Life After the Election: Growing Together Regardless of Who Wins

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Speaker 5 Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the show.

Speaker 9 It's election day, and I am dropping this episode on November 5th, 2024.

Speaker 13 Donald Trump versus Kamala Harris.

Speaker 14 So much talk, so much hate, so much back and forth.

Speaker 17 You said information, misinformation. You're spreading disinformation.

Speaker 13 You're a communist.

Speaker 8 You're a Nazi. This has been wild.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 Trump getting shot.

Speaker 20 Democrats kicking Joe Biden out and annoying Kamala Harris, right?

Speaker 23 Trump being taken out of context. Kamala being taken out of context.

Speaker 24 He's too old.

Speaker 13 She's inexperienced.

Speaker 8 It's been insane and troubling.

Speaker 14 A lot of tension, a lot of stress.

Speaker 16 Even if you try not to involve yourself in politics, you really have not been able to escape this election season and the tension that it's created in our country.

Speaker 23 And I wanted to use this time with you not to talk about the election, because frankly, I don't care who you voted for. In all transparency, I'm voting for Donald Trump.

Speaker 31 Take that for what it is.

Speaker 32 Unsubscribe.

Speaker 33 Tell all your friends to subscribe if you love that or if you don't care.

Speaker 5 I hope you just keep listening because frankly, just because I voted for Trump, I hope if you vote for Kamala, I could care less.

Speaker 23 I have tons of friends that are either not voting or voting for her.

Speaker 18 And that's fine. That's the beauty of the country.

Speaker 31 The beauty of the place that we live is that you're supposed to be able to do whatever it is that you want.

Speaker 37 And as long as it doesn't impact other people directly,

Speaker 22 live your life.

Speaker 14 And I want to start in that place, right?

Speaker 25 I had this conversation with a good friend of mine at an event recently in which I said, you know, the American promise, I believe the American promise is different from the American dream.

Speaker 42 Okay, so the American dream is infinite upside, unabated, as big and bad and amazing as you want to be,

Speaker 14 as much money as you want to make, as much fame and notoriety as you want to have, as much.

Speaker 18 whatever lifestyle you want to live and as far as you want to go inside that lifestyle, it's available to you here.

Speaker 46 Regardless of your religion, regardless of the color of your skin, regardless of what sex you are, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 20 You can go as far as you want.

Speaker 40 That's the American dream, right?

Speaker 25 You know, making a dollar out of 15 cents, to quote Wu-Tang.

Speaker 33 But the American promise is slightly different.

Speaker 35 And this is how I view it.

Speaker 42 The American promise is: I get to live however I want.

Speaker 20 And as long as I don't put my shit on you,

Speaker 5 then we're all good, right?

Speaker 49 You want to be into NASCAR and shoot guns and go hunting and live that life?

Speaker 12 Awesome.

Speaker 21 That's amazing.

Speaker 11 If somebody else wants to be a artist and live in the city and do creative kind of hippie-ish things, that's amazing.

Speaker 32 You want to,

Speaker 51 you know, you can live whatever life you want to live, have what other interests you want to live.

Speaker 22 you know, paint your house whatever color you want to paint it, right?

Speaker 47 Have five kids, have no kids,

Speaker 39 have side jobs, have hobbies,

Speaker 42 whatever you want to do, you can do it as long as you don't put that shit on me.

Speaker 54 And that's what we've lost.

Speaker 52 The American dream still exists in this country, but I feel like we've broken the American promise.

Speaker 22 So I want to take our time together, not talking about who's right, who's wrong, who's going to be better for the country, because frankly, I have my opinions, but they're simply that.

Speaker 57 No one has any idea what's going to happen or who is going to be a better option for our country moving forward.

Speaker 27 Absolutely.

Speaker 25 Obviously, I'm voting the way I'm voting because that's through all the research and all the time I've spent looking at the candidates, that's who I decided I felt was best for the future of the country, not just myself, not just my family, but for the betterment of the country.

Speaker 24 And I tend to be a single voter, a single issue voter in this particular election.

Speaker 16 So what I ultimately came down to was

Speaker 27 I want less war in the world.

Speaker 25 I am very, I believe the military is important, but the military-industrial complex is not or should not have as much weight as they do.

Speaker 47 And I don't want to bomb countries that don't necessarily need to be bombed.

Speaker 25 And I certainly don't want to be in regime change wars.

