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all right folks welcome back to another episode of the Almost Awaken podcast.

Jana, you're, how are you doing today?

I'm doing great. How are you doing?

Awesome. Excellent. Good to see you. I'm super excited. This is, I think, maybe the last week you

formally are with us, of course, we'll, of course, see you sometime again on the show. But this has been really fun. And I think Britt Hartley comes back next week. And I know there's some things you're still sort of working on behind the scenes. And we hope that those will happen. And maybe there'll be conversations that the three of us can kind of participate in. So I'm super excited. But from the bottom

of my heart in the almost awakened audience, thank you very much for filling in for Britt this

summer. And I've really enjoyed the conversations that you and I have had. Absolutely. Me too,

Bill. It's been such a, I'm so grateful for the opportunity to come have these conversations with

you. I've really, really enjoyed my time here. So, yep, I'm always available. If Britt needs a week off, you can always call on me. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Anyway, I hope life is treating you good. And I'm excited for the conversation that you've organized today. Me too. Me too. We're going to be talking to one of

my favorite conversation partners. We're talking to Maxine Hanks today. And Maxine is one of my dear friends

and someone who I just really enjoy going deep with. And we do it regularly. And, you know, the idea for this conversation came out

of some of the conversations that we have had. But I wanted to introduce who Maxine is. Some people

may know the name. Some people may not. Maxine is a trained chaplain and a mediator.

She's studied conflict resolution extensively.

She is also a religious study scholar and very practiced in interfaith ministry.

She's had such an interesting life and such a depth of experience and also as a scholar studying, you know, all things

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