but it comes out in January.
And the thing that I wanted to share with you is that as I'm researching this book, these three truths come up over and over and over again in the research in every situation I'm writing about.
And you know, the fact is the reason why these truths come up is because you and I have someone in our lives we wanna change.
You want them to drink less, to lose weight.
You'd like them to help around the house.
I mean, you're not being a pain in the rear end.
Maybe you want them to be a little bit more affectionate.
Maybe they could use a different tone.
Maybe you want them to be a little bit more motivated in their career.
I get it, I get it. I would want that too for somebody that I love.
But let's just take that last example.
That you want someone that you care about who is currently in a job that is making them miserable.
You want them to be motivated.
You want them in a better job because why?
Well, you don't wanna see them miserable.
Plus they're making you miserable because they come home every day and they complain about their boss Steve.
And you've seen this play out.
They've been working their tail off.
They've been up for promotion several times.
They've hit their mark and good old Steve.
Always has a reason why that promotion isn't coming.
And you know, you can see it.
Can't you? Clear's day.
This job is a dead end. And you know that Steve is being totally unprofessional and unfair and he just keeps stringing this person that you love along and you know that every single day that goes by is one more day that the person that you love is not in a supportive environment.
And you just see this playing out.
And here's the thing. You know exactly what they need to do, right?
In fact, you've got at least a dozen people that you have lined up that are ready to network with this person that you love.
But every time that you push, have you noticed?
Every time that you push, hey, you know, maybe you should look for a new job or, you know, I'd really love for you to talk to David.
You know, you have so many amazing things to offer.
You should be with a better company.
They're just stringing you along, honey.
What are you gonna see the writing on the wall and leave and find your power?
If you notice it every time you push, whether it's in a loving way or a little forceful way, what do they do?
They push back. And so here you are.
You're at this impasse.
You're annoyed at this person that you love and you're starting to feel a little judgey about the situation and you're so sick of it that you can't even hear them complain about it anymore because they're not doing anything.
And every little thing that they do from laying on the couch all weekend and watching golf instead of looking for the new job, everything that they do, it just bothers you.
And here's what I wanna tell you.
There are three rules about adults and adult relationships that you have to learn.
And you need to start living by them.
And these three rules, they are the truth about how adults work.
And these three truths, holy cow, if you really embrace them and you incorporate them into your life and your relationships, it's gonna create so much more harmony in your life.
These truths will give you so much peace and power in this situation.
They're gonna help you feel more in control.
And if you're lucky, it might just create, we all do it.
We all control the people that we love instead of accepting and supporting and loving the people that we love.
And what I can promise you is that when you truly embrace these three truths, when you accept these truths, your life is gonna get a whole lot easier.
Because right now you have no idea how much unnecessary stress and frustration you're creating for yourself.
And I think the most surprising realization that I've had is that wanting someone else to change doesn't make them change.
It usually stops them from changing.
See, it's only when you back off and you learn how to show up differently, that the people in your life will have the space to start showing up differently too.
And I think about relationships as this mutual exchange of energy, like you really impact one another with your energy.
So when you shift your energy from judging and pushing and wanting in the podcast, and our very first one comes from a listener named Lisa.
Hi, Mel. My name is Lisa and I have a question for you.
Now, I am currently struggling with being a more tolerant person.
I struggle with accepting others and their bullshit.
We all have bullshit and we all have to carry it, deal with it and unload it.
Don't get me wrong. I have worked on myself for years trying to be better and do better, but damn, I wanna scream sometimes.
Just be better. I have had to deal with so much in life, but I've always wanted more for myself and my family regardless of the shit that life serves up.
Meeting people where they are in life is so important.
I know and understand this, but my patience is tried when people wallow.
Any advice, Mel? Okay, I love this question and I'm sure you can relate to it as much as I can relate to it.
And before I dig into this, I wanna divide Lisa's questions into two different topics.
Okay? So the first topic is her frustration that people don't wanna do better.
That's topic number one.
Topic number two is how to deal with what's really irritating, which is people who wallow was her word.
I say marinate, commiserate, just absolutely at some level love their bullshit.
You know those people, some's always wrong.
They're always complaining.
The weather's always bad or they're always unhealthy.
They're like, you know that kind of person.
So let's start with the first part of that, which is this frustration that you hear in Lisa's voice.
