6 Magic Words That Stop Anxiety & Overwhelm
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A is your friend ml, and welcome to the male robots broadcast. I'm so glad you're here. Thank you for tuning in its smell.

And right now, i'm sitting in a hotel room in old like city. I've got about an hour before i've got across the street and headed over to the convention center and give a speech. But something happened this morning where I caught myself going down a rabbit hole.

I started worrying about something. Then the worries became even bigger, and I realized i'm doing that thing. I'm doing that thing where I am causing myself a lot of pain because I am catastrophes. So many of us strugling with this. You may strugling with this where your mind is constantly defaulting to what's going to go wrong, or you're always dwelling on problems that haven't happened yet.

And so I thought, why don't I just jup on the mike while I have a little bit of time here and explain what just happened to me? Because I know you're going to relate to IT. So here's a op.

So I wake up and I rolled out of bed and I start my Normal morning routine and I pick up my phone. And one of the reasons why I pick up my phone is because our oldest child, our daughter sawyer, whose twenty four years old, is in the middle of a solo backpacking trip on the other side of the world. And this is something she's wanted to do for a long time.

It's really well planned out. And of course, because i'm her mother, because I worry I am tracking her location and we are all on what's up where in a family group text. And right now, he is in australia and he had planned as part of her attention, that he was going to go on a couple solo hikes.

Cue the worry. Okay, I got my twenty four year old daughter back, back, out, back in a country she's never been to. Obviously, it's relatively safe, but that does not prevent me from coming up with all kinds of fantasies in my mind about what could go wrong.

And so i've been prety good. I've been really good. You know, I, I have been able to just enjoy from a far and not become a stocker. But something happened that caused me to spiral this morning. SHE.

Submit this mountain in australia to see a sunrise two days ago, and I haven't heard from her, and I go to track her location and I like, where is he and IT sort of rainbow wheelings. So I can't see where SHE is. And I know she's okay because he posted something on social media, but I woke up this morning and I immediately looked at my WhatsApp.

There was no message from her in the family group chat. There was no message from her directly to me. I then went to instagram.

There was no dm from her, and I started to panic. And what did my mind think? I'm almost embarrassed to tell you.

Why are you just step in my shoes for a minute? What do you think male Robins was thinking, knowing that her daughter had summited a mountain alone? Its like a five mile hike up SHE started four o clock in the morning to see if the sun rise.

We saw the photos of the sun rise having her premise SE what do you think my mind is thinking right now? It's been forty eight hours. She's on the other side of the world. Oh, you know, i'm not thinking, oh, I bet you met some friends and she's out having fun or maybe her phone died or you know what melt.

Maybe she's so busy that you and have time to talk you because the whole point of her trip is not to keep you posted of her whereabouts for her to go out and have this incredible experience and to grow and to discover and to be brave and to explore. That's not what my mind thought. No, you know what my mind thought? She's dead.

SHE fell off the mountain after taking the sunrise photo two days ago. The woman is dead. Then I thought, none, no, no.

Maybe SHE got kidnapped. Then I thought, oh, no. SHE was sexually assaulted on the side of the trail.

And somebody, this is disgusting, I know, but do not tell me that you don't do the same thing, that your mind goes dark. I'm talking gruesome, scary horror movie, like in a nano second. And here's the thing, I know that this is a terrible thing to do. I know that this causes me pain, and I bet you do IT too.

I know you do, in fact, because i've seen the dms that you write to me, whether it's you are worried about your money and you're constantly worried about something bad happening with your money or getting fired or forgetting about something for your kids and that's where your brain is constantly settling. We're all guilty of this. There is so much research around the fact that worry is so painful in your life.

This is a really, really bad spiracle to get into. IT causes you a lot of pain. IT causes you a lot of stress.

IT can certainly bring on anxiety, and if you already struggle with a little bit anxiety, IT can make IT a lot worse. IT doesn't help with your confidence. Worry is a habit. And one out of three people, according to research, struggle with constant worrying.

And so what I want to share with you today is a six word sentence that I use all the time in these moments when I catch my mind spiralling and IT really helps me, because IT stops that freak train of bad, negative, catastrophic thoughts. And here's the six words. You're ready.

