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I want to start off just by thanking all of you who are listening and for those of you who started listening in Unlearn and Rewile days, it seems so long ago that March and I were driving up the mountain trying to find enough service to get in our hotspot to record with people

like Bandanashiva or using the solar panel on our car battery just to charge the computer

enough to even get through an entire episode.

There were so many crazy behind the scenes recording experiences, not knowing what the hell

we were doing, we have stuck it through and I have to say that I have learned from every single podcast.

Every guest has shaped me and molded me into the woman that I am and I really feel so blessed and lucky to be able to be a part of this collective that puts this on every week and the research and just the

connections that we share together and then get to share with a wider audience is beyond a gift. We are using technology in a

beneficial way, I think in this case, and we're able to cross borders and connect with one

another on some of the most intense

disturbing pressing beautiful issues of our time and I don't know where I'd be

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