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Support the show:https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_USOne on One Video Call W/George https://tidycal.com/georgepmonty/60-minute-meetingThe Knight of the White Moon: Coming HomeAt 50—the same age Don Quixote was when he lost his mind to become a knight and the same age he was when he was finally defeated—I found myself knocked off my own horse.After 26 years as a UPS driver, I was fired. My wife is fighting cancer. The future we planned may never arrive.In the book, the Knight of the White Moon (his friend in disguise) forces Don Quixote to give up the quest, take off the armor, and go home. Everyone thinks he’s finally “cured.” But what if it wasn’t defeat? What if it was the doorway?This episode is about the moment life forces you to shed the identity you’ve worn for decades—the job, the role, the armor—and asks: Who are you when it’s all gone?I call it the second adolescence. The initiation into elderhood. The hard, beautiful rite of passage our culture forgot to give us.We explore:• The terror and gift of being stripped of what defined you• Why “coming home” to yourself might be the real point of the quest• How defeat can be the beginning of something quieter, wiser, more real• The power of elders: not what you do, but what you know after surviving it allIf you’re 50, 60, 70… if you’ve been fired, retired, divorced, gotten sick, or simply feel the armor cracking… you’re not alone.This isn’t the end. It’s the beginning of becoming who you actually are.Listen now. Walk through the doorway with me.(From the heart of a former UPS driver who’s still figuring it out.)#SecondAdolescence #Elderhood #ComingHome #DonQuixote #LifeAfter50
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