Okay, hello there. Welcome to Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown. Thank you for listening.

I'm happy to be with you again this week.

We had a big week last week.

The Onika Lucas conversation spurred common threads galore, which is rare these days.

I haven't had a lot of common thread action going, but I certainly got some responses, which was cool.

Most of them were positive, and I think people appreciated what Onika and I shared in that

conversation, but not everyone, and it makes me want to just take a moment to say something about this

podcast because as I've been mentioning, there are a lot of new people tuning in.

And that's great. That was my hope that, oh, more people would discover it and listen. But what I

didn't really think about is the intimate nature of what I am

personally doing in this podcast and how that might play in the ears of a bunch of people that I've

never met and have never listened to the podcast before. Don't have any context for it.

And I think that's kind of what happened some last week where I got my usual criticism,

which does sting because there's some truth to it,

which is you should stop interrupting people and just let them talk and stop making it about you.

And I am guilty of that sometimes, I think.

But not always.

And recently I thought I've been doing a pretty good job of it.

And what I do want to say is that there seems to be this idea of media.

Like, it's flattering that people think of me as some kind of a media outlet or a journalist or something.

I'm not a journalist.

I haven't studied journalism and I'm not writing questions.

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