Hey guys, welcome to episode number 247 of the Industrial Strength Show.

First episode of the New Year, first episode of the new decade,

so I am very excited. I plan on coming out the gates strong. I want to start

this year, start this decade as strong as possible. So my goal is to answer 20 of your questions today

and really provide just as much value as possible.

I'm not going to give you a quick little yes or no answer,

you know, some of these quick Q&As that people do that no one really gets anything out of. I'm going to really try to provide some

value, some context behind each answer that I give, and but also try not to take all day either I know you guys got other things to do hopefully you have your you have other plans for

20 20 you got more going on than just this podcast so

gonna try to make this as valuable as possible as information packed as possible

but we're also gonna try to get it done, you know, before my daughter's

leave for college.

And for the newer listeners, just a little background on my daughters, they are eight years old.

So that's what we got in store for today.

So I got a lot to get to.

I don't want to spend too much time here on the intro but I did

promise that I would pick out two to three top iTunes reviews from this week and I must say I wish I had a different

expression than blown away because I was more than blown away by when I went on iTunes to check to see if I had any new five-star reviews this week. A few days ago at the time I checked

just to provide some context you know my show is pretty popular it does average it's like

4.9 something star average I have a lot of five star reviews I. I am very proud of that. I'm very appreciative of that.

During the course of the almost five years that I have been podcasting, like a a good I think the best day I ever had and I don't check every day

but on average if you get if you get five to five star reviews on iTunes in a day I don't know what other

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