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New years is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

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Okay, on to today's show and just so you know, our team has been working frantically to crank out a new episode each week for most of this year.

But each episode we make takes months to produce from the huge amount of research we do to the fact checking to the very long interview to the editing,

and then more editing and even more fact checking and then more editing and then scoring the episode with original music.

It takes a lot to produce a single Monday episode of how I built this.

So this week we're taking a break and bringing you one of our very favorites from the archive, the story of method cleaning products, a multi-million dollar company that came to be because two old friends just happen to run into each other on a cross-country flight.

So I hope you enjoy.

I read it at one point, Eric, that to prove that this really was non-toxic, you actually drank it.

Yeah, so I was in London. I love the British press, they're so skeptical.

And she said, is it safe enough to drink? I was like, sure.

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