On this episode of The Karen Kenney Show, I talk about what it means to live with the consequences of being yourself… the good, the bad, and the kinda’ messy in-between.

I share how so much of my work with others and my life was/is about learning how to own our brilliance and our bullshit.

So, we take a look at how our past conditioning, familiar patterns, and played out stories often shape how we show up in the world - sometimes for the better and sometime for the so not soothing worse.

I also get into why a Daily Spiritual Practice (DSP) can be the difference between going out into the world inspired - versus - going out and inflicting yourself on other people.

Through real-life examples, I invite you to take an honest look at the wake you’re leaving behind you each day and ask, “Am I making a contribution to society right now, or am I being a bit of a menace?”

And if you don’t dig the answer, maybe this is your friendly invitation to start getting curious, be honest, and choose again.❤️

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Karen Kenney is a writer, podcaster, certified spiritual mentor, and coach.

She’s known for her dynamic storytelling, her sense of humor, her Boston accent, and her no-bullshit approach to spirituality, self-development, and transformational work.

She’s been a yoga teacher since 1999, and a Thai Yoga Massage practitioner since 2008.

She's also a speaker, a certified Gateless Writing Instructor, and host of The Karen Kenney Show podcast.

She works with clients individually in her 1:1 program THE QUEST and in her HEART-TO-HEART DAYS via Voxer. She also leads a group coaching program and community called THE NEST.

Her down-to-earth approach brings together practical tools, resources, and stories that encourage curiosity, invite self-awareness, shifts perceptions, and deepens self-knowledge.

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It's the Karen Kenney show. Hey you guys, welcome to

the Karen Kenney show. I'm so happy to be here with you for a

bunch of different reasons, but the first one being is, I'm just

sitting here. I can't believe it's March. March 7 is just a

couple of days away, and March 7 will be the seven year

anniversary of the Karen Kenney Show podcast, which is just

crazy to me. This is episode 356

so that's a lot, that's a lot of years, that's a lot of shows,

that's a lot of me talking, running my big mouth, that's a

lot of you guys tuning in. So just thank you so much to all of

my loyal listeners. And if you're new here, welcome. I'm so

happy to have you. I just can't believe so much time has passed.

And you know I mean, God willing, I'll be able to keep

doing another seven you know what I mean. Okay, so just

wanted to say that thank you so much for being here. And this

episode, I'm going to try to keep my thoughts straight, man,

but I have so many things on my hat and on my mind these days,

and I wrote down a few notes for myself, and I'm just going to do

my best. But one of the things I want to, I think I want to kind

of dive into this episode, saying this so much of the work

that I do with people, and I work with people in a lot of

different ways. You guys know that, right? I've been a yoga

teacher forever. I do Thai Yoga, massage, Thai Yoga, body work,

spiritual mentor, coach, hypnotism, right? I do gateless

writing. I'm a writer. Really. What I am more than anything is

a writer and a storyteller.

