This was one of the toughest days of my life...
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the moment I realized that I wasn t good enough at being a good brother, a good husband, or a good father, husband, friend, or partner in life. It was a turning point in my life that changed my perspective on what it means to live a life that feels empty.
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fiance at the time in the kitchen in tears and when I walked in the door she just said I can't
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do this anymore and she dropped the ring on the counter and walked out yeah and that was seven
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weeks before the wedding and what was crazy is like three months later we sold the company and
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I had all the means in the world and all the reasons I was building that company was for her
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and our future life and here I was feeling more depressed and sad and lonely than I could have
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ever imagined. And this realization, how can I be so good in business and just be so horrible
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at being a good brother and a friend and a husband or a partner in life? I went on this journey. I
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wanted to study because I'm a creator. I want to build. But I also don't want to live a life
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that feels empty. And the more I studied the people like the Richard Branson of the world
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and the Oprahs and the Buffetts and all these folks that just seemingly do the thing they love,
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but obviously produce incredible economic outcomes that to me,
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it was like that journey of kind of coming up with this framework that I've been