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Here we are back again. Britt, you good how are you Bill excellent life is

treat me good I hope you've had a great week yeah I've been seeing my kids are in

school so I've been seeing clients now and really enjoying kind of meeting with people one

on one and kind of the excitement of hopping on with a new person and not knowing what their

story is going to be and kind of digging into any way that I can help them and it's been very

exciting. And I would say when I started this podcast, I had a lot of like Mormon deconstruction

people and that was kind of the bread and butter of what I did.

And now I find that based on just kind of content that people are finding me on TikTok or other

places that most of my work is now like people who did deconstruction, they don't need any more

help with that. But they're in nihilism and they

need to do the rebuilding part. And so now I feel like I do almost know kind of like, how do I

deal with polygamy? I do almost none of that now. And now it's mostly like nihilism and how to

rebuild kind of after that. And so I've been enjoying that space more and

more. But you had a trip. How are you doing? Good. I want to Jumbo's Clown Room is the name of it.

It is a bar and also kind of a strip club in Los Angeles. No one gets naked, but it was kind of a strip club atmosphere. There's a pole in the

middle. Girls do come out and dance, but it's much more performative rather than sexualized, I guess,

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