Speaker 14 And I certainly don't want to be in resource wars

Speaker 13 that aren't absolutely positively necessary.

Speaker 10 And I believe one candidate will take us out of those wars.

Speaker 61 I believe one candidate will either keep us in those wars or possibly expand wars.

Speaker 30 And that's really the issue that I'm voting on.

Speaker 62 Take all the other issues aside.

Speaker 16 That's really the main issue for me.

Speaker 35 And that's what I believe.

Speaker 7 But you don't have to believe that, agree with that singular fact, or think that one candidate is better or not for whatever reasons you get, you get to do that.

Speaker 20 And my point is, we have to live together when this is over, when this whole thing is over, when the election is over, and we're past whatever happens on Tuesday, whatever happens today.

Speaker 60 We have to live together.

Speaker 53 And frankly, we should want everyone in the veins that they choose to take to get better.

Speaker 63 So I think we need to get back to, I get to live my life.

Speaker 38 If you're Catholic, be freaking Catholic, but don't tell other people they're wrong for not being Catholic.

Speaker 50 It doesn't mean you can't talk to them about why you enjoy Catholicism, but it means you can't put your shit on them.

Speaker 18 That's not how this country works.

Speaker 57 People say, well, this country is formed on Judeo-Christian beliefs. 100%.

Speaker 53 I have on my left arm, I've told you guys this before, a half sleeve, which is an American flag with an insect cross.

Speaker 40 I believe in God.

Speaker 66 I follow Jesus.

Speaker 21 It's one of the core principles of my life, one of the core value structures come out of the Bible.

Speaker 12 But I'm not allowed to to put my shit on someone else if they're a Hindu or a Jew or a Muslim or whatever other religion they want to be, atheist.

Speaker 56 I think atheism is bananas.

Speaker 25 I've listened to countless arguments for it.

Speaker 61 I've read Sam Harris's book.

Speaker 25 I've listened to Scott Galloway, both very smart people.

Speaker 20 I simply cannot get on board with atheism, but they have every single right to be atheist in this country.

Speaker 13 And I'm not going to judge them for that.

Speaker 20 And I'm not going to put my shit on them.

Speaker 16 I don't know either one of those guys, so I couldn't.

Speaker 25 But we've lost this.

Speaker 36 So we have to live together. So how do we do that?

Speaker 67 Well, I spent some time thinking about,

Speaker 32 you know, living in New York, traditionally very left-leaning state.

Speaker 30 I have many friends that I said, I have many friends that lean left or probably would have been center left that now, unfortunately, because you're either all the way one or all the way other are left,

Speaker 16 that I disagree with in different viewpoints but love as human beings actually one of the most one of the most downloaded episode of this podcast if you go all the way back to Eric Garcia it was I think it was January of 2024 I spoke with Eric Garcia in a in an episode called how to have a disagreement about politics with a friend and still love them listen to that episode

Speaker 55 Eric is a Democrat.

Speaker 5 He tends to skew more liberal-minded.

Speaker 51 And we had this incredible conversation where once we talked all these things out, we came around to the fact that we were basically like millimeters off from each other in how we actually viewed the world and what we actually wanted to be the outcomes that came out of our country.

Speaker 23 And it's just a wonderful conversation if you're into that kind of thing.

Speaker 41 But taking from that conversation and many others, understanding that my viewpoints tend to skew center right in general.

Speaker 13 I've always been a moderate.

Speaker 25 I've voted for both Democrats and Republicans for president.

Speaker 68 I've voted for both Democrats and Republicans down ticket.

Speaker 61 So I, while I tend to skew center right in my value structure,

Speaker 43 I am wholly open to liberal ideas, certainly classically liberal ideas, and I'm willing to be persuaded one way or the other based on new information, new ideas,

Speaker 25 effective research and results that come out of these practices, right?

Speaker 7 So

Speaker 25 I feel like I've done a decent job of navigating that.

Speaker 19 Now, I do like to talk in hyperbole and I do like to bust chops.

Speaker 61 So you've probably heard me take swipes at the left before.

Speaker 54 I think the far, far left is bananas.

Speaker 10 I don't even think they're living in reality and that people placate them, I think is insane. However,

Speaker 10 most of the people that I run into in a day-to-day basis, there is literally no problem.

Speaker 22 So how do we do that?

Speaker 12 How do we fit in?

Speaker 37 with this mishmash melting pot of a country.

