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It's a monumental episode of Share the Struggle Podcast because today's episode is episode 200.
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And I personally want episode 200 to be the catalyst for change.
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Episode 200 is going to unlock version 2.0 in you.
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Led with a powerful message from an inspirational friend, combined with further research, we will revel in reality as episode 200 unlocks version 2.0 in you and me.
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Let me tell you something Everybody struggles.
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The difference is some people choose to go through it and some choose to grow through it.
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The choice is completely yours.
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Which one you choose will have a very profound effect on the way you live your life.
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If you find strength in the struggle, then this podcast is for you and this podcast is for you.
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Do you have a relationship that is comfortable with uncomfortable conversations?
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Uncomfortable conversations challenge you, humble you and they build you.
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When you sprinkle a little time and distance on it, it all makes sense.
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Most disagreements they stem from our own insecurities.
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You are right where you need to be Back on time.
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We can back off the whole day gone, we'll be fine.
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Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
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What it do, what it do, hot diggity.
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Damn, I can't believe.
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I'm back with you.
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How do you do, how do you do, holy shit, do you believe it?
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Can you believe it?
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Oh, you must be believing it because together we be achieving it.
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Mm, mm, mm, mm.
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Can you hear me?
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Oh, you must be believing it because together we be achieving it.
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Can you hear me?
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Woo boy, I'm a little fired up, a little riled up, because we did it.
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Buttercup, episode 200.
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Wow, man, I have a hard time believing that.
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We have cranked out 200 consecutive episodes of Share the Struggle podcast, through ups and downs, zigzags and turnarounds, all the highs, all the lows.
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Every which way we all go, we've kept the streak alive.
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200 episodes.
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I can't believe it, I gotta tell ya.
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I'm gonna start the show off by taking my left hand, placing it on that Cabela's catalog, focusing my beady little eyes to the sky and giving a little truth from this guy.
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I planned something totally different for episode 200, so right now, I'm gonna take accountability for the fact that I didn't uphold my end of.
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So, right now, I'm going to take accountability for the fact that I didn't uphold my end of the bargain and I'm just going to throw a lifeline out there to my brother, mr Ed Beckett, owner operator, the man with the plan behind the razors in the chair, that's right, the man cutting everybody's hair, brother Ed Beckett, main Street Barbershop.
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We talked about doing an episode.
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I let you down.
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I haven't followed up.
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We were targeting episode 200.
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But I have this voluptuous, fantastic theory and idea behind what I want the two of us to do, and I guess just life got in the way, we got too busy between the two of us and it didn't happen.
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But that episode, it shall happen.
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So mark it, book it.
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Okay, soon enough, we shall cook it.
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But episode 200, I can't believe it's here.
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Y'all can't believe it's here.
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Y'all it.
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Um man, it's hard to uh really process the fact that 200 episodes.
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I was doing some math on this because I don't like to do my math on the spot, because I'm not really intelligent, so I'm more of a bus math kind of guy.
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You know what I mean.
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Like I'm publicly educated, okay, I went as far as my parents' tax dollars would take me.
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So blame it on my public education.
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Okay, I count how many times the wheels on the bus go round and round.
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You know what I mean.
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If I'm out of fingers and toes, then I don't know what to tell you.
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So I did a little math, a little pre-show math 200 episodes.
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If you break that down, the fact that we are a week to week show, that is 200 weeks of shows.
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Okay, 200 weeks of shows is 50 months worth of shows.
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That is, you're looking at four years of shows right Now.
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When I say four years of shows, it's to me it's hard to process the fact that this equals four years of shows, because we haven't hit our four year anniversary mark yet.
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So it's a little bit different.
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And the reason why we haven't hit our four-year anniversary mark yet, so it's a little bit different.
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And the reason why we haven't hit our four-year anniversary but we technically have about four years worth of shows out there is because all the research I did on podcasts was the moment you released your four episode, you should have at least three in the can.
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So you should be putting out, let's say, four episodes when you drop your first episode, because when people start listening and they're excited, you don't want them to have to wait a full week to hear your next show.
