Episode 8: What’s your Excuse?

leorah_2_04-11-2026_122108: So I've been giving this a lot of thought lately and. I can't help but notice how defensive we all are. It seems like all the time. Yeah, and I can't wrap my head around why we can't be a little bit more open and honest with each other and mostly with ourselves I feel like we're really quick to respond to things that we're faced with, with an excuse. Mm-hmm. Sure. Right away. Yeah. Do you, do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah. I mean, you see it everywhere.

I don't have time to work out. Yeah. There's too many emails. There's too many problems. I can't get to my outbound sales. I don't have time to prospect. I don't have time to walk my job. Mm-hmm. Because of X, Y, Z. Yeah. Excuses are everywhere. Yeah. And that's what we're talking about today, right?

That's what we're talking about. I'm sick. Tired of it. So we're gonna be talking about why people do it. What happens when you [00:01:00] do it? Do you have to do it? Yeah. How it holds us back, I think in life. Mm-hmm. At work. Everywhere. Everywhere. And we're gonna talk about maybe things you can do instead.

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leorah_2_04-11-2026_122108: Alright, so I'm on a roll today about excuses.

In case you couldn't tell. I know, I know. I've actually been talking about it for a while. I saw your email. It's like, Adrian, we gotta talk about excuses. He's like, okay, let's go. Let's do this. So why the fuck is it that people are making excuses constantly? Mm. If I had to drill it into one word, I would say fear.

Fear? Yes. I think people [00:02:00] are afraid of failure. We're all afraid of being judged for not doing our jobs well, for not being the sexiest versions of ourselves. and then, yeah, fear of, not being good at something or feeling like you could have done something better.

Yeah, I think it's fear of being judged. Mm-hmm. Right, because it's defensive. I think excuses are defensive by nature. You're trying to protect yourself, right?

That's what a defensive mechanism is, right? Like you feel you're being attacked. So you have to build a wall, you gotta do something, you gotta say something right? In order to protect yourself, yourself from whatever it is that you think you're being attacked by. Yeah. And I think the thing is, and what, what part of what bothers me is we need to be able to have open communication and conversation and ask each other questions without,

Fearing that the asking of the question is going to be received as something that needs to be defended. Does that make sense? It does. It does. Like, especially if I'm [00:03:00] your boss, I need to ask, Hey, did you do this? And I need an honest answer. I don't need an excuse if it wasn't done, I just need you to tell me no, it wasn't done. If I want to know why I will ask. Right. And then I just need an explanation, not an excuse. Sure. And there's a difference between an explanation and an excuse.

Yeah. If I'm your employee and I don't feel confident for whatever reasons. I'm gonna come up with an excuse versus just saying, you know what, I didn't have time for this. You're right. I will prioritize better.

I know you said this. I'm gonna get on it. This is how I'm gonna do it. I go into, well, da, da, da, da, da, da. Like, I'm trying to cover my butt. Right? Right. Because i'm afraid that maybe you'll fire me. I'm afraid that maybe you don't like me.

I think it's important to also make sure that as a person in leadership you are. Making sure that you're creating a culture and an environment where people feel comfortable and not fearful that they might lose their job and they need to make excuses. [00:04:00] Yeah. Or putting up their defenses.

Yeah. Right away. That's step one. Right. And now we're gonna talk about that a little further down the line, like how you can kind of create those feelings, but Yeah. You know, if you don't feel like there's trust in something mm-hmm. It's like, you know, if you're, uh, married and you feel like you can't be open and honest about something. Yeah. Lack of trust. Lack of safety. Lack, lack of security. Yeah. All of those things make people defensive. Yep. Make them come up with excuses. Right. Why else people make excuses, I think is their inability to prioritize. Hmm. That's a good one.

Yeah. I think there's a huge problem with everything being a priority. Yeah. Agreed. my boss gives me these priorities. I have these priorities. The owner gave me these priorities. All of a sudden I have 22 priorities and I don't know what to do.

Mm-hmm. And I get heat for all of 'em from somebody. Somebody needs something from me all the time. Yep. So I can't prioritize. I am stuck. I, yeah., I'm gonna fail at those things, and then I'm gonna come up with excuses for why I failed. Totally. [00:05:00] I'm gonna blame everybody else because everybody put all their shit on me.

Yeah. And then I can't prioritize what I need to do. Yeah. So I do a solid C minus on everything. Yeah. And so that's what we have to learn is how do you prioritize? How do you get around that? , Because my whole soapbox that I'm on right now is that the making excuses just isn't good enough.

