Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 88 of the Mindful Kind podcast and a super special episode because I'll be sharing my

podcasting journey in depth the very first time. You'll discover why I decided to start this

podcast, how I go about creating the episodes, challenges I've had along the way, exciting

achievements and how mindfulness has supported me throughout the journey.

I also have some super exciting news to share, but I'll get to that in a little bit.

So let's rewind to August 2015 when I first discovered podcasts. I thought it was so amazing that I

could access so much knowledge and information and inspiration from people I really

looked up to. I especially remember listening very excitedly to Lisa Messinger's interview on the

Brave Exchange and Gretchen Rubin talking about happiness on the Happiness Project. Within a few weeks,

I'd decided I wanted to start my own podcast. It wasn't

something I'd been planning. It wasn't something I thought I should do just because other people

were doing it. It wasn't even something that I thought I would be particularly good at. I just

knew I had so many things I wanted to share. And I really wanted to try and make a difference in my own way.

First, I wanted to create a podcast about self-care and joy.

I planned the first few episodes, and it just didn't feel right.

Then I thought I could do something on meditation, and I was so set on the name,

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