In Part 1 of our conversation with Daryl Hine, we go back to the start of a story that, from the outside, looked close to perfect.

Daryl met Paula at 16. Married at 21. Three children, a 30-year marriage, a successful corporate career and a thriving business they built together. By every visible measure, life was good, and everyone around them thought so too.

But Daryl was carrying something he'd pushed down since the 1970s, a time when it simply wasn't safe to say it out loud: he knew he was attracted to men. For years he suppressed it. Until, approaching 50, it stopped staying quiet and the panic attacks started.

In this episode we talk about:

• What it's like to live a life that looks right but doesn't feel like yours
• Why so many men of his generation learned to bury who they really were
• The slow, exhausting cost of not knowing and not being able to say it
• Trying to solve a deeply human question like a business problem
• The night-time panic attacks, and what they were really telling him

Daryl is a business consultant and founder of Abundant Solutions, but this isn't a business conversation. It's an honest, generous look at identity, suppression, and the courage it takes to face yourself.

Part 1 ends at the hardest moment: sitting his three grown children down to tell them the truth. What happened next is in Part 2.

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