Hey guys, I'm your host, Mary, and you're listening to Prologs.

When my brain starts spiraling at a million

miles per minute, I find it helpful to zoom out and remind myself that I am still at the beginning

of my story. Prologs is a place to get really comfortable with not having everything figured out,

but still trusting in the beauty to come. And whether we're talking about mental health,

relationships, wellness, or just the

absolute chaos of being in your 20s, I hope these next moments are your reminder to take life

as it comes. On to the episode.

Hello, hello. Welcome back to episode four of Prologs. We're going to do something new this week. I would like to get in the groove of doing monthly listener Q&A episodes. I have a lot of submissions that

you all have sent to the podcast's email, which is the prologs podcast at gmail.com.

And instead of a Q&A where you're asking me questions about myself, this is more of an

advice segment. I think this is going to be very fun. I'm excited to get into it and to make it a

regular occurrence on the pod. I was just browsing through the questions and we have some

pretty good ones. so I'm excited.

First things first, though, I need to come up with a name for this segment. It kind of reminds me of

those Dear Abby newspaper advice columns, or maybe that was only in my newspaper. Probably not.

I feel like Dear Abby is a common phrase that people say, right? Either way, I guess it could be Dear Mary, but I don't think I like

that very much. Ask Mary, I don't love that either. At this moment, I'm considering, hey, Mary,

just because all of these emails start off with, hey, Mary. I don't know, TBD. I guess I have

four days to figure that out before this episode needs to be live, so we'll see what I end up doing. Today has been such a good day, honestly. The weather in Nova right now is incredible. If the weather

was like this all summer, I would love summer, but it's been between 72, 78, so sunny with a gentle

breeze, not very humid, it's incredible. I mean, there's pollen everywhere, don't get me wrong, but

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