I just want them to do better.
I've done better. There's almost like an arrogance and a judgment in that, right?
That, oh well, if I've fixed myself, you should fix yourself.
If I can do this, then you should do this.
And to me, that's toxic positivity, just assuming that because you've done it that somebody else should.
And I'm emphasizing the word should, because should holds judgment.
If you have the perspective that if I've done it, then you could do it too.
That's inspiration. That's helping somebody.
And so what you want to make sure that you're doing is that if you're frustrated, that you're coming from a place of love and coming from a place of wanting to help somebody, rather than coming from a place of judgment of the should, of the, you know, you're not doing this, you're not doing that, because we've all been on the receiving end of that, right?
Where somebody's beating you down because they've done something and they think you should do something.
I can give you a really good example of this, because I think there's a big difference of somebody being capable of doing something and somebody not being capable yet.
As a person that is new to personal development, and I'm talking about myself, I've only known about personal development for just over 10 years.
I mean, I've been engaged in therapy for a long time, but I feel like it takes a while to understand that there are certain things that a lot of people have never even thought about or been taught.
I mean, I didn't bump into a lot of the topics that I'm talking about right now until I was in my mid 40s.
For example, I'll give you one.
I didn't truly understand trauma.
When I heard the word trauma, I thought that that was something that people that served in the military had.
I thought that you had to be on a tour of duty and see absolutely something horrific or be somewhere where there's extreme violence or be the victim of a really violent crime.
I did not realize that there's big tea trauma and there's little tea trauma.
I didn't realize that growing up in a household where you experience emotional abuse or you have parents that are distant or mismatched or maybe you experience a childhood where there's a lot of poverty or there is discrimination.
These are all forms of trauma.
I had no idea. And so there are people in your life that would love to change, but they can't right now because they don't even understand that they are trapped in some kind of a trauma pattern.
They're not aware of it.
There are people in your life that would love to have the level of fitness that you have.
Love to have the level of discipline that you have.
But they're not capable of it right now because they maybe are struggling with depression or maybe they don't have the family structure around them that is supportive that you have or maybe they didn't have the experiences that you've had in your life that have allowed you to develop the habits that you've had.
And so I think it's really important when you start to feel yourself frustrated with other people to check your ego and to ask yourself, well, am I in the lane of wanting someone to better themselves because I care about them and I see potential in them?
Or am I in the other side of this which is I'm being really judgy?
That's where my frustration is coming from.
And I'm assuming that somebody's got the resources and the ability and the support tolerant of my wife, Mel.
So here's what happened.
Our pup, homey is gonna go to a training class and in order to go to this training class on Wednesday, he needs to be up to date on his vaccines, right?
No problem because when we got him as a puppy, I took him to the vet.
He got all of his shots and that was great.
I'm a responsible pet owner.
This is fantastic. Then all of a sudden Chris looks at me this morning and says, why didn't you tell me that homey is not up to date with his vaccines?
I'm like, what are you talking about?
He's missed two veterinarian appointments.
He is eight weeks late on getting his vaccinations.
I'm laughing because I feel so bad.
And I said, well, I, and he's like, didn't you make follow-up appointments?
I said, yes, yes. Where's his folder?
That came with them when we got him as a puppy.
I borrowed a Sharpie from the vet when I was checking out and I wrote the dates in there.
And sure enough, we got the folder.
I'm okay with that. I know I'm gonna get a lot of advice about ADHD.
I'm gonna get a lot of you that think I'm a terrible pet owner.
I'm cool with that. This is what actually happened this morning.
And here's what I had to say to Chris.
I want to do better. I don't think I can right now.
I am so busy at work. I am terrible with the calendars.
I'm actually impressed that I wrote the dates down that they gave to me.
I thought I'd put them in the calendar, Chris.
But my brain is dropping balls left and right.
And so the reason why I'm telling you this story is I'm not letting myself off the hook.
I am motivated to try to figure out how to improve the systems that I have and improve the level of support that I have because I don't want to be dropping these balls.
Chris doesn't need to get frustrated at me for me to feel like shit about this.
Of course I want to do better.
But this is one of those instances where my brain doesn't work like his.
I can't just like Chris is Mr.
Foundational Operations Guy.
Chris methodically sits and organizes and can sit still.
He's really good with tech and with Excel spreadsheets.
