Hello, my friends.

As you may know, if you've been a long time listener of 3 and 30, I usually publish

new episodes on Mondays.

But I'm here with an unexpected Thursday episode this week because today is an important

day for me and I really wanted to acknowledge it and share some of my heart as I process

through it.

I hope to start sharing more personal insights and updates in periodic bonus episodes like

this.

So make sure you are actually subscribed to or following the podcast because then you'll

get a notification when a new episode is published so you don't miss these unexpected ones.

You can do that by hitting the follow or subscribe button in your podcast app or it might be a

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That's the way to make sure you don't ever miss any of these surprise bonus episodes.

Okay.

So why am I airing this episode today?

Well today marks 19 years since my mom passed away from breast cancer.

And I have dreaded this particular anniversary for a long time because I was 19 years old when

my mom died.

So starting tomorrow, every day that passes means that I've lived one day longer without

my mom than I lived with her.

And that is the craziest, most unfair milestone and as I get farther and farther away from

her in days and years, I long to draw closer to her in other ways to remember her and to

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