Hey everybody, welcome to the RetroL podcast. I'm RetroL. I'm your host. This is a bonus episode.

We're back with another Ask Me Anything with my lovely wife, Julie Pia, aka Shremati. How you doing?

I'm doing great. How are you doing, sweetie? It's been a long time since we've done one of these.

I feel like it's been a very long time. How many, like, two months or more?

A longer than that. How long are you longer than that? So we're well over. Have you missed me?

Again, the trope in all of this is that the only way that Julie and I can get into a place where we

can have an intimate conversation is to do a podcast. That's what we're doing today. That's right.

So highly recommended. For marital therapy, for relationships, start a podcast.

Yeah, it'll either bring you to the vet or it'll blow you apart.

So many things to talk about today and let's just get right into it. I mean, the primary sort of

thing that I want to unpack initially is just our trip. We just got back from this incredible

experience in Italy traveling through Europe. I want to recap that a little bit and use that

as a foundational platform to talk about a number of subjects. So we just hosted our first retreat.

I know. Congratulations. Congratulations to you as well.

Yeah, we took 33 campers. Retrieved attendees.

Willing campers who came from all over the world. We converged on this beautiful villa,

nestled into the hills of the Chianti region about halfway between Florence and Siena for a week

of transformation. What does that mean? It was pretty intense, right? It was completely deep,

actually. I mean, we had asked everybody to write in kind of their story and tell us a little bit

about why they had chose to come on the retreat. And so we were reading some of the kind of bios and

letters on the plane on the way over. And I had prepared sort of my part of the retreat and had

an idea of how it was going to go. And before we arrived, you know, I really just realized that

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