“Mike! I am so incredibly glad the pod is back. I have a story I wanted to share with you about how your podcast helped awaken my spiritual journey as my husband and I became dads. I finally found time to start listening to Season 3 today, and hearing your voice again sent a zing down my spine in a very surprising way. All of a sudden, I had a wave of sense memory and realized that the inception of your podcast aligned with my spiritual awakening, and became a big impetus for me to stay curious. On Sept 23 2018 (my 33rd birthday), my husband and I were sitting in a doctor’s office holding hands with our daughter’s birth mom. We had just met her for the first time the day before. She was 8 months pregnant, and we were there for a sonogram. I was overwhelmed with emotion but so deeply thrilled and happy that our adoption journey had led us to that room, connecting with a strong, amazing woman and the baby in her belly we hoped would be our daughter. After a few minutes of weird shapes floating in and out of focus, it happened. Our daughter’s face appeared and all of a sudden my world was never the same. The only way to describe it was a download from the universe - in an instant, I knew her. That she was healthy, that she was unquestionably our daughter, even her personality. Her birth mom and my husband told me later that me knees buckled when her face came into focus. Ever since that day, my experience of the world has been so much richer in texture. I’d always had a faint sense of intuition, but suddenly that faint sense became a deeply soulful sense of the world. Today I looked back at the date your first episode aired - Sept 25, 2018 - 2 days after that incredible day. Listening to your podcast was such a fun way to keep that spark alive during a very special time for our family, and based on how I lit up upon hearing today’s ep, made a lasting impression on me all these years later. Our daughter just turned 5, and our son (I knew in my bones since she was a tiny baby that a baby brother would come to us) just turned 1 and we’re the luckiest daddy and papa on the planet. Sorry for the novel - hope this gave you a smile! Thanks for the laughs and the inspiration. ✨❤️👨🍼”
will.c.morton via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/20/23