Hi, welcome back for those of you longtime listeners and welcome for the first time to any of you who

are new here. I'm Natalie Norton and I am so very happy to have you here with us for this wonderful

episode that we have prepared for you today. Now I want to start out by telling you a little bit

about my process when I decided to launch

this podcast.

I really wanted to set up some criteria for myself as it related to really every aspect of

the show.

I wanted values in place and parameters about everything that I would do.

And why? I was doing it. I wanted a lot of clarity there because I knew that if I was clear that the entire process would be

more meaningful for me and it would have a greater impact in the lives of those who listened.

There was one area in which I was particularly specific, and that was about

guest conversations or interviews, the kinds of interviews and the kinds of people I wanted to

interview here on the show. And that's not because there aren't zillions of amazing, interesting, and inspiring people out there that we can talk to and we can learn from.

Because, of course, there are.

But not every one of those wonderful, inspiring people is going to be a fit for the type of show that I was committed to facilitating

here. And that's totally okay. But I wanted to get clear about the kinds of guests that I wanted

to have. And so I made this entire list of values. And I'm tempted to read it to you here. It was,

I called it guest gatekeeper values.

But the list, that list of intentions, that list of parameters is like 100 miles long.

So instead, let me just tell you what it is that stands out as sort of a central theme here.

It was about wanting to bring listeners into conversations with guests who I felt really had a connection and a sense of, for lack of a better word, a sense of stewardship over whatever area of life that they're showing up in and for.

Not simply bringing people to you because they had something marketable or something

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