We are jumping right in with another episode. Welcome back to After Hours with Amanda podcast. If you're new here, welcome. If not, you know the drill. Okay, on a side note, I'm going to put my phone on. Do Not Disturb because I don't want to be disturbed. Okay. I'm, wow. We have a lot to talk to talk about first off can I please just get the intro music

that I had created specifically for this that is such a bop oh my gosh maybe I can play it for you

hold on I'm going to find it for you because I am going to figure out how to upload it so it's

just the intro to every episode oh my gosh also alo if you're watching this you're going to figure out how to upload it. So it's just the intro to every episode. Oh my gosh.

Also, Alo. If you're watching this, you're going to see this. Look how cute. Are you kidding me right now?

I want to sleep in that. I want to wear that cardy during cold weather. Okay. Like, so cute. And then look at

this. They have this new like loungeware. I'm dead. I want it right now. But we're waiting. We're waiting. Okay. We're pacing ourselves. So hold on. I'm going to find this music for you. But wow, it has been, wow, since we talked last week. Honestly, I feel like I've lived a lifetime since last week's episode. I feel like my mom's birthday came and went and took me out this year.

Straight up took me out. And I had not realized the fact that I literally had not grieved in a real way.

And that's not what today's episode is about. Like that's not quite the focus of it. Like, it's not grief, but I really

want to talk about why I think this year was so hard. And in the emotional management department,

like, where we saw some opportunity for ourselves. Do you know what I mean? And just being

gentle with ourselves. So hold on. I'm going to look this up right now because I have this amazing, like I want to call her an artist because

she truly was an artist. Her name was Allison. And she helped me create the music for the podcast.

And I have never interacted with someone. I mean, I've interacted with talented people,

but talent at this level where you are just able to do this and create a song. Is this the one?

Is this my music? I think this is it. So this is what the intro is going to sound like. Are you ready?

Okay. I think this is it. There were a couple options, but I think I'm looking at the email. I'm like, was this the one? Okay. Hold on. Here it is.

Let me. Is it actually going to play loud enough though? Because let me turn it up. Hold on.

Don't you love this? It sounds like something, but it's not that.

Okay, can you just imagine that at the beginning of every episode?

And then we have an outro.

Okay, because an intro and an outro, by the way.

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