I am the opposite. And so the reason why I'm telling you this story is because I guarantee you you have somebody in your life that my gosh, you just want to bang your head against the wall.
And you can tell yourself that they wanted to, they would.
And that's true for some things.
It is true. It's true for whether or not people want to show up at an event.
It's true for whether or not people reach out to you.
It's true for whether or not people make an effort.
It's true for whether or not people are engaging in healthy habits if they wanted to, they would.
And then there are some times that it's really important in your life in order to manage your own frustration to be a little bit more empathetic, that if they could, they would.
And I'll tell you, I am motivated to get the support that I need so that I do not drop balls like this because I want to do better.
And having Chris yell at me, it was actually kind of helpful this morning because it just allowed him to be frustrated.
It allowed me to see that this really is a big deal because he keeps picking up the slack on my behalf because that's going to help them.
We got to take a quick break, but when we come back, you and I are going to jump deeper into Lisa's question and we'll be starting with rule number two.
Welcome back. Remember, Lisa?
I am currently struggling with being a more tolerant person.
Oh, we can all relate to her, right?
You've just frustrated, you're trying to be more tolerant, but damn it, why can't the people in your life change?
That's why I got to remind you rule number two.
You can't make someone else change.
And here's the reason why this is so important.
When you put energy and you feel that kind of frustration with other people who either won't change or can't change, you're wasting energy.
Imagine if you took all that energy that you're frustrated at other people and you just poured that energy in a positive direction to make your own life better.
So yes, try to be compassionate and understanding, but all of that energy and frustration that you can hear in Lisa, I want to scream sometimes.
I'm sure you do get there, but I want to address one other aspect of Lisa's question and it's this.
Meeting people where they are in life is so important.
I know and understand this, but my patience is tried when people wallow any advice, Mel.
I'm going to give you a specific tactic for people who wallow.
I call this the six month rule.
The people in your life get six months to wallow in anything.
They have six months to wallow about the divorce, they have six months to wallow about the weight they've put on, they have six months to wallow about the job they lost or the circumstances or the weather or whatever else.
And once the wallowing passes the six month mark, you have a boundary to draw.
Okay, and this boundary works like a fricking charm because number one, if they don't want to, they're not going to change, you're just going to wallow.
Number two, you can't make them change, so don't even try.
And number three, you got to stop being mad about this person not being a person that you want them to be, but you can draw a boundary.
And you want to hear the boundary, it's the six month rule.
I'll give you an example from my own life.
So I have a friend that got a divorce after a really like, it was like, you know one of those divorces, it's just ugly, just ugly, ugly, ugly.
And the divorce was finalized, okay?
This friend of mine, every time I saw her constantly complaining about the X and the this and the that and the other thing and the other thing and the other thing.
And finally, after six months, I looked at her and I said, you are no longer allowed to talk about this in front of me.
I have recommended therapists, I have been a good friend, I have given you books to read, all of which you have done nothing about.
I am no longer available to be a soundboard for your wallowing because it is cleared to me that you don't want to do anything about this.
The second that you would like to change us, I am here to support you, I am here to help you, but I am not available for you to stay stuck.
I care about you too much.
So if you'd like to go complain to somebody else, please do, but you are not allowed to bring this person's name up.
You're not allowed to talk about your marriage, your ex-marriage, your ex any of it.
I'm not available for that anymore.
And an interesting thing will happen.
That person will be mortified.
And they probably won't call you for a while because they're still addicted to their wallowing.
You're not trying to change them, isn't that interesting?
You're not trying to change them.
You didn't say, stop wallowing.
You said, I'm not available for it.
So you know who changed in that relationship?
You did. You changed what you're available for.
When you understand and you accept these three choices, these three truths about people, if they wanted to, they would.
Number two, you can't change anybody.
And number three, stop being mad at people for not being who you want them to be.
You take all the power back.
None of this says you can't change.
And so when you get frustrated by somebody else complaining, cut off access to the complaining.
You're not saying I don't love you.
You're actually saying the opposite.
You're saying, I love you so much that I'm not going to be a part of you staying stuck.
And as long as I listen to this garbage come out of your mouth, you are going to be stuck.
I'm not here for it. I'm here for your transformation.
I am here for you creating a better life.
I am here for you moving on.
I'm here for you no longer giving air time to this asshole that you're divorced to.