Speaker 11 How do we fit in, get by

Speaker 55 and and be successful and live happy and and and start to release some of this tension of red or blue or you know what i mean look

Speaker 58 i just

Speaker 40 i think look look you can think what you want about obama

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Speaker 60 But he had it right in 2008.

Speaker 15 There aren't red states, there aren't blue states, there's the United States.

Speaker 63 And I know that sounds cheeky, and I know it sounds kind of cliche or trite, but it's absolutely, positively true.

Speaker 21 There are no blue states, there are no red states.

Speaker 48 They're all purple states.

Speaker 65 They all are a mishmash of individuals.

Speaker 64 There's libertarians.

Speaker 44 There's Green Party people in there.

Speaker 37 There's tried and true communists who are legitimately lunatics because that is just the most tested system that doesn't work that people still try to believe does.

Speaker 36 I mean, just results.

Speaker 45 Just

Speaker 16 give me the receipts, you know.

Speaker 71 But everything else in there that I said is...

Speaker 36 has its merits, right?

Speaker 60 And should be heard. And we all have to live together and get along.

Speaker 36 And we have urban people and suburban people and country people and poor people, and middle-class people, and rich people, and super rich people.

Speaker 21 And we all have to live together.

Speaker 59 So, how do we do that?

Speaker 37 Well, I pulled out three core ideas that I think

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Speaker 55 Back on this, right?

Speaker 30 If you're watching on the YouTube channel, leave a comment below.

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Speaker 31 That's where most of you people are.

Speaker 60 Right?

Speaker 31 Like, I want to hear your feedback on this, but I think there's three core concepts, three core ideas that we have to work through in order to release some of this tension.

Speaker 65 to be able to live inside ourselves and be comfortable knowing that there are people who who vehemently disagree with our ideas and that's completely fucking okay.

Speaker 63 There should be people who disagree with your ideas.

Speaker 65 If we all think the same, even if seemingly that's a good idea today, eventually that will grow toxic. We need the give and take.

Speaker 38 We need someone who just to the core of their fiber disagrees with our idea.

Speaker 31 We need that person to exist.

Speaker 51 Or we'll never get to the truth because the truth is never all the way one way or all the way the other.

Speaker 65 There is no black and white. We have to live in the gray space.

Speaker 5 I talk a lot about this with entrepreneurs, right?

Speaker 50 Entrepreneurs thrive in the gray space, that murky, muddy, gray, brown space that's in between the white and the black that just can't really see through, isn't really tangible, doesn't have a clear, concise conclusion.

Speaker 57 That's where entrepreneurs thrive.

Speaker 56 And as Americans, that's where we have to thrive.

Speaker 51 That's the beauty of our country.

Speaker 65 It is a melting pot.

Speaker 25 It is a mixture. And you can say, well, there's racism or sexism or whatever frigginism.

Speaker 49 And I'm, and all those things do exist.

Speaker 38 You still have to live here.

Speaker 28 And taking out your finger and pointing it at the other person and blame everything that's happened to you in your life on someone else is not the friggin answer.

Speaker 53 So we start with core values.

Speaker 51 Do you know what your core values are?

Speaker 5 Do you have an unbreakable rule?

Speaker 53 Do you have something about yourself that in a situation in which all your peers are thinking one way, you will not not agree with them regardless because it's your core value

Speaker 25 for me one of my primary core values is telling the truth

Speaker 25 i've always been honest with you guys on this podcast maybe my ideas weren't always articulated a proper way maybe i hadn't always thought an idea all the way out but i have always

Speaker 67 given you exactly what my most honest thought was in that moment in whatever amount of time or effort I had spent digging into that particular topic.

Speaker 16 And most of the topics I do a lot of research on.

Speaker 13 So, you know, it's not like I'm just shooting for the hip on things.

Speaker 18 And when I am shooting for the hip, I try to be honest about that.

Speaker 64 But tell the truth.

Speaker 22 It's very difficult.

Speaker 25 It's the most difficult to yourself.

Speaker 18 Right. I wrote an article on LinkedIn recently.

Speaker 30 If you go over there and follow me, I'm sure you can find it.

Speaker 23 I'll have it linked up in the show notes as well around never negotiating with yourself.

Speaker 12 Right?

Speaker 26 Negotiating with yourself is lying to yourself.

Speaker 39 Negotiating with yourself is saying, I'm going to get up at 5 a.m.

