Hey everyone, Vancouver Radio episode 686, but it's not really a new episode for this existing show.

It's an announcement. There is a new show coming, The Awesome Human. So I've been away from podcasting for nearly 20

months now I did my last show on October the 6th 2020 and the reason I did my

last show is I was not in a good place to be of service to you anymore the

listener. So at that point in time I was very ill I had at that point in time long COVID and that meant I was depressed. I was in a very dark place. I didn't want to get out of bed every day, couldn't function optimally and that meant that this podcast was another layer on top of me that I just could not handle and I had to hang my boots up.

Now I'd felt that before the launch but I was nearly at 10 years of

podcasting and I almost wanted to have that on my mantle as kind of a I suppose a sign of success like a idea it just didn't feel right to be like yeah I ran a

podcast for 9.8 years like I just wanted to get to the 10 year mark. Anyway, I quit the show. I said thank you and I will say thank you again because a huge amount of you have been incredibly supportive over the years.

When I announced the new show going live there was so much love and appreciation on

social media saying that you were the first ever podcast I listened to like thank you Ben and that's

warned me coming back and I'll be honest I'm nervous coming back I'm kind of

of it feels like a bit of a new place again. I kind of asked myself,

am I ready? Like there's a certain commitment to doing a podcast and it's been nice in a way not having to do it because there's a certain amount of freedom but I have a lot to share and there's something within me that wants to really help other people more than ever progress in their lives.

So I went away, I recalibrated, I got well, I recovered from long COVID, I recovered from testosterone deficiency,

I recovered from a, so all of that left me with really severe migraines and there's been a kind of an energy component, a sleep component, a food component to unpicking all of that.

It's been like quite challenging and I'd say I'm I think pretty much out of the

back end of that through a lot of different modalities and exploratory work in kind of health.

But within all of that you can imagine that my mindset, my emotional state was hugely affected by not having my health. And this is going to be the premise for the first show actually when I launched the awesome human podcast so stay tuned for that.

That our state, our physical state is so so important to actually achieving everything that we want to achieve

actually just being present and enjoying every day for what it is, you lack so much enjoyment when you don't feel great

because you're sat there thinking, if only I could feel better, if only I had more energy, if only I could feel better if only I had more energy if only

I was better slept if only if only if only and then I came to realize that health

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