Hey guys, welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast. I am your host, Jessica Sauerz, my friend

call me Jess, and I hope you will too. I'm so glad that you're here today. Here on our podcast,

we talk about all things homesteading, gardening, raising animals, growing food, preserving it,

enjoying it, as well as raising a family in a more

mindful way and just trying to engage with the earth and each other in healthy relationship.

You can find us on YouTube at roots and refuge.com on Instagram, Facebook, we're all over social

media, sharing our homesteading journey. And here on the Roots and Refuge podcast, we release new episodes every Wednesday.

And we also have a Patreon account where new podcast episodes come out a week early.

We're so thankful for our patrons who help us do what we do.

So if you want that exclusive content as well as a live Q&A every month,

you can check that out. All the tiers are the same. We made it that way so that the people who

are making a sacrifice to give $3 get the same things as the people who are, you know,

choosing to give $20 or whatever. We understand that, especially in the economy that we're in, even $3 is a big sacrifice

for a lot of people.

And we don't want to create any FOMO over there.

So we appreciate our patrons a lot.

Today, I want to talk about something that I've definitely talked about before. I think at this point or 20 something

episodes into podcasting, it is a fairly new thing. And I think I've probably talked about this

before early on. This is something that I will continue to talk about as long as I have a platform

sharing the homesteading lifestyle. And that is talking about knowing your why.

So this may be repetition for some people.

I don't think repetition is bad.

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