What's going on everybody? What do you know what's happening? I'm Rich Roll. I'm the host of this podcast, the Rich Roll podcast that bears my name. Thank you so much for dropping by today.

I know you have a lot of choices for your audio entertainment and edification. So it means a lot to me to everybody who has subscribed to the show. Perhaps you left a review on iTunes. Thank you for that. Whatever the review is, I don't care. Just the fact that you took the time to do it. That means a lot. And of course for always using the Amazon banner at at Rich Roll.com for all your Amazon purchases. The holiday season is upon us. You might have to buy a gift or two. That might require you to go onto Amazon.com.

Well, it would mean a lot to us. If you first click through our banner at at Rich Roll.com, you can find it on all the podcast pages and the main podcast page. Won't cost you anything extra, but it will shake loose a little bit of loose change from the Amazon HQ coffers. And that helps us keep the bandwidth flowing. Everybody wins. So thank you so much for that. On the subject of holidays. Again, it is Thanksgiving weekend right now. I hope you guys are out on a hike. Maybe you're walking the dog.

Maybe you are preparing your plant-based Thanksgiving dinner, whatever it is. It's time to talk about what the holidays mean. What is the import? What is the intention behind this season? What do you want to get out of it? And how can you navigate the pitfalls, the minefield that this season presents to come out the other side, not just intact, but feeling great. And that's really the subject of what we're going to do.

I'm going to talk about here today. Perhaps you have to go to an extended family gathering. You're getting pushed and pulled to go to this event or that event. And there's pressure to buy gifts like all of this stuff increases the stress level tremendously. And then when you're in front of Aunt Betty, and she says that thing that she says every year and pushes that button and you react and then it devolves into something you didn't want it to be. What if you could have a different experience? What if when she pushes that button?

You don't react. What if you could have a new experience, a more enriching experience? One that is more fulfilling, not just for yourself, but for those around you and for your family members. So Julie's going to come in. That's really what we're going to delve into more deeply to kind of provide you with some tools and some resources to not just protect yourself emotionally and mentally and physically and spiritually.

But to really enhance this impending experience so that so that it is uplifting rather than burdensome, which all too many people find it to be. So that's really the gist of it. A couple quick things.

I'm home from a whirlwind four city two week speaking engagement tour. It was amazing. I'm going to talk a little bit about that in the podcast as well, but just happy to be home really happy to be home on a little bit exhausted.

And Tyler who is my son, he's the guy who generally puts the show together. He's the audio engineer wizard. He's really sick today. I feel terrible. He's in bed. He's sleeping right now. I certainly could not ask him to edit this show today, which I'm putting up the same day.

That we recorded. So I'm doing the editing myself, which is something I haven't done in quite a long time since the early days of the show. So if it's a little rough around the edges audio wise.

If the edit isn't just quite as dialed in as it usually is, don't blame Tyler. Blame me. That's on me. But I'm going to do my best.

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You guys want to talk about the holidays. Let's talk about the holidays.

Hey Julie. Hey, Rich.

Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to you, honey. How's it going? It's going really good. It's nice to see you.

We haven't done an AMA in a little while. And I just got back from this crazy whirlwind tour. And we barely even communicated back.

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