Facing Fear as a Gateway to Purpose and Possibility

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• 00:03

  Hey guys.

• 00:03

  Jonathan back with another good life riff.

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  These are shorter, more compressed spoken word thought pieces that are easy to consume and you can kind of bop around and just think on while you're probably walking from place to place or driving from place to place.

• 00:20

  This week's good life riff is entitled courting the monster in your head.

• 00:29

  It's nearly midnight in a cool Saturday night day in September, and Barry Soloway rises from his seat and walks anxiously to the stage.

• 00:38

  Rising up the steps, he turns to face the visual embrace of 250 people from around the world.

• 00:45

  Hours before we were all strangers.

• 00:47

  Now we don't want to leave or have this night end.

• 00:50

  I wasn't planning on this, he offers, but it feels right.

• 00:53

  So please forgive my nervousness and the fact that I'm actually about to read this from my cell phone.

• 00:58

  He pulls the device from his pocket and a hush falls across the room.

• 01:02

  Just waiting I first met Barry about eight months prior, among the mad flurry of applications for our 2014 Good Life project immersion program, and Barry strikes me I have to know more.

• 01:15

  Based out of Boulder with a background in software engineering, he's looking to launch his own consumer robotics company, and he wants help and support and thinks the immersion sounds like a great place to find it.

• 01:26

  So I agree, and he commits and we begin this exploration together with a curated, compassionate, and wise group of vocation adventurers.

• 01:35

  One thing about this crew, as always happens in the immersion, they have an expert capacity to hold up mirrors, and something isn't lining up quite right.

• 01:45

  A different aspiration is brewing just below the surface that Barry isn't quite giving life to yet.

• 01:51

  Its a deeper creative soul yearning to get out and become a fuller part of the story, born not of devices or digits, but of words.

• 02:00

  Barry, you see, hes a writer, and a gorgeous writer at that.

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  So when he takes the stage at camp GLP some eight months later in September, hes not just stepping out before a packed house of artists and entrepreneurs and makers and world shakers from around the globe.

• 02:15

  Hes stepping in a very public way into his life as a writer and praying to God will like what he has to offer.

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