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You want to have a little backlog for people to get into, to jive with, to indulge with.
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So when I dropped our very first episode back in July of 2020, I actually had a few episodes in the can, so to speak.
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So that's why the math doesn't jive up as well.
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But the important thing to know is, if you listened to one episode a week, you have four years of content, you have 50 months of content.
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You have 200 weeks of content.
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We are oh so quickly approaching the actual physical hard date on the calendar of four years of the show.
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And I gotta let everybody know this show, our consecutive week, the commitment that we have to each other, to one another.
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This is a greater commitment than most of us have had in many, if not all but one of our relationships.
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Think about it.
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How many relationships have you had that have outlasted four years, bobby?
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Think about it.
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Probably not too many.
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Probably not too many.
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I've only had two relationships in my life go over four years and one of them is currently ongoing.
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That consecutive sweet streak will surpass and outlive the podcast, because you know I married that streak right.
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I married my best friend and my loving wife, so we were married in our relationship.
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Our consecutive streak was going long before the podcast, so I'm not going to pass that one, but I'll pass everything else, all right.
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So just want to take a moment.
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And if we're sitting here chatting about 200 episodes, then I must acknowledge all my day ones, everybody listening that has been listening since day one.
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Get your ones up.
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Get them up.
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I acknowledge you as the day ones.
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I acknowledge you as the ones that keep me plugged in, that keep me dialed in, that keep me committed to recording Last week's show.
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I said some shit that I didn't want anybody to know, but you know why I did it?
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Because you, because you are committed to me, and I thank you.
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If you're new here, if you're just getting used to the shows and the flows, feel free.
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Feel free to go back to the beginning and listen to how we've blossomed and how we've really just grown the show.
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So if you're new here, I appreciate you and I thank you and I encourage all of you to find all things podcast related at wwwsharethestrugglepodcastcom.
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Why?
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Because I pay for it each damn month.
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That's why, okay Gosh, I do this for you, okay, but I truly appreciate you and I encourage you to you know, hit, subscribe, grow the tribe, share the show, let everybody know you love Share the Struggle podcast and a big old welcome.
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And thank you to all the new listeners.
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I heard from some of you out there that have been reaching out over the past couple of weeks, truly inspired and connected and enjoying the show, and it's because of you.
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That's the reason why I do what I do.
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So thank you for reaching out, thank you for the positive feedback and removing the doubt, removing the doubt that I have on those days when I just don't want to record, and last week was a day that I did not want to record.
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Okay, I mean, let's be honest here, I did not want to record last week's show for obvious reasons, and I received some, some polarizing feedback on last week's show and that's kind of what led me up to recording the show, because my wife's inbox, my inbox leading up to that show, there were some not so nice things that were said to us or about us, people's interpretations of our feelings and our reactions, and I wanted to get out in front of those things.
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Or I guess, you know, maybe I wasn't in front of it, maybe that was part of the problem, but I needed to say what I said last week and I'm thankful that I did, because I feel like it was a stepping stone and it was a turning point for me to, number one, tell the majority how I feel, why I feel and how I've arrived at those feelings.
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So then, hearing back from so many of you really was encouraging, and some people just don't understand, and that's okay.
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It's okay, but I think that you can at least see my point of view, and it was very difficult for me to bear my soul, to be transparent, to be vulnerable, to tell you how I was feeling and to put my cards in the table, that all these things that I've been so surely convicted about I'm now questioning.
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That was really really difficult to do, but I'm thankful that I did that for so many reasons, and we're going to get into some of those reasons today.
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Now, before I get into the meat and paredes portion of the show, that's meat and potatoes.
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For anybody that don't know Meat and paredes, that the show.
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That's meat and potatoes.
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For anybody that don't know Meat and paredes, that's the bulk.
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Okay, that's the benefit of today's show.
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That's what we feast on, that's what, you know, sustains us, fills us.
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Okay, before we get there, I got to let you guys know about another revelation I had Now when I was doing the math on the podcast, I had a little revelation about how long we've been doing this and just how committed we are to the show Made me realize another reason why I was so willing to record what I recorded last week, because I'm committed to y'all.
