I'm your host, Annie F. Dowd. I'm so happy to be here with you today. We have got a great show in store. It's day seven of the 2021 Christmas party. We've been partying for a whole week. You guys over halfway through the 12 days in a row of Christmas episodes. Just imagine we're all like

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It's a special moment in our Christmas party where I've invited everyone who works with us at Downs Books at the that sounds fun network and at KCH Entertainment, which is our management team to join me on the pod to talk about what they want for Christmas.

I say this a lot and I mean it very genuinely. The team I am surrounded with is so much better than I deserve and let me tell you how we know that's true. Do you remember when I used to do this job by myself?

Yeah, it didn't look like this. We didn't have this kind of impact. We didn't have this kind of reach. We didn't make this beautiful of stuff that we make and create now. And I am a hundred percent convinced is because God has handed us a team that is extraordinary.

They are extraordinary and when I list, you know, right now I'm listing every night 10 things I'm grateful for and every day someone on this team ends up on that list and I'm just I just love them. I'm so so thankful I love coming to work.

It's not just because our office is decorated beautifully though it is and it's not just because I love what I do though I do so much of why love coming to work is who I get to be at work with every day.

And so y'all ask us a lot about meeting the team who's on the team what does everyone do you want to know all those things so today is the day.

If you want to see a picture of our team it's on my Instagram today so you can go look and match faces with names but you heard a lot of them at Christmas last year you heard a lot of them on any summer 2021.

But we've got some new friends and we've got some new teammates and we've got some new answers so I thought it'd be fun to give you a little inside baseball about the people I get to hang out with and work with every day.

So here's what everybody on our team wants for Christmas.

Hi Ash. Welcome back. Thank you for all of our friends who may be meeting you for the first time will you tell us who you are and what company you work for and what you do.

Sure. Hi friends. It's nice to meet you if we haven't met before.

I'm Ashley. I work for Downs Books as the CEO which stands for Chief Operating Officer and sometimes people call me staff boss. I was hoping you were going to say that you're technically the staff boss.

I feel slightly uncomfortable with that title but I'm you know I'm moving into it.

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