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Hey everybody. Welcome back. We're back from the holidays. It's a new year. I hope you guys all had a great holiday season. Hopefully you took some time off. We surely did. Feeling refreshed. It's time to get back into the show. How are you feeling post New Year? New Year, new me, though. Say me though. Say me though. Shout out to Lamella Ball for the best thing in his group that he's ever done. Top three New Year's quotes ever done. Top three New Year's quotes. It's the best. Austin's going to be mad. You said that. Yeah. No, listen. I mean, it's a, it's a classic. It's an instant classic moment. It is instant New Year, New Me, same, me, though. So yeah, so we're back. Yeah, we're excited to get back in the show. We're actually going to recap some of our old resolutions and then share with you our new ones. We're also going to talk expansion. Is it time, Megan? Yeah. I think it is time, Sue. I'm Megan Rapino and I'm Sue Bird. This is a touch more.

Let's get into it.

Is that like the theme music or is that what your toots sound like?

That's my morning trumpet. Okay. First up for the check-in, like I said, we are going to review our 2025, not resolutions, intentions, intentions. And then we're going to share with you our 2026 intentions. So yeah, it's a new year. It's our second year of the pod. But we're going to revisit what we promised ourselves last year. A little accountability never hurt nobody. So let's see how it goes. All right, first up, let's hear what Megan's first intention last year was. So what are some of your intentions for 2025? Well, my main intention is to fill the house with plants as much as you let me. I'm very aware. And like figure out how

to do plants. I just feel like it brings so much life. I feel like we've, and I think it's just

something that is like, you know, so like it tethers me to something like real that I have to take care of.

It's meditative. And then I get to see them grow.

I sounded sick.

Where were we in our life?

Thoughts. Okay. Well, it's, I sort of like, it's, I half did it.

Because of the nanny?

Yeah. Because I did get plants in the house, a lot of them.

They are thriving and they are growing and they are being exceptionally well taken care of.

Yeah.

But that's because of Lisa.

Shout out Lisa.

Shout out Lisa Munez from Leaf in June who installed all the plants and got them all and also takes care of them. Honestly, we travel so much and it's a lot. I'm not judging. I don't want to, I didn't, what I didn't want to do. I'm just chuckling at the, I need something that tellers me. Yeah. That's real. Well, it wasn't those. But I have gotten so much joy from them um also from our wednesday weekly

visits with lisa she almost saw you naked that one time she did i was going to tell that story yeah

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