everything i am, i owe to her

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Host 0:00

I recognize how much of a privilege it is to grow up with such a caring, loving, considerate, and just flat-out goaded mom. I'm not going to lie. She's the best. I compare her to blonde Messi. Or pink-haired Neymar, bro. My mom is the GOAT. She's the best. And I think what I admire the most about her is her spirit. My mom's spirit is something that I don't think can be crushed. You cannot put it in a hydraulic press and try to smush it. She just keeps going. She's lived five to ten different lives doing different things, changing her career, doing different kinds of side quests. I really look at her with amazement. Just to give you some context about my mom. This is a woman who grew up in Poland during the communist times, briefly.

Host 1:31

Moved to Germany to learn German and speak German and be a German teacher. And then she was like, this ain't paying nothing and I'm broke and I can't eat. So she moved back home, got her master's degree, then was working at a company in Poland for a little bit, traveling the entirety of Europe doing business. Like on some OG girlbush. Sorry, I swore, but it's true. And then on top of that, she then proceeded to drop everything, everything she had worked for herself and was like, yeah, I'm just going to move to America on a whim. And she was frying eggs at a 4-H camp in New Jersey. What? My mom has proven to me that You can change as a human being. And actually, you should look to change. Change is a good thing. And it's made my existence, my

Host 2:41

My ability to welcome change so much easier because she is such a prime example of just doing it. Because why not? Because the lore will be insane. You talk about dad lore? Tap into mom lore. Because my mom has lived a life. And it's become a no-brainer. I almost feel like I have this template to not be fearful because my mom has taken so many steps in her life and she's doing just fine. And she's made plenty of mistakes. I mean, you know, she moved to a country, thought that she'd be able to do something for herself, and then it didn't work out. And the humility she had to like move back home and live with her parents, you know, as an adult. It's rough. It's rough, you know, but she didn't mind it. And I really admire that about her. I admire so much about my mom.

Host 3:44

And I think in a lot of ways she's taught me the most about being emotionally mature. I think she's taught me that It's good to feel things. And it's odd. I'm in a position right now in my life where I'm learning to open up and be vulnerable about certain insecurities or certain feelings that I have that come up in my friendships and my relationships. And I always... I always have her as my first dial on my phone. I always call my mom and I ask her, what do I do about this? I don't know what to do. And she's, she's served as more than a mom to me. She's also served as such a mentor. I really, I really appreciate the way that she thinks about things and I really appreciate the way in which she sees the world. It's really special.

Host 4:42

It's very different from how I see the world. And I look at that as such a good thing. It's interesting because, you know, I want to be a parent one day. I would love to be a father. You know, some people say like, I want to have kids. No, no, no. But like having kids and being a father, I think are two very, very distinct different things. Because I think that there is so much importance in the amount of time that you spend with potentially, you know, your future family. that's time you'll never get back. And it's interesting because I talked to people who are older, who worked really, really hard, maybe in their career, maybe they thought that their lack of being there for their kids could be compensated through money, through earning more money. And every time without fail, like, Honestly, all that people care about, at least kids care about, it seems, is just the quality time, man.

Host 5:39

It's being there for them. And I know I'm doing some unk talk right now because there's a good chance you're not thinking about that. I mean, absolutely, you don't have to think about that. But it is something that I think I... I really have a beautiful blueprint for because man, like my mom, she, she's so hardworking. She's so on top of her stuff, but she always, she always had time for me.