Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The Welcome to this week's episode of the simple

sophisticated. I want to begin by saying thank you because we have reached the 20th episode already in what

seems like the blink of an eye and I had worked all summer and been planning since last spring to make this

podcast a reality and of course my goal was to make it a successful podcast I by

no means thought I'd be a perfect broadcaster. I know I had a lot to

learn and still have a lot to learn, but it was my intention to make this a weekly

program that you could turn into, be inspired for your week, have a few more tools

in your arsenal to live your best life, and to walk away inspired, whether it was for how to live

well in your day-to-day life, how to dress well, how to live well in your home, to cook something that was

delicious but also simple, whatever it was, that was my hope.

And I have been overwhelmed by the positive response.

I want to just share with you and I've mentioned a few times on my Twitter feed over the past few months

that we reached as high as number five on the self-help best list on iTunes and that could not have

impossible without you the listeners. At the end of today's episode I'm going to

share with you a few of the reviews that listeners have shared on iTunes

and maybe you are one of them and I just want to say thank you so much.

That feedback is tremendous as it also allows new listeners to determine if they want to tune in.

So thank you.

I am overwhelmed with how successful this podcast has become and I can only hope that it will continue to be a

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