be daily," and they said, "Are you crazy? Like, you're gonna create daily content? You know, most people just do one a week and that's already too much." I said, "No problem.

I'll go in the studio, you'll set it up, I'll push record, and it'll just flow right out of me." Wow, that was pretty arrogant because the first day I sat down with a microphone in my face looking at a camera and it was like I couldn't speak.

I had nothing to say.

[laughs]

see you're such a dancer and I'm the same way like we just do this stuff like reach it out

um So that's one piece is this biological thing where we learn really young, and this is going to sound extreme what I'm about to say, but it's true.

We learn that if we express our uncomfortable emotions, it could kill us.

Because it can make our primary caretakers go away.

That's how serious this is.

I believe the biggest underlying condition of the insanity of our species is unconscious emotional avoidance.

If every human being could get out of our head and get present to what's actually going on inside of our body...

It took time, again, but we're all, just because we're living with a disease, like, doesn't mean that we can't still feel the ways that you're speaking about, you know?

see you're such a dancer and I'm the same way like we just do this stuff like reach it out

um So that's one piece is this biological thing where we learn really young, and this is going to sound extreme what I'm about to say, but it's true.

We learn that if we express our uncomfortable emotions, it could kill us.

because it can make our primary caretakers go away.

That's how serious this is.

I believe the biggest underlying condition of the insanity of our species is unconscious emotional avoidance.

If every human being could get out of our head and get present to what's actually going on inside of our body, Be with it.

No.

... how do you fill those roles?

roles?Yeah, I think-- That's, I mean, that's a really good question.

I think the younger me, uh, tried to be a little bit of more like a chameleon and try to fit in in, in different areas.

But now, like, I'm just gonna be me.

Um, if you like that, great.

If not, like, everyone's different.

So it's like you're-- you-- In, in some regard, like, everybo- every one of your teammates is your coworker, but at the same time, they can become your brother.

How different are you now? How, how different is the pitcher now that was from when you were here in 2023?