Dr. John Delony

Then as I got into the biology of how anxiety works, it's like, oh yeah, your body would be failing you if it let you sleep all night.

if you're not financially independent, if you're not on your own.

Here's the reality of that.

We don't talk about this enough.

I was a dean of students at a law school and the truck I drove was $3,000.

My colleagues laughed at me, my students would laugh at me, and it was laughable.

The car I drove was ridiculous.

My wife was a fancy pants, nationally renowned researcher in her little nerd segment that she studied.

And she drove a used Corolla.

We lived in a tiny, tiny house.

I remember our mortgage person, the woman who did our mortgage at the bank was one of my wife's college roommates.

And she laughed.

She's like, what are y'all doing?

And I was like, hey, I would rather live in a much smaller house in this side of town and get this stupid thing paid off than have this bank always own me just for the sake of having a spare bedroom that very few people ever wandered into.

It was just a trade I made.

And then we had to go to the park sometimes.

And instead of having our own park in our backyard that we couldn't afford, but...

And by the way, then we ran into other people and then we met their dogs and then we ended up with dinner partners.

We ended up having a whole richer life because of that.

But we've just created our own cruise ship inside of our own little encapsulated life.