Hello, welcome to episode number 15 of the Joe DeVos show.

I'm your host, Joanna DeVoe, which you can call me Joe,

and I am here to uplift and support my fellow creatives,

lovable weirdos, and makers of magic.

This is a special solo edition of the podcast in honor of self-worth summer, and the focus

here today is going to be on self-respect.

Speaking of which, I have finally taken the time to get the podcast up on Spotify, Amazon

music, and Audible in addition to the places

it's always been like iTunes, Podbean, and Stitcher.

And this for me was very much about self-respect and due to the fact that many of you reach

out from time to time to be like, why aren't you on

Spotify? The real reason I am not on Spotify. Well, I am now. But the reason I wasn't before

is because I really tend to procrastinate around any kind of technology that I am not familiar

with. It is my favorite thing to put off, which is why finally getting

that done, among other things. I did quite a few things last week that included moving through

resistance, and I did it in the name of self-respect, respecting my work here as a podcaster, which is something that I

struggle with and am very much in the process of working on, particularly when it comes to

keeping pace with changes in technology. That is one of several areas of my life that I am focusing on personally for this

theme of Self-Worth Summer, which also includes getting a voicemail set up for the podcast

so that we can talk to each other. Finally, that is something that I have been saying I was going

to do for a very long time now. And at last I did it, friends. You can now leave me a voicemail

and ask me a question. And depending on how many people leave me a voicemail and ask me a question,

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