You know, guest teacher, fucking retreat leader, whatever. I do a

lot of shit, but so much of the work that I do is an extension

of the work that I do and have done with myself, right towards

myself, all of the tools, all the skill sets, all the

different things that I have gathered were for me first,

because I had to go first, because I had some stuff I was

navigating right. I'm like, Hello, have you met me right? My

childhood, my life, whatever. And so one of the things that I

became aware of back in the day when I started really, do we

want to call it a journey? I don't know. Man, I was just

living my life and trying to be the best person I could be and

learn about myself. And so that's my point. So much of my

work is built around this. This like self awareness, having more

self awareness, having more self knowledge, really understanding

yourself better, starting to know why you think, what you

think, and say what you say, and believe what you believe, and

hold the prejudices you hold, and and understand the systems

that you're existing in, whether that's your family or your

culture or just the greater, the systems of racism, the systems

of patriarchy, the systems of whatever right just

understanding who you are, where you are in the world, and how

you got to be and behave and believe the way that you do. And

so when I'm working with others, this is gonna just stay with me,

because this is gonna tie into today's episode. I'm just trying

to make a point so much of this, and I used to say, and I still

say to all of my clients, right? So much of this is about owning

both your brilliance like knowing who you really are,

knowing your skill sets, knowing your talents, knowing how loved

you are, how how much you matter. Notice, notice the

positive impact you have the on the world, right? Owning your

brilliance. But then you also have to own your bullshit. You

have to own the places where you get triggered. You have to own

the places where you tend to drop the ball. You have to own

the places where you act like a dick, right? You know what I

mean, where you lose your where you're like impatient, or you're

unkind or whatever, or you don't keep your word to yourself and

others. Whatever we have to, we don't have to. But I would

encourage you to understand yourself, to know yourself, and

the more that you can do, that you can make better choices that

actually represent who you are and who you really want to be.

Which brings us to today. You know, I might call this episode

the consequences of being yourself, and I want to talk

about that word consequences, but I'm also going to tell you

where the heartbeat of this came from. So many of you may know

that I am a Kripalu Yoga teacher. I have been a Kripalu

Yoga teacher. I started teaching yoga in 1999 before I was ever

certified. But I became certified in 2001

and I lived at the Kripalu center for yoga and health out

in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, Western

Massachusetts. I lived there for a month, did my ytt, my yoga

teacher training there, etc, etc. And every day I would walk

by this picture of Swami Kripalu, who we called Bapuji.

And the word Kripalu simply means compassion. And I would

see this, this picture of this beautiful like, you know, the

grandfaire. I call him one of my spiritual grandfathers, because

I'm a part of his lineage, the Kripalu lineage, right? And so I

would see his beautiful, smiling face throughout the building in

different pictures, him and his.

Saffron robes, you know. And there was this one quote that

said, and people can argue about this, I don't really care

whether it's true or real or not, whether it was in the

Bhagavad Gita, whether, you know, one of the Kripalu

teachers said it, or Swami Kripalu said it. I'm going to

say there was a picture of his face. And then there was this

quote that said, yoga is tolerating the consequences of

being yourself. And you know how we often say, Oh, I saw this

thing and it stopped me in my tracks. I mean, when I tell you

this quote, literally stopped me dead in my tracks. I'll never

forget the first time I saw it. I was coming down the stairs and

it like was like, I'm coming down the landing, and boom, it's

right there in front of my face. And I literally, kind of

stopped, you know, stopped, you know, but like, when a dog, he

has a funny sound, and he tilts his head. I kind of tilted my

head, and I thought tolerating the consequences of being

myself. What is that about? Right? Like, what are the

consequences of being myself? And I started to think about

this. Now,

when I tell people, when I talk to people about this, right,

there are consequences for you being the way that you are now,

who you truly are underneath all your conditioning and your

patterns and your behaviors and your history and your bullshit,

underneath your personality and your ego and all that I believe

there is the true you, the true blue, real deal, Holyfield, you,

right? That, to me, is love. It is compassion, it's kindness,

it's eternal. It never dies. When your body falls away, that

energy that is you, that loving source of you, it continues,

right? You don't have to believe the same thing as me. I just

believe this. Okay, this is what I think. This is what I think I

could be wrong, and maybe one day I'll find out, right. But

for now, I think underneath it all that there is a divine spark

that animates all of us, that this is who we are, okay, having

said that, okay, I'm like, underneath, underneath that is

this. But on top of that beautiful, divine spark of love

and goodness and compassion and kindness and mercy and all those

things, there is your personality. Your personality is

often what I'm talking about, or what I believe this quote is

talking about the consequence of being yourself. Now here's the

thing about this word, consequence. Consequences. This

word has a negative connotation. In our society, we often think

of consequences as being something bad, right? Like, oh

my god. But here's the thing, there can also be positive

consequences. In fact, the word consequences is actually

neutral. So as I often like to do, you guys know, I'm a little

bit of a word nerd.

