Welcome to the Feel Good Effect. If you've ever thought it's too soon, I am not ready, felt that internal pressure to hesitate to not even swing because you don't think you can hit a home run the first time out of the gate. Well, this episode is for you. Let's make it happen.

Welcome to the Feel Good Effect, a podcast about what it really means to be healthy.

I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs.

I'm a researcher, blogger, storyteller, and educator, and I know firsthand just how hard

creating a healthy lifestyle can be.

In this podcast, we'll talk to health and wellness thought

leaders, innovators, and visionaries to deconstruct healthy to help you feel good.

Hey, feel good at that community. I'm so glad you're here. Okay, so recently I've been really

inspired by a new podcast that I've been listening to called Akembo.

Akembo is a podcast by Seth Godin.

And if you're not familiar with Seth, he's kind of a big deal in the marketing space.

I don't even know.

He writes about marketing, but it's so much more than that.

And he has this blog.

He's been writing for years.

If you type Seth into Google,

it'll be the first thing that pops up. He's written thousands upon thousands of posts. So he knows

how to show up, how to do something consistently over a long period of time. And his new podcast is

about our culture and how we can change it, about seeing what's happening and choosing to do something

different.

And that acknowledging that culture is real, but also that it can be changed, that you can bend

it.

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