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Okay, we're in this together.
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But while exploring these revelations, these things that I've realized something hit me.
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Something hit me.
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I believe it was just yesterday.
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I was driving around with my mother and she just kind of asked me you know like plans, what's going on this week, what the weekend looks like, and it's early in the week.
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So I know that's kind of a strange conversation.
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But at that moment I realized this is the last weekend on my schedule, that I don't have an event booked until August 3rd.
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You feel me, are you hearing me, man?
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Right now it's about 77 degrees out.
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It's beautiful, it's gorgeous.
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Season feels here, summer feels here.
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Full confession I'm way behind where I should be on things Spoiler alert.
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But we're just going to rock and roll with things a little differently this year, but to really understand how quickly things are about to happen and how we are really on the cusp of the craziness.
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Because the next off weekend that I personally have is going to be on our baby shower day, august 3rd.
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You understand that.
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So this weekend I don't have much going on.
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Next weekend the events begin for me, the events begin for me.
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So I just want to give everybody fair let's say fair notice, um, to give you the uh, you know proper amount of time to plan If you want to attend a fun, feel good event and my first event of the season, because I personally want to welcome each and every one of you, encourage all of you to join our friends and family over to Ledgeway Farm.
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The Ledgeway Farm open house is coming up on May 18th from 10 am to 3 pm, 140 Stage Road in sunny Pittston, maine, which is a lovely time of year to vacation in Pittston.
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Just going to put it out there May 18th, 10 am to 3 pm, right on the farm, ledgeway Farm.
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It's going to be an afternoon of family fun headlined by some goats, snuggling, live music, a food truck, vendors including yours truly cornhole and some guided barn tours.
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It's going to be a great time.
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Please join us over to Ledgeway Farm.
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And while we're having this conversation about Ledgeway, I just want to let you all know, if you don't already know, ledgeway Farm makes the absolute best soap you will ever feel and experience in your life.
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I'm a kid that growing up struggled with acne and I wish that I knew Ledgeway or Ledgway existed way back then, because I used to prescribe to all these different facial washes and scrubs and alcohols and pads and all these things and that all just left my face feeling more dried out and irritated and never seemed to do anything with acne or just any kind of irritable skin situation whatsoever.
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And through my adult years I'm one of those people that has continued to have different scrubs and lotions for certain areolas Am I right?
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And my wife's the same way.
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And I just say all this to tell you that since we met Matt and Sarah, not only do we love these guys and we consider them family and we're fortunate enough to call them family, we're also blessed by the fact they make an amazing product, because since I started using Ledgeway soap, I don't use anything else.
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I don't have to buy face washes, I don't have to buy all these you know tiny apricot scrubs, whatever you might think.
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They have a bar for whatever situation.
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It's the best damn soap on the planet.
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I'm just going to put that out there.
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It's the only thing that I personally use or the wife uses.
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My dad actually was battling like a skin thing, like an eczema type of scenario, and I gave him some of the Ledgway charcoal and he swore by it and was able to throw out a bunch of his, his creams and stuff.
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So it's a great product.
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This was a great opportunity for you to go experience the product and see, um, what's what it's like being made behind the scenes and to realize that this is this fundamental values of america people.
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This is small business.
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This is, um, really just, you want to talk about american made.
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This is as american made as it gets, but it's also it's it's farm to skin right.
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All these ingredients, everything is natural and it's a.
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It's a great family behind the product.
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So great reason for y'all to join us this weekend.
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Maybe you can get yourself some you know some proudly made in American apparel.
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While you're there, you can maybe connect with my man, kyle from Underdog Metal, who's going to be there you can get the folks, the Pet and Gills from Walson Woodcraft.
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They're going to be there, so look for it coming up on may 18th.
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All right, hopefully I can see y'all there may 18th.
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The very next day I'm going to find myself at the bonnie eagle car show for a nice, bright, early start and hopefully a bright, successful event as well.
