Hello and welcome to the Slow Home Podcast. My name is Brooke McCallory. My name is Ben McCallory. Welcome to a brand

new season of the Slow Home podcast. It's great to be back. It is great to be back. Heading into the

final season of the year, which feels strange to say because this year has lasted obviously a decade but also only a week.

Exactly. It is the twilight zone of years.

But I've got to say, it is really nice to be back. I've been looking forward to recording these intros with you for quite some time.

You have.

So thank you for being the driving force because there were moments where you really needed to give me a little nudge and nudge you did.

And I'm very grateful.

So I mean, we have genuinely a fantastic lineup of conversations to share with you over the next couple of months. And I'm really excited to

dig in. Can I just ask, is there a particular theme for this season? Because I don't know,

I feel like there'll be returning guests for sure. And we've got a very special guest for this

episode. But definitely returning guests, but new guests as well. How did you go about

making this series? Basically the same way I make most series, which is go where my intuition

takes me. I'm not that strategic. But what I always find interesting is that common threads

will emerge in a season.

And in this season, it's been fascinating to see that the broad topic of regeneration has come up over and over again in most of the conversations I've already had.

And when I hear regeneration, I think regenerative farming, right?

But it is far more broad than that and far more

broadly applicable than that. A lot of our guests talk about regenerative thinking, regenerative

living, you know, and apply that lens to their work and the way that they show up in the world.

And I guess the other side of that coin is that virtually everyone speaks about burnout too.

Yeah.

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