Hello and welcome to the Slow Home podcast. This is the podcast all about slow living in a fast-paced world.

I'm Brooke McCallery and I am very delighted that you are here. I'm Ben McCallery and welcome to

episode 202. Oh, we're in the twos. We are. We're in the twos. It just feels so, I feel so comfortable in the 200s now. So tell us, it's a new month.

Okay.

And we're going to focus the Monday episodes this month on social media.

We are. And this was actually prompted by a question that I got on Facebook.

Ironically enough, I put a call out a few weeks ago saying that we were working on topics

and guests for the next sort of six months of the show and ask what people would like to see more of.

And we got loads of good questions and guest suggestions.

But we also got this cracker of a question from an account called Design Minimalism.

And they, sorry for sure if it's a he or she, so they asked, can you talk about the strategies

you use when it comes to balancing your time on social media when also relying on it to help run your business.

And this is a, it's a great question, actually.

It's something that I've certainly spent a lot of time thinking about and working on over the past few years.

And it is a bit of an irony, I think, that we have created a business based on slow and quality of connection

and looking into people's faces and talking to them.

And we've built so much of our audience via social media.

Sign of the Times.

Well, look, it is.

It is.

And so that's basically what the question is getting at.

It is part of running a business these days.

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