This is what I said to myself, what if IT all works out? So as i'm standing this morning in my underwear, I don't even have a born this morning and i've already visualized my daughter falling to her death off of a Cliff in the midst of nowhere in australia. I'm brushing my teeth and i'm starting to notice my anxiety rising.

It's six fifteen in the morning here and I have inflicted self torture before. I've had a glass of water or a cup of coffee. This is completely unnecessary.

And so i'm standing there in my underwear. I'm visualizing my daughter's death or the fact that she's been kidnapped and abducted. And I notice the stressed rise, and I catch myself and I say to myself, ml, what if IT all works out?

What if IT .

all works out? I mean, you can't argue with that, right? What if IT all works out? And this is what I wanted teach you to do because you need to start catching yourself.

I think you and I can agree that we can't control anything that's happening outside of us, but we can certainly control our reaction to IT because in this moment where you're worried about getting fired or you're worried about forgetting something for your kids or you're worried about what will happen if the people that you love the most, we're gona die before you can say goodbye, or this one happens for me a lot. I'll be sitting on a plane and it's taking off, and I suddenly spiral and think if this plane crashes, i'm not going to see my daughter's wedding. I'm not going to meet my grandkids.

I'm not going to get to do all this stuff that I really want to do in my life. And in that moment, i'm in the negative, what if this? What if that? What if the other thing? And I feel the pain rising, and I feel the stress rising, and I feel the self inflicted torture coming on.

I simply drop in those six words, what if IT all works out? And here's what happens. IT stops the spiral.

That's the first thing that happens. What if IT all works out? You just take the breaks on the local motive of worry.

The second thing that happens is because it's a question. What if that all works out? You actually pause for a second and .

consider IT.

And what you realize when you stop for a second and you pause and you consider what if IT all works out is you don't actually know it's gona happen, do you? You're just choosing to make yourself believe that something terrible has already happened. But the truth is, in this moment, you don't know.

And so IT is a fact, a logical fact, that I could all work out. This is kind of amazing. I I want to first some research at you.

Let me find this. You can hear me flip them through my papers because there's a lot of really interesting stuff. There is a study of penn state where they looked at chronic worrying, and the average person has three to four major worries a day OK.

What if I get fired? What if i'm not happy? What if my marriage jeans, will I find love and have children? What if I don't make the money? What if this? What if that? What if the think all these worries that every single one of us, you and me, we have at least three or four of them that causes stress or make us feel some level of pain?

According to this pen state study, ninety one percent of those worries are completely false, itself inflicted torture. And I think you and I both know that. And here's the other really kind of interesting thing. You know, the other nine percent of the worries that do happen, the outcome is almost always way Better than you expected period. The outcome is way Better than you expected about a third of the time.

So what does this mean? This means that you going, what if it's a disaster? What if this happens? What if she's fAllen off a Cliff? What if I never hear from again? What if he doesn't a ba ba ba? What if IT all works out? So you don't know, do you? You don't know if you're getting fired.

You don't know if you're going to run out of money, but you can rely on the research that ninety one percent of the time IT doesn't happen and a third of the nine percent of the remaining, it's way Better than you thought. And that leaves you with a six percent chance that something might happen. Here's how I look at this.

Is something bad happens I will do of that. Then why do I need to torture myself now when I don't even know? Is something amazing is happening, or something bad is happening? So what if IT all works out? Is a way for you to catch yourself, because you and I inflict so much pain.

And IT is pain. It's pain when you do this to yourself. IT was painful to stand in the bathroom here in sult lake, in my underwear, brushing my teeth, thinking about my daughter's death.

And it's completely ridiculous. Not like, give me a break. Ml, give me a fricking break.

And I know all our fans right now in australia, new zealand, like, oh, she's fine. Like, that is ridiculous. Mell IT is so fabulous.

People do this all the time. They hike that trail, it's wide. IT says, it's sad.

I know that mountain you're talking about because you went up for the sunrise. You're completely ridiculous. That's why you need this six word sentence.

What if that works out? Because IT will interrup the spiral. And what we're going to talk about next is why it's important to interact the spiral.

You know, this based on common sense. Why go through life torturing yourself? Why allow your mind to dwell in worries about things that either haven't happened or problems that haven't resulted yet, or situations that are beyond control?

Why do this? I'm here to tell you, I don't want you to do this. I want to bring in some spirituality require, because there is this budd's teaching that I think is so beautiful and it's so relevant to what you and I are talking about right now. You're ready any time that you are ye suffer from some kind of misfortune.