Because if we continue to just make these excuses, then what's the point? We're not doing anything. We're not growing, we're not evolving. No. Right. And it's. A counterindication to leadership, right? Because we can't lead if we're not making any progress, because if we're just excusing why we're not getting anything done, then we're stuck.

Yeah. So same amount of money every year. Yep. Same amount of events every year. Yeah. I didn't book this event too bad, too sad. Here are all my excuses as to why these events didn't happen, and that's why I didn't make my numbers. Mm-hmm. Oh, well, here's the [00:06:00] list of my excuses. What good does that do us? We're, we're meant to keep progressing. Aren't like, that's a part of our, you know, like, yeah. Look at you as a human being, right? Like, look at, , humans, how they've evolved, right? Like, we are meant to continue to do better, to go farther. I mean, we went to the moon, , this week. I mean, we are meant to continue on these paths.

Yeah. And if we're not. Continuing to progress. And you know, the only way to do that is to analyze yourself, your surroundings, what you are doing. Yeah. In order to improve yourself. Yes. And it's like, how do you wanna show up in life? Right? Do you wanna show up in life as someone who is satisfied with the excuses that you make for yourself?

Or do you wanna show up in life as someone who takes the bull by the horns and Passes through despite of the things that might be holding you back or the things that might be getting in your way. Because the person I wanna be in my life is someone who does it anyway.

Yeah. Right. And the people I wanna surround myself with are the ones who do it [00:07:00] anyway. Mm-hmm. So that's what really frustrates me about this. And it's again, we make excuses in our personal life. We make excuses in our. Professional lives, and it's what comes first, the chicken or the eggs.

How are the excuses in our personal lives affecting our professional lives? And how are the excuses in our professional lives affecting our personal lives? You can't have one without the other. I think you need to look at it in the full picture. Yeah. For me, this goes into work-life balance.

Mm. And I think that that's kind of a little bit, of bullshit. And what I mean by that is that who you are in your life is 24 7. Right. So if you are a workaholic, if you don't create boundaries, those things are everywhere in your life.

It's not that your work controls your life, it's that you don't have the mechanisms to support it. Mm-hmm. If that makes sense. Mm-hmm. So that's kind of my mentality on that, but if you, . Fail to, , analyze how you're showing up or how,, what I like to ask myself, , what I did today, , is that the [00:08:00] building towards the person that I wanna be?

Yeah. Did that support my goals? Even if it was just a little bit like, , nobody needs like these big wins every day. , That's not real, but , , did what I do today support the person that I wanna be? Yeah. And it's a yes or no question. , And , am I doing those things?

Every day that put me in the place to get what I want out of this life. Yeah. Because , we're getting older by the fucking second over here. Seriously. So , there is no time, time is our greatest enemy and we all have the same enemy in common. Yes. In 20 years we're gonna be retired.

Hopefully. Hopefully. Like, holy shit. Yeah. I feel like I'm just getting started. Yeah. But it's like that's what this is, is like, you know, every day, are you doing those things and are you comfortable auditing yourself knowing that maybe you could have done something better? Yeah. Without taking it to this extreme, , I suck.

So one of the things that I saw a lot of when I pushed for accountability. With, some teammates is that they took it so personally [00:09:00] that, , I need you to do this. We gotta work on this. That doesn't mean you're bad at your job. That doesn't mean you're lazy. Isolate the problem and work on the problem and then try to move forward.

Mm-hmm. I've personally had people in my life that have a really hard time holding themselves accountable because. They take it to this extreme place where , they suck. And that's not true. , . You need to work on this, and that's okay, that you need to work on it.

We all gotta work on fucking something. Right? So how do you compartmentalize that without. , Spiraling we all have spiraling thoughts sometimes, especially us ladies. Yeah. But how do you separate those things , Hey, my boss just needs me to work on this.

That doesn't mean she fucking hates me. Right, right. It's hard. Right. I can sympathize. Totally. The other thing that strikes me as we're having this conversation, because again, this has been such a be in my bonnet, but. I notice the excuses when I hear them because I'm sensitive to hearing them. Sure. But how aware are most [00:10:00] people that they're making them?

Mm. Yeah. They might not even know. They might not even know, but I think that once you become aware mm-hmm. That you're making them or that others are, you'll become more sensitive. To hearing them, you know? I think so. I think it's like one of those things, once you unlock something Yeah.