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So back-to-back events coming up in the next week.
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This weekend I'm off getting ready for those events, but I look forward to seeing you guys at the beginning of the main roadshow for Loud Proud American.
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Gotcha.
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All right, all right, all right, booyah, let's get on to the meat and beret-ish portion of the show this week's show.
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You know the meat and beret-ish, you know?
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All right, I don't know where that came from, lord, I apologize.
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All right.
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So, as I mentioned, to start episode 200, there's a few things that I put out there, okay, a few things that I projected on all y'all, and one of those things is just how difficult it was to record last week, to share my truths last week, to speak my truth, and the fact that I did get a fair amount of response and that a few of them were kind of like a.
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I'd classify it as a polarizing mix, right?
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The folks that just didn't understand my point of view, that are more ashamed by my point of view, and the ones that really understand what I'm trying to say and why I'm feeling and feel compelled to reach out, some that really felt moved by the emotion.
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So there was a real just mix of feedback and reaction, and that's kind of what I expected, because y'all are an informative bunch, y'all are compassionate and you're willing to share and to put yourself out there.
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You're always putting in the feedback and I appreciate that and I love the fact that from episode to episode, oftentimes the faces change, right?
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Certain episodes land on certain people and that's why we do it, so I might hear from somebody one week and not hear from them again, or I might hear from them again in three weeks.
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You never really know.
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Some people are a week-to-week scenario, but what I'm putting out there is the fact that you guys are great at giving me feedback and information, and it provokes conversation and thought, and last week there was a lot of information and motivation.
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There was a lot of stuff that came to me that I needed to hear, that I took validation in knowing that people I care about understand and can empathize with how I'm feeling.
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So I was really taken back by some of those messages in a positive way.
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Okay, because it just warms your heart to know that there's safety, there's comfort, right, when you know that there's people that understand you, that get you that feel for you, then there's safety in that.
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And when you are being vulnerable, when you are being vulnerable, when you're being transparent, you need that safety and you need that comfort, and that's what I got from so many of you.
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But there's one person that I really want to highlight and I gotta say right out of the gate, I feel like I should apologize, because I often violate people's trust.
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And I say this in the best way possible because so many of you will reach out to me and you probably aren't expecting me to share something, and sometimes I do so I must apologize for that and maybe this individual doesn't want me to share their message.
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But I'm going to, for a couple of reasons.
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Number one you have no idea the difference and the impact it had on me.
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Number two, I truly feel that your words can impact many.
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You are going to be what motivates us, what is the turning point, the catalyst for change in taking ourselves from version 1.0 to 2.0.
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So I want to share that.
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And number three, you deserve all the credit for that.
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So I'm going to mention your name.
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And number four, there is no better way to tie a show together than when I can take the inspirational message from a friend and somebody that I now consider family and tie that with their business and to tie that with the said business that is hosting the event I just talked about.
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I say all this confusing jargon to let everybody know that the inspiration I'm about to share with you comes from Sarah Perkins, one of the owners and operators at Ledge Way Farm.
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I'm not going to share the entire message and I'm not going to share the personal side to a lot of this message, but there's three lines from this email that I woke up to this week that really smacked me back into reality and, I feel like, was a catalyst for change, something that began to unlock version 2.0 in me.
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I woke up one morning to an email from Sarah Perkins and the three things that I really need to highlight from this message that I think is valuable to anyone listening, no matter what it is you might be going through or growing through, and one of the lines I want to focus in on is it's hard to see two feet in front of you when you're in the storm.
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That's so amazingly true when we're going through something.
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When we're going through something, that world is swirling around us right and it's so hard to see in front of us, it's so hard to really move, to move two feet in front of us.
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When you're in the eye of the storm, it's one of those things where you just get swallowed up, you get overwhelmed and it's so hard to see in front of you.
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It's so hard to take the next step, it's so hard to see what's beyond that storm, to see what's over the horizon.
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We just get wrapped up on what's going on, and as I'm reading this line from this amazing email that I got from Sarah, I started to think about something else.
