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The Welcome back to Nomad podcast. I'm Tim Nash and this is my therapeutic co-host. It's Joy Brooks.

Hello.

How are you, Joy?

It's interesting. I knew you were going to ask this question. I'm thinking this morning, what's helpful for the beloved listener? Do they want to hear, oh yeah, all good, thanks. Or do they want to hear, well, hormonal fluctuations are making me feel tired and migrainy?

And then the pressures of working in the public sector that's chronically underfunded can sometimes get me down.

And obviously, the global picture is really quite depressing.

So there's a heaviness.

Or would it be better just to go, yeah, I'm all right.

What do you reckon? You're fine. Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah. It's the

British way, isn't it? Yeah. How about you? I thought that I was suffering from imposter syndrome a few

minutes ago. I had that feeling like I was just kind of like a little nervous schoolboy. And I was sitting there

thinking, why do I feel like that? I've done this a thousand times before. It's because I'm so intimidating, isn't it? It's that. And also, I've got one of these

desks that kind of go up and down so that I can work standing up. And I realize that it's gone

kind of part of the way up. And that's why I felt like a little schoolboy. Brilliant. Imagine that somebody had been able to also raise

your chair so your feet weren't meet in the ground. That'll be amazing. As soon as I realized that,

I felt confident again. I put the desk down and all was well. Environment matters. It really does.

But on top of that, I'm also slightly troubled joy. I was recently recently digging through Nomad's download stats, because as you know, there's a PhD student as doing a thesis on kind of the role of podcasts in deconstruction and rethinking church and stuff.

And so we've been having conversations with him.

And he asked me for some stats.

So I was looking at the Nomad stats and I noticed that last month,

the number of downloads in your hometown of Leicester dropped by 31%. Guys, what are you doing?

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