Gregg Braden

The flip side of that is, I'll just share with you, you're asking the question, I'm the product of a very dysfunctional, abusive, alcoholic family. My father was the abuser. My mom and I have a younger brother, four years younger. My mom and my brother and I got the bad end of that. And he left when I was 10.

And our family went through, the remaining members of our family, three of us went through a really hard time. Financially, I mean, we were more than... We lived in government-subsidized housing. We were more than broke. Lied about my age. In an early age, went to work in a copper mill, making union wages in northern Missouri. Wow.

And our family went through, the remaining members of our family, three of us went through a really hard time. Financially, I mean, we were more than... We lived in government-subsidized housing. We were more than broke. Lied about my age. In an early age, went to work in a copper mill, making union wages in northern Missouri. Wow.

And our family went through, the remaining members of our family, three of us went through a really hard time. Financially, I mean, we were more than... We lived in government-subsidized housing. We were more than broke. Lied about my age. In an early age, went to work in a copper mill, making union wages in northern Missouri. Wow.

And was really proud to be able to bring home a solid paycheck, you know, to help our family. I was a union job. Worked 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., but then I had to go to school the next morning. So it was... I learned to be a night person early, which has really helped me. It's really served me in my life. But the day my dad left, my mom didn't know exactly what that was going to mean.

And was really proud to be able to bring home a solid paycheck, you know, to help our family. I was a union job. Worked 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., but then I had to go to school the next morning. So it was... I learned to be a night person early, which has really helped me. It's really served me in my life. But the day my dad left, my mom didn't know exactly what that was going to mean.

And was really proud to be able to bring home a solid paycheck, you know, to help our family. I was a union job. Worked 4 p.m. to 4 a.m., but then I had to go to school the next morning. So it was... I learned to be a night person early, which has really helped me. It's really served me in my life. But the day my dad left, my mom didn't know exactly what that was going to mean.

But she knew we were going to have a hard time. And in her wisdom, I say her past tense, I lost mom in 20 to 21 to COVID, December of 20. So...

But she knew we were going to have a hard time. And in her wisdom, I say her past tense, I lost mom in 20 to 21 to COVID, December of 20. So...

But she knew we were going to have a hard time. And in her wisdom, I say her past tense, I lost mom in 20 to 21 to COVID, December of 20. So...

so in her wisdom of knowing that we were about to face some hard times she gave me a book the day my dad left and i know some of our viewers know this book very well maybe you do it's called the prophet by khalil gabran it is it's a classic it was um he was a lebanese poet early in the 20th century every chapter is like a page page and a half long but it's just right to the point

so in her wisdom of knowing that we were about to face some hard times she gave me a book the day my dad left and i know some of our viewers know this book very well maybe you do it's called the prophet by khalil gabran it is it's a classic it was um he was a lebanese poet early in the 20th century every chapter is like a page page and a half long but it's just right to the point

so in her wisdom of knowing that we were about to face some hard times she gave me a book the day my dad left and i know some of our viewers know this book very well maybe you do it's called the prophet by khalil gabran it is it's a classic it was um he was a lebanese poet early in the 20th century every chapter is like a page page and a half long but it's just right to the point

And there was one chapter in that book that stuck with me to this very day. It's at the bottom of every email that I send out. And it is a mantra that I use every single day. And what he said is that work is love made visible. Work is love made visible. If you're going to do something in the world, if you say yes to it, then do it. And do it really, really well.

And there was one chapter in that book that stuck with me to this very day. It's at the bottom of every email that I send out. And it is a mantra that I use every single day. And what he said is that work is love made visible. Work is love made visible. If you're going to do something in the world, if you say yes to it, then do it. And do it really, really well.

And there was one chapter in that book that stuck with me to this very day. It's at the bottom of every email that I send out. And it is a mantra that I use every single day. And what he said is that work is love made visible. Work is love made visible. If you're going to do something in the world, if you say yes to it, then do it. And do it really, really well.

Not from your fear of what happens if you don't and not from the anger of doing something you don't want to do. But change your thinking to make that your love made visible. Yeah. And that's a very different way of approaching work. I went to work in factories surrounded by people that really hated what they were doing and did the minimal they could do to get by.

Not from your fear of what happens if you don't and not from the anger of doing something you don't want to do. But change your thinking to make that your love made visible. Yeah. And that's a very different way of approaching work. I went to work in factories surrounded by people that really hated what they were doing and did the minimal they could do to get by.

Not from your fear of what happens if you don't and not from the anger of doing something you don't want to do. But change your thinking to make that your love made visible. Yeah. And that's a very different way of approaching work. I went to work in factories surrounded by people that really hated what they were doing and did the minimal they could do to get by.

So one of my first jobs, for example, I would load from midnight to 6 a.m. on this particular job. We would load boxcars with 50-pound bags of Purina cat chow. Oh, wow. That's what it was. And those box to the trains would leave in the morning and distribute those wherever they had to go. And man, I was surrounded with guys just hated that job. And my body's always been really important to me.