I'm Gail Strob and you're listening to the last episode of She Explorers.

You heard me right.

After seven years and well over 200 episodes, this is the final one and to be honest it's not super easy for me to say

but in truth we've been slowing down for a while here on Explorers as life has gotten full.

And the demands of maintaining an always on podcast

and digital media platform accumulated in a way

that became unsustainable.

Last year I shared that the show would undergo a became unsustainable.

Last year I shared that the show would undergo a shift,

and it did.

She Explorers was no longer a weekly show.

But the reality is that, whether you're making a podcast or maintaining a social media account or a blog,

creating digital media is a lot like tending to a garden.

She explores as a garden that I planted in rich soil in 2014 and it grew bigger over time.

More women came to help tend it, notably my two longtime partners, Haley Hurst and Noel Russell.

Haley who maintained the blog for years and made everything beautiful with her incredible design work.

Noel, who among many gifts, is a talented marketer and relationship builder.

For a garden to flourish though you need the right number of hands and

ample water a whole lot more things.

And she explorers has flourished for many years.

But it always needed more hands, more water,

more time and care and consideration. And at a certain point it required more than we could maintain.

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