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Good morning and welcome back to practical stoicism, my dear Procopton.

Today is Wednesday, which means we have a long-form discussion version of the podcast,

and this week it is with Brittany Polot.

If you don't know who Brittany Polat is, I don't believe you,

because if you know who I am, you must know who Brittany is because

Brittany does so much work in this space, as I discovered in this 60-minute conversation, that I

find it hard to believe anyone would know who I was and didn't know who she was.

Brittany has a PhD in linguistics. She is a steering committee member of modern stoicism. She's on the board of the

Stoic Fellowship, which is a nonprofit you may have heard of. She's the co-founder of Stoicare,

which is another nonprofit. She's the co-organizer of Stoicon women. And she is the author of,

among other books, journal like a Stoic, which is mostly what we will be talking about

in the upcoming discussion. The reason I invited Brittany on to the podcast is because she's

prolific, both in terms of writing. She has three books and in terms of participation and

organization and leadership in the Stoicism community. She is really someone you need to know.

And there was another reason. I was a little selfish to meet her. Hey, I'm a content creator.

I want to meet other people who are doing good stuff out here in the Stoicism community. So I wanted

to meet her and I have a podcast. I get to do that now, I guess. I get to meet cool people and I get

to help you get familiar with cool people.

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