And the misfortune might just be that you haven't heard from somebody in a couple days or IT might just be that you got a bad and your review at work, or IT might just be that you suddenly got a bill or diagnosis that scares the living daylights out to you. Okay, any time that a human being suffers some kind of misfortune in life, there are two arrows that gets fired. The first hits you when the painful event occurs.

And for me this morning, grabbing my phone, looking for my daughter's location, seeing a rainbow wheel instead of some sort of location at a hostel, thinking about the fact that I ve had heard from her since I saw the sunrise photo two days ago, that moment, who was an arrow? Your arrow might be that somebody breaks up with you. IT might be the number on the scale.

IT might be that bill that just arrived and you're like, I don't have a thousand dollars to fix my car right now. IT might be that you didn't get into the school you wanted to get into IT might be that is, are cough fing and you really worried about a bad health diagnosis in your family. There is the first arrow bomb hits, right? So this is the arrow that gets fired at you, like right in your heart.

The second arrow that gets fired is the era that you fire right into your forehead. It's your reaction to what just happened. It's the arrow that you fire at yourself based on what you think next. And when you start to understand that life is going to fire arrows at you all the time, that triggers you to worry, the worry, the anxiety, the catsrider ing that is the second arrow and IT causes you so much pain.

I'm going to prove this to you based on some research studies that they've done about anticipatory worry, or being afraid of something, or this kind of negative thinking lights up the pain pathways in your brain. And this is also a concept that has been studied and researched pensively in psychology. What psychologists and psychiatrists call this is having a primary and secondary emotional response.

So your primary emotional response is your immediate reaction to having something bad happen, or a fear of yours, or some sort of expectation that you have. The secondary emotion that you feel is the a oceans that you sit with in reaction to IT. This is the thing that lingers.

So examples of this might be that when somebody dies, you have a prime mary emotion of profound shock and sadness. And despair is that just evil launch that hits you. But the secondary emotion is the grief that can last a long time.

And what we know based on research is that you don't really have a lot of control on the primary emotion, but there are a tremendous number of things that you can do in order to shortening the experience of the secondary emotion that you have. And that's we're talking about. We're talking about that second arrow, the pain you cause yourself, and we're talking about IT specifically based on the pain that worrying and catastrophes assuming the worst.

What that's doing to your health, to your mindset, to your nervous system, to your attitude and to your ability to experience more joy and fulfilment in your life. And that's why i'm on a mission today about stop myself from firing that second ero at my forehead and interrupt IT grab IT out of the air so that I can assume something really good is happening. I can assume that it's all onna work out.

And I can stop torturing myself with all the shit that I making up anyway. And I want you to do the exact same thing. All right? So let's take a quick pause.

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Welcome back to front mall. And you and I sitting here, and I was just confessing to you that I did a whole worry spiral this morning.

And i'm teaching you, when, in my favor, tools, the six sentence word, what if IT all works out these moments where an outside thing is happening to you, trigger you to start attacking fing or worrying and we don't need to know the science to know that IT is painful, to stand there and be terrified that you're going to uh, not be able say goodby e to somebody that you love because you're scared of flying now you're sitting in an airplane seat and when you say to yourself, what if IT all works out, you know what it's like? It's like, okay, life just fired to narrow at you and I want you to stop and think right now, okay, what is an arrow that life fired at you and think about something going on in your life right now. And in order to get you thinking about this, i'm going to bring in our global audience because I knew I wanted to talk about this.

So we put up something on instagram real quick and you guys respond like, oh my gosh, sh moths to offend, its incredible, I love you and I asked, what would your life be like if you didn't worry about anything? And what are you worrying about right now? And so let me tell you some of the arrows that life is throwing at people.

This is sylvia. I'm scared of flying, and I always worry because I feel out of control that i'm going to die on the plain flight. And here's the second era that she's firing.

What if I can say goodby? E, what if this is IT? That's the second arrow. It's fine to be afraid of flying, but why are you torturing yourself with all these horrible thoughts? Instead, I want you to reach up and grab that second error that you're aiming at yourself with your worries in midd air.

I want you to rank IT out of the air by going, what if IT all works out? What if this plain lands? What if I not only get to see all these people that I love and say goodyer, but i'm the last one, stand in my family.

