Hey everyone this is Kurt Franklin with leading Saints and I've been putting off doing this this episode I don't know why I mean I enjoy every year I do this type of episode and I enjoy it but it's just like one more thing I'm sort of in that the holidays funk right like I got plenty work to do I should probably do it but the kids are home and the family's chilling and maybe I should just chill too, but I'm doing it.

I'm sitting down, I'm recording this episode,

which is, what is leading Saints in 2023?

Every year I do an end of the year, sort of recap, looking forward into the new year, and that's what I'm doing.

So, man, we've had a great 2022.

I don't know, I've been talking to a few people.

They've said things like some people are sort of

getting out of the rhythm of podcasts like listening on a regular basis and it's

easy to sort of project our own experience on others and assume that that's happening across the board but

when I look at our analytics and the numbers that is not the case per se I mean we have

Let me let me pull this up. So yeah, so we've had on average we've had a

133% increase of downloads in 2022. We are getting close to, I didn't pull this number, but there's some months that we

hit, we've almost hit 600,000 downloads a month. And so it's just so encouraging to see where we were at the beginning of

2022 and where we're headed this this coming year and the progress is continues to grow.

I could have never thought that this is,

we would get these kind of numbers

when we started the podcast

and started putting content out there.

You know, obviously,

leading saints were going after a niche of a niche and and I just

didn't think I thought we would plateau long ago but hey we're gonna keep

growing we're one of probably one of the top two or three most popular Latter-day Saint

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