That's all you can hear. Yeah. It's there in your brain. And then if you , hear yourself saying it to yourself. , Or, you read an email and automatically in your head you start getting defensive in your response and you haven't even written anything yet. Yes, I know.

We've all done this. Yes. So it's , being able to like, interrupt that thought Yeah. Of , what am I doing? Stop it. Yeah. Like stop, stop. No, no, I'm not, I I'm just gonna say thank you for your feedback. Yeah. Leave it alone enough. Stop. Leave it alone. Don't get defensive. it's hard.

, With all of that said, let's talk about the cost of making these excuses all the time. in my opinion, when I hear someone making an excuse in any situation, right away, , it's like a light that goes [00:11:00] off over someone's head that's like you are full of shit. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. For me, I feel like I can't trust, you lose totally, you lose trust.

Yep. Especially, , I think a lot of us, , you get older in your career, you spend a lot of time in these conversations, you can spot the bullshit, right. Uhhuh, you can hear it, see it. Bullshit meter goes way off the chart. Yeah. And so is that the person that you're gonna trust in the trenches?

Is that the person that you're gonna wanna build a new procedure with? Mm-hmm. Probably not. No. , It's hard to work back if, , once you've been that person. Yeah. , You gotta do a lot of work to get to get away from that. Yeah. Because it also feels like. That person has proven in that moment that they are unreliable.

Mm-hmm. Right? Like they've been asked to do something, they didn't do it, and it might be okay that they didn't do it, but they didn't own up to not doing it. Yeah. Because they've made an excuse about it, rather than explaining what really happened. Mm-hmm. You know, were the reasons that led to it. Like they didn't bring receipts.

Yeah. Kind of, you know? Um, and so why would I, again, to your point, if you can't trust them, then I [00:12:00] can't rely on them to do it the next time. So if I have a task, then I'm just gonna go to the next person. So what's wild to me is I don't think just like earlier that there's necessarily a connection for them between what they're saying and how that makes 'em unreliable. Yes. They think that maybe they're just like, oh, I'm just saying this, , this is, I'm giving context to a situation. Yeah. But they're not necessarily putting together that they are.

Making an excuse and that that's hurting them? Yeah, I think oftentimes when someone is making an excuse, , they think they are explaining what happened, where in reality they're making an excuse and an explanation is mis taken for an excuse often. And that's an important thing to differentiate and it's really hard.

To def define one over the other. Sure. , I'm sure we've all been in conversations when somebody says, I'm not making an excuse, but, but, which, you know, as my daddy would [00:13:00] say everything before the but is bullshit. Yes. I've used this quote so many times in my life. Yeah. Because that's totally true.

It's totally true. I'm not making an excuse, but, but, so, you know, you're making an excuse. I'm not being a bitch, but, but I'm being a bitch. You know what I mean? I think you gotta get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Yeah. I think that's a reoccurring theme in our podcast.

Yeah. Of being able to be uncomfortable and know that that is okay and that it's normal. That to feel that way. Yes, yes. Just get over it. Yeah. Because the difference is an explanation gives context and it moves the needle forward. Sure. Right. The cost of the excuse is that there's no progression. Mm. Like if you're trying to solve a problem, if somebody just makes excuses, you feel like you don't make any progress in the problem, right?

I think what it does is it creates a hamster wheel, right? It puts you in a victim mode. It's not what is happening. It is what has [00:14:00] happened to you. Mm. That's the lens in which we're looking at it, right? I couldn't do it because this happened to me. They didn't call me back.

I didn't have enough time, right? So I am stuck in this space and I cannot progress. Forward to achieve my goal. Mm-hmm. Because all this happened to me instead of, this is what is happening. So I'm stuck here and I am no longer able to find a path to a solution. Yeah. Yeah. My ability to find a solution has stopped.

It's died. Yeah. You can't move, right? Yeah. So I'm rolling through this hamster wheel and I'm in this victim mode. And I cannot progress. To put that in good context for hopefully people don't understand, would be outside of work.

Mm-hmm. Like health, fitness. Yes. If you are just in excuse mode of why you can't work out, why you can't meal prep, why I don't have time for these things. Then you're not going to solve the problem. Right? Right. You're not [00:15:00] gonna start working through the problem. Just like if you are making excuses at work, you're not gonna be able to solve the problem

you're gonna be stuck in this loop of not being able to isolate the problem and work through it. Right? Yeah, a hundred percent. Totally. So we've talked a lot about why people make excuses. Yeah. What happens when they make them all the time. The cost of them are the cost of them. So what should we be doing instead? How do we get out of that victim mode?, And how do we start to take ownership over the excuse? Sure.

