The topic of our conversations this month is New Beginnings. Our guest Mark Boudreau co-owns Guide Construction Solutions, a small design-build construction company, with his son Liam. Mark is a certified passive house consultant who has been practicing Buddhism for 25 years. 

We explore the phrase 'The Fresh Start Effect' (terrifying to some) and discuss the role failure has in launching new beginnings. A new study referenced recently in Psychology Today suggests that Fresh Starts are most effective when a person experiences failure before the restart. For our guest, new beginnings are based on honesty, humility, and sometimes failure which he describes as the life’s pressure relief valve” on the path to success. “It’s a safety valve so that the system can balance,” he says.

The new beginnings we find between the swinging trapeze bars of life may be where we are most alive. According to Mark, “In that moment is the essence, the seed of happiness.” 

Whether your drink is espresso, Cappuccino, latté, cortado, or even decaf, pour yourself a double shot and join us.