It's your daily dose of Donna.

Welcome to the show, the last show of this week.

Possibly the last show of the year.

I don't want to say it out loud because I don't know what the future holds, but I will be going out of town early tomorrow morning until December 27th. We get back late the 27th which is I believe a Wednesday.

So let's just put it on the potential for a Thursday Friday show next week but I don't want to make any promises just because I need to also take care of myself.

DailyDos of Donna has been a five day a week show for almost 12 months and minus my trip when I went away to Europe in the summer so I I also need to like take a little vacation sometimes sometimes so I want to make sure that I take care of myself and my family priorities and then also of course be here for you guys.

Thank you so much for being here everyone. I just want to take a moment before we get into today's show which is filled with good stuff of course

I want to take a moment to

Give you all a moment of appreciation and gratitude for what has been quite possibly one of the most

whirlwind years of my life and I had no idea this was coming. I had no idea this was going to grow the way it did. It just blew up and I pinch myself that actually happened.

I pinch myself because I just wanted to have another outlet to kind of talk about things I loved and to communicate.

I love to talk. I always thought I was going to be a talk show host when I was seven years old.

I walked around with a little tape recorder I still have the

tape and I had a show called Good Morning Donna and my name was Donna Diamond and all I wanted

to do was be a Barbara Walters I just wanted to talk to people I wanted to interview people I wanted to do was be a Barbara Walters. I just wanted to talk to people. I wanted to

interview people. I wanted to connect with people and that was like that dream.

And then of course, you know, life comes and goes, right? So I became a casting director and then I became an agent and then

I worked and started my own business and I was helping people build their brands and

with marketing and podcasting and video and all that and then all of a sudden someone told me like if you're feeling a little bit like you're

lacking something in your personal life maybe think about what you wanted to do when you were a seven.

So I did and I had a podcast. I've had many podcasts. This is my fourth

podcast. The young actors guide, this mom's life and show up on video or all three of my shows that did well but daily dose of Donna was a baby like a little personal baby passion project of mine and I can't believe where it's gone. There's so many people to thank for that the

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