How do we take personal accountability? And as we were talking about at the top, if a lot of the reasons that we make excuses is that we have a hard time prioritizing, how do we prioritize? I think some people can prioritize better than others. Yeah. I don't know. Nature versus nurture. Your parents were good at it, your parents were hippies.

I don't know, but I think that there's a level of organically, some people are good at it. Yeah. Other people need [00:16:00] help. Yeah. You know, maybe they need , a trainer in the gym. Yeah. Other people can work off of an app. Right. Perfect example. Yeah. I don't need a nutritionist. I can figure this out on my own.

Yeah. Or I need a nutritionist. Yeah. Same thing at work. I can prioritize my time. I understand what needs to be done versus I need my boss to help me prioritize. Correct. So I think, it's one thing to prioritize. But it's another thing to build the systems around it. To prioritize. Yeah. 'cause I think anybody can say like, Hey, I am going to prioritize, , outbound sales for the next 30 days.

Great, lovely priority. How do you do that? How are you doing it? What are you doing every day? Are you, , protecting time? Are you gonna do power hours? Like, what's the plan? Uhhuh? Right. Right. Okay. So , I. Made it a priority in my life, as many of you know, and think that I am insane, but I get up at four 30 in the morning to squeeze in going to the gym because that's a priority for you.

Because I've decided that that is a priority for me. It's an [00:17:00] hour to myself, an hour and a half to myself to get this done. It's the only time that I can do it, so I do it. Mm-hmm. And a lot of you say, oh my God, how do you get up that early? Because it's a priority for me, and I've made it as such, so I make the time.

To do it. So you, so it's not so hard, but what time do you go to bed? I also therefore make the priority to go to bed early at like eight 30. Don't laugh at me, but , that's the priority for me. I love it. I love it. Going to sleep before it's dark. Um, sometimes the summer that happens. Yes. But what you're doing is you're building the systems around that priority.

Correct. Which is, I think the more crucial part than identifying the priority. Like, yeah, you gotta do that, but , if you're not. Giving the space, doing the systems, if you had the priority to floss more. Yeah.

Super simple priority. Yes. I wanna floss every day. Yeah. But you don't have any fucking floss in your house, that's a problem. , You're not supporting that priority. Yeah. So it's the same sort of thing to be said at work. Yeah. But again, some people can set those from themselves, right?

But then some people need their boss to help them. Right. And that's okay too. Right. Because if I said, [00:18:00] well, I wanted to floss more, but I don't have any floss, that's an excuse. Sure. But if I set the priority, I would get my ass to Walgreens and I'd buy a fucking pack of floss. I just get on Amazon, I'd be here in 30 minutes or whatever, however you choose to shop.

Right. That's true so, if you need help at work, , this is part of it, right? Mm-hmm. If you were to come to me and say, I'm really struggling with time. Because have these goals that I've been given, and I don't feel like I have enough time to get them done.

Don't wait until I'm like, why didn't you get this done? Yeah. So we're talking about getting ahead of that, right. Get ahead of that. So getting ahead of maybe. , Something you're struggling with or shortcoming, like seeing the bigger picture. Seeing Yeah. Or you're seeing , oh, I'm about to have a really busy couple of weeks.

I know this is gonna be hard for me to get that done. So being able to, to think ahead and, , ask for help. Yeah. Right. I've said this for a long time, right? It's all about. What we do, especially in this business, [00:19:00] when we're dealing with coworkers and clients, it's all about mitigating people's expectations.

Let's say there's, a coordinator in an office, if you have four managers. That you're working for and every one of them has given you a project to do, and the fifth one adds one to the plate.

Then saying, great, when do you need this done? Because everyone else has given me a task already when it is your target due date. And you can say, great, if it's on Monday, I can't get it to you by Monday, but I can get it to you Tuesday morning. Is that okay? Mm-hmm. And just setting those expectations and allowing for that feedback rather than saying, yes, I can definitely do that by Monday. And then disappointing them being late and then giving them an excuse that you couldn't get it done on time. Totally. And I think that goes back to the fear, right? Yes. Like, if I don't tell this person, I can do it. They're gonna complain to my boss, Uhhuh or something's gonna happen. So something else that we can do as leaders, it's are we [00:20:00] creating. The systems and the cultures where people feel free enough to say what you just said.

