You don't have to live your life the way others expect. All of us face constant pressure to live according to someone else's rules and expectations—but there is another way. A way to break free from the chains of societal norms and find true happiness. 

Welcome, dear listeners, to a very special episode of Actions Antidote! I'm your host, Stephen Jaye, and today we're marking a significant milestone as we celebrate our 100th episode. But instead of our usual format, I'll be taking the guest seat to share my journey and the story behind this podcast. Join me as I delve into the depths of my life, discussing the pivotal moments, the diverse pursuits, and the jobs I've undertaken along the way. 

This 100th-episode celebration is not just about me; it's about you, our devoted listeners. A huge thank you to all of our listeners for sticking with us and helping make this community so amazing! Here's to the next hundred episodes of Actions Antidote!
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Celebrating 100 Episodes of Actions Antidote with Stephen Jaye
Hello, everybody, and welcome to Action’s Antidotes today. I’m Luana and I’m your guest host. I’ve been a guest on this podcast for two times and I was so happy when your host, Stephen Jaye, that I will introduce in a minute, came to me to ask me to host this in honor of the 100th episode of the Action’s Antidotes podcast so I’m super happy, so here with me, of course, the host of the podcast.
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Welcome to the show, Stephen Jaye.

 

Oh, thank you very much, and thank you very much for hosting this 100th episode.

 

Yeah, I’m so excited. So, now, this episode will be about you and so let’s start about what’s your background story. Can you tell us a little bit about your life before you even like had this podcast?

 

Yeah. It’s kind of an interesting story and I’m so glad because, after 99 other episodes, to get the chance to share a little bit of my story in the podcast and for anyone out there that’s listening, that’s like, okay, I wonder if you have a story as well or if you’re just kind of showboating — not showboating but telling everyone else’s story. And my background is that I actually originally began loving the weather and studying meteorology in college as well as graduate school because I recognized from a very early age, how, growing up in Long Island, how hurricanes, nor’easters, or even changes in weather, where, let’s say it’s March and, one week, it’s really cold, it feels like it’s still winter and you don’t want to go outside, you don’t want to do anything so you’re stuck inside, and then another week, you get like another weather pattern and it would be like in the 60s or 70s, it will say 15 to 23 Celsius, for anyone international out there listening, and that’s like so much different of a week and so much different of a life experience and I just really wanted to understand the mechanisms, the scientific mechanisms of how that worked out. But, early on in life, of course, I very much was what I refer to living by the script. I had kind of a little bit bought into it. I’d always suspected something a little weird and I’ve always suspected that I was going to have to push against something, even from back when I was a teenager or 11, 12, 13, when you’re first realizing what your true identity is, I always knew that something was going to have to be different for me than what I’m seeing all around me but I didn’t kind of maybe come to the full grips of every single idea, like the way I was being educated, the way I was learning that if you get the answer wrong, you fail the test and you fail, that’s the worst thing that could possibly happen to you and now you have these consequences was not the way to go so I tried to find a more normal, typical career, which, for me, was meteorology in the insurance industry and that’s what I did for the first five or so years after I left school.

 

Oh, wow. So you started with that,