Hello. Is this thing on? Oh, my goodness. I'm fun now. We made it. We're here. I'm your host, Sazon Hendricks, and whoa, I've just got to say

this moment right now, y'all, I just got to take a victory lap because we made it. We are going to

spend this next hour together, and I want to just invite you in. I also want to

take you guys into a little story this morning, a real-time story with Sazon. If you're

enjoying some stories lately that I've been sharing, this is a real one for you. So I was

really excited about today, you know, getting to finally step

back into the podcast chair. It's been about three years since I sat behind a microphone like

this, getting to host my own show. And to be honest with you, I'll get into that here in a second,

but I didn't know whether or not it was ever going to happen again, truthfully, especially in that season when I felt like the grace

had been lifted. I was like, okay, that's it. It's time to, you know, hang my hat with the whole

podcasting thing. But this morning, when I was getting ready to just get dressed, and I was just

kind of like, okay, how do I want to step into today?

You know, because I've had days where I'm, you know, it's an exciting thing, whether I'm

launching something or there's a big event happening, thinking about my wedding day, comes to

mind, thinking about when Steve and I have launched certain products and things in the past,

and I've just poured my heart into certain passion projects.

Those days, when I wake up, I've noticed in the past how I've been a little bit more

like, did it a little bit more scurry and like a little panicky, and I've just been a little

bit anxious.

And I knew that a lot of the anxiousness

came from a place of excitement, but I also knew that stepping into this next chapter of my life,

which I'm fun now is really the anchor into this whole new world. I was about to sing it. A whole new

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