Hey everybody. This is episode 199 and if you're new to this podcast

this week's episode and last week's episode were not typical episodes.

I actually wasn't going to release an episode this week but I actually changed my mind

at the last minute because I wanted to give you a quick update about some things.

So this episode will not have any intro or outra music, no ads, no catchy jingles or inspirational testimonials with emotionally provocative music behind it.

It's just me and you. Well we made it to. So happy new year. Last week I shared my review of 2017 and I told

you that I would be spending last Wednesday the entire day doing my annual planning.

That was my plan anyways.

What I didn't plan for was having frozen drain pipes on Christmas, which I'm proud to say

I successfully was able to unfreeze until the day after Christmas when they refrows again and all my attempts to drain the

pipes were unsuccessful even with the help of Tom Nardone. I even call the plumber and for $130 for 30 minutes he provided me his expert advice

telling me to just keep doing what I did yesterday. So I did, but this time the pipes won. So the next

day I had to call out our general contractor that we've been using for some of the other work

that we've had to do on our house and they sent out

one guy and then another guy because they had to replace a cracked pipe and then

to add some new insulation where the pipe was.

And they had to do this all in a bottle in one degree whether outside.

So when all the said was and done, I actually lost two and a half days of work and about

eighteen hundred dollars.

So last week I planned on getting things set up for and ready for our upcoming season of

coaching groups which starts on Monday, January 8th and just last week I actually decided to switch platforms from Slack to mighty networks.

And I made this change when I was researching potential platforms to create the alumni membership

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