Hello, welcome back.

I'm so happy you're here today because I've got a great episode.

I'm not going to lie.

I'm not going to front.

I have been excited about sharing this episode with you from the minute it got recorded.

I had the honor of speaking with Anika Hansstein, IZora, and it's just fantastic.

Anika is someone whose work just makes the world and the internet a better place.

It is filled with imagination, creativity, wonder, but also deep criticality and so much thoughtfulness

and such a position.

They all know I love me some clear political positioning.

I was over the moon thrilled when I invited them to be in this year's many moons, 2023

guide, and they said yes, they contributed such a must-read piece all about creativity

as a spiritual practice.

And I was also over the moon when they agreed to come on this little podcast, so it's

a little funny also for me to present this episode to you because you'll see me processing

some of the things they said that were so incredible in real time.

I've been dealing with a lot of related topics that we get into.

I have never used this word before, I don't think, but there wisdom, this episode was medicinal

for me, and I really think it will be for you as well to be able to receive Anika's thoughts

and transmissions and to try to process them in real time.

I think you are going to witness me actively getting my mind blown and then just sort of

marinating in it and then catching myself and realizing that it's recording and trying

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