Hey, I'm Steph. I'm Alex. And this is not today. And we're live from the great state of Michigan in the clothis in the clothis on

Disclosed location we are recording from your parents closet slash office

shout out to them shot But this is the first episode of 2023 and isn't it so fantastic that we are starting

it out with a little bit of drama and technical difficulties.

Yeah, just, it always seems like it's something when we come here.

And it was honestly as bad as when we just started the podcast, our first episode trying to get that together?

Yeah, basically my microphone decided that it was no longer going to connect to my computer,

which makes absolutely zero sense, and we have been trying to fix it for like a whole day now

but we have figured out how to connect it to a new computer and here we are

talking to all of you lovely people and we're just gonna breeze on past it because we want good

vibes only right same setup same setup we change nothing but we're gonna move

past what if we had fun you know let's just be thankful we have another option, right?

Let's be grateful.

I'm very glad that we got it to work because if it wasn't going to work, that was going to be a big problem.

It's going to be an issue.

We didn't know if it was the microphone, my computer, the connector cord,

hell maybe I would have gotten all three different. That would have sucked.

Yeah, I know. But anyway, we have a very inspirational story to kick off 2023 I'm told.

We for sure do. Yeah, we're going to be talking about Katrina Cook Brownley today.

And although her story is very intense, as many of the stories we talk about are, it's very inspirational.

The things that she has achieved in her life is just incredible, and I'm excited to talk about her today and share her story because it feels like a good way to

kick off 2023.

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