Right. They feel confident enough to be like, Hey, I, that's not gonna work, man. Like, appreciate you so much. I understand that this job is important. It's important to me too, but that's not gonna work. Yeah. So I think a lot of this is,, over promising. Yes. , Because of that fear, because of , the constraints and

, If you own a business and you have this as a rampant problem, you can't just be looking at your staff. You need to be looking at yourself. Yes. And what are you doing and how are you presenting yourself? Are you, , saying that you have an open door policy, but then, people feeling like they can't come to you?

I'll, , be super honest that,, I was in a position where. I was just overwhelmed and working a lot and it was crazy. And I had a staff person come in and be like, oh, I'm so sorry. , I didn't mean to bother you. I know you got a lot on your plate, but , obviously shit, I'm not doing a good job.

If that person feels like they can't come talk to me. So I think that [00:21:00] again, if you have this problem in your organization where you feel like everybody has an excuse, even your top performers, you should be looking at what you're creating and how you're showing up and how you are available to your team.

And are you also That sort of energy, even though you say you're open door policy Yeah. But your, your energy says, fuck off. Fuck off. Then of course they're gonna go fuck off and they're gonna go try to deal with the problem on their own, and then it's not gonna go well. , But I think with this epidemic of excuses, again, in the personal life and in the professional life, we can help coach and train them.

Away. Mm-hmm. We should be, as leaders, I think that we should help the next generation out of them. Well, what would you say to me if I came to you and I'm one of your staff members and you need me to do something, and I say, no, da da, da, da, 82 different things, and I say, I just can't do it. I just can't.

, What would you say to me to try to help me? I would [00:22:00] say, well, what can you do, Adrian, if you can't do this? What can you do? Awesome. So I love what you did there. You're giving them control over the situation because excuses are taking control away, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They're trying to push their pain somewhere else, right. Versus like making them try to figure out what they can't do. So I love that. So it's like I can't get to my outbound calls. I already talked about that. Yeah. So it's like if you said, well, what can you do? Well, I can't do 20 of them today, but I can probably do 10.

Great. Awesome. Killer. Let's do that. Can, what time do you think you can get that done today? Uh, probably be like two o'clock. Okay. Awesome. You know, and then if you're a kick ass boss and you've got time, go do 10 calls with them too. . I love that you did that , I think that happens all the time too, in your personal accountability. I do that all the time at home with like workouts, so it's like I don't really have time to do a full weight set today, but I got time to walk the dog. Yeah. That's better than fucking nothing.

Absolutely. It's something. It's something. It's gonna close my move ring.[00:23:00]

For me, it's gonna make my dog less of an asshole. And there's that. I think it's also great if you can find someone who's going to hold you accountable. Ooh. Accountability of buddies. How you said that so easily. Can you say that Five times fast. Accountability of buddy. Accountability of buddy.

Accountability of Buddy. I don't know. Three is fine. Three is good. I don't, did you hear my accent? Like my tone shifted. It did, yeah. You, I got very NA pulled up some sort of accent too. That tends to happen. Yeah. When I drink a lot. Just kidding. Are you drinking a lot? No, I'm just saying like, I have one accent.

. Anyways, accountability buddies, what is an accountability buddy?

What is that? I'm not going to bother trying to say it, but that would be somebody who will hold you accountable. Mm-hmm. Right? Ask you what you can do and then. Hold you to it. Somebody who doesn't shine you on and tell you you're great all the time. Right. So probably not your mom. No. Someone a little bit more objective because your mom's just gonna tell you you're great at everything.

I mean, most moms, some moms. Some moms. It's [00:24:00] probably another podcast. Yeah. Different. Different podcast therapy session. Yeah. But yeah, no, I think that's a great idea. I mean, somebody that you can bounce ideas off of and they will give you honest feedback. About what you did. Mm-hmm. Because it's sometimes hard, you know, you get those rose colored glasses.

, And especially work relationships. Normally there's a villain somewhere. It might be you versus your boss, you versus your ex-boyfriend, right? And then sometimes you talk to a totally different person about a scenario and they ask you a question that destroys your world. Oh, you're like, what?

I had something to do with this. You don't say, but this is the villain. And they're like, but are they? Yeah. Boom. Holy shit. But if you don't have that person in your life, it's hard. Yeah. And you get in those ruminating thoughts, cycling thoughts, yeah. That are just going to eat you alive. And again, you're gonna continue to think about maybe that one person in that way or that one scenario in that way.

