Welcome. I'm Kevin Miller. This is a podcast for your personal evolution. In this episode,

we're looking at self-reliance. What is healthy and helpful self-reliance? I submit that few of us

really know and most of us are falling to one side or the other of unhealth. On one side,

we exercise very little self-reliance, which means if we're not relying on ourselves, we're relying

on others too much. On the other side is an overabonance of self-reliance where we rely almost

exclusively on ourselves

and hardly at all on other people. So is there a happy medium? Is that the point? Or are there

some aspects of our lives where we should be super reliant on ourselves and others where we should

be seeking out help more? Well, this is why I brought on

Maha Abuelanin. She has a new book. It's titled Seven Rules of Self-Reliance, How to Stay Low,

keep moving, invest in yourself, and own your future. I wanted to take on the concept and I brought her to do it.

So Maha, she is a personal branding expert.

She's CEO and founder of global communications consulting firm, digital and savvy,

and a bestselling author.

So she has this long, impressive pedigree that would take me a couple

minutes to read of success in the corporate world, in the Middle East and in America.

However, none of that is why I brought her on the show. Those are the result of her success

with self-reliance, but she had a challenging upbringing that gave her every reason to be really a victim and not practice

self-reliance or go the other way and say, I can't rely on anybody. It's all just me. That's what

interested me. So again, she's got experience on both sides of that unhealth that I just spoke to

above. So my focus here today is talking on

this topic of self-reliance and just digging in and taking it on to understand how we're doing

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