You are listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 299.

I know can you believe it episode 299 that's amazing I to say, because when I started this podcast, I really thought like,

maybe I'll do like 10 episodes or something.

This might be a fun little thing to play with, here we are all these years later. So this might be a different

kind of a podcast episode I'm not sure yet but to be completely transparent I'm just going to wing this one so you

might hear some more umms than normal but I was thinking about it this

morning I had this other idea to do the podcast and then I just realized I want to talk about gratitude because I have so much gratitude for you. It's episode 299. That is like the next episode will be such a

milestone. Now I'm feeling a little bit of pressure like I should do something

really special. We'll see we'll see what happens. But if you are in the United States and you are

celebrating Thanksgiving, happy Thanksgiving, this is one of my favorite times of the year.

It's a little bit strange for me to be here in Argentina, always.

I've been here a while, so this is nothing new at this point,

but it still seems strange to me that we are right in the middle, like we are in full-blown summer,

and Thanksgiving is such a crisp, cold-aired, heavy food holiday that it's always strange to me to try to convert it for myself to

something more along the lines of a 4th of July barbecue because it's just so hot here this time of year. But anyway, regardless of whether or not you are in the United States from the United States, a person who celebrates Thanksgiving at all, even if you are in the United States.

I wanted to tell you how grateful I am for you and for this savvy painter community.

And as I was thinking about that I just realized like I

wanted to do an entire episode on gratitude and community and how much all of

this matters and and really how much it impacts all of us.

So that's what this episode is going to be about.

It's going to be a love fest, my friends.

A love fest for you and then an encouragement to you to take some of the things

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