Today I'm veering off the normal podcast course and I'm breaking a few rules.

And I just want to share some of where I am in my own work and play and how that affects

this podcast moving forward. I'm really excited about where I'm headed and I want to be very

honest with you and take you along in this journey with me. I value you. I'm grateful for you listening,

especially those of you who listen every week. I'm so, so grateful. And I'm excited just to share

my heart with you today. You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 155.

Much of our daily lives can be divided into two categories, work and play.

Simply put, that is where our life and our legacy take place.

This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life.

Let's get to it.

So like I said, I'm going to be breaking a few rules on this podcast and telling you some things that I feel like are written in a secret rulebook that I just shouldn't share publicly

on a podcast, but I'm going to do it

anyway because that's how I believe things should be done, just with integrity, with transparency,

and just to kind of let you know how I got to this point and where I'm headed in this work.

So as you all know, I had a baby in July of 2022 and it has been such a joy to welcome him

into our family as the fourth kid. And I took six months off social media and work following his

birth. And it was such a good refreshing time for me. I was also excited to get back to work. I love

this podcast. I love what I do. And I knew that I wanted to

enter into work with just a very structured, limited amount of time that I'm giving to it because I want

to primarily be home with my kids. I want to primarily be stay-at-home mom and I want to work just a little bit

every week, you know, a few hours here and there while they're at school. One thing I've realized

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