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Here's your host, Karina Belizzi.

Hello, fellow do-goaters and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi, and today I'm bringing to you

a special beginning to December. I say a special beginning because all November long, we

simply focused on the things that we might be grateful for.

I saw this throughout social media. I saw it my feed. I saw it in my email inbox.

Every time this happens, I'm struck by the fact that we seek to do this only in the month

of November. So I've chosen to do something a little bit different. I've chosen to express

my gratitude at the beginning of December with the first episode for December. There are many things

that I am grateful for, notwithstanding my family, my job, my health, my ability to get up each day and do the things that I want to do,

to be able to have the privilege to do those things, to be able to rescue the animals,

even the late addition to my family, the three guinea pigs that I adopted for my boys,

or to be able to sit here and think about how I'm going to be

a better person in 2023. I have had the opportunity to interface with some incredible people

through the course of my podcasting journey. And one of those people, she is just an amazing podcaster. Her name is Candice Rodart,

and she has a podcast called Gratitude Geek. I mean, she's obviously someone who believes what I

believe that we need to be grateful throughout the year. Why else would she have a podcast

called Gratitude Geek? And she's also the first podcaster, aside from my dear friend Julie

Loken, to invite me on her podcast for a second time. So as I commence December and this quieting of the year, this time when we pause and reflect when the days get shorter, and when we hopefully have time with our loved ones to rest and reflect together, to appreciate the value that one another bring to the table, I am expressing my gratitude for Candace. In my first appearance on her show,

she asked me key questions about what it means to be regenerative, what it takes to build a

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