🎧 👉 Prefer audio? You can also listen to me share about this in podcast episode #011 here.

For a few years now, something I have done for fun is getting two season tickets to Broadway shows in San Francisco. I recently saw “Hadestown” with Tricia Stone, who was my first boss and incredible mentor after college.

Then I saw “The Prom” with Christina Bryant, who worked for me for ten years. I was Christina’s first boss out of college—so I was to Christina what Tricia was to me. 😊

Both of these professional relationships evolved into special long-lasting friendships. 

This week I'm sharing a life lesson inspired by the show Hadestown, which intertwines the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the tale of Hades, the King of the underworld, and his wife, Persephone. This interpretation has jazz and folk music and is placed in a contemporary industrial setting.

Hadestown is the winner of 8 Tony Awards® including Best Musical, and the Grammy Awards® for Best Musical Theater Album.

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⚠️  SPOILER ALERT: If you don't want to read anything about the plot of the show, then don't read further in this email, and go here to listen to the episode. I'll tell you as you listen when to pause (at 4:34), and then you can jump ahead (to 6:26) to skip the spoiler section.

For everyone else, keep reading.

Orpheus loses his love for Eurydice to the underworld, and he goes there to ask Hades to let Eurydice back up to the land of the living.

Hades agrees, BUT there's one condition: Orpheus CAN'T LOOK BACK at Eurydice during the entire journey back.

The character Hermes then says these words:

You got a lonesome road to walk.
It ain't along the railroad track.
It ain't along the black-top tar.
You've walked a hundred times before.
I'll tell you where the real road lies:
Between your ears, behind your eyes,
That is the path to Paradise.
And, likewise, the road to ruin.

🔥 Take a look again at the last 4 lines:

I'll tell you where the real road lies:
Between your ears, behind your eyes.
That is the path to Paradise,
And, likewise, the road to ruin.

It's about Mindset.
It's about Fear.
It's about the Sabotaging thoughts in our heads that keep us from getting the things we really want. 

There are ways to pave a new path, though—you literally can change the neuropathways in your brain and not let doubt and fear run your life.

👉 If you want to find out what happened to Orpheus and Eurydice (Did he look back???), and hear me talk about all of this in more detail, listen to 🎙️ podcast episode #011 here.

What You'll Learn:

⭐ What the real road of life is
⭐ Why doubt comes into our minds
⭐ Why fear and sabotaging thoughts show up in our daily lives
⭐ How practicing trust can lessen our doubts and quiet our fears
⭐ How the real purpose is not to get to a certain place but to enjoy each step
⭐ Oh, and of course, whether or not Orpheus looked back

I want you to doubt your doubts. Get curious about them. Are those doubts just thoughts keeping you from things that would bring you more joy and true fulfillment? 

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” 

– Susy Kassem

🎧 👉 Prefer audio? You can also listen to me share about this in podcast episode #011 here.