All right, I don't know why I stepped in here without Queen Nexus. Hold on just a second.

This is Sarah Stewart Holland and this is Beth Silverce. Thank you for joining us for Pantsuit Politics.

Thanks for joining us for Pantsuit Politics, where we take a different approach to the news.

Today, that different approach is going to mean stepping back from headline news and talking about some personal news in Sarah's family as we share a medical diagnosis that Sarah sent received this week.

We'll also spend some time discussing your thoughts and questions following Tuesday's conversation about the chorus of 10,000 voices.

Might as well bring some of those voices into the discussion, which I think helps illustrate why we use a loving metaphor about it, because it's been really wonderful to hear from you following that episode.

And finally, outside of politics, we'll talk about free range parenting and raising kids who have a heart for the planet.

So many of you shared that Tuesday's episode about how hard it is to talk about anything with anyone really connected to you.

And in addition to continuing to work through that here on the podcast, we hope that you will pre-order our book, Now What, How to Move Forward When We're Divided About, basically everything comes out May 3rd. And this book is not how to.

It's not like we offer up a formula about how to fix everyone's frustration, but we do share stories about relationships and worries and hopes along with some really practical questions you can take into your conversations to help get them unstuck.

It really, you know, I feel like we couldn't have had the conversation about the chorus of 10,000 voices unless we written that book first.

I think it really helped both of us and and move forward our thinking and we hope it will do the same for you.

Our lunch team is reading the book right now and the feedback has been so amazing.

We love this from Liz. I laughed. I cried and most importantly, I learned at times it felt like having conversation with friends over coffee and at other times it was like listening to wise older mentors.

Even though we're the same age, she says, hashtag 1981 babies are the best.

We're going to have a party online on May 3rd to celebrate the book's release together.

This party is for premium subscribers. So our members through Patreon and Apple Podcast subscriptions, as well as everyone who pre-orders the book.

So please make sure if you are an Apple Podcast subscription member that you've shared your email address with us so we can get you the invitation.

And if you have pre-ordered the book that you've completed that pre-order form on our website after you've purchased it so that we can get all the information to you.

The links are going to be in our show notes. Truly, thank you for helping us bring this book into the world where we hope it will be supportive to your relationships and to you and to lots of other people.

This is Stevie and Tessa from the Nobody Panic Podcast and our podcast is currently sponsored by the world's leading skin tech brand, Ferreo,

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