We Built a Podcast Network in Just 5 Weeks | S2E001

If you're tired of hiding your brilliance behind

stage fright, scripts, or playing it safe, then

you are in the perfect place.

This is the Inspired Speaker Podcast, and I'm

your host, Danielle Benzin, professional rebel, voice coach,

and your guide to speaking with confidence, charisma,

and zero BS.

Around here, we don't chase perfection.

We choose connection.

So grab a hot beverage, warm up those

vocal cords, and get ready to fall wildly

in love with the sound of your voice.

Let's get inspired.

Well, it has been a minute, ladies and

gentlemen, since season one, and a lot has

happened in that small space.

It actually hasn't been that long.

It feels like it's been years, but I

think it's only been a few months since

I ended my very first podcast season.

And since then, I decided I love this

so much, and I'm so excited about it,

and I want to share it so much

with everybody that I decided instead of continuing

all on my lonesome, I would start a

network.

And that's exactly what I've done.

I got the courage.

I stuck my courage to the sticking place.

I can't remember the exact quote.

I screwed my courage to the sticking place,

and I partnered with the beautiful Michelle Abraham

of Amplify You, and we put together a

podcast network in approximately a month.

It was a little bit more than a

month between her and I, and approximately a

month for all of the other podcasters who

joined us.

So we now have a network.

We have a place.

We have a community.

We have somewhere for people who want to

make the world a better place and use

their voice for good, for inspiring change.

We have a place for that to happen

and for our audiences to interact with us

so that it's not just a one-way

conversation.

And we have a gift vault, and we

have lots of exciting things coming.

It only just launched, so, you know, it's

being built.

But who knows when you're listening to this,

and I have big dreams and big ambitions

that we are going to grow into.

We're definitely not there yet, but we're going

to grow into them.

And so to start this off, to start

off Season 2, Episode 1, I thought the

best thing to do would be to bring

on these podcasters that I have partnered with

so that you can hear from them what's

been going on, why we've decided to do

it this way, and what's going on on

the network, because I'm going to be featuring

them quite in Season 2.

They're not going to be the only people

in Season 2, but moving forward, I am

going to be talking about them quite a

bit for the first little while as we

support them in getting their podcast out and

getting their voices out there.

So I wanted to just introduce them to

you, my fabulous listeners, and we're going to

do that by sharing a live stream that

we recorded the day after our network launch.

And it's not actually hosted by me, it's

hosted by the fabulous Christine Goad, because I

am just exhausted at this point.

I want someone else to do some work

for me.

So here we go.

This is the live stream that we recorded

together, and I hope you enjoy it, and

I hope you fall in love with these

podcasters as much as I have over the

last few weeks of working with them.

Hello everybody!

This is Danielle's channel, but our fabulous Christine

Goad is going to be emceeing today.

Take it away, Christine!

Well, hello!

I'm Christine Goad, and I am so glad

to be here with you all today.

We are here talking about the launch of

the brand new Inspired Speaker Network and all

of the beautiful podcasts that are debuting this

week on that network.

So thank you for being here.

I hope you will stick around, listen.

It's going to be a pretty quick conversation,

but I just wanted you all to meet

all of these amazing women, find out what

they're doing in the world, why they're doing

what they're doing in the world, and why

you should come along for the ride.

So having said all of that, why don't

we just go around real quick and say

who you are, what the name of your

podcast is, and who it's for, and why

you create...

well shoot, that's an awful lot.

Who you are, the name of your podcast,

and who it's for.

Let's start there.

And Tiff, I see you in the top

of my screen, so can we start with

you?

I'm honored!

Hi everybody, I'm Tiff Loeffler.

My podcast is positively yours, and I love

supporting women in business.

So thanks.

Wonderful.

What about you, LJ?

Hi, thank you, Christine and Danielle for this

space.

So I am LJ, and I am hosting...

elevating...

or sorry, what is it?

Is it elevating?

I have so many E's!

It is a brand new coat.

Yeah, it is evolving with L, when capable

women carry too much.

So we are all professional, capable women, having

lots of different roles or hats that we

wear, and that is what we get to

discuss on my podcast, how to harmonize all

of that.

Thank you.

Wonderful, thank you.

All right, I'm gonna jump to the bottom

of my screen and introduce or have Shannon

introduce herself.

