Hello and welcome to best laid plans.

This is Sarah Hart Unger, and this is a podcast where we talk all things, planning and planner and planning adjacent.

This is episode number 27, which is in the second season as we

begin the first quintile of 2021. Actually, I guess we're not really quite at the beginning anymore,

but the year is still fairly fresh as we sit here today. I have a couple of little announcements

that I'd like to begin the show with before I get to this fantastic review.

The first one is that if you're interested in purchasing an ad or a show of sponsorship,

you can email me and I can send you specs. I kind of have a sheet already. I didn't before,

but now that we've started to have a couple of sponsors trickling in and I'm so excited to have them,

the very first one

was Lonnie from the Real Lifestyle, talking all about their really cool online course. You

probably heard about that in the last episode, but there are going to be some others coming up.

And if you are interested in perhaps me sharing your wonderful product or service, then please

let me know. The easiest way to reach me

is shoebox blog at gmail.com, S-H-U-B-O-X, B-L-O-G at gmail.com, or you can hit me up through

any of the other platforms like Instagram or leave a comment on my blog or something like that.

Okay, that was business item number one.

Business item number two is that I just wanted to talk a little bit about products and how I get

them and just be completely transparent with this. One of three things can happen, right?

The first thing is that you can buy something for the purposes of using or reviewing it, and then

you can talk about it on the show. I've definitely done that quite a bit. Sometimes it is the, you know, the tipping point that makes me hit purchase

on something is the fact that I know that I'll be able to talk about it on the podcast. So that's

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