If your creativity is something that you lead with for your success and is an identifier for you,

you have to treat that the same way you would any other muscle.

Oh, let it out. Let it out. Hi, welcome back. You're listening to Let It Out with me. I'm your host, Katie Dalebout.

If you're new, welcome for the first time. I hope you stay for the future and go back and listen to

the very robust archive of episodes. I've been doing this for about seven years. There's nearly 300 of them.

And if you listen every week, that's really cool. I'm trying my best with these interviews.

I really enjoy doing them. And I hope you like listening to them. And I like chatting with

you at the beginning every week. But I'm going to try to keep that short. Do you guys listen to Mark Maron's podcast?

He has been doing it much longer than I have.

He just got to a thousand episodes.

And he did this episode for his 1,000 episode with his producer.

I think I talked about it at the end of last week's episode.

I definitely posted about it on Instagram.

But his producer said that his podcast is ultimately one man's audio journal because he talked to the beginning

like I do and at the end about the episode and basically, you know, how the sausage was made of the

podcast and what's going on in his life.

And anyway, I do that maybe a little bit and I've gone in pockets and, you know, sharing with you

before and after the episodes. But ultimately, there's such a mirror to where I am based on

who I'm inviting on the podcast and what I'm asking and what I'm curious about.

And it just makes me feel close to you guys because if you're listening, you might be curious about something similar.

And I've been getting the nicest messages and meeting people who have been listening for a little bit or for a while.

And it's just really cool.

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