I am here for your future.
I am no longer here for your past.
When your friend is ready to change, guess what?
They will. Because they will want to.
And you know, one of the things that I want to say before you move on to question number two, is that I think a lot of us learn that part of a relationship is struggle.
You can just hear the tension in Lisa's question.
I struggle with accepting others and their bullshit.
I want to scream sometimes, just be better.
Well, what if I told you that it doesn't have to be that way?
That maybe if you're in relationships that feel like a lot of work, that that's a sign that the relationships that you're in are no longer working for you.
And one of the fastest ways to get rid of the struggle is drop the rope.
Now, what does that mean?
So think about tug of war.
When you are playing a game of tug of war, where you're on one side of the rope and you got other people on the other side of the rope and you're pulling back and forth and it's a lot of effort and pulling yank and yank and, you want to know the best way to win tug of war?
As somebody goes to yank backwards, let go of the rope.
They fall on their ass and then yank the rope back towards you.
Who said that's not fair?
That of course that's fair.
Letting go of the struggle often makes the struggle go away.
And so notice that Lisa's question was, Mel, I'm struggling to be a more tolerant person.
And so the way you become more tolerant is accept those three things about people.
If they wanted to, they would, if they could, they would.
Number two, you can't make them change.
Number three, stopping mad at them for not being who you want.
And then you've learned some other things.
Doesn't mean you can't change.
Doesn't mean you can't draw boundaries.
Doesn't mean you can't say you can do all this stuff you want but don't do it in front of me.
I have another example of that.
I have a friend who is dating somebody and she adores him.
Absolutely adores him and then confess to me.
But you know when he goes out with his guy friends that gamble and he just co-knip, I'm not down with them.
Don't tell me. Tell him, you're not gonna change him but you can tell him, I got a boundary.
Don't you do that around me?
That'll make somebody think because you're following the three rules.
You're not trying to change them but you're very clear about what your values are and what's good for you.
You didn't say don't do that.
You said don't do it around me.
Big difference. That makes somebody stop and think, doesn't it?
It's gonna make somebody question, well what am I doing?
If this person I really care about doesn't want it done around me maybe I should start thinking about what I want done around me.
I like it because it's sneakier and it's the truth and it works with these three rules.
Okay. So we've covered a lot.
I think we should take a quick breath.
We should, I can't make him change.
I can love him, I can tell him I'm worried about him but he's gotta be the one that is motivated to do it.
And one of the things that I did because I'm guilty of wishing people would change.
I'm guilty of being frustrated.
I've shared with a lot of you that I really miss my parents.
We don't live near each other and I'd like them to come visit us here in Southern Vermont.
They're down in Florida and they don't want to travel over the holidays and I have a choice.
I can accept them and love them or I can feel frustrated and want to change them.
And what is feeling frustrated and wanting to change the people that you love do?
It just makes you feel frustrated.
It makes you feel negative energy.
When you're trying to change somebody, you're not loving them.
You're judging them. Accepting somebody where they are and offering support in a way that feels loving and supportive.
Meet people where they are because trust me.
Everybody that you know is so damn hard on themselves.
If you're worried about their way...
Actions, but also by the way I started to think.
One day, my wife and I were chatting in the kitchen and she actually said to me to stop acting like I'm on a pedestal.
A selfish Mr. No at all, which I had no idea I was doing.
So this got me thinking perhaps my change was affecting her and for some reason I felt I was at fault.
Can you speak specifically to your transition from being a regular parent to being mouthhucking Robbins and how you overcame the family's shakeup and what was all happening around that time?
Thank you. Woo, okay, this is a great question.
So one thing first, you know, how I went from being just like a normal person to quote Mel Robbins.
There was not like some overnight thing that happened.
I am who I am today because of the work that I've done over probably a decade.
Like this is not like I won the lottery and I went from being broke to being a millionaire.
This is I went from being nearly bankrupt and basically a drunk on the verge of divorce in 2008 to meticulously one foot in front of the other, slowly changing, slowly learning about myself.
And so my family has had the benefit of seeing a slow, I mean, sometimes so tedious evolution because that's what true change is.
It doesn't happen overnight, it happens over time.
But what you're talking about is really important for us all to understand.
And this is one of the most common questions that I get.
Doesn't matter who you are, what kind of change you're making.