So here's the definition. I'm going to read it to you. I'm

just holding up the paper consequence noun. This is what

it means a result or effect of an action or condition. Here's

it. Here it is in a sentence, right? Many have been laid off

from work as a consequence of the administration's policies.

So it doesn't say that consequences are negative. There

can also be positive consequences, and you can just

switch out the word result or outcome, right? Sometimes there

are positive outcomes, sometimes there are negative outcomes,

sometimes there are negative results, and sometimes there are

positive results. So the word consequence, and I thought this

was important in this context, because the consequences of

being yourself can have both positive impact on yourself and

others, the world around you, the animals, whoever you're

interacting with, it can also have negative consequences,

right? So I wanted to get that clear as we move forward that

consequences aren't just negative. They can be both, so

a lot of times. And the reason why I'm talking about this is I

don't think we spend enough time thinking about the consequences

of us being ourselves in the way that we are in the world, the

way that we talk, the way that we think, the way that we speak,

the way that we believe, the way that we vote, the way we spend

our money, how we do things. So many of us are on autopilot. So

many people at thinking about things. They just are in their

little world, on their, you know, when you when we were

kids, we were because I was, you know, I always wanted, like,

Tomboy, like, I guess you could just call them toys, but toys

that, back in the day lean towards, like, being a quote,

unquote tomboy or whatever, right? So I like GI Joe dolls. I

didn't like dolls and stuff like, I wanted, like Tonka

Trucks, and I wanted, like, race car tracks and like, I wanted

all that stuff. Right back in the day you would have these

little race contracts, and they would have like, little grooves

in them. And so your cars would like zip around on the tracks,

but they would stay, like, every once in a while we go, they

would like go flying. And if you've ever had one, you know

exactly what I'm talking about, it would go flying off the

track. You know what I mean. And so Wait, how did I get on this?

On talking about it? Oh, my God.

I'm gonna have to pause because I gotta think about this for a

second, Jesus.

And I'm back, I just remember what the guy was talking about.

Okay, so sometimes we just kind of get into this track, this

groove, and we don't question anything. We don't look around.

We're just like, oh, that's just how I am, that's just how they

are. That's just how he is or she is. And we don't think about

right? We don't question things. We just kind of do the same shit

over and over and over again, but not realizing I think of it

like when you're when there's a boat, and you're driving on a

boat, and a boat always leaves a wake behind it in the water,

right? Even if you're paddling, if you ever like, if you canoe,

even if you don't have a moda, right? And you paddle that

canoe, when you look back that little paddle being in the water

and that stroke, it causes a little like swirl, a little Eddy

in the water, right? It's like, whoo. So who and how we're

being. It has consequences, both positively and negatively, and

we have to be aware of this. And so I'm going to give you a few

stories and a few examples of why this has kind of been on my

mind. You know, I talk about, like, when I'm talking with

people about creating a daily spiritual practice, right? I

don't get too hung up on exactly what they're doing. I'm like,

Hey, we created DSP. We create a daily spiritual practice.

Because when you do a daily spiritual practice, when you

start your day being more aware and being more conscious and

having a conscious connection to something greater than you,

however you might define that, your higher power, your highest

self, Mother Nature, the universe, God source, the divine

intelligence, the loving intelligence. I don't care what

people call it. When you start your day in your awareness of

relationship to that, you spend time in meditation or

contemplation or prayer or just quiet time, right? You're doing

things to like again, people's DSP can look 1000 different

ways, but you're spending time in the morning doing, you know,

morning pages you're writing out longhand. You're starting to

kind of get your mind right. You're starting to get on board

with the kind of day you would like to create and what you're

going to get done and who you might come across right? That's

why, you know, I say that that prayer every day. Have me go

where you would have me go. Have me do what you would have me do.

