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Basically, since the early days of launching Daily stoic, which was 10 years ago this year we have been using today's sponsor, Shopify. If you've bought anything from the Daily Stoic store, if you've bought anything online or in person at the Painted Porch, then you have also used Shopify. We use it because it's the best. We use it because it helps keep the lights on. And I even had the founder of Shopify, Tobias Lutke, on the podcast a couple of years back because he's also a fan of Stoicism. Look, to use Shopify, you don't have to be a technical genius. You don't have to be a big business. Although you can be. They've got plenty of resources to help you make your store work the way you want it to. Shopify also has a bunch of helpful AI tools you can use to write product descriptions, page headlines, even enhance your product photography. Best yet, Shopify is your commerce expert with world class expertise in everything from managing inventory to international shipping, to processing returns and beyond. And if you get stuck, Shopify is always there to help with their award winning 247 customer support. Start your business today with the industry's best business partner, Shopify, and start hearing with Shopify today. Sign up for your $1 a month trial at shopify.com stoic go to shopify.com stoic welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, wisdom into the real world. Parenting can present us some of our greatest tests. Your son has dyslexia. Your oldest has behavioral issues. The youngest is on the spectrum. Your daughter has a chronic health issue. Your kid has trouble regulating emotions. These are challenges, to be sure. Challenges for you, challenges for them. It's not easy and it's not cheap. But there are accommodations you'll have to make. There will be things you need to buy. There will be things that you and they will not get to do. There will be heartbreak. Heartbreak that both Marcus Aurelius and Seneca experienced after the devastating loss of their own children far too young. But as always, the Stoics remind us that everything has its compensation. If we choose to see it, if we choose to welcome it. The challenges we face as parents become our greatest teachers and guides. You'll have moments at the dialysis center that years from now, you wouldn't trade for anything. You'll develop patience and resilience that you could not have otherwise imagined. And they will too. You will learn how to advocate for yourself and for them. You'll come face to face with this thing called acceptance. You will understand what it means to love, to really love unconditionally. This thing with your kid. You wouldn't have wished for it. You wouldn't have wished it on them or indeed on any other parent. And yet you are coming to see that it gave you something, gave you perspective on what truly matters, on what real strength looks like. It gave you connection to your child, to yourself, to others who have gone down this road. It gave you purpose to fight for them, to guide them, to help them navigate a world that isn't always built for them. And most of all, it gave you love. Not the easy, effortless kind, but the kind forged through trials, the kind that endures, the kind that in the end, makes it all worth it. And by the way, if you didn't know, we also have a parenting daily email and daily podcast called the Daily dad, which, like the Daily Stoic, is built on one piece of ancient wisdom every day, applied to life practically. Last year we created this thing called Daily Dad Society, sort of a dad's group for people who are getting the email but want to sort of take it to the next level. And it's honestly, it's helped me a lot. We just did our our monthly call, we've been reading articles, we've been doing these kind of mini challenges together. It's been really awesome. It's helping me be the best dad I can be, and I'd like to think it's helping other dads do the same. We'd love to have you join us. It's a community of fathers who want to show up for their family as the best version of themselves, who are reflective about what it means to be a good parent, who are open to talking about the challenges they're dealing with, who want to share advice, who are willing to open up about the stuff that they went through as kids and how to do better with their own kids. You can be the parent your kids need and think Daily Dad Society will help you do that. And if you join us before Father's Day, you can get $60 off your yearly membership with code Father's Day. I can't wait to see you in there. And I can't wait to see you on the calls. It's been great and I'm excited to keep doing it and I will talk to all of you. Very. Foreign.
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