Hey guys, it's downtown.

Welcome to the final weekend of summer.

It's here.

I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who

listened to the show last week and offered feedback

or shared it with their friends.

I can't believe how many people reached out,

just to tell me they could relate to it or they were inspired by it.

I just can't tell you how much that encouragement means to me. So thank you. I've always

thought about the kind of content that I do as something like an agreement between

you and I. So whether it's on the blog or it's a TV

appearance I'm making or it's a video or it's a podcast episode, I've always

said to myself if the audience is going to exchange some of their time, then I better

earn that time if I want them to come back.

This has always been the guiding principle of how I've thought about doing content and I started the reform broker blog in late 2008.

So it's almost 12 full years that I'm doing this.

And what that means is that I try to deliver something

every time I write or I speak that's either going to help you, teach you something you don't already know,

inspire you to try something new, inform you of something you may not be aware of,

or, and this is not quite a last resort but it's it's definitely

not the priority entertain you and what I've learned is that if I can

accomplish all of those things in one single blog post or in one single

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