Speaker 34 every day and I'm going to read a book or I'm going to go for a walk or I'm going to have a cup of coffee with my spouse before the kids get up or I'm going to hit the gym, whatever that thing is.

Speaker 13 And then the alarm goes off and you start negotiating.

Speaker 51 Ah, what's 15 minutes?

Speaker 60 You know, we had a cup of coffee yesterday together.

Speaker 10 We don't need to have one today.

Speaker 12 Or.

Speaker 18 Man, I've worked out the last four days in a row.

Speaker 13 I don't need to work out today, even though I told myself I was going to do it every day.

Speaker 11 And we start negotiating and we hit the snooze and we hit the snooze.

Speaker 16 Now, all of a sudden, it's 6 p.m.

Speaker 37 or 6 a.m. and we're rushing around trying to get things done, thinking, man, it would have been nice if I had that time and just gotten my ass out of bed, but instead I negotiated with myself, right?

Speaker 53 Tell the truth to others.

Speaker 57 Tell the truth to yourself.

Speaker 25 Now, why do I spend so much time on this?

Speaker 16 Because

Speaker 54 be honest about what your core values are.

Speaker 48 What are your core values?

Speaker 41 Do you embody them every day?

Speaker 25 Getting a grip on it, and it can be two.

Speaker 44 You don't have to have 100 core values.

Speaker 45 You could have two core values, three.

Speaker 21 There's no right or wrong answer to core values.

Speaker 61 These are the unbreakable aspects of who you are.

Speaker 62 I would love to say that,

Speaker 12 you know,

Speaker 18 there are plenty of things that

Speaker 50 I'm always,

Speaker 18 you know, that I'm always being considerate of others.

Speaker 39 I would love to say that as a core value.

Speaker 67 I tend to lack empathy and lack consideration sometimes for other people's feelings.

Speaker 25 Because I'm solution-based and outcome and action-based, and because I always want to live in the truth, I tend to not consider others' feelings sometimes with the things that I say, do, et cetera.

Speaker 31 That is a weak point for me.

Speaker 54 So I have to be honest about that.

Speaker 52 I can't say consideration,

Speaker 56 empathy is a core value for me because it's not, because I break, I break that core.

Speaker 54 I would break that core value.

Speaker 28 When we establish our core values, we become confident in who we are and the viewpoints, be they words or actions of others,

Speaker 13 have less of an impact on us.

Speaker 10 So the first step of life after the election is not allowing what other people do and say to own space in our life, right?

Speaker 5 If I'm confident in my beliefs, if I'm confident in my spirituality, if I'm confident in my relationship with my family, if I'm confident in the core values that I live by, then when someone else shares their ideas, their core values, they do not impact me because I'm confident in what mine are.

Speaker 46 When people react, it is often because they feel insecure, they feel doubt, they feel fear

Speaker 19 in who they are.

Speaker 31 They lack confidence in that area, so they lash back out because they have to be right, or at least you have to be wrong for me to feel good about myself.

Speaker 12 But if you're confident in your core values, if you know exactly who you are, if you're grounded in the person, be it one core value or a hundred, if you're grounded in those values and you believe in your heart of hearts that you live those every day,

Speaker 38 then you won't react to other people.

Speaker 56 You can go through the life, you you can go through, you can drive down the road and see a political campaign sign for the other team and

Speaker 21 not feel any anxiousness or stress.

Speaker 25 You can hear something on the radio or the TV or in a podcast that

Speaker 11 strikes at what you believe, and you don't feel that sense of reaction, that need to get them back or to prove them wrong or to be right in this scenario.

Speaker 32 So, to wrap up number one,

Speaker 5 understanding, writing down, and committing

Speaker 16 to your core values develops the confidence that you need to go through your life without reacting to those who disagree or present at a position that's opposing to yours.

Speaker 46 That will drastically reduce your stress.

Speaker 45 Number two,

Speaker 53 understand

Speaker 21 that nuance exists in everything.

Speaker 31 We talked about that gray space.

Speaker 5 Guys, this is the problem with particularly politics today, but so much of our conversations that we have at work and with our family is that we make a statement and there's tons of nuance baked into that statement, and someone takes it at face value and then

Speaker 53 straw mans the other side of it against you.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 43 there's nuance in every opinion, there's nuance in every topic.

Speaker 30 I once made a statement on the podcast around nuclear energy, right?

