Hey, everybody, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast. We are back for our new season or a

continuation of the new season. I'm not really sure what we're calling it. But anyway,

this is the first episode of 26, a little bit later in the month than I had planned, but it doesn't matter. Here we are. We're doing the thing. So I was pretty quiet on the show last year. And if you missed why, that was the case. Listen back a couple episodes. And I kind of explained my absence and where my head has been and what I've been doing instead of podcasting.

But I'm back in the saddle, literally and figuratively, and I have episodes mapped out.

And I'm excited to hit the show running this year.

I think it's going to be a little different than it's been in the past as I figure out

kind of where I want to take my content and my

platform and just myself, honestly. I think the old path, the old format is not quite a fit

for me. So the show will be similar to what you know and love, but maybe even better and maybe

a little more real, a little more authentic, potentially a few fewer interviews,

more solo episodes. And when we do have an interview, it'll be with someone I find really,

really engaging. And I think that you'll really, really enjoy. So that's the scoop on that.

Normally, when I do a first episode of a new year, I talk about goals. And I do have goals set for 2026. I use my planner like I always do in December

and I map them all out. I just feel less compelled to share them this go around because I'm still

kind of feeling them come together. They're a little more vague, not in a bad way, because goals

should be specific, but they're just a little

more vague this year. I'm still trying to let them be what they want to be and let them kind of

come into form. And so I have less to like definitively state to the world about the goals this year,

maybe later, and more like introspective on those. So I thought instead I would share a reintroduction of sorts with

you today because as I explained a couple episodes ago and go back and listen to those because I

don't want to go into that all over again. I felt some huge shifts in myself the last year,

especially. I think it's partially turning 40. I think it's partially just getting more aware of who I am and what I want out of life.

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