Workaholic No More: My Journey to Fatherhood & Fulfillment.

I put my work first. I put my work friends first. I was getting all my belonging needs met through my, through my work. When I sold, it was all gone. And as we talked about, I had no personal foundation of belonging, no spirituality, no girlfriend, no family.

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And then I lost my friends a little bit, some of them, during the road trip. So the difference today than what it was back then is I have personal belonging and I have a foundation. I know what happened. No matter what happens to me professionally, personally, I have my sense of life. I'm a new dad, she's 9 months old. Um, we, my wife and I, tried for 3 years to have her, so it's a real, a real gift. We've been through so much, you know. My wife did 12 fertility treatments to get there. It was was hell. So I have a ton of love for her, and that's belonging, you know, right there is that biological belonging, which as an adoptee I didn't have it. So I can end that cycle. I can continue my biology. So that's first and foremost professionally. My Judaism and my Jewish— my Israeli identity, my Israeli-American identity, my Jewish identity is there more than it ever was. So that's a big piece of it. Again, personal belonging. And I have a really strong group of friends from different places. I run a men's group with 27 men that meets monthly, so I have that. I have a couple of peer advisory groups. So I have all the components for personal belonging, which is something I never had prior. And that's the difference. So the difference is, back in the day, I put professional before I put personal. Now I put personal before I do professional. And that is what flipped in my head and why I can do belonging much better.