What is that my beautiful people? Welcome back to the moments podcast. I am so excited to sit down and record right now.

I think we're on episode 8. Guys, 8 weeks in a row. Two months we've been going strong. I'm so proud of us.

Two months. Guys, I feel like I haven't recorded an episode in such a long time. It's literally been less than a week, I think.

No, it's been about a week since I recorded last, but this past week has felt like a whole year.

I feel like I have socialized so much. I have done so much. I don't know. Does that happen to anyone else around the holidays?

Like, I am just like burnt out from Thanksgiving week. I am tired, but it's a Saturday night. I'm sitting in the van.

I'm recording this podcast. I've been wanting to do it all day, but I'm getting around to it now.

And it's like 8 p.m. and I didn't make an outline for this podcast. I know what I want to call this podcast, but I don't know.

Everything that I want to talk about. So we're really just freestyling this. I mean, to be fair, I do kind of freestyle most of the podcast, but sometimes I'll have some notes or an outline.

Not today. Not today. So we're definitely going to see how this goes.

I want to call this episode moments and gratitude. Not only because I find it very fitting to do it right after Thanksgiving, but also because the other day,

I've told you guys about this a few times. I did a journal entry in my notes in August, and it was the one where I wrote about it in the present tense, but a year from now.

So basically, I wrote about my life as if all my dreams had already come true. And in that, I wrote that I was recording a podcast episode about gratitude.

And I hadn't read that journal entry since I first wrote it back in August, and it was super, super weird to read it because I also mentioned that I had a van in that.

And I'm sitting in a van recording a podcast episode about gratitude.

And it blows my mind that we've made it here that we've done all this. And I just want you guys to know how much I genuinely appreciate you.

And how much you guys inspire me and how much you mean to me. And I'm going on a spiral again. And I do this in every episode. And I'm not even mad about it.

You guys have seriously changed my life in more ways than you could ever know. You've gotten me through my hardest days. You've motivated me to keep working harder on my best days.

And you guys have made me feel like I am capable of reaching any of my dreams. And that's who I want to be for you.

I think that we can all inspire each other in so many different ways.

And it's very, very, very cool. I think it's my favorite thing about social media. You know, I talk a lot about the negative side of social media.

But lately, with all this gratitude, thought, and all this thankfulness, I've been thinking about how cool it is that I have been able to not physically meet all of you guys, but have such interesting conversations meet so many new people from all different places.

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