Welcome to the WTF is On My Mind podcast.

I'm your host, Mark Vesente.

In our time together, we'll be talking about all kinds of deep and potentially controversial things related to the human experience.

Along the way, there might be some blasphemy, one or two sacred cows may get knocked over, and there'll likely be some foul language.

You've been warned.

Well, hello there. Welcome back. I had all these grand plans of doing a whole bunch of podcast episodes over the holidays.

And as you can probably tell, it never happened.

What did happen?

December 29th, I started getting sick and I spent about five days in bed, sleeping day and night.

The recovery has been slow, but I'm on the mend finally. I was a very intense

Christmas and New Year period. Lots of stuff happened, lots of intense stuff. But here I am.

I am here. So a couple of things happened. I released a course called Reclamation on December 28th.

And that was a fun process. You know, it's interesting. When I left Nixium, I threw everything out. And many of you heard this. I threw everything out. All the training, all the everything. Not only Nixium, everything before, I just threw all personal growth out

completely. But I recognized over the years that there are certain things that I did know,

even before Nixium, that I was working on, was aware of, had studied, that I realized were

valuable. And so bit by bit I've been adding things back

into my life that I threw away. And that's one of the things for people that have been in

cults, you probably know this. When you leave whatever it is, whatever the high control group is,

you just usually throw everything out. And the problem is there's good stuff that you throw it as well

that you no longer have access to, but you're so

traumatized, you just don't want to look at it, you don't want to deal with it, which I completely

understand. So I think about the point now where I began to add some of those things back in,

...