Speaker 60 That I believed that if climate activists truly cared about the climate and weren't just propagating a position in which they can enrich themselves, that nuclear would be number one, that we wouldn't be putting these ugly ass, toxic windmills up all over our countryside, and we would be building nuclear power plants, especially Gen 3 nuclear power plants, that are insanely safe, that are light years ahead of any of the plants that actually melted down that everyone gets scared about and can provide essentially limitless energy over time to our country that's my position now what's interesting about that is all the nuances associated with it so i had uh someone on the show who had some expertise in this area and they broke down how you know the cost structure the regulatory structure uh what goes into from pollution

Speaker 56 and when he and then the fact that all that energy couldn't necessarily work over our current grid that then the grid would have to be updated.

Speaker 69 And there were all these nuances to it.

Speaker 57 And essentially came back and said, you're right at 30,000 feet, but at 10,000 feet, there's like 4 million nuances to the conversation.

Speaker 16 And we can't just blindly and in a broad stroke say something like, if climate activists actually cared about the climate, they would be 100% and all in on nuclear, right?

Speaker 8 So the idea here is, until that conversation, I basically viewed everyone in the the climate activism space who doesn't push nuclear as someone who is being disingenuous.

Speaker 31 And what this person kind of showed me, once I got to understand the nuances behind the topic, that while some of them still may be disingenuous, there were others who had actually done the research and realized that while nuclear should be part of the solution, it's not something that we can act on soon and that there were other ways to help build in that, whether right or wrong, they believed could bridge that gap, et cetera.

Speaker 33 So that's a very nuanced conversation, which radically changed my opinion of people who may quote unquote have been on the other side of my position and allowed me to see what they were saying through a filter of, and this is the third one, understanding.

Speaker 65 Once I understanded the nuance, once I had my core beliefs, right, and confident in those core beliefs,

Speaker 5 and approached every conversation to understand the nuances, not just the broad stroke statements.

Speaker 16 I could get to a place of understanding that allowed me to not just listen to what someone was saying at face value, but actually look deeper into what they were trying to get as an outcome, what their past was, what their experience was, and say,

Speaker 38 when you understand, you know, what is their why, that's what we're getting at, right?

Speaker 65 Like, why are they doing this?

Speaker 51 And if we believe that they're coming from a good place, right?

Speaker 12 Now,

Speaker 25 even if we still disagree with them, if we have understanding for their why, if we have understanding for where they're coming from and the outcome they're trying to achieve,

Speaker 51 we look into

Speaker 40 the nuances of the conversation and spend time really getting to the core of what the issue is, and we're grounded in our core beliefs.

Speaker 49 Now we can have productive conversations with people who disagree with us, regardless if it's about politics or the next sales campaign or what vacation we should go on as a family, right?

Speaker 22 It's layering in these three ideas that allow us to have very productive conversations.

Speaker 25 And guys, I've done, you know, this show has almost 300 episodes.

Speaker 23 I've done two other podcasts in my 15-year podcasting career and done thousands of interviews over the course of those three shows.

Speaker 41 I didn't agree with every single person that's come on the show.

Speaker 17 So I've had a lot of experience in this.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 53 to have productive conversations with people who may disagree with you on a topic, we have to be understanding, not just of

Speaker 31 what they're saying or what they're truly trying to say,

Speaker 54 but where they're coming from and what outcome they're ultimately trying to achieve.

Speaker 46 We have to look into the nuances of the argument and get to the details, get to the fine points, get to the results, not just take people's positions on broad-stroke statements, which oftentimes are necessary, right?

Speaker 40 It is often necessary at the beginning of a sales meeting or in a political debate or when you're talking with your spouse, whatever, taking these scenarios, like it is often to start a conversation from a broad stroke position.

Speaker 34 But if we stop the conversation there, we become embattled on either side, where when we take time to understand and dig into the nuances

Speaker 61 and feel confident in our position based on our core values,

Speaker 60 we can have truly productive conversations, which is hope, what I hope the country gets to.

Speaker 12 I want to get back to the, to, you know, I remember, and many of you probably do as well, right?

Speaker 35 I grew up in the 80s and the 90s, and it was just like, America is great.

Speaker 40 You can do anything you want.

Speaker 67 You just got to have the

Speaker 53 guts to go out and get it.

Speaker 67 And it's hard work and doesn't matter where you come from.

Speaker 40 And people are going to help you rise up if you're putting in that work and you're helping them and you're adding value and you're telling your story.

