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Johnny, this is one of my favorite toolbox topics. Our toolbox episode this month is a reboot of one of our most popular episodes ever.

We're taking a deep dive into breaking the ice.

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Let's kick off today's toolbox episode before we get into it.

I just wanted to preface that I may sound a bit surly in this episode and that is due to the topic itself.

We have been talking about mental health for so long.

It's one of the parts of the show that means a lot to you and I both because we see the trajectory of mental health issues that are going on in the world right now.

And that has been also expedited due to the isolation and depression that the pandemic is hit.

And one of the things that we know that alleviates this that makes us feel better, that allows us to feel connected to the world around us is meeting people, connecting with people, building out a social circle.

We've discussed in the show that even micro interactions has been shown to help allow us to feel better and help with our mental health.

And so I got a little bit agitated during this show because for me, this is much bigger than just going out there and chatting with people.

This has to do with our overwhelming health as a nation.

And I hope those points were made. I put a little bit of force into it because I wanted to get through to our audience.

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