Have me say what you would have me say, and to whom please use

me try to put yourself in service to something higher than

you, to be used by a greater force, like a force of love, to

be in service to love. Okay? Because doing that first thing

in the morning, before you get on your phone, before you turn

on the news, before you read the newspaper, before you start to

become bombarded by the horrors and the tragedies that are going

on out there, right? And yes, of course, there are some good,

beautiful and holy things and people and stuff happening, but

those don't sell papers. Those don't get clicks. So a lot of

our news that we're being bombarded with is negative and

scary because, oh, and your nervous system gets hijacked and

you're just exhausted before you even go out the door. So having

a daily spiritual practice at DSP, right? And when I talk to

my clients about this, it helps to set you up for success. It

helps to point you in the right direction, get you on the right

track. You declare, this is the kind of day I'm going to have,

and I'm going to get my rhyme right, and I'm going to, you

know, do my best to do that again, not always successful,

but you're way better off than having not done it right. When

you start your day with a little gratitude and a little insight

and a little like, you know, awareness beyond just you and

your own world, right? Like, hello, we're all connected to

each other. This is how we get through this thing together.

Okay, you start your day like that. It's the difference I

often say about going out into the world in an inspired way,

versus going out and inflicting yourself on other people. I'm

going to say that again, it's the difference between going out

into the world in a more inspired way, right, versus

going out and inflicting yourself on other people.

Because if you're not aware of who you are and how you are, if

you've got some sort of an attitude problem, if you're

always angry or always complaining, are always

miserable, or always just like, you know, whatever, if you're

always greedy, if you're always in a place of expectation or

privilege, or what's the word I'm looking for? You? What's the

word I'm looking for? Entitled? Oh, my fucking god, people who

move through the world in such an entitled way, you know what

I'm saying? Oh, my God. You don't realize there are

consequences to you being you and the way that you are each

day, when you go out into the world, and even if you stay at

home and work online, right you there are consequences to let's

say you're somebody who

doesn't I'm not judging people who don't clean. Everybody is

different. Everybody has different levels of comfort and

neatness around things like that. But, you know, there are

consequences to not cleaning up. This is how you start to get

bugs or cockroaches sometimes, or like, you know, if you never

like cleaned up after your dog or your cat, you'll end up with

shit and.

Kiss everywhere in your house. You know what I'm saying. So

there are consequences to the choices that we make and who we

are and how we are. We're constantly teaching people. We

are constantly demonstrating what we believe by what we do

and don't do, by what we say and don't say by our actions, right?

Okay, now I saw this really funny. Now I often do episodes,

because something will keep coming to me in different forms,

whether it's from the universe, universal signs. Kismet, you

know, what do they call it? Coincidence, whatever people

want to call it again. I don't get hung up on it, but I saw

this really funny meme, and on it, just imagine there's a light

switch on the wall and there's a finger going towards the wall,

and the light switch right now is in the on position. It's up

and on the up position. Other words, this contribute to

society. And in the off position, it says menace to

society. I thought this was so freaking funny, right? And it's

like, yeah, we're gonna choose. Like, you know when people say,

Oh, he woke up today and he chose violence, right? Well, so

in each moment, right? Each day, we are deciding, how am I going

to be again? Am I going to go out into the world, right and

own my brilliance and move in an inspired way, or am I going to

go out into the world in my bullshit, in my patterns, in my

trauma, in my stuff, right, in my wounds? It's okay if you have

wounds, but if you're not aware that you have a wound that you

is bleeding out, it will have a consequence ultimately, right?

But sometimes your blood is getting all over everybody else.

