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Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Okay, reef housekeeping.

In the waking up course, the group's feature is finally launching. I believe in the next update.

So more or less any day now. And this will give you the ability to schedule a time to practice

with friends and colleagues and even strangers. You can just go out to people in your world.

And then meet in a virtual group where you can sit in silence or listen to a guided session

or both. I'm actually excited about this. It will obviously create social support for people

and accountability. But I think it'll just be very cool to see your friends practicing with you

in silence. I'm hoping that it'll simulate the intimacy one experiences on retreat.

It's amazingly intimate just to sit with people in silence. So hopefully that proves valuable

to everyone. Needless to say, if you discover bugs, please let us know at supportatwakingup.com.

And if you're not using the app and you want more information, you can find all of it at that

website. The app launched now nine months ago. And the feedback has really been great. It is

very gratifying to know that so many of you are finding it useful. But it's still very much a work

in progress and it will be absorbing much more of my energy over the next year or so. So stay tuned

for changes and more content. Okay. Well, in this episode of the podcast, I speak with Ricky

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