Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day. So now start joining up dots.

Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts, and tell your boss, you don't deserve me.

I'm out of here. It's time for you to smash that alarm clock. start getting the dream business and life you will, of course, are dreaming of.

Let's join your host, David Ralph, from the back of his garden in the UK, or wherever he might be today.

With another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dot. Yeah, good morning to you, good morning to you and welcome to the Join Up Dot's podcast. This is your host David Ralph. And just coming out the other side of COVID, yeah, I thought COVID was a thing of the past. But apparently, I thought I just had sort of heavy flu, but my wife had one of those testing

kits, and she said, oh, let's just do it.

Let's do it.

Yeah, COVID.

So who thought?

Not as bad as before, but certainly it's a kind of rough, rough flu-like symptoms and

stuff.

So if I cough and splutter through the podcast, I'm not going to bother editing it.

I'm just going to allow it to

occur because that's what I want you to know. But I'm here for you going through sickness to share

these stories. And I've got three incredible listener stories today about taking control

and designing a life on your own terms. The first one is going to be from

Emma and Jack, who are now living in Portugal. But in their 40s, they were working in the UK

and one day just asked themselves a question of what do we actually need to live comfortably?

Okay. And then there's going to be Tom in Sweden and he

used to be in London. He's 39. He's now moved off grid totally. And then finally Liam from

Manchester. And different stories, but the same lesson. Clarity, intention and action change everything.

You know what you want. You break it down into a series of

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