She's new to our group, so she's been

here working alongside of all of us, but

this is the first time most of us

are actually meeting her in, you know, real

life on Zoom.

Thanks for the introduction.

I'm Shannon Achilles.

I am the co-host of the Guiding

Parent Podcast, which is coincidentally for parents, and

so it probably lends us nicely into going

to my mom, Tammy, to introduce herself.

Hi there, I'm Tammy Ulrich, and as Shannon

said, our podcast is the Guiding Parent Podcast,

and it is obviously for parents with the

idea of being a parent, and the idea

of helping them to nurture and raise their

children with a little bit more understanding to

kind of know what they do, why they

do what they do, and why they don't

do what they should do, so that we

can more confidently deal with those everyday challenges.

Sounds very useful.

Thank you, Tammy.

It's good to meet you, Shannon, as well,

so thank you for being here today.

And Wendy, how about you?

Of course.

Thanks, Christine.

Thanks, Danielle.

So my name is Wendy Ekboski, and the

name of my podcast is The Awakening Woman

on the Rise, conversations to awaken soul and

spirit.

It's for women who are tired of living

society's life, anyone's life within their life, because

they're looking for their authentic self.

That's what they want to express.

Wonderful.

I'm going to go ahead and jump to

me, and then I will save Danielle, our

fearless leader, for the next little bit.

So I'm Christine Goad, I'm the Surfing Your

Edge coach, and my podcast is called Surfing

Your Edge.

It's for people who are ready to live

the bigger, bolder, badass life they came to

this planet for, and make decisions that help

them be more themselves, especially in this complex

and changing world.

So now for Danielle, who is the leader

of this Inspired Speaker Network.

So, Danielle, can you tell us about your

podcast?

And then I've got another question for you.

Oh, you're such a darling, Christine.

So my podcast is called the Inspired Speaker

Podcast, same name as the network, the Inspired

Speaker Network, Inspired Speaker Podcast.

So my podcast is for speakers, people who

want to use their voice to make a

difference in the world.

So they're not necessarily career speakers, we're not

necessarily talking about doing TED Talks or keynotes,

which you absolutely could be, but it's also

for anyone who wants to use their voice

to make change.

So if that's in the boardroom, if that's

on a podcast, wherever that is in the

networking space, if it's with your family, I

have learned a lot about leadership from the

Guiding Parent Podcast.

May I say, I don't have kids, but

I've learned a lot.

So it's about making change with your voice.

It's about standing up for what's important to

you and influencing the world in a positive

way while honoring your self-expression.

Thanks so much, Christine.

Thank you.

And all of us just launched podcasts this

week, so it's all brand new for all

of us.

And just launching a podcast is an effort

enough.

So Danielle, I'm wondering why, when you have

a podcast to launch, why would you also

launch a network and why did you bring

together...

What is the goal for the Inspired Speaker

Network and why did you bring...

What do you hope to accomplish by bringing

these voices together?

I hate doing things alone.

That's a big part of it.

No, seriously though, it just made so much

sense.

I started my podcast by myself in February...

Well, not by myself.

I started my podcast in February on another

network, fantastic network, the Visionary Leaders Network with

Mark Porteous.

But I realized very quickly that this was

part of a movement that I wanted to

start and it fit so beautifully with my

business because I work with speakers, I work

with podcasters, I work with people who are

on podcasts as guests and hosts and who

speak all the time.

And so many of my clients were looking

to start their own podcasts.

And by going through the experience myself, it

just was such a no-brainer.

And I felt really stupid for not thinking

of it earlier, actually, because it was such

a no-brainer to go, oh, why am

I doing this on somebody else's platform and

trying to get other people to join me?

Why don't I create my own space?

Because I am a speaker trainer.

Why am I not doing this?

And so immediately I kind of paused my

podcast.

I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

we don't want to do it this way.

And obviously I'm still allying with other people

and I still love to support them, but

I wanted to create a space for my

clients and for people who I believe in

and for voices that I want to amplify,

because that's a big part of what I

do.

So I partnered with Amplify You and they

help where together we're creating this network.

They take care of a lot of the

technical, more technical stuff.

And I take care of a lot of

the more expressive stuff, but also video editing

and all that thing, all those things.

And I was saying to someone a little

bit earlier in a meeting, I feel like

I'm a professional hand holder, but in the

best way.

It's so much fun.

