Hey everyone Benkuma Radio how an earth are you doing hope you are well you

awesome thing you yes you you awesome thing so today is meant to be a big

Thursday show I usually interview someone or have a chat with Tom or you know

just go big on the show and I've been reflecting a lot I've been thinking a lot I've been looking ahead at the future a lot I've been

sort of

Understanding the present and what the present means for me.

And one of the things that I was reflecting on is this podcast.

This podcast is something that is a vehicle for great change.

Thousands of people listen every week. You are listening right now. Thank you. Thank you for your continued support.

And for a long time I've interviewed great people, had great discussions, but I have this urge to just take back the

microphone, take back more of my voice, more of my thoughts, have a greater opportunity to just talk to you like this

one-to-one, me and the microphone, expanding my thoughts, sharing experiences, musing on

topics. I personally really enjoy it.

And when I look at the feedback from a lot of the shows that I do and have chats to people like you on social media.

People often say, like, I love your short reflective shows.

I love it, where you're, you know, being honest

or you're sharing an experience.

And I want more of that.

And one of the things that I've been thinking about in my quiet time,

just taking six days off work and I had to do that for personal reasons but I saw it as a

little time to just decompress I switched off my phone basically didn't look at work

didn't speak to the team didn't do at work, didn't speak to the team, didn't do anything work related.

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