And hello to you and welcome to the Richard Nichols podcast, the personal development podcast series that's here to help inspire, educate and motivate you to be the best you can be.

I'm psychotherapist Richard Nichols, and this is episode 176.

It's titled The Meaning of Life.

And if you're ready, we'll start the show.

Welcome to a new month, you gorgeous people.

I've got some big news for you.

I started my Patreon-only episodes back in January earlier this year and said back then that I'd try it for a year to see if it's worth doing.

Turns out, yes it is.

And as the patron count has snuck up slowly but surely over the year, it's up to enough now

for me to take a single day off, a single day off each week to make a podcast rather than

doing it over the weekend and in the evening, I can do it one day each week, whichever

day that's going to be, maybe Fridays.

So as of January, one day each week is just going to be for podcasting and not client work.

And what I was originally going to do was begin lowering the cost of that as more patrons came on board.

To $7 is the top level at the minute.

It was going to drop it to six.

More patrons come on because it's cheaper, drop it to five and so on and so on.

But chatting with my patrons about all this, they're the ones that are paying for it.

What we've decided to do instead is keep it at the $7 per month level and use the extra cash.

This is exciting.

Are you ready for this?

To fund counselling or psychotherapy for someone who wouldn't normally be able to afford it.

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