This is simple. I'm Tish Oxenreider.

A few weeks ago I tried a new thing in my work,

something I've been wanting to do for about five years now.

You've heard me talk about it here on the pod and you might have followed it on Instagram

with the two hashtags literary London and Travels with Tish.

Yep, I led a group of six other women to London

and we explored just a tiny scratch of the literary soil there.

We explored the footsteps of Jane Austin, S. Lewis, Dickens, Shakespeare, Chesterton, and tons more.

It was the most gratifying and fulfilling thing I've done in my career in a long while as in like on par with writing a book level gratifying for me

And I tried this whole thing because it was a beta test with one of my dearest friends Emily P. Freeman who co-led the group with me.

You probably know who she is. I led the travel logistics and spearheaded the vision of where we

went and explored and why and Emily led the group dynamics the conversations

we had and helped us think through our next right thing in our work and our life.

I kind of think of it as me leading the outer work of our time and Emily led the inner work.

So in this episode Emily and I are talking about what it was like for the two of us to lead

literary London for the first time. All right, so Emily, you and I just got back from London and this was a thing you and I led.

We called it literary London because we framed it as this thing

where we are inviting people to explore with us these significant places in the area that affected the lives and

work of writers and then we contemplated kind of what they told us about our own lives and

work inside and out. So we're going to talk about that. A little bit of debriefing, a little bit of just giving people a peek behind the scenes. So before we even begin about the Y and the Wets, tell me a little bit about your initial like

takeaway impression like how do you feel right now a week post trip?

I know right?

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