John R. Miles

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.

The question at the center of it is this, what actually happens to a person when life breaks open?

Not the cleaned up, redemptive arc we present at dinner parties.

The real thing.

The inside of the moment.

The first conversation is with someone who has lived every word of that.

Kathy Gaiasti was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 37 and given three years to live.

What she built in the 30 years since is one of the most extraordinary examples of a human being refusing to let crisis be the last word.

But what she and I talk about isn't the organization she built.

It's the fear, the journal entries, the decision made quietly to stop waiting for someone else to solve the problem.

That conversation is next Tuesday, and it's going to change the way you think about whatever hard thing you're currently carrying.