What if the comfort protecting you is actually the thing keeping your family stuck? In this episode, I take a hard look at the comfort trap I have lived inside myself: the endless productivity, waiting, rationalizing, and hoping that a problem will somehow resolve itself. For families with money, comfort can do more than make life easier. It can absorb consequences, insulate us from discomfort, and allow patterns to continue far longer than they otherwise might.

If you've spent years waiting for a relationship, a family dynamic, or a problem to change on its own, this episode is an invitation to look at what that waiting is actually costing you. I share what I've learned from my own family and the research that challenged some of the stories I had been telling myself, then leave you with one question: What is the thing you stopped telling people?

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