Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Let me begin today with a special announcement. Season one of the Excel Stillmore podcast

will be coming to an end on October the 31st.

During the months of November and December, there will be no new episodes released.

And then, Lord willing, season two will begin on Thursday, January the 2nd of next year.

I think taking this break will be good for a few reasons.

Firstly, just speaking for myself, that will be 82 episodes that we will have released this year

on a fairly steady, consistent basis, and I think a couple of months off would be good for me, maybe on the

creative side, but really more just to spend time with family and we'll be doing some traveling

and all of the same kind of things you'll be doing. But I think even more importantly than that,

I thought it might be good for you. I noticed over the summer that when school was out and people

were traveling, that the numbers

in terms of the podcast kind of varied a lot. And so I put out some feelers on that. And it just

turns out that when the routine is not in place, school and work, etc., that sometimes people

fall a little bit behind. So if you've missed a few episodes along the way,

maybe those two months will give you an opportunity to go back and catch up

and you can go into January, fully ready to go into some new content,

even if you've caught every single episode and have stayed up on it,

and that's totally awesome.

Thank you if you've done that.

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