Hey, everybody. Welcome to Susan Garrett's shaped by dog. And I set a deadline for myself that I wanted to do a podcast in 2020. And so, you know, there's a lot of planning.

What kind of format? What do I want to talk about? And I woke up this morning and I thought,

you know what, Susan? Dunn is better than perfect. And this is a great motto for everybody

to adopt in life because a lot of times there's things that we want for ourselves or our dogs,

but we're a little bit afraid. There's a fear of attempting something new. There's a fear of

maybe failing. For some people, there's a fear of being being successful and what kind of

attention that will bring or expectations to follow up with. In order to improve something,

you need to start with anything. And so you've got to put that fear aside and just do something,

have one thing that you can then improve upon. And that's what I told myself this morning when I

said, hey, let's just do our first ever

podcast episode. And you might notice that the environment isn't perfect. I'm going to get

trouble for having, for those of you watching this on my blog, you can see in the video,

I've got a, you know, a studio light showing, oh, gasp, cue the dramatic music.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

Done is better than perfect. I decided. I wanted to get started. And, um, let's start first.

I'm gonna, I'm gonna talk about the name. Well, I'm Susan Garrett. And so I decided to call

this shaped by dog because I realize

many, many years ago, if you are on YouTube and you've seen my video The Journey, it talks

about how I realize that when you're training dogs, you're actually getting lessons in return.

And if you're open to those lessons, they will improve your ability to train your dog and improve your life. And if you don't get

those, if you don't get those lessons, if you're not open to learning from your dogs,

the lessons will tend to repeat with every dog you get. I really believe that in the circle, in the circle of how our life goes on and how

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