Hello everyone I'm Lexi Lombard, your host to the at Lexi Podcast and you have tuned into the last episode of 2021. I will be taking two weeks off for

Christmas and New Year's as I hope you do too. I want to thank you all so much

for a wonderful year on the podcast.

If you've been following all year, you know that I've been struck with tragedy this year.

My mom passed away unexpectedly in the middle of the night, right before April and I have been dealing with this semi-publicly and this is

uncharted territory and the love that I've received from all of you hits so much harder than just general day-to-day insights

that we've gotten to exchange with each other.

So I have to absolutely thank you all so much for that, for the love and support that I can't even

fathom it's some of the messages that I've received this year have hit me so hard and

touched my heart in such a way that I won't forget.

Trust me, I will never forget the amount of love

that I received from the internet this year in particular.

It's been a good year in terms of work, though. I wanted to do a little round up. I wanted to tell you a little bit about my past week, but also talk about the past year. I've been so fortunate as to get a lot of first first probably the coolest thing I did all year is I worked with Nike

I was on a six-week campaign with Nike as a member of their everybody is a Runner campaign which ended up pivoting me hello

Wow, I've just achieved my goals according to my Apple Watch now how do I turn off notifications? I'm also the proud new owner of an Apple

watch who? A little corny but hey we're here for it. Okay how do I do this? Technical

difficulties? Okay where was I that it my

everybody is a runner campaign pivoted me into actually running I actually

use the Nike running app and use their guided runs to go on runs and I have run

Let's look at my I've run 19 miles this month so far. I've been on nine runs and I never I haven't run like that since high school track

which it kind of reminds me now of high school track and just general sports in

high school I used to go to practice four to five times a week and

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