Hey everyone, welcome back to the Maracchia Osama's podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth Joy,

and we believe in empowering women through story, telling, and education. I'm so excited.

We're about ready to wrap up the year. We have an episode this week and then next week,

and then the next couple of weeks after that, I will be taking awesome, so excited to enjoy

this holiday season with family and friends, and hopefully a little sun. It's been so dark

here in Chicago. Like the girls wake up earlier than I do. Obviously, they're my alarm clock.

But every single morning, I'm like, it has to be 5 a.m. It has to be 5 a.m. And it's like

6.37. I'm like, no way. It's so dark and gloomy here right now. So we need that sun to

come out and start shining because it is galou may. But I have some really exciting news

for you guys. So before we dive into this week's episode with Ariana, she's awesome. She

talks about planning for maternity leave when you're an entrepreneur. And I know so many

people out there are trying to start their own businesses, do their own thing, and it's

really hard to do that when you're also having a family. So she gives us lots of tips

and advice and wrote an amazing book about it. So we're going to talk all about that today.

And last week we had Kelly Sirvante-san who talked about epilepsy and infantile spasms

and it was a very intense episode. I, I, it's like hard to talk about because her story

is just so it's sad and it's it also like the way she tells it is with such a deep purpose

for her wanting to share her story and spread this message of epilepsy awareness. And

I learned so much. So if you haven't listened to the episode last week, definitely go back

and listen to it. Okay, so exciting news. I finally, I know I've been talking on and off

on here forever about rebranding the podcast and doing some new stuff. And it's finally

happy happening. I finally have chosen a new name for the podcast. There's going to be

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