John R. Miles

They are the moments when the performance stops.

and something quieter and truer takes its place.

That is what you are designing toward.

I started this episode with a spotlight falling from the sky.

I want to end it with a bow.

Truman wasn't extraordinary.

That was the whole point of the show.

He was ordinary, and he never got to find out who he actually was until he walked through that door.

The open sea was terrifying.

He knew that.

He went anyway.

you are allowed to do that too.

Take the bow, not because the work is done, but because the version of you that got you this far, the one who was useful, the one who kept the peace, the one who signed the contracts without reading the terms, that version deserves to be acknowledged if

before you leave the set.

They did what they had to do.

They kept you safe.

But you're listening to this for a reason, and it isn't because everything is fine.

So take the bow and then walk through the door.

Next week, the show is going somewhere harder and more necessary than anywhere we've been recently.

The series is called Forged in Adversity.