The fact is when you make a change, you create ripples that hit other people, whether you intend to or not.
I didn't see this for a long time.
I was guilty of being the kind of person that it sounds like you may be, that when you're really excited about something, you become a huge cheerleader.
Let's all go gluten free, let's all become vegan.
Oh, the best thing in the world is keto.
Oh, you know what we should do?
We should take this seminar, we should all exercise, we should do this, we should do that, you should become an entrepreneur.
And when you do that, it can come off to other people like you think you're better than them.
Now that you've quit smoking or you've quit drinking or you suddenly don't eat animals because you're a vegetarian, that sounded terrible.
Now that makes me want to be a vegetarian, honestly, I'm saying it that way.
But you know what I'm saying.
And so let me explain why that happens.
Okay? Number one, everybody, any change you make impacts any relationship you're in.
Because relationships are about energy and relationships are also about overlapping patterns.
And if you think about that, it's true.
The people that you feel closest to in terms of your friend group are people that you click with.
It also happens that you probably have a lot of overlapping patterns, whether it's you have patterns of interest that overlap or you work together in that overlap or you have kids the same age in that overlap so you live in the same neighborhood and that overlaps.
And so it's this energy and this pattern thing.
The second you change anything in your life, energy shifts and patterns change.
And that means every relationship's gonna change.
That's not anything you can avoid.
It's a fact of life. If you decide that you suddenly wanna launch a side business, all of a sudden you're not going to have time on Saturday nights to hang out with your buddies playing poker, it's a fact.
Because you're gonna be interested in working on your side business.
And as you work on your side business, you're gonna start meeting other people that do the same kind of business.
And because you are interested in that, you're gonna be spending more time with them.
Patterns change. I want you to accept that as a fact.
It doesn't mean anything's wrong.
But let's talk about the issue that you're facing with your wife, okay?
Because this is what you need to understand about other people.
Your changes do not inspire other people.
They confront them. I'm gonna say that again.
Your changes do not inspire other people.
They confront them. And I'm gonna give you a famous example.
From my marriage, I am once again, the jerk in the story and Chris is the winner.
There's no winners that was me being funny.
Chris is the transform one, I'm the jerk, okay?
So a couple years ago, Chris made this decision that he was gonna stop drinking for a while.
And I was so excited for him.
He had had a major problem with alcohol as the restaurant business was really struggling.
It was basically the way that he dealt with his stress.
And so when he got out of the restaurant business, he's like, I gotta make major changes.
I gotta stop drinking. I need to get healthy.
I gotta figure out who I am and what I wanna do with my life.
And so he decided step number one, not drinking.
I'm like, yes. I was a yes for about two days.
And then by day three, dinner time rolls around.
And I had a habit of loving to open up a bottle of wine while I was cooking.
And so day one and day two, I did not do that.
I was supportive of my husband's change.
And day three, I'm like, I think I'm an Epochless wine.
Just because he's not drinking doesn't mean I can't drink.
And by the way, Chris was also amazing in that he wasn't like, I'm doing this, you need to do this.
He's like, I'm doing this for myself.
So I open up the bottle of wine.
And I'm cooking and Chris is standing there and the kids are running around and I take out the wine glass and I'm like, gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl gl.
And then I say, hey, would you like to have a glass?
And he's like, nope. I'm like, you sure?
I mean, it's basically just juice.
You know, it's not that big of a deal.
It's not like you're having some bourbon.
He's like, no, I don't want any wine, Mel.
Like, come on. And he looks at me.
Kind of like you did this morning, actually, with the veterinary story.
He looks at me very frustrated and he said, Mel, I don't want to drink.
Stop asking me to have a glass of wine.
And I was like, who? Because of course, when somebody's serious with you, you're like, oh, you know, shoot.
Told you I was the jerk. And then I said, I'm sorry, cheese, you know?
I just feel bad, because you know, I feel bad having a glass of wine on my own.
And then he said something that was a mic drop.
He said, if you're concerned about what's in your glass, then maybe you should figure out question what Chris is doing then to look in the mirror and go, well, should I have a glass of wine?
Maybe I don't want a glass of wine.
Maybe there's just some dumb habit that I've had for 10 years.
And I don't really care about drinking wine.
But now Chris is making me think about that.
And it's a hell of a lot easier for me to question him.
And for me to question me, there's actually science around this.
It's called my side bias.
