And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast,

the Personal Development Podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols and this episode is titled People Pleasing.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Hello folks.

Welcome to a new month.

First off, I want to say thank you to those that have jumped on board to support what I do

on Patreon this month. Couldn't do it without you. Not every week, anyway. And after all,

this time of making weekly episodes, I'd find it pretty much impossible to go back to just doing

monthly ones.

Before Patreon, I try to do one in the middle of the month as well.

Don't know if you remember that, but it just took up too much time and I had to go back to monthly.

But because of you, lovely patrons, I can do this every week.

If the £6 a month is a struggle, by the way, let me tell you that at current time of recording there is one space left of the

Patreon for a patron funded level, where you get full access to my weekly stuff and you just have to pay the Patreon fees,

which is about £1.80, I think, per month. Your patronage is then funded by another patron

who pays extra. So big thank you to those that are doing that. There's even a few that are

paying for two extra people, and even more that are paying for three.

And I don't own enough hats to take off so as to acknowledge all of these good people out there in patron land.

But if I did, I'd take them all off right now. I genuinely wish I could provide all my time and content for free, but to do that, I'd have to clone

myself ten times. And I often feel that people-pleasing urge to sacrifice everything and just

spend my time doing public media stuff. And if I won the lottery, I probably would. But I haven't,

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