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Pop quiz. What's in your kid's lunchbox? At Whole Foods Market, they've already done the studying. Over 300 food ingredients are banned from their shelves. No hydrogenated fats in the peanut butter and no high fructose corn syrup in the cookies. And for sandwiches, there are no synthetic nitrates or nitrites in any of their deli meat. So you can pack lunchboxes with peace of mind. Get back to school ready at Whole Foods Market.

Pop quiz! What's in your kid's lunchbox? At Whole Foods Market, they've already done the studying. Over 300 food ingredients are banned from their shelves. No hydrogenated fats in the peanut butter and no high fructose corn syrup in the cookies. And for sandwiches, there are no synthetic nitrates or nitrites in any of their deli meat. So you can pack lunchboxes with peace of mind. Get back to school ready at Whole Foods Market.

What is your environment teaching your brain about worth? Throughout this conversation, Daniel explains that our brains are constantly adapting to our stress, our relationships, our habits, and the messages we hear every day. One of the ideas I've spent the last several years researching is what happens when those messages quietly tell us something else, that we're valuable only for what we produce, that we're invisible unless we perform, and that our significance depends on our success. I call this the great erasure, the slow, often invisible process of disappearing in plain sight as systems reward our utility while overlooking our humanity. That's the heart of my new book, The Mattering Effect, coming this October. It's about understanding the hidden forces of systemic unmattering, and more importantly, how we reclaim our sense of worth, connection, and significance in a world too often teaches us the opposite. You can pre-order at thematteringeffect.com.

Pop quiz! What's in your kid's lunchbox? At Whole Foods Market, they've already done the studying. Over 300 food ingredients are banned from their shelves. No hydrogenated fats in the peanut butter and no high fructose corn syrup in the cookies. And for sandwiches, there are no synthetic nitrates or nitrites in any of their deli meat. So you can pack lunchboxes with peace of mind. Get back to school ready at Whole Foods Market.

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Before we continue, thank you for supporting PassionStruck and for helping us bring these conversations to people around the world. One of the things Nick talks about in this episode is that awareness by itself doesn't create change. Most of us know the habits we'd like to break and the patterns we'd like to leave behind. The challenge is building practices that help us respond differently when those moments show up. That's one of the reasons we created The United Life. It's a place where these conversations move beyond listening and into practice. Every week, we provide companion workbooks, reflection prompts, and tools that help you take what you're hearing on the podcast and apply it in your life. You can download today's free companion guide at the ignitedlife.net. And if you're enjoying this flourishing series, please subscribe to the podcast on Apple or Spotify. Leave a review and check out the full video interviews on our YouTube channel. Thank you for supporting the show and for supporting the partners who make these conversations possible. You're listening to PassionStruck right here on the PassionStruck Network. Now let's get back to my discussion with Nick Ortner.

If today's conversation resonated with you, share it with someone who's been trying to make a change, break an old pattern, or move beyond a story they've carried for too long. Don't forget to download today's companion workbook and reflection guide at the ignitedlife.net. Until next time, keep asking yourself, what am I practicing every day that my future self will one day call a habit? I'm John Miles, and you've been PassionStruck.