Hello, you've reached the Joe DeVos show. No one's in to take your call right now. Please leave a message and we'll get. I couldn't resist the option to leave you a voice note. I just felt really called. I also just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate your podcast and just your skills in general. It is hard to do this. As I have recently discovered, I've just started my

own podcast and it is not easy interviewing people and you are just so good at it. I am so

inspired by you and your podcasting abilities. So thank you so much for doing it and doing

new and being you. That is really all I had to say. Thank you for existing. And I'll see you on the

internet. Well, that was so nice and encouraging. Thank you so much, Kate Fowley, who I recently had on the

podcast not too long ago this spring I had Kate on the podcast. So if you missed that episode,

you can go back a few to check that out. I have not yet had an opportunity to listen to her

podcast, but I just ran over to her

Instagram to see what that was all about.

And I can see that it's called Magic Woman Radio.

And you know, I love a title like that.

So thank you, Kate, for leaving me a voicemail.

It's still very new.

So I was extremely excited when that came through. Yay, another voicemail. It's still very new, so I was extremely excited when that came through. Yay!

Another voicemail! And then Laura answered a newsletter that I had sent out titled

Ask Me Anything, and she actually wrote in her question, so I will take the time to read that now.

She said, hello, Joanna, I have seen on Instagram that you are on a mission to manifest a local

community of friends.

I so want that too.

I am a 42-year-old woman with two young kids, three and five years old.

I'm accomplished and successful at my job, but lack a group of friends. I do have good and deep friendships, like three or four good

friends, but they are not in a group. I would like to ask you, how did you start creating this

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