Hello, welcome to Stories Podchats. I'm your host, Amanda Weldon. Oh, and I'm your other host,

Daniel Hines. How do you do on today, Amanda? Oh, I'm okay. It's a little bit rainy and, like,

glum outside, so I've been moving kind of slow. Today, I was writing, I was typing away,

and all of a sudden, I, um, you know, I have a little office. I have windows and everything, but I was sitting in typing away. And all of a sudden I looked up and I was just sitting in a pitch black room alone. It was only 4.30. But just over the last couple hours, like all the natural light disappeared. I just got up and I'm like, oh, I'm just alone in the dark.

Like, four or three in the evening. It was the worst. Yep. It's, uh, it's that time of year. Um, not my favorite. But a holiday season coming up. Excited. I know we haven't done a pod chats in a while everybody. So we're glad to have you back. Yeah. We're doing one today today and we might pick them up again just because we had a big announcement, which is we're finally launching on

YouTube. Yes. We've had a YouTube channel for a little while where we post, you know,

episodes of the show sometimes with the words up on the screen so you can follow along and read along with the stories. But we have not, but we haven't made a bunch of content that's really specific for YouTube in the past. And now we are going to start doing that. Yeah. So we actually, we did a few to try out and we hope you guys go check them out. So if you're hearing this episode, it means they're available. And by all means, pause this and go watch that. Well, we'll understand. It's YouTube.com slash stories podcast or search stories podcast on YouTube. And it's Amanda. We had her sitting on a little throne. Would you call a throne? I don't actually recall what I sat on. Was it a throne? It was beautiful and you were dressed beautifully. I had a, yep, and I had a big floral crown on and I did make it and it did get taller than I thought it was going to. So, you know, it's pretty big. Okay. So I don't explain it better. But we want to keep with, we're sort of, we're not pivoting to screen time. That's the important

thing. We still, Amanda, Amanda, how old's your daughter now? She just turned two. Just turned two.

Yeah. She's got the baby. My daughter is older now. My daughter was around when I, we started the show,

and now Amanda's daughter is here now. But we still try to avoid the screen time.

So what it is, it's just Amanda sitting. She has a little costume on. There's some like little floaty graphics. And she just reads the book to you, same as the show. But you can see her. You can see her, you know, smiling and reading and doing the character voices. And we worked with an artist. so it's not like a video or a cartoon,

but it's just

little illustrations like you'd see if you were turning a page. And it's all very kind of

screen time friendly, I'd say. And again, it's just more of Amanda reading stories, but now

you get to see her, which has been requested for a long time. Yeah, it'll be my face.

You'll see me. Yeah, so hop over there. We get three stories ready to go.

And if you like it, we'll do a bunch more. And yeah, so that's the YouTube announcement.

We also have the sleep series, which you can find on Starglowmedia.com, you know, our network.

And the thing that's about the sleep series is, you know, my sister, our friend Kelsey Lee did it for a long time. But now she has moved on to her. She just, she started a floral business a few years back. I don't think she'd mind me saying. It's called Floraloon. Check out Kelsey on Instagram. And she is just a beautiful florist and she blew up and she loves doing florals and that's what she's at. Yeah. She makes beautiful, beautiful work. Yeah, really, really lovely. She does flowers for weddings and they're absolutely stunning. Yeah, she has like a very unique palette I hadn't seen before. It's really cool. I don't know how to describe it, but. Lots of great colors. I mean, I think she really doesn't shy away from using colors, which I think at weddings a lot of times, there's a lot of white flowers and things like that, which is also beautiful. But I really like that Kelsey uses a lot of like really saturated colors. And it's, it's really exciting to look at. I really like her work. Yeah, check

her out on Flora L-U-N-E-L-U-N-E-L-Un on Instagram. She's doing great work over there.

But the upshot of that for all of you is that Amanda is taking over Sleep Series.

Yay! It's the same stories that we always do, that we have done, but instead of me, you know,

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