Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host, Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.

Hey, Squad. Hey squad. It's just me this time. It's weird. I've been thinking a lot about how to record an

episode by myself and actually I've been kind of dragging my feet doing it because, you know, with Jess gone,

I thought long and hard about like if I wanted to keep doing this and what my why really.

My friend Jack's words always come in my head like push into like hard things, right?

Like Glennon says do hard things. We can do hard things. I've been thinking about like what

this podcast should turn into and what you guys. How I'm. like Glennon says do hard things we can do hard things i've been thinking about like what this

podcast should turn into and what you guys how i can help and what you guys want to hear and that freaks

me out a little bit like am i now like Alex Jones or sarah silverman like just talking to myself i don't know

that anyone cares what i have to say by myself i don't think that these projects are really that fun to do alone also.

So this is sort of like a where do we go from here?

I have a few ideas and I hope that you guys like what's in store and what's coming up.

But, you know, I'm bummed out that Jess has decided to move on with

her life, although I'm obviously very happy for her, and I totally get it. I think that she was a good

tomato to my tomato as far as this podcast goes. And we have so many episodes and so many memories and

so many inside jokes that it'll be weird

thinking about anybody potentially trying to fill her shoes. So that being said, I don't know that

I want anyone to fill her shoes. I think her shoes should just stay on her own feet. And I

want to try having other squad guests, maybe friends that I've met along the way,

bringing back more interviews with people in the sober community who are doing things and also

just interviewing like regular sober people that have jobs like you and me and just happen to

be sober to find out how they did it to see if there's

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