Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?

So we started the business two years ago.

We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.

But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.

Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash HelloVet. Okay, welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Urge. I'm the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I'm so honored to bring a new guest to you today. Gillian Benfield, welcome. Thank you so much for having me. You just had your second book come out. So this will be out by the time your second book's out. And it's about being overwhelmed. But being overwhelmed and grateful, which is really the key to life, I think. Gratitude, the key to finding God's goodness in all life's ups and downs. This is your second book. Also the gift of the unexpected. And you have had a very unexpected journey.

You know, with the pregnancies and kids with special needs and dealing with health issues.

Can you talk about at what point you were like, I should probably put this in a book to

help others?

I guess, well, my first, my first book, gosh, I was a former TV news journalist, and I thought I would go back to TV news after taking a year off after having my daughter, but also my husband was military at the time.

And I thought I would go right back after he had a one-year assignment somewhere.

And then we got stationed in Alamagordo, New Mexico.

And there's not a target there, let alone a TV news station.

And eight days after we arrived in Alamagordo, I found out that our second child was going, had Down syndrome while I was still pregnant and it was then where

I started writing online and documenting my feelings probably too early if I'm being honest but

eventually I realized I kept telling people kept telling me you need to write a book you need to write a book

and I just never thought that that was something in my gifting in my realm of possibilities that just

was never it but the thing about being hit by the unexpected is it changes your perspective it

opens your views in multiple ways and including the views you had of your own life. And so that's,

eventually I was like, okay, I think I can do this. And those online writings ended up becoming a

book that was called The Gift of the Unexpected. This book happened because after my son

with Down syndrome's diagnosis, then I had a miscarriage and then I got pregnant

again and my youngest child, we thought everything was fine. And then his 14-week ultrasound,

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