What if the people who love you are already holding a mirror to your potential—and you’ve been too busy shrinking to look? Today we sit with Mr. James Siler, a recovery pro whose life and work illuminate a simple, piercing truth: you can’t fit a 6’3 life into a 5’9 space. With raw truths and practical wisdom, we unpack how we learn to compress ourselves for acceptance, and how recovery—whether from addiction, fear, or people pleasing—is the steady practice of standing upright in who we are. ...