Welcome to Katie Wonders, a podcast about seeking wonder and inspiration in everything.

I'm your host, Katie Dale Bow, and on this week's agenda, we talk about my reasoning behind starting this mini-series of a podcast, and my monthly favorites slash gratitudes for the last month.

What I mean to find your dreams? I'm happy. slash gratitudes for the last month. I am on these dreams be waking me up at night.

I am super pumped today because today is episode one of this new mini series I am called Katie Wonders. And this is something I've been

wanting to do for a while now, many, many months. And if you are new to me completely,

welcome to the Wellness Wonderland. It is my corner of the internet where I share all things that

inspire me. I really think of myself

as a curator sharing people and things and ideas that I've really found inspiring in some way

in my life. And that is really the concept of Katie Wonders. It's sharing the things that I

wonder about, that I love, that I want

to introduce people to, and that's also what I do with my long-form interview series, The Wellness

Wonderland Radio, where I mostly interview, I've been doing that since 2013. Isn't that crazy?

That's so many years ago. And back then, even though it wasn't that long ago podcasts were still really new

and people didn't really know what podcasts were but I loved them because I'm an auditory learner

and I love to just have these people in my ears all the time while I was folding laundry while I was

driving while I was doing the dishes.

And, you know, they've really been my friend in a lot of crucial moments in my life.

And I kind of have a tendency towards loneliness and sadness in a lot of ways.

And that has manifested in many different forms for me from an eating disorder to just, you know,

not feeling great about myself sometimes. And something that really helped me is to hear

other people's stories and to know that I wasn't alone. And podcasts were really, really,

not were, they are really, really influential to me. And there's so many good

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