Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today.

And if you've listened before, welcome back.

To start today's episode, I just wanted to share that this is the podcast's five year

anniversary, which is just completely crazy to me.

And I'd like to start really by thanking everybody who's listening right now and everyone

who's listened in the past for your support of the podcast over the years.

Speaking personally, I have learned so much from these podcasts.

I've learned so much from Rick from all of the guests, and I've learned a lot from doing

the work required to bring you conversations that I hope you'll really enjoy and learn

from yourself and ones that I can be proud of too.

And I think I've become in some ways a kind of experiment, a little personal growth

petri dish over here, because I've essentially submerged myself in psychology and self-help

and personal growth content over the last five years.

And as I've done that, wow, I really do feel like I've changed in so many important ways

that have really benefited me.

And of course, almost anybody probably changes over a given five year period, but I think

that the podcast has been a big part of that.

And at the same time, man, some things have been really hard to change.

And they remain really hard to change to this day.

And there are times where I'm kind of shocked by how I'm still wrestling with what feels

like these same old problems.

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