And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the Personal Development

podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 182. It's titled Conspiracy

Theory. And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hey there, inmates, me again. It's a new month. I hope you're coping well with all the

emails from companies you've

bought anything at all from over the last 10 years telling you that they hope you're okay

through all these uncertain times, these difficult moments, troubling periods. I think I won

COVID bingo last week when I got one that said turbulent days. Anyway, it is what it is, but genuinely,

I do hope you're all all right. It seems, seems 50-50 with a lot of people. A few people have

had to pause their patronage with me on Patreon for a while to save the pennies, and that's fine. If

you're one of them, I still love you,

all of you. Don't worry. Somebody emailed me saying they had to cancel and they were gutted because

the main reason they supported me on Patreon in the first place isn't the extra episode on a Monday

morning or the extra hypnosis tracks that they can get. It's because they know that I use

the money to help fund private therapy for people who can't afford it. And it's fine. Because it turns

out, for every one of you that's had to do that, there's somebody else who is still working and is

still earning and they can afford to pay. And because they're not going out at the minute,

they're listening to extra podcast episodes and they're not going out at the minute, they're listening to extra podcast episodes,

and they're becoming patrons.

So I've had just as many join this month as leave.

So it's fine.

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