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Hi Russ .

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Dana good morning .

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Good morning , how are you ?

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Living the dream , as it were .

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So we have an update

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for listeners . Russ

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and I are going to take a little bit of a break

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.

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Yeah . So I mean we've been running at this , you know , 140

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straight weeks of dropping episodes

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and doing content and trying to run

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a business and trying to grow and

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learn , and I think that we're kind

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of tuckered out .

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Yeah , I mean we've done 135

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episodes of content that we've created

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and then obviously our guest episodes

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, and it's a lot

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we record on Saturdays

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. So it's , you know , in

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addition to our full-time jobs , and I think

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both of us are feeling a little

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bit burned out and that we

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can't give . I know I was feeling

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like I was kind of half-assing the

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podcast and

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so we decided to take

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a little pause to

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kind of recuperate .

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I think we're both kind of phoning in a little bit and

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that wasn't fair to our guests or our listeners and

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you know , trying to put out really good content . I

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mean we still were learning and there

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was still value in everything . I just I

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feel like it could have been better and we want to bring

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that to people .

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Yeah , so we're planning on coming

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back after a restful break

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in 2024 . But

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in the meantime , there's still plenty

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of episodes that you can listen to

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. And let

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us know what you would want to

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see from the podcast in the future .

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Yeah , absolutely Reach out and touch base . I mean , obviously

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it's a touch of burnout , to be perfectly

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honest , and we

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just want to give ourselves

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an opportunity to not crash and burn

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, maybe kind of rebound and come back

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at this stronger in 2024

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. We do appreciate your support and

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you know those of you who are here are

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very loyal listeners and we appreciate

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you greatly . We didn't want to just step off

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without saying anything .

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And we're not breaking up . Russ and I love each other

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dearly .

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Absolutely . This is not it , it's not

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me , it's you , it's you , it's not you it's me

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. I don't know .

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But no , I think it's a good time for

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us to really think about what type

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of episodes we want to do in the future

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. And we're still Russ

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, not me . Russ is still keeping an eye on

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social .

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So I think I'm just going to keep promoting some of our great stuff

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. I'm going to try to start changing our

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message a little bit , just

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so we can kind of grow our audience still

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a little bit more . I

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think there are things we could be doing better and we just don't have

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the time trying to run a business and I

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mean obviously not everybody is going

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to turn into I don't know who's a great

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business podcast , I don't know . There's some

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really great ones out there in the top .

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Amy Porterfield or Jenna Kutcher

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?

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Yeah , yeah , not everybody can be them , and that's okay

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, we don't need to be them . But at the same time

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, we're not making money , so this isn't a profit

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center for us . So we have to focus

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on our businesses and the things that pay our mortgage

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and feed our , my kids and your dog

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. So

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this is yeah , this is just . We just need

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to take a break . We're tired .

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Yeah , yeah . So with that

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, we very much appreciate the continued

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support and listenership and

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, again , it's a great

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time for you to give us some feedback about

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what you'd like to see in the future , and we'll

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plan to be back in 2024

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with more content and maybe a little bit of

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redirection .

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Yeah , and do please interact with us

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on social . We don't get a lot of

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it and we know we weren't growing

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the audience there and I'm going to try to change that up

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a little bit .

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Yeah , yeah . So with

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that , I think we're just going to leave it at

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that .

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We'll see you , we're taking a break .

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It's not personal , it's just

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business . There you go .