Okay? So it's like, am I going to go out into the world in that

more inspired way, or am I going to go out and be a menace to

society? Am I going to inflict myself on people? And it's not

always in these grandiose ways, right? You ever hear that phrase

death by 1000 paper cuts? Right? If you're living with somebody

who is in their own insecurity, so they're jealous, or they're

whatever, so they'll just take these little pot shots at you,

or they'll start to do weird shit, like looking through your

phone or like, Now, look, I get sometimes that's necessity,

because you understand that somebody's doing something

dangerous or whatever. I'm not again, I'm not here to judge

people's actions. I'm just saying there are times when we

know that, like something is up and it's like, right? But

people's insecurity also has consequences. I got a story

about that for another time, right? But if you don't check

yourself, you're not only going to wreck yourself, you're going

to wreck other people that are around you. And this is why I

often say to like parents, especially if I'm working with a

parent, I'm like one of the greatest gifts you can give your

kids is to get your shit together, is to know yourself,

to know your history, to know your your your trauma that has

been passed down from generation to generation, your happiness,

your sense of self, your sense of safety, your sense of knowing

who you are, your sense of feeling a connection to your

history and your people and your ancestors in your past. Right to

be grounded in even if your your origin, your family of origin,

was a shit show. You can get out of that once you're an adult,

most of the time. Not everybody can. I understand that, but most

people can, and they can start to live differently and choose

differently and behave differently, right? And so that

meme was making me think about this, right? Am I going to be a

contribution? Am I going to contribute to society, or am I

going to be a fucking menace to society? And I got to tell you,

there's a lot of people out in the world right now who are

being a menace to society, and whether or not like I'm just

thinking about right our current, this current

administration, and thinking about Trump, I got to say this,

whatever you feel about that. I know strongly how I feel. And

this to me, just from not even a political point of view, just

from a personal human like in the work that I do observing

human behavior. This is a person who has been inflicting himself

on others for a really long time. This is a person who does

not seem self aware at all,

or the story they tell themselves about who they think

they are is not as cognitive dissonance there. But I'll tell

you this, when a person like that makes a decision to go to

war without not even going to the correct channel, just

illegally starting a war for his own means, whatever, and then

you bomb a girls school and you kill over 150 people, mostly

children, mostly little girls. This is a person who is

inflicting themselves on the world. This is a person who is

there are consequences to that person being who and how they

are. And I don't know about you, but I don't want to be that kind

of person. I want to be able to own my shit. I want to I want to

become more aware of my blind spots and know what pushes,

quote, unquote, my buttons and what gets me scared or anxious

or worked up or whatever, and not not showing up from a place

of love. I want to understand the ways that I go into fear or

lack or scarcity or whatever, what my pattern.

Have been now, sometimes we need help, right, figuring that stuff

out. That's why there are counselors and coaches and

mentors and therapists and whatever. This is why we have

support groups like Al Anon and AA and over eat is anonymous and

this, that and the other thing, that's why there are communities

like the nest, like I run, right? Sometimes we need help

kind of navigating this whole being human experience, because

it's fucking hard. It's hard, but we can only there's only so

many excuses you can make. Right? Like I said to a client

the other day, trauma explains a lot of things, right? Our

trauma, our stories, what happened. It explains how we got

here, why we might kind of be the way that we are, but it does

not excuse once we understand and once we know what we do

going forward, we can't just keep blaming it on our poor

childhood and the thing that happened to us at some point.

And I understand we're all existing also within systems.