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Maybe I'm wrong here, but I feel like somewhere along the way in my spiritual journey, I learned some what would you call it?
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Some weather science.
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I don't know, I don't know what you really call this.
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I could be wrong here, but I feel like I learned along the way that if you're ever in a tornado, the best place to be is in the eye of the tornado, because in the eye it's actually calm.
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Here's the power of podcasting.
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I paused the recording just to do a quick Google search, just because I didn't want to mislead anybody here.
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So I just basically Googled is it calm in the eye of a tornado?
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Googled is the.
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Is a calm in the eye of a tornado?
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Um, the inside of a tornado.
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Evidence suggests that tornadoes mostly have calm, clear centers that have very low pressure.
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Should be noted, however, that the calm, or nearly calm air in the eye of the tornado is actually moving with the speed at which a tornado itself is moving, though the eye is by far the calmest part of the storm, at least on land, in the water, it wouldn't really be the same scenario, but the point I'm trying to make here is, to Sarah's credit, to her point it's hard to see two feet in front of you when you're in the storm.
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So incredibly, true, so true.
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Now, just reading this back and trying to put some of my feelings on this, I just kind of had that epiphany that, hey, man, someone's along the line.
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Someone told me if you're going to be in a tornado, be in the eye of the tornado.
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So here we are.
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If what you've heard about me over the past few months, I'm in this tornado, if I'm standing in the middle of this tornado, everything around me is spinning right.
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The moment I realized that I'm in the middle of this storm, I realized that everything in front of me, everything around me, everything is surrounding me and it is spinning.
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So it's hard to see two feet in front of me.
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I can't see two feet in front of me, but I must take account of the level of calmness that I actually have in that storm.
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I'm going to take you guys inside my nutshell of a brain.
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I'm going to take you into the world of the squirrel over here, because when I wrote down a few show notes and I took that line from Sarah, I shared that with you and that sent me into this tornado quote right.
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And that little tornado research flashed me back to a time in my life when I was going through the most difficult breakup in my life and a song came to me that just meant so much to me and I shared that song and that message with a great personal friend of mine who helped me through those dark times, who helped me through that breakup.
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That friend was a friend of mine named Emily.
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I shared this song with her and this song was a source of strength for me.
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If you go back to early episodes, this song was a source of strength for me.
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If you go back to early episodes as we're talking about having 200 episodes now there's one where I talk about Emily encouraging me to change my ways, to find myself, to get comfortable with myself, sending me these inspirational, motivational videos.
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Fast forward to years later.
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I share that same video with a girl on the internet, with a girl on Facebook, and that girl watches that video and someday somebody becomes my wife and somehow, some way, is going to be the mother of my, of my child.
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So these messages, these meanings, they come to us when we least expect it.
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They come to us when we often need them most, when we're being receptive to those messages.
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So this song is something that I really hadn't thought of and it got me through a dark time, but I just kind of forgot about it.
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Now, taking all that you just heard about that quick story, and if you want to know more about them, they're all in this podcast, they're all through all of our episodes, when I lost my father and my friend Emily found out about the loss of my father.
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Emily, unfortunately, is somebody that already had to live through losing her father at a much younger age than I am, so at a much higher difficulty level, in my opinion, right than I am.
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So at a much higher difficulty level, in my opinion, right Out of nowhere, she sends me that song.
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She sends it back to me because she knows the root of the strength from the lyrics in that song.
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She knows that it already got me through a dark time and that it can get me through that dark time again.
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So she sent me that song and it brought me right back to it.
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So when I read this line from Sarah's email, it's hard to see two feet in front of you when you're in the storm and I think about that tornado, I think about the lyrics in the song every storm runs out of rain.
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Now I would try to play the entire song here, but I don't think that legally I'm allowed to do that.
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But because it's in the context of an episode and we're breaking down the lyrics, I think I can get away with playing some of the song legally and not getting sued.
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So I'm just going to fire up a little bit of the song real quick and then I encourage everybody to go ahead and listen to the song on their own when they get the chance.
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I know you're feeling like you just can't win, but you're trying.