[00:25:00] Yeah. Where maybe it wasn't your fault in your head, but you got no one to help you. You gotta break that cycle. That's a good one. But if you guys need accountability buddies, I can say it. Well, apparently, apparently it's like your magic superpower. Uh, Leon and I could be those for you. 'cause we don't give a shit.

And we're very honest. We're very honest. Yeah, yeah. Out loud or just on our, I'll be like a little nicer about it though, probably.

Probably, um, couple other ways. I think we've talked about a couple of these already, but getting ahead of the problem. Mm-hmm. Don't wait until you feel like you have to make the excuse. Yeah. That's a big one. That's a big one. Yeah. Be aware of the fact that you're making excuses.

Yeah. And just being able to recognize that in yourself. I'm sure. And , like I always say, self-awareness is the first step, right. . That's literally probably this entire podcast is like being, I think we say it every time, being aware of what you're saying to yourself, in your head about what you're doing.

Yeah., And just being able to know again [00:26:00] that you could probably do something better. And that's okay. Yeah. Yeah. Learning how to set priorities. Mm-hmm. Or asking your boss to help you if you can't. Yeah. Or your partner. Yeah. Or a friend. A friend. Your account bill buddy. Yeah. Be like, I'm super overwhelmed with fucking everything.

Yeah. Well, everything can't be a priority. We literally can't do it. We're not machines. Yeah. We're, you're gonna feel burn out. You're gonna feel like shit. If everything is a priority. That's it. That is a guarantee. Completely. Yeah. And end the victimization loop. Oh yeah. Right. Instead of saying, this happened to me, but this is happened.

Mm-hmm. In the wider sense. So in my previous role we talked a little bit about what we call the circle of control.

Okay. Right. Like I can control these things in my, at, in my atmosphere. Yeah. There's all these other things like I can't control if [00:27:00] a venue that I've been trying to get a deal with for months goes with somebody else. Because of outside factors, what the other person presented. But what do I have control over?

Yeah. What I presented, how many times I followed up, how I showed up, how I presented my organization. Yes. That is in my control. Yes. But if another company comes in and offers commission, I'm fucked. Yeah. You can't control it. I can't control that. Right. But it's about, if I know I did my best. Best if I know I did my best.

That's it. I'm gonna feel a lot better. Yeah. And I probably won't make an excuse if I know I did my best. And that's the thing. Like if you're not making your numbers but you can show me that you did so many.

Prospecting calls and you followed up so many times and you were so active rather than just sitting on your ass and waiting for the phone to ring. Mm-hmm. Right? Like you were putting your work and your boots were on the ground and you were hitting the pavement and you were working your ass off then , great.

So basically it comes [00:28:00] down to what are we doing all the time to be the people we wanna be right at work, at home in our relationships. Yeah. How do you want to show up? And are we doing the things every day? Are we asking if we did a good job? Are we understanding what we can improve? And are we also not letting those thoughts destroy us?

Simple, simple. Not letting those thoughts destroy us. There's the simplest part, right? Sure, sure. Right. I think we need a therapist to come on this show. I think it's time. So I feel better for getting all this off my chest. I'm so glad. I think personal accountability and making excuses is such. A hard thing to grapple with. I think everyone who probably listens to this has done this multiple times.

And I think the biggest thing is if people can start understanding when they do it Yeah. They can interrupt it. Yes. And they can try to do something else. Yes. And they can try to look at what they can do and what they can [00:29:00] control and what they're doing to try to. Please stop doing it.

There you go. Just stop. Leora wants you to just stop. Please stop. Just stop. Just stop. I mean, I still do it and I catch myself doing it, and then I hate myself for doing it. I guess I shouldn't be so hard on myself. I think that's definitely another podcast is I know we all are. Yeah, we all are very, very hard on ourselves and that's why I said I think a lot of people make excuses because it hurts and it's hard.

So thanks for letting me, stand on my soapbox and tell you how frustrated I am with the world and. The fact that we make excuses all the time. I hope that we make a little bit fewer of them. I know. I'm trying to, and I still do make them. Mm-hmm. We all do. .

And that's also okay. Yeah. And honestly, this podcast felt a little bit darker. I'm a little bit more serious, but you know what? No fucking excuses guys. No excuses, no excuses.

See you next time. See you next time. Bye [00:30:00]