Speaker 14 Like there was so much promise.

Speaker 5 I just remember so much potential and promise and excitement for what you could possibly achieve in your life.

Speaker 53 And so many conversations today have shifted away from that.

Speaker 18 They've shifted from this one's repressing this one.

Speaker 63 And this group over here is repressing this group and this group over here is incapable of ever reaching.

Speaker 60 And it's like, nah, we got to get away from that.

Speaker 65 and get back to having truly productive conversations that help people make up their own mind for what is going to get them to the place that they want to be.

Speaker 22 And regardless of what they choose, you don't get to put your shit on them.

Speaker 56 That's my biggest takeaway from this entire video

Speaker 19 is do what you think is best for you, your family, your community, whatever, however you prioritize your structure there, however you prioritize your value structure.

Speaker 51 But you don't get to put your shit on anyone else.

Speaker 30 Stop putting yourself on someone else.

Speaker 51 They're a different religion.

Speaker 19 Who cares?

Speaker 51 They're from a different country?

Speaker 19 Who cares?

Speaker 40 They're a different color?

Speaker 12 Who cares?

Speaker 31 They natively speak a different language?

Speaker 19 Who cares?

Speaker 45 What are their core values?

Speaker 25 Do you understand where they're coming from?

Speaker 53 And do you understand it at a nuanced level?

Speaker 60 And as long as they're doing their best and not putting their shit on you,

Speaker 30 That's the American promise.

Speaker 25 That's where we have to get back to. And I hope to have many more conversations on this show like that.

Speaker 36 So guys,

Speaker 49 kind of short solo episode today.

Speaker 25 I had to get that out of me.

Speaker 58 I just,

Speaker 10 I find politics to be so intriguing from a like marketing, sales, messaging perspective.

Speaker 25 I find the way the media interacts with each other to be infuriating, but also incredibly interesting. However, I've felt the tension myself.

Speaker 37 I've had conversations with people that didn't necessarily go the way that I hoped.

Speaker 31 There are people who've, you know, unfollowed me because I posted a, you know, the Trump with the fist up after he got shot on my Instagram. And like, it's all good.

Speaker 31 I just wish that we could have a conversation about it.

Speaker 12 And I wish that I could like Trump, you could like Kamala or like whoever you like, and we all just friggin' get along.

Speaker 25 Like,

Speaker 64 I hate how trite that sounds, but it's literally, we got to get back to growing the country.

Speaker 58 We got to get back to helping people rise out of situations that are impoverished or unfortunate.

Speaker 53 We have to get back to supporting each other.

Speaker 25 And we can't do that if we're fucking fighting with each other.

Speaker 31 And I'm so sick of fighting.

Speaker 51 So sick of this country fighting with itself.

Speaker 11 That's understand that, and I know maybe some of you listening don't maybe think this much because we have so much going on in our day-to-day lives, but like

Speaker 14 every country, every enemy of this country, what's happening today is exactly what they want.

Speaker 5 Because if this country is pointing in the same direction, we're fucking unstoppable.

Speaker 31 We are the biggest badasses in the world.

Speaker 11 And I hope that however we can, however you can in your life,

Speaker 4 just

Speaker 73 give everybody some fucking grace.

Speaker 52 Just give them some grace.

Speaker 22 Just let people live.

Speaker 42 You do you, let them do them.

Speaker 56 And as long as no one's putting any of their shit on each other, awesome.

Speaker 54 And if we can find even the smallest micro cross set of combined interest, lean into that spot, not into the space that we don't agree.

Speaker 73 Let's start leaning into the spaces that we do agree and watch what fucking happens.

Speaker 27 I love you guys.

Speaker 25 I love you for listening to this show.

Speaker 31 I hope you like this solo episode.

Speaker 11 If you did, please, you know, hit me up in DMs or leave a comment wherever you're watching or listening.

Speaker 43 I'd love to know if you enjoy this solo format.

Speaker 21 I like doing these solo shows.

Speaker 30 I haven't done one in a very long time.

Speaker 34 This particular topic just obviously hit me kind of hard and wanted to get something out around it.

Speaker 25 But I'm interested in your feedback.

Speaker 16 This show is as much yours as it is mine.

Speaker 41 I love you for listening to the show. I'm out of here.

Speaker 12 Peace.

Speaker 1 Let's go.

Speaker 2 Yeah, make it look. Make it look.
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