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Hello, bienvenito.

Welcome one and all to a brand spike a new episode. Fresh out the

oven. We've been cooking in la Cucina and we've got a delicious, flavorful new episode for you to sink

your teeth into. I'm your flaming hot and spicy, seasonally depressed, white wine drinking,

tuck your finger licking, ice coffee sipping, bone broth slurping, hot mess of a host.

L'Ainsovon, and I'm so happy to be here with you today.

There's no place I'd rather be than right here in this moment with you right now.

I hope you're feeling good and you're having a great week.

You've had a beautiful day so far.

But if you're feeling a bit stressed out right now, anxious, if life is throwing some curveballs your way and you're feeling like you're just in a funk right now. I know we want life to feel easy, peasy, lemon squeezy, but sometimes life is going to throw these curveballs in our way and it's going to feel a little bit more stressy,

depressy, lemminsesty over here, okay?

And so if you're in that boat where you're like, God, Lo, I am struggling right now. I'm not feeling happy with myself. I feel like I'm in a funk. Everything seems to be getting on my nerves right now. The world feels like it's weighing me down. If you're in that boat right now and you're just

not feeling like the best version of yourself, please know you are not alone in those feelings. I have been there. I get it. But please know, even though it feels really hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel while you're swimming in the darkness, you are going to be okay. There is light at the end of the tunnel and you will get through this one day at a time. Sometimes it needs to be one hour at a time.

That's why I'm really happy you're here right now because you're doing something for you. You're choosing to put your mental health first. You're listening to a podcast that's going to put a smile on your face. It's going to give you a good laugh. You may end up learning something. This is a podcast that's going to do the body good.

It's escapism. And that's why I'm really thankful to have this cult. I freaking love this cult.

And I'm so grateful to have this community, especially right now when things feel really

tense in our world, there's so much tension. There's a lot of divisiveness. Families are being

divided. Friends are cutting each other off. It's a lot of divisiveness. Families are being divided. Friends are cutting each

other off. It's a very politically charged time in our world right now. And you can just feel the

tension. And so that's why, again, I'm so thankful to have this podcast. I love our cult,

our little coven here. And I know today's episode, it is a special one because it's with one of

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