Hey folks, I hope this finds you well.

I hope this finds you excited about something in your life.

I hope you're enjoying that so many things are opening back up again.

I hope you're feeling a little more normal again.

I hope you're feeling healthy and confident.

I hope you dance of course, dance away, you weirdo.

But I sincerely hope you're finding some hope in your life.

There's someone calling.

That's the security company calling because they call every day because I haven't renewed

the security thing on our house because the door got broken in our basement.

Where was I?

But yes, I sincerely hope you're finding some hope in your life.

And you know that this podcast we're doing every week does something to encourage that.

Now I want to share something with you that might not sound very hopeful, but it helped

me out a lot in my career and really just in my life.

Okay.

I remember I was about to step on stage one night and I had this thought.

As a performer, you just have those.

I don't know if you call them butterflies.

When you first start out you don't have material.

It's more of a like a knife sticking in your stomach.

It's just that it's dreadful.

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