Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves.

I am Elise Hugh and Dory is on summer break this week on the East Coast. Much deserved. So we have something

special for you. I got our producer, who y'all don't get to hear from enough, Sam Hounio, to join me.

I'm not Dory. It's me, Sammy. What's up, Sammy? Welcome, welcome.

Thank you. Thanks for having me. What's up? It's hot and I decided to still

wear a hoodie today in some sort of fashion defiance. So I'm sweating so much, so much. And I won't

take it off. Such a subversive move of yours. I know. Yeah, take that. How are you doing,

Louise? I'm good.

And just so you all know, just a programming note for listeners, this is a mini episode where

we are going to hear from you and share your comments and thoughts and answer your questions

to the best of our ability.

The mini-up we are going to share is actually the most listened to mini-up of 2025 so far. Yes. And it is from March after we

concluded Friendship Month in February. And so we heard from a lot of the listeners just about

what your takeaways were, what you learn from it, what kind of like what you didn't like about it,

all sorts of things. And so that ended up being a big listen to episode. So you still are going to

hear Dory later on in this episode. But just for this catch-up part, there's a lot to catch up on.

So I just wanted to give Sammy a chance to pop in.

And pop to share a little bit about their summer.

And, you know, it's also a good sort of therapeutic day for me to,

sure.

Me to podcast just a little bit because I have my biopsy soon.

Oh, gosh.

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