And watching you all grow and not having

to do it alone as well has been

big, but I want to create a space

for positive change.

I want to create a community.

I want to help in any way to

make the world a better place.

And I think every single one of these

podcasts and any podcast that joins our network

in the future is going to be about

that, in some way, shape or form, the

curious, excited, compassionate, honest nature of the world.

Yeah.

Thank you.

We're all very honored to be part of

this initial group and it has been quite

a whirlwind.

I was the last person to join and

it was a matter of getting things out

in just a few weeks.

And as Danielle said, it can be really

lonely doing this by yourself.

So I am super grateful.

Not only I'm grateful to have you all

on this journey, but I'm also really grateful

because having the group also meant that things

had to be done and you couldn't push

the, there was no deadline that could be

pushed.

It was all, we've got a launch date

ladies and we're going.

So that has been really lovely.

And Danielle has been an amazing support.

So I'd like to open the conversation up

a little more widely now and have us,

this is just kind of like a group

conversation.

I'm not going to pick on anybody, but

just, I'm wondering what the launch has already

taught you, what surprised you and maybe what

edge are you surfing as you get this

off the ground?

Wendy.

Well, interestingly enough, apart from the courage of

saying yes to the podcast idea, what I've

learned is what Danielle was actually talking about

is about not doing it alone.

I have had a history of thinking I

needed to do it all alone to get

any credit whatsoever.

And who doesn't want credit, but I really

was a loner that way.

And I didn't realize I was so much

and working with this amazing, amazing group, I

thought, Oh my God, I don't have to

do it alone.

I'm with great people.

And it was so up building, up building.

This is a huge life lesson for me.

I would have never expected in a podcast.

I thought, yes, I'll get my word out.

I'll get my thoughts out, which are important

to me, but it was a much deeper

win.

So I'm so grateful.

I love that.

Yay.

Thank you.

And I Christine, fantastic question.

So the edge that I was surfing is

not hiding because I'm like, I believe we're

all like these best kept secrets, right?

Where we have what we want to share

with the world because of what we've experienced,

what we've learned professionally, we are unsure of

really and truly how to get it out

there.

And by Danielle saying, Hey, I believe in

what you are doing.

Come join me.

It was a stretch for me because I

am, you know, almost like the, the tin

man in front of the wizard.

My knees were knocking and I'm just like,

I'm going to do this.

And then almost like the cowardly lion, let

me just get out of here.

But, um, Dorothy, you know, like there's no

place like home.

Right.

And Danielle has made this place like beautiful.

So I am super grateful.

We're super grateful that you're here because your

voice, when you start talking, you're mesmerizing.

And when I'm just, I can't wait to

hear where your conversations lead.

So thank you so much for, uh, for

sharing that and, um, and for coming along

for the ride and doing it scared.

Right.

I think we're all doing it scared.

I know it's a major stretch, but you're

doing it.

Tammy.

I, uh, I go along right with LJ.

You know, it was what I think surprised

me the most was that this opportunity all

of a sudden came about.

I mean, just kind of out of the

blue and that I did say yes, terrifyingly.

So, you know, it really did cause me

to step outside my comfort zone.

And did you just jump in and do

it and jump in and do it without

practice or being perfect?

It was, um, I was laughing at myself

somewhat doing our, our third episode, because it's

about being the perfect parent.

And, uh, here I am, you know, needing

to, uh, take some of my own advice

and, uh, you know, don't have to be

perfect.

Just need to be real.

So, you know, the episodes aren't perfect and

that's okay.

And so that was my edge.

So it's definitely surfing my edge to, uh,

you know, to step out and do this

and we're doing it.

Yeah.

I noticed, I mean, we recorded so quickly

and it was just like a, you know,

just sort of scatter shot at the camera.

And then when it's all done, you're like,

what did I say?

And there was this fear of, oh my

God, did any of that make sense?

And will anybody want to listen?

And so it's been kind of like this

trust, this game of trust, right?

Where you have to assume that you had

something valuable to share and that the team

on the other side is going to find

it and share it in its best light,

but just trusting.

I'm just so grateful to Danielle because she

makes, and all of you, because this community

just makes that trust so much easier.

Shannon, how did you feel coming into all

of this?

I can jump in.

Um, I mean, it was kind of amazing.

Like my mom was talking about, you know,

it kind of was this opportunity that came

out of nowhere.

