Hi everyone. Thanks for listening to Food for Thought. This is Colleen Patrick Goodrow.

Thanks for following. We used to say subscribing, but I think now the podcast I listen to,

hit follow instead of subscribe. So thanks for following. And if you haven't hit that button

follow, I hope you do because I am working on some really fun episodes for this podcast

and some pretty life-changing things

that I'm experiencing that are bringing me so much joy and so much hope and enthusiasm

and work that might inspire you as well.

Some warning you, there's some really fun things coming up.

But today I want to share some really

exciting news with you, some updates. My eighth baby is coming into this world, my new book. We have

some really fun ways we can celebrate together. So I'm going to make some of those announcements and

make them brief. And then I also want to share with you why right now in my work, in my life,

I feel more clarity and control and peace of mind than I have in a very, very long time.

Creativity is flowing out of me.

I am being kept awake at night by what is in my head because of what I want to share with you and what I want to write

and how I want to do my work in this world. And I also feel so much calm about what I'm supposed

to do. It's really exciting. And I think we could all use a bit of exciting news and calm. And

what I'm going to share with you is not meant to make you

feel like, oh, another thing I have to worry about, another thing I have to do, another thing I have to

go follow. It is meant to make everything easier and consolidated and it is meant to simplify

things. And more than that, it actually brings more value to you and more

value to me. So I feel now, right now, the way I felt when I started this podcast 18 years ago,

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