My primary motivation in creating this podcast was as an opportunity to connect with you in

a personal way week upon week because I recognize the challenge it is to do what's most

essential day in and day out when there's so many forces pulling us away from those things.

And something that I have felt drawn to do recently is to create a regular opportunity

for me to talk directly with you without having an interview or a conversation with somebody

else but just to talk with you directly.

And this today is just such an opportunity.

So let's get to it.

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been thinking about you, I've been thinking about what this

last year and a half has meant, what that experience has been like.

And if I had to summarize it in a single word, I would just say relentless.

I'm thinking about the surreal April and May of 2020, the pandemic shuts everything

down.

The uncertainty is as high as it could possibly be.

I'm thinking of all the pivoting that immediately had to take place in business, in family,

home education and all that we're so familiar with.

The stay at home orders, the uncertainty about the stay at home orders, the differences

between countries and states and all the above.

I've been thinking about the always on, always pivoting, always changing, always innovating

vooker world in which we now find ourselves, where it's constant volatility, uncertainty,

ambiguity, complexity.

And it's got to the point, I would say, that there are really two kinds of listeners

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