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Apr 2023
45m 13s

Breathe Deep: How I lost my passion and ...

DALLAS TAYLOR
About this episode
In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, we’ve revamped one of the most personal episodes we’ve ever worked on. To create it, Dallas worked with the team from Meditative Story to tell a story from his former life as a musician. It’s about losing the thing that had defined his life for more than a decade, and finding something entirely different in the proc ... Show More
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