You're listening to the Love Over Addiction Podcast. So for those of you who have listened to our podcast before you know we've started a new series called Ask Me Anything.

And it's when I ask some of my favorite people in the whole wide world to ask me anything, ask me the questions

that you're curious about. So it's basically just conversations with my favorites.

And so far, we have received feedback

that you all really enjoy this.

I, on the other hand, am feeling incredibly vulnerable,

so much so that when I asked a woman who I absolutely adore and is also married to a wonderful man who suffers

from addiction and she's choosing to stay and is incredibly happily married

with two kids and they have a business together and they just make it work and I've

been best friends with this amazing woman for years. We met in

college and when I asked her to do this interview, she wrote me back a text and said Michelle this is a really big deal

for you I I can't believe you're agreeing to do this so someone who knows me that long understands that it does feel a little like

exposing in a way, but here's the deal. For 2019, I promised myself that I was going to do things that scared me.

And I talked more about this in a couple more in a future

podcast, but I really am challenging myself to step out of my comfort zone.

And also, I trust you, our community is,

and I know I say this all the time,

but you guys are the nicest most thoughtful loving people I've ever encountered.

Even when you have an issue with like a technical issue with one of our programs, you can't figure out how to do

something, or even if you have feedback for me and you say, hey Michelle, you might want to

consider, you know, changing this sentence on your blog or this could possibly be offensive or

whatever even when you tell me that feedback even when you tell me you disagree

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