Hi, welcome back to the podcast. You are listening to Let It Out with me. I'm your host, Katie

Dalebout. And usually I have really long-form conversations with people, but today it's just me here. Hope that's cool

with you. It's been a while since I've done one of these favorites episodes, but basically, every

so often, it's just me and my microphone alone in my room, and I like to catch up with you guys and tell you what I'm really grateful for lately,

things that I'm liking and all sorts of different categories,

random categories, and then some that I do every time, like TV show and movie and

skin care and food and basically anything that I'm pretty into

and pretty grateful for right now and I want to talk to you about. And I used to do this monthly,

I think, at one point. I haven't done this since, I don't know, many months. So maybe this will be a

seasonal thing, but hopefully I'll

start doing it more because I like catching up with you on the microphone when it's just me. I share a lot

about myself in my interviews, which I get feedback about all the time. Some people love it. Some people don't like it.

Most people who don't like it don't continue to listen. If you're someone who listens to my podcast

regularly, you're probably cool with me sharing about myself in the way that I interview people.

I try to be cognizant of making it about the guest and not about me, but I find that people

are more vulnerable with

what they share, and I personally like listening to podcasts when I get to know the host,

and I feel like I know the host. So I try to just make it as much of an organic, real, raw

conversation as I can, which means it's not super one-sided and I'm not

quizzing someone or giving them a questionnaire. I'm having a conversation, which means I talk

about myself a little bit or sometimes maybe a lot. Anyway, today's episode is all about me.

So if you're not into that, turn it off immediately

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