Remember those babysitter club's super special edition books?

Well, this is a super special edition of The Simple Show, except this one is actually a lot shorter, not longer like those babysitter special editions.

No matter, you get what I'm saying,

this is a different episode because I wanted to announce and explain the upcoming changes to the

simple show in a standalone episode. I didn't find the cure for cancer and know this isn't going to be a

major change to your day, but it is exciting to me,

and I'm really stoked to share it with you. I'm finally doing something with the show I've wanted

to do for a couple years, to be honest. Podcasting is one of my favorite things to do. I love the

excuse to talk to interesting people, and I love sharing it with all of you lovely people. But after five plus years of doing this,

and it really has been that long, the show has gone through several iterations since 2011,

starting as the Simple Mom podcast and then onward to the Art of Simple podcast and now where it

is and will stay as the Simple show. But after five years,

I've decided to move away from the pure interview format. And the reason is simple. I'm tired of

just interviewing people. I actually want to dive in more with people, get into some meatier

topics and have ongoing

conversations. With interviewing, it's a new person on every show. And while I appreciate those

shows and even listen to a few of them, the curse of it is that you can only go so far and then

you have a whole new person on the next time. And then I start over,

talking with them about who they are, what they care about for 20 to 30 minutes, and then wrap

up. And quite frankly, I'm not that great an interviewer. I don't know, maybe it's because

I'm an I NTJ and the Myers-Briggs personality profiling where I want to cut out all the

small talk and talk about what's really on our minds.

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