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Hey, everybody.

Welcome to episode 301 of the virtual couch.

This is the end of the year recap, extravaganza, aka the what did we learn this year episode?

And I wish I could say that this is something that I've done each and every year, but I have

not.

But I would love to start this tradition. Why not on year five of the podcast start a new annual tradition? So today I am

going to share with you my, and I want to jokingly throw a robotic sound that says insert number here,

takeaways from another year of podcasting, because I'm not really sure how many of these takeaways

I'm going to go with today. I've written down a list of things that I want to talk about and we'll see how many we get to and

hope the episode won't get too long. But I wanted to start with a huge takeaway that I've talked about

for more than just this past year, but things have really, really honed in with those four pillars

of a connected conversation.

And in talking about the four pillars, I've now been asked to give talks about the four pillars to businesses or religious leaders and congregations to parenting groups because people really

resonate with these four pillars and they really don't come naturally.

So just if you've heard any of the episodes

that I've done on Four Pillars of a Connected Conversation,

they come from emotionally focused therapy.

They have a background in emotionally focused therapy.

And I realize that there are people that have,

on a couple of the YouTube videos I put out,

have commented that they don't,

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