I outlive all. What if IT all works out? Here's another one. Magi annual reviews are coming up.

boom. That's an narrow in the heart.

That's the first arrow. IT is nervous of racking. That's true.

But why does magi need to go? What if I get fired? What if i'm the one that kids laid off?

What's going to happen to my kids? How I going to pay for groceries out? That that is the second error.

That's why you need. What if IT all works out, you will reach up. You grab bit, you grab bit, you grab bit.

Rabbit, here's another one. Here's a really, really important one from gabby. I'm going through divorce bomb ero straight to the heart.

Even when you know it's the best thing, it's still painful, isn't net, that's what happens in your life. But the second narrow, what if I never, ever have the life that I actually want? You got to stop that shit from hitting your head.

You gotta stop firing that stuff right at yourself. That's why you ve got to reach up with these six words. What if IT all works out?

What if IT all works out? What if getting divorce is painful, but it's best thing that ever happened? me. What if this divorce is really chAllenging right now, but i'm gna emerge stronger and a Better version of myself and my kids are going to be Better, and that's going to open the door to me being in a healthier, more supportive relationship?

What if this is the best thing that ever happened to me, even though it's the hardest thing that ever happened to me? Isn't that awesome? This is how you stop firing that second arrow at yourself.

Here's another one. There are natural disasters in the news all the time. In the area that I live in, that's an arrow every time you see an natural disaster.

But why do you have to fire the second one at yourself? What if the mudslide takes out my house? What if the volcano e rebs here?

What if the floods come and they wipe out that thing? IT hasn't happened yet. So why on earth you causing yourself this pain? I'll tell you why, because we're used to doing IT.

This is what we do reflexively. Life fires an arrow, and then we fired the second one. And so this is why, what if IT all works out? Isn't just putting lipstick on a pig or icing a city situation over with some like positive class?

This is actually using science to combat your shady habits of torturing yourself. This is you intervening with logic. Because if something bad hasn't happened, how is worrying about IT help you right now?

If you don't know what's actually gonna happen, how does worrying about IT, or assuming the worst case going to make things Better? It's not. In fact, you experience the pain twice because you experiences the anticipation of IT unless you say you are going na get fired and look, i've been fired twice.

I've been literally brought into somebody's office and told i'm doing a terrible job and let go. IT is the worst. And then the second you leave, once you get over the humiliation of the whole thing, it's the most liberating thing that ever happens to because you typically only get fired from a job that you can't stand anyway or that you know that you're not performing in, which is the case.

But I knew I was coming. I just could feel that I tortured myself for a month. I didn't need to do that because I didn't change the outcome. If anything, IT made me experience IT over and over and over.

And i'll tell you, anticipating IT way worse than what actually happened if I had just said to myself for those thirty days, what if IT all works? What if you do get fired and is the best thing that ever happened? What if you're not gonna get fired? But this is a wake up call for you to step IT up and actually start performing little bit Better.

IT allows you to stop experiencing so much pain. Yesterday I did this before I flew a salt lake because I was racing around the house. I couldn't find my freaking computer charger.

I couldn't find my passport. I couldn't find the bag that I Normally put my travel equipment in, and I was raised around. I was freaking out, like all my god.

I only think about, what if IT all works at? What if you suddenly find the charger? Or Better yet, you're an adult, you can get to an airport and buy a charger.

So instead of literally firing arrows at yourself, you could stop firing IT and focus. And that's why this is super, super important. I'm going to talk about the other reason why it's critical that you not equal situations with this unnecessary worrying. okay. Here, let me give you some other ones from our audience.

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Oh, lady, anytime I see somebody else happy bomb ero of the heart. That's what's happening around you. Then he fires a second one.

What if I never gotto find my person? Does worrying about that help you find your person? no. IT actually makes you feel more insecure.

And this is where I want to go next, because here's the thing, there is a profound connection between catastrophes and aiming these arrows at yourself and the pain that you feel, and how IT impacts your ability to problems solve. To think clearly, this all comes from research. I A U C, L.

A. From doctor jude, if wellness. I thought about this pensively for my research and high five habit book. We interviewed doctor Judith willis for that book and ducked into her research.

