This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without

judgment, pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi and welcome to this naked mind podcast. This is Annie Grace and today I have Scott

Stable and he is the author of Big Love and I, Scott, I'm just, I'm really glad to have

you here. I really love your work. There are so many of just kind of your quote, worked

their way around the internet ether that have really provomely touched me and my life

and I mean, I don't know, it's just really an honor. So thank you for joining me.

Oh, it's my pleasure. Thanks for having me, Annie Grace.

So I'd love to just start with like, you know, people who might not know you or who might

not be familiar with you a little bit about your story and, you know, your background

and how you came to be doing the good work you're doing in the world.

I still well, well, I'll start somewhere and you can invite me to go back farther if

you, if you want. How I came about to be doing the work that I'm doing, what is the work

that I'm doing? I guess essentially I'm, I'm writing. That's what I'm doing and I'm

doing some speaking. I do a lot of live videos on Facebook and have grown, you know, a, a

pretty large social media community and I think in great part because I'm, I'm a big

love advocate. That's someone referred to me as a love activist and I absolutely love

that title and that's really what I believe myself to be someone who's out here making

a whole lot of noise for love and the power of love in our lives to create really important

necessary change in, in every way possible for ourselves in the relationships we have

with others and in our world in general. So about six years ago, I started a Facebook

page and started writing about the topics that mean the most to me like compassion and

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