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I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly, a podcast about pacing yourself,

where I explore how you can find more calm, comfort, and clarity through the simple act of slowing down.

If you're a dedicated listener, you'll perhaps have already noted that I just changed the way I described the show, most notably removing the word productivity from the tagline at the top.

And this season actually opens with a bit of a confession about how I'm changing,

about how the show is changing, and why.

I've always been a strong believer in pulling back the curtain to show the inner

workings of how stuff gets made, because personally, I always find it deeply comforting.

To know that the people who are making cool stuff that I dig are screwing things up, are

wrestling with demons, and doubting themselves. So today I'm starting this new season with a bit

of a backstory on how I got here in the hopes that sharing my weird,

imperfect, idiosyncratic journey will be of some help to you on yours.

Now, if you read my newsletter, you will know that as of the end of last season, the future of this

podcast was unclear. I knew I didn't want to continue talking about the same

topics in the same way, but I wasn't sure what the way forward was. Numerous conversations

last season, including those with Debbie Millman, Rob Walker, and Jenny O'Dell touched on the

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