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This is my leak and this is my podcast. Welcome back. I guess you can say this is the official

end of my podcast warm-up and we are back in business.

Welcome.

How has this whole warm up been for you?

Please don't hesitate to write me via social

or reply to any of the emails I send out. They come, your responses come right to me, so please feel free.

I've gotten many messages that the past few months didn't feel like a warm-up but I can ensure you that it was

definitely a warm-up. It's been a long time since I have committed to recording

podcast and I knew that so much had changed since I began back in 2011.

There's so much technology that makes recording and sharing much easier and this warm-up allowed me to spend a good amount of time

learning that technology. So technology is easier but you still have to learn

how to use it and so there was a lot for me to learn and I also wanted to warm up because as a

former athlete if you will I ran track back in the day you would never get on the track to do anything without

warming up. And so for anybody who is considering doing anything and feeling like you just have to start cold in that you can't get any time to warm up,

be it in a new position, you're just starting on YouTube, you're getting on social, you can warm up.

And whether you announce that or not, maybe you choose to, maybe you don't, you have time,

you can do that. And so I wanted to warm up and try to find my zone. I don't

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