Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jameelage Mel.

I hope you're well, but if you're not, I just hope you're persisting.

And whatever it is that you're doing in order to just get by through this terrible month,

I support it and I'm with you.

And I just want to quickly say thank you so much for listening to the podcast in the last

month and absolutely inundating me with lovely messages about how much you enjoyed the

episodes we put out.

I picked those guests very, very carefully and specifically for that time of year and

it makes me so happy to know that you, it all resonated with you and that you felt heard

and seen or inspired or energized and less lonely.

These are all the things that I feel and what I love about doing this podcast is that,

you know, I hate experiencing anything really great on my own.

You know, like when you stay in like a nice hotel room or you see a beautiful sight and

then there's, you turn around, there's no one there to experiencing with you.

It just feels just a little bit shitter.

And even though we're not with each other, it feels like we're experiencing something

together, we're learning together, we're hearing these fascinating guests together.

And that makes me feel less alone, it makes me feel very connected to you in a weird way.

And I also just so appreciate your wonderful and thorough and kind and thoughtful letters

that you write to me in DMs.

I call them letters because I'm very old fashioned in English, they're DMs anyway.

It's really kind of, I mean, this isn't the image that anyone wants, but sort of like

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