All right, guys, welcome back to Mike Force podcast. It's been a while, and I appreciate you guys as patience.

Greg Lapin filled the gap. That's what he said. I'm super stoked about being back and picking up the pieces one step at a time.

And I decided to name this episode picking up the pieces because that's what it is.

I did a whole bunch of podcasts, a few podcasts, mostly on Cleared Hots podcast with Andy Stumpf,

a good friend of mine about the situation that I went through and then come in full circle

and picking up the pieces

and received a whole bunch of positive feedback

from my experience

in starting over

and the affirmation that I needed to start from scratch

and do it all over again. So that's what I'm here

doing. You know, a lot of people have reached out to me and expressed their own experiences of

going through shit. And I think that's just a common theme across the human experience.

You know, when I teach resilience or mindset, what I try to do is articulate to people.

They often think because it's hitting them maybe figuratively or literally like a baseball bat

in the back of the head that things are the worst they've ever been. And I try to try to let

them know like, hey, that's life, man. You're not special. And sometimes we want to feel like we're special.

And that's usually positive.

But when things are bad, we cling on to that like a persona,

like a signal to the world around us.

And that attention feels just as good. It's that victim mentality

that, hey man, like, look at me, woe is me. I refuse to live that way. I don't want to ever be

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