I'm Natalie Lou and you're listening to the baggage reclaim sessions.

Hello hello hello.

Yes, it's me. I'm back. The baggage reclaim sessions is back. Wow, it feels really good to say that.

How are you doing?

It's been a while, it's safe to say.

It's been about 20 and a half months since I released what I thought was going to be the final

episode of the Baggage Re reclaim sessions.

And in this episode,

I want to catch you up a little on what's been going on during that time and how I came to be sitting here again talking to you and also what to expect going forward.

A lot has caused me to arrive here.

And I was specific in saying catch you up a little because there's no way that I could go in depth into everything in this episode.

So no doubt I will cover aspects of what I talk about here in individual episodes as I go along but here

Let's get into it

So as you may recall, I decided to end the podcast in January,

in January 23 and announced it in an episode and it was a tough decision in the sense of this was something that I loved doing and I had put so much of

myself into when I know that lots of people loved the podcast too. But as I said at the time I didn't want to wait to hate doing this.

Not to say that I would ever necessarily reach that point, but I knew based

on how I was feeling at the time and things that I was grappling with in my life that if I didn't take time out and really do a bit of a hard

reset in terms of work and figuring out how to show up in the world, that I was going to reach that

point of feeling some kind of way about what I was doing.

And I'd already had a bit of a taste of that with my publishing journey.

So my book The Joy of Saying No came out in January 2023 and the months

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