Daniel

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In this episode of The Missing Conversation, host Steve Evans sits down with Daniel — a marketing executive, lifelong musician, and recently published author from Santa Cruz, California, who grew up in a Midwestern home full of laughter but without any language for emotion, and spent decades building selves that weren't quite his own. Daniel reflects on the boy who learned early that feelings were meant to be kept to himself, and who found in music the one place he could safely feel — and then, alongside it, the drinking that promised the same connection and began a thirty-year addiction. He traces the identities he wore to avoid his own loneliness: the tortured artist, and later the…