Ah, romance. It sounds great. It's got all the upside of love and sex and none of the downside, I guess, but there was a time when Valentine's Day was celebrated a little differently.

Imagine your sweetheart wanting to increase your fertility, sacrifices an animal, and then slaps you with the hide.

I'm Patty Steele.

How romance has evolved next on the backstory.

What does optimism look like?

I'm on a quest to find the people who inspire us to dream more and do more.

I'm Simon Sinick and I host a podcast called A Bit of Optimism. I talk to all sorts of people

from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff to a

hairdresser on Instagram who gives out free haircuts to the homeless from the

CEOs of the world's largest companies to the comedy writer who visited the wreckage of the

Titanic I love talking to leaders artists authors and

eccentrics about life leadership purpose mental fitness human skills high

performance and other curious things.

It leaves me feeling wiser, more inspired, and, well, more optimistic.

Because after all, this is a bit of optimism.

The world is full of magic and wonder if you know where to look for it.

Listen to a bit of optimism on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi, I'm Laura Vandercam.

I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.

And I'm Sarah Hart Unger, a mother of three, practicing physician, writer, and court's

creator.

We are two working parents who love our careers and our families.

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