This is simple. I'm Tish Oxen writer.

Hey friends, in this episode I am chatting with contributing writer Crystal Ellifson.

We are getting into a topic topic we visited off and on here

on the pod, but with a slightly different angle.

As always, we're talking about what we wrote about this week on the blog, and we both wrote

a bit about social media. Crystal is a bit unique

and that while she doesn't use social media for her own personal work a huge

part of her job is helping others use social media for their work.

So she knows what it's like to use it both for connecting her real life with the Internet

and for helping business owners find their people online.

And of course I do use it for both personal and business

but I've had a lot of full circle moments lately when it comes to how much I depend

on social media for connecting well with you guys my listeners

readers patrons and like-minded folks who I'd otherwise never get to connect with

where it not for the internet and that's what we get into here the internet can

really become a downward spiral when it comes to things

like mental health, relationships, societal structures, politics, and beyond. And yet it can also be a thing of beauty,

helping us connect like never before in human history.

It all has to do with mindset, motive, and purpose.

Before we get into the episode, though, a little reminder that I am closing up my class

the essentials today. That's Friday, May 3rd, 2019, as in Closing for Good. I'll no longer

open it for enrollment ever again.

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