Thank you for joining us for episode 369 of Live Happy Now.

June is Pride Month, and that seems like a great time to revisit the topic of unity.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Wes Schmit, co-host of the Two Bottleseep podcast,

which is designed to open up conversations between

the gay and straight communities. Wes has been connecting people his entire life, and his podcast

has picked up an unexpected following thanks to its honest, open, conversational approach.

Let's hear what he has to say about how listening really can build a bridge and create more unity.

Wes, welcome to Live Happy Now.

Hi, Paula.

Thanks for having me.

I'm super excited to talk to you because you and I get to talk every now and then, but we never get to talk on the air.

Yeah, super excited.

I wanted to bring you on because

as we were looking at June, we did not want to ignore pride. It's something, I wouldn't say

we've ignored it in the past. We just haven't celebrated it with Live Happy. And it was something

we really felt was important for us to do this year. And the first thing I thought of was West Schmidt, because, you know,

you got a podcast called Two Bottles Deep, and we're going to talk about the genesis of that,

but you are all about unity and bringing people together. And that's been a huge focal point for

live happy, especially this past year. We dedicated Happiness Month to the theme of unity. And so I thought,

what better way to celebrate pride than to talk about unity and all the things that you're doing

with it. So to talk about that, I wanted to find out kind of your backstory of why bringing people

together is something that's so important. You do it so well in many

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