I'm not saying that all everybody's starting at the same

place, or has the same resources, but I am saying that

when we start to get little glimpses of, Oh, when I do this,

that happens when I say that, that happens when I say to do

this or not do that, or whatever, me being myself, it

has consequences both positive and negative. If you think about

somebody who's an alcoholic, especially if they're a parent

or in a marriage or a relationship or a family, or

they just have friends who care about them, right? And they're

starting to drink too much, and it starts to get out of control,

and now they're driving drunk, and they're doing things right,

they're not only having consequences on their own mental

well being, sometimes their jobs, sometimes their families,

sometimes their relationships. They lose those and there are

consequences that they personally pay, but there's also

other consequences. I remember when I was a bartender, and I

would see people come in and day after day after day just

drinking themselves slowly to death and the like I'm not

saying like, Oh, poor me, because I was, you know, had to

see that. But I will say, as a sensitive person, it weighed

heavy on my hat. It's why I stopped bartending. It was one

of the reasons I'm like, I don't want to come here every day and

watch people slowly kill themselves, watch people get

sloppy, watch people get belligerent and mean, watch

people, you know, sitting at the bar, coming there every day

because they're deathly lonely, but they don't talk to anybody

about it, whatever, whatever, whatever. And again, I'm not

judging people who drink. These are just examples of how I kind

of see it. And one of the most powerful things that I saw this

week that kind of points to this consequence of being yourself.

Now this video might be months old, a year old. I don't even

know. I just saw the video, and it just was like getting punched

in the face. And it's a video of this guy, and I tried to find

the real story, or the back story. I see different people

saying different things about it, but I will say this, there's

apparently a woman. She might be a woman of color. She's standing

on her porch as she's in her yard, and apparently this guy

has done this before. So there's a guy, a white guy, driving down

the street in a pickup truck. She's just in her yard,

whatever. Now he obviously has a problem with her. Some stories

said it was because of her bumper stickers. Some stories

said it was because she was black. Some stories said it was

because he was a neighbor, and they don't get whatever. I don't

really know the reason, and it doesn't on some level, on some

level, it doesn't matter to the point that I'm trying to make.

So he's driving down this quiet, little residential street in his

truck. She's in her yard or on her porch, you don't know,

because the vantage point is from her camera. She's filming,

and she's filming this guy as he's driving down the street,

and as he gets close to her house and he sees her, he

basically turns his head to look at her, and he flips her the

bird, right? He does the fuck you with his finger. Okay?

Because he's distracted, because he's caught up in being himself,

which is, I'm going to be this guy that flips off this woman

who's in her yacht or whatever, he ends up swerving his car. He

hit his truck, he scrapes up a packed car, bounces up onto the

sidewalk and then slams into a concrete wall.

And I'm watching this, and the whole time I'm just cringing.

I'm cringing from everything, from the fact that this woman

was filming him, which tells me this has probably happened

before. She's been harassed, or he's mean or out of control, and

whatever, she's documenting it for a reason that was like, Oh

man, that hurt my hat. Then I see what he does, and I'm like,

Oh my god. Can you imagine being this woman and having to deal

with this shit? Now, again. I don't know that. I don't know

the real story of what's going on, but I'm just, you know, from

what I saw. Then I watch him wreck another person's car

that's just packed on the street. Then he could have, he

could have hit somebody, if anybody had been walking on that

sidewalk, thank God there wasn't. And then he slams his

own truck into the car and.

Know what he says

first of all, and I don't, I don't usually say this word, but

I'm going to say it just so you get the this is not a word for

whatever. I swear. I swear like a sailor, but this is just isn't

something that you know what I tend to say, but this is what he

says. He puts it in pack, he swings open his door, and he

screams, god damn it.

And the second thing he screams in her direction is, I fucking

hate you.

And then he says again, God damn it. And now he's having a

tantrum like a toddler. He's like stomping his feet. And she

just very calmly says, are you okay? And he yells, no. And now

he's walking in the street looking at the car he just hit,

and she says, are you hurt? And he says, Yes. And she says,

physically. And he walks away. And what I hear is, I give up.

Somebody else said somewhere that they interpreted it as I

need help, but I heard I give up. And then he just kind of

like, says, I'm gonna fucking die. And I'm

just like, Oh, my God, this right here encapsulates the

consequences of being yourself. Because he had no self control.