And SHE is pioneering research around the connection between your nervous system and the ability for you to do is called executive function. Executive function is basically the frontal low, the prefrontal cortex party, your brain, your forehead. Basically, for those of us kind of everyday people, it's your ability to prom ove.

It's your ability to make strategic decisions. It's your ability to think clearly when you start aiming that second arrow. My daughters must have fAllen off a Cliff I haven't heard from, or something terrible has happened.

I'm going to get fired. I'm never going to be happy again. I'm never gonna this weight off.

And the pain, and the pain and the pain that comes with doing that to yourself. IT sets off the alarm. The fighter fighter freeze part of your nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is called. And when the alarm nervous system is going off, IT empires, the cognitive functioning in your brain, IT impacts decision making, IT impacts your ability to focus.

IT impacts your ability to problems of and so you're not only firing a second aro at yourself, which causes so much pain, you are also firing that ero right into the center of your forehead. And IT impacts your ability to think clearly to solve a problem. And here's why this is important.

Let's just say for those of you that are really skeets ticket and you're like, but yeah but mell, what if something bad does happen? What what if your daughter did fall off the Cliff and she's laying there with a broken cavo inge and he needs help. I'll tell you, what if I don't hear from her? And seventy two hours, I need to move in the problem.

Solve a mode, right? Is IT going to help me solve a problem halfway around the world if i've shot an arrow into the center of my forehead and I worked myself into such a state that I can think clearly, uh, no. And so even if the worst case scenario that you're terrified about happens, your ability to face IT two problems solve through IT.

To think clearly about your options. IT is severely impaired by this constant worrying that you are doing, and that's why this is so important. What if IT all works out? IT doesn't guarantee that you will IT guarantees that you will stay calm, that you will stay focused, that you will stay present and that you will stay positive until you know otherwise.

And that's everything. All right, I the pause very quick. I've got to one to the bathroom because I have a feeling that i'm going to be talking to you. Where are up until the time I got a race out of the hotel room to go give a speech, to go anywhere? I got more that I want to share with you, including a lot of really cool research.

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Welcome back. It's your power mail. And we're talking about the six words that I use that magically just bomb silences, the worry spiral and my anxious what if IT all works out OK.

So another thing i'm in a confession is that until I stumbled on this, what if IT all works out? I didn't realize how much I was doing this to myself. I basically walked around life with a second error in my head because I was constantly worried about something, constantly thinking something bad was going to happen.

And some of the experts that we've had on this podcast that talk about trauma, or talk about the impact of growing up in a chaotic household, or experiencing abuse, or being the kind of person that felt like as a kid, you are always waiting for the other shooter drop. You are super hyper vigilant. This is very, very common for people like us. That is me, miss, look around the corners. What what is bad thing is going to happen, anticipating things.

And what i'm here to tell you is that if you start to really lean into what i'm talking about, which is how you aim the second error at your forehead, and you start utilizing, well, what if IT all works out to grab the second arrow, yann t IT out of your forehead and be present in the moment and not escalate things until necessary. You can still tap into your intuition. You can still look around corners, which is a superpower for you, but you don't have to add on the pain that all of the negative thoughts are creating.

And there's so much research about this. First of all, stress can actually lead to physical pain. This comes from doctor Arthur barsky, who's a professor of psychiatry, harvard medical school, where they've done these studies about how stress can lead to physical pain.

And let me tell you something, when you start allowing yourself to wear and knock to get into college, i'm not going to be finding love after my spouse has died or i'm never going to get this weight off. I'm not going to get control of this when you start doing that to yourself. IT does cause physical pain.

How many times have you ve been so stressed out or worried that you get a headache, or you've been worried for a test and you get nauseous ous on you, or you start shaking or your stomach is twisting and not that's why we say twisting and not because that's what IT feels like. It's physical pain. And lot times IT begins from your nervous system getting triggered.

That's the first area. And the second arrow is your thoughts. So they've done all of this interesting research.

And what they have been able to prove in studies is that the neural pathways in your brain that indicate physical pain, the same ones, light up when you have a painful thought. And IT is painful to think that you're never going to be happy. IT is painful to think you're not going to see your love ones again.

IT is painful to think that you're never going to achieve your dreams or that you're never going to amount to something. That's why I want you to stop IT. Scientists have also done this really interesting study where they looked at math.

xie. So maxxi ty is literally just feeling stressed out and worried when you're about to do math problems. And the anticipation of doing math prompts a similar brain reaction as when you experience pain.