There is so much research about this cognitive bias.
That's a fancy word for your brain has certain ways that it thinks that are totally screwed up, okay?
And my side bias is what's called a true blind spot.
It doesn't matter how smart you are.
It doesn't matter how much money you have, how educated you are.
My side bias impacts absolutely every single one of us.
What does that mean? That means once we have an opinion about something, we will argue for our side no matter what.
Chris is going to argue that not drinking is the best thing on the planet.
And I'm going to argue that there's nothing wrong with having a glass of wine.
And here's the problem with my side bias.
Number one, it prevents you from being open to other ideas, other possibilities.
Maybe you don't want to have a glass of wine when you cooked dinner.
Maybe you don't want to be playing poker with your buddies in their garage every Saturday night.
You really would like to get started on that real estate business you've been thinking about for years.
But instead, we argue for our side.
In fact, at the University of Toronto, there is a doctor.
He's also a professor, Dr.
Keith Stanovich. He's a psychologist that teaches there.
He has done so much research on my side bias.
He's considered the scientist, scientist when it comes to the field of cognitive science.
And some of the research that I dug up as I was looking at this because I was curious, why are we so resistant to change?
Why is it that when a friend of ours wants to roll out of bed and go to the gym at seven o'clock in the morning, we tend to roll our eyes instead of rolling out of bed with them?
Well, it has to do with this my side bias.
In fact, there's interesting research here, and this is why it's so important for you to do it, Kristen.
I would argue, oh, no, I don't, that, that, that, that, that.
But when he says nobody cares what's in your glass, but you, and if you're concerned about what's in your glass based on what I'm doing, then you need to think about what you should be doing, Mel.
By asking that question and forcing me to think about my own behavior and my own choices, of course, whatever I do next is going to become my idea, because he's forced me to think about what I actually want to do.
So back to Dan, I'm sure Dan, your wife feels judged.
So first of all, apologize if anything that you've done in terms of your enthusiasm made your wife feel less than super simple thing to do.
You can certainly invite her to participate with you, but do not tell her to, do not lecture her about it, do not force anything on her at all, because now you know only 3% of people ever change when they feel like the change is something somebody else wants them to do or is forcing them to do or is lecturing them about.
So that's takeaway number 1, takeaway number 2.
You can ask your wife questions, why does this bother you?
What about what I'm doing inspires you?
Is there anything that you would want me to change?
Invite that kind of dialogue and you're going to open something up, because if your wife or your spouse or your partner, your roommate, your friend, whatever, like let's take this broader than Dan's question, if somebody in your life is confronted by the changes that you're making, and the rest of the question is, if you're not in a relationship with someone else, you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, and you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, and you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, and you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, and you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, and you're going to be in a relationship with someone else, or if they could, they would.
Number two, you can't make them change.
You can make them laugh, you can make them think, you can make them feel included, but you can't make them change.
And number three, written in my journal, and I've had my cup of coffee, and I've set my intentions, and he's come in from his first workout of the day with our two dogs, Trilland, behind.
He doesn't say, you should be doing this.
Why aren't you, oh, you're up now?
No, he's just focused on what's making him happy.
And what's interesting is all these changes he's making, it is sending a ripple effect.
You know what it's doing?
It's making me go, hmm. I wonder what would happen if I got up a little bit earlier.
Might be kind of nice to get up with him and take that walk with the dogs outside of it.
Hmm. I wonder what would happen if I took on this structure.
And so the truth is, Chris made a change.
It sent ripples through our marriage and our relationship.
And he never said a damn word about it.
The change itself is impacting me and making me think.
Pretty cool how that works, huh?
And one more thing, focus on you.
Protect your energy because when you protect your energy, you create some literally rocking and rolling all over the place.
Okay, great. Here we go.
Hey, it's your friend Mel.
Welcome to the Mel Robbins.
Hey, it's your friend Mel.
Have you ever had someone in your life that you really wish would just change or do we lose trace?
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Okay, good. Good job. Everybody.
Oh, and one more thing. And no, this is not a blooper.
This is the legal language.
You know what the lawyers write and what I need to read to you.
This podcast is presented solely for educational and entertainment purposes.
I'm just your friend. I am not a licensed therapist and this podcast is not intended as a substitute for the advice of a physician, professional coach, psychotherapist, or other qualified professional.
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