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I had scheduled out for you while I was in Africa for a month.

We were in Rwanda and Botswana and South Africa as part of our joyful vegan trips.

We had a fabulous time and I am so grateful to everyone who joined us and just want to let you know that I'm working on new episodes

and I didn't want to leave you hanging.

So this is a rebroadcast of an episode I did several years ago, but the content obviously is universal and it is timeless.

And I thought at this time of year, it also made sense to focus on an episode specifically on compassion.

You'll hear me talk a couple times about the compassion in action retreat.

I think we were calling it the Compassion Retreat with calling Patrick Goodrow.

And this was back in 2016 when we had our first conference in Oakland.

I am looking at doing some other in-person conferences again.

I hope you can join me. Make sure you're on the mailing list.

We are considering doing a destination retreat, possibly in British Columbia.

So it would be in North America and it would be split between workshops and talks, possibly cooking demos by me, as well as activities and fun excursions for you.

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