Hello, everyone.

Welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast.

My name is Paige, and it's kind of bizarre, but here I am recording my last episode.

I don't know how you feel about that.

I don't know if that seems like a big deal to you or not, but for me, podcasting has been a big part of

my life for the past five and a half years. And so I thought I needed to hop back on here and

explain a little bit about how I came to this decision and kind of hopefully tie up any loose ends to the extent that I can

and just give you a little bit of parting advice if it's helpful as you move on from listening

to the podcast. So let's start off with giving some context. So for some of you, maybe this

will be a repeat a little bit, but I, like, I want to give you some context as to why I even

started in the first place and then how I got to the point where I felt like it was just time to make a change.

So five and a, let's see, five and a half, probably six years ago now, I went through an

experience in my life that was really, really, really challenging. And I felt really alone in going through that and one of the

things that really brought me through and really helped me was listening to podcasts and I

spent a good solid you know many months just pouring myself over the resources that I could find that

helped me not feel alone that helped me understand what I was going through better and that

helped me start to heal from from there and when I um kind of felt like I was coming up for breath, I thought, you know what, I would

love to do something like this for other people. And I thought, you know what? Why not a podcast?

And why not podcast about the things that I know and the things that I'm good at and the things

that I do? And so that's how good at and the things that I do.

And so that's how it started for me was really this intention of trying to

hopefully pay it forward a little bit since I had benefited so much from it.

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