He felt the need to flip this person off. And some people are

like, Oh, it's instant comma, whatever. I found no joy in this

video at all. The whole thing just made me sad. It was just

like such a shit show of dysregulation, and this is what

I'm talking about. If you have no self knowledge, if you have

no self awareness, if you don't understand the workings of your

own mind, like, seriously, we are I'm hitting my body right

now. We are operating heavy machinery. You should understand

how your brain works. You should get a book at the library, and

if you can't read, listen to it on tape or something like that,

but start to understand how your body and your brain and your

nervous system works. Learn a little bit about trauma, learn a

little bit about our history. Learn a little bit about, like,

just all of it, right. Like, learn about how we find

ourselves, where we are at this particular point in time. But

start on the micro start with yourself. Start with yourself.

Because whether we like it or not, there are consequences of

us being ourselves, and we don't just inflict it on us. Animals

pay the price all the time for people being themselves. Animals

pay the negative consequences of people deciding that they don't

have value, that their products that we wear and that we eat and

that we murder and that we use for entertainment, right? There

are consequences to us just being here, alive on the planet

and what we're doing to the planet, in the environment and

Mother Nature. Our choices matter, our self knowledge

matters, our self awareness matters.

I can literally go on and on and on about this, right? But it's

so important you guys, am I going to contribute to society,

or am I going to be a menace to society? And when you don't know

yourself, when you don't understand the consequences of

you being you, right? There are positive consequences, your

brilliance, own that that's beautiful, but do not turn a

blind eye to the negative consequences, right? Going out

and inflicting yourself on others, you're also inflicting

yourself, sometimes on yourself. Now, I can't make people want to

do that kind of work. I just say I'm here when people are ready

to do that work. You know, I'm easy to find. Karen kenney.com

you know, this is the work that I continue to do on myself,

because I got to keep an eye on my own nonsense and my own

bullshit. You know what I mean? If I have a blind spot, I expect

my friends, my sweetie, my best friends, right to go like, hey,

hey, like, compassionately, right? And, like, do it kindly,

or I'm not interested. But you can say anything to me. It's

about the way that you say it to me, right? If I know that you're

on my team, if I know you're on my side and you're trying to be

helpful, I can hear just about anything. So here's the thing,

you guys, that's where I'm gonna leave it with. I gotta run. I

gotta go. I have a client. Actually, I gotta go. I gotta go

give a Thai Yoga massage. So just thank you for tuning in.

Thank you for being a part of my podcast. Family. Yay. For seven

years, I'm so excited. I hope something that I shared from my

heart today also lands in yours. If it was helpful in some way,

share it with somebody else. Or send up a flare, let me know,

because I got to tell you, sometimes having a podcast or a

newsletter or whatever, you're just kind of sending it out into

the ethers and you don't know, like you, yeah, I could look at

my stats and be like, Oh, this many people listen, but I don't

know how long they're listening. I mean, I guess I could really

do the deep dive, but it's so nice to feel like there's a

connection in a community. So if I share something and it

resonates with you, or it makes you think, or you go, Oh, or

even if you disagree a little bit, whatever, right? It's nice.

Send up a flare. Let me know. Reach out and.

Talk to me and let me know I bump into people out in public.

Sometimes I have no idea, no idea that they listen to the

show, and then all of a sudden they'll say, Oh, I listened to

the show. Like, hearing that. It's like, it's nice. It's like

getting a little warm hug, right? It's sweet. It's like,

oh, maybe this is, like, is landing for people, or making a

difference, or whatever. And we all want to know that, don't we?

We all want to know that it's something that we're doing or

how we're trying, you know, it's it matters.

It's not why we do it. You know, I'm not doing it for the likes,

the clicks, the follows, the whatever, but it is nice to know

that it is landing in people's hats. So I appreciate you so

much. Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening wherever

you go. May you leave yourself in the animals and the

environment and the other people that you come into contact with

better than how you found them wherever you go? May you and

your energy and your love and your presence? May it be a

positive consequence? May it be a blessing? Bye.

Hey. Thanks so much for listening to the show. I really

love spending some time together. Now, if you dig the

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