There’s a story behind this podcast episode: a story that intertwines what we learned about friendships during our formative years, with caring what other people think. The two are connected, and in this podcast episode I share how I spent years carrying around emotional armor and buying into a good-bad binary where people were concerned (one that I had to drop, if I wanted to truly love and be loved).

What is true courage? It's got to be tied to personal sovereignty--which isn't about "power over"--but rather, true courage is about a way of looking at your life with self-awareness, choosing how you respond, not being run by the clock, and more.

The purpose of emotions is to feel what we truly feel...so that we can process through, and feel better. Use the purpose of emotions to your advantage.

Destruction isn't fun--but it's very necessary. It's part of the cycle of things, of how we make room for the new by releasing the past.