And the researcher who is a professor, psychology at the university of chicago and the leading expert on math anxiety, said that IT is the equivalent of burning one's hand on hot stove. I'd love knowing this research because IT allows you to stop. And oh, hua, IT is true, because IT is painful. It's painful to think these thoughts. And that's why I want you to really steal these six words for me.

What if IT all works out? I also want you to steal this budd's teaching that when misformed or stress, or something doesn't meet your expectations, or something painful happens in your life, that is, the first arrow hits your right, the heart, but the second arrow is the one that you fire back at yourself into the center of your forehead, based on what you think about what just happened. And that's the piece that you have control over.

Yes, you will always think negative thoughts, but you don't have to escalate IT. You don't have to stay there. And you can use these six words, what if that all works out, and logic to pause that spirit, al, and to question you're thinking.

And when you question yourself, what if IT all works out? The fact is it's just might, right? Like you don't know.

You have even entertained that possibility because you've been so busy firing areas at your forehead, you didn't even stop to think. But there's a whole different possibility here. And based on the research of ten state, ninety one percent of the time, that's the possibility.

So what all I all worked up about, because getting worked up, as we know, based on the research of U. C, L. A.

And from doctor you with wills IT doesn't help me. Here's the final piece. If something bad is gonna happen, I want you to not face IT with an error in your head. I want you to have your full capacity to think clearly, to ask for help, to solve whatever issue is happening in your life.

And that's why this is also important, because between now and whenever something amazing or something terrible happens in your life, you have the ability to be more present and to assume good intent and assume a positive outcome. And that is going to help you both enjoy your life, but it's also going to help you face things if they do, in fact, turn out to be hard, which we know based on the research is about six percent of the time. Those are odds i'm willing to play with.

I'm willing to play with those odds. I'm willing to bet that things are okay. I'm willing to bet on you and me and our ability to be more positive, to be more optimistic, to be more trusting and to live in that space until we know otherwise.

Doesn't that sounds like a good idea? I think that does do when you train yourself to reach up and grab b that second arrow before IT hits your forehead because you don't know, you don't know. And research shows that getting your mind to focus on positive thoughts, positive outcomes, visualizing.

Hey, what would you look like if this all works out? Scientists call this positive, and IT is so effective in beating down that worry. So you might as well put yourself to think something positive will happen.

You might as well learn how to default to positive ideation, where you say this could be the best thing that ever happens. To me. This is an easy, but I trusted i'm going to grow through IT.

I don't know what i'm doing, but I think I can figure that out. This was more difficult than I thought I would be, but boy, and I proud of myself for doing this when you can default the puzzle individuation. I haven't heard from her in two days.

You must be having the time of her life. I haven't heard from her in two days, but I saw that sunrise, which means he is probably so busy with all the friends. SHE made up there because he was also taking photos of other people up there.

SHE must be so busy. SHE didn't have time, doctor or mother. And wouldn't be the most amazing thing that could happen, if you want, on a form on solo backpacking trip.

As a twenty four year old woman to be so caught up in the moment that you don't have time to check in at home, boy wouldn't be a beautiful thing. And that's what I am telling myself because that's what I believe is true. So I want you to try IT because, hey, what if you use these six words and IT all works out? That would be a beautiful thing.

All right, I got a speech to give, but i'm not drop in this, mike, until I tell you that I love you and I believe in you, and I believe in your ability to face the things that are painful in your life, and I also believe in your ability to problems solve and to rise to these moments where life is painful and life is chAllenging. And you know what else? I believe I believe whatever IT is that you're worry about right now, it's all going to work out auto actin a few days.

I should never have eaten a bordo before we take this, because I don't think burping h god, you guys. So anybody have an an acid? There is a windscreen for this that is right here. There IT is okay.

You're ready.

Hey, is a friend mell up of olen? Little bit strong out of the gate here this morning, monday morning. Okay, great. And the grinning, okay, let me start all ever how I want to get this OK.

Oh, and one more thing I know, this is not a bleepers. This is the legal language. You know what the lawyers, right? And what I need to read to you.

This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes. I'm just your friend. I am not a licence therapies, and this podcast is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist or other qualified professional. Got IT good. I'll see in .

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