And she asked me if, you know, I

was interested in co-hosting with her, which

we had, you know, kind of tossed around

as an idea at one point, but had

never, you know, really spoken about it with

any sort of seriousness.

And so, yeah, absolutely.

The vulnerability of, you know, jumping into something

that I don't have experience doing.

And then also, you know, the vulnerability and

our podcast is about parenting.

And, you know, my role in our podcast

is to be kind of the parent in

the trenches.

And so there is a definite, you know,

requirement of being really open about my own

experience in parenting, my own, you know, challenges

and days that I don't do my best

parenting.

And so, you know, that was definitely one

of the things that I took from, you

know, our meetings with Danielle is, you know,

the goal is not to have a perfect

podcast, just like it's not to be a

perfect parent that, you know, that there is,

you know, a really important element of, you

know, being your full human self in both.

And I really love how, you know, you

get that, you know, one of my favorite

analogies about parenting is that it's like yoga,

it's a practice, you're never going to have

like a perfect parent, you're never going to

have a perfect yoga pose, you just have

to breathe through it all.

So that has definitely been and, you know,

a big part of this experience is just

breathing through it.

And, you know, hoping that we end up

with something really beautiful at the end of

it, which I think so far we have,

and it's definitely been, you know, a delight

to get to do it with my mom.

And, you know, to share that experience.

It takes a lot of courage to do

that in front of the public, right?

To be like, oh, I've got an imperfect

yoga pose, and I'm doing it for all

the world to see.

For everyone.

Yeah.

Well, congratulations.

I'm so glad you took the leap and

that both of you are doing this together.

It's gonna be fun.

What about you, Tiff?

What's going on with you?

Oh, well, I think the surprise for me

has been how in flow it is.

I just, it's almost dreamlike.

It's a bit dreamlike because I trust Danielle

for days, you know, miles and miles.

And so I knew when she gave me

this opportunity that I would say yes, I

think I was nervous because it wasn't just

me, there were other incredible women.

And then comes the, am I gonna be

able to not just keep up, but can

I bring what needs to be brought to

the group?

Because that's the part that's surprising me.

That's the edge that I'm surfing.

I'm so grateful because this group is awesome.

And it's not just when you are in

the same room together, we're all off doing

our own things, but we're holding each other

in just this most beautiful container always.

And, and now it's happened.

And another edge to surf is I have

to, I have to trust that it can

continue because now the podcast is out there

and I'm excited for the next season already.

And how is that going to happen?

But it's okay because I'm in this group

and my podcast is about having a great

day and, and all the different ways to

have a great day, even if you're not

having such a great day.

And today was an example.

Today was a little intense and, and the

cool part was I was reminding myself, Hey,

it's okay.

You can take a moment and, and there

are parts of this day that are great.

And then also there's the looking forward to

this call today.

So that was making it extra great.

So that's why I was so happy.

We're all together sharing how we're in this

experience together.

And that's just been awesome.

It has been, it has been.

I love all of that.

I'm looking at the time.

Let's jump a year ahead.

Okay.

So we just did this really fast.

I did.

I think mine was like, I don't know

who the first person to say yes was

and how long you've been on this journey.

But I think mine has been for about

three weeks, Danielle.

I just like to say that I only

decided to do this five weeks ago.

No, no, no.

I just, I'm just to clarify.

Cause you keep saying I'm the last person

to join.

Yeah.

Everybody joined within a week.

There was, there was a week of enrollment,

maybe, maybe nine days.

No one has done this in more than

five weeks, I think.

And we didn't start away.

We only started the training after Christine joined.

We only started when the last person was

in place.

So there was about nine days of recruitment

and then we all did this in four

weeks.

That's insane.

I just want to, I just want to,

this was not a six month process.

This was short for everyone.

And that was intentional.

And it was brilliant.

It was brilliantly devised.

And I don't think it was like, I

heard several of you say it wasn't necessarily

the right time, but the right offer at

the right, you know, and you made it,

we made it the right time.

So Danielle and her brilliance figured out that

we were the right people and brought us

together.

So I'm excited about that.

But I'd like to look forward a year,

right.

And see, and I'd love us to be

back here again together as in a year.

And I'm wondering what your vision, what would

you like to have happened in the world

as a result of having your podcast out

there when we come back together in a

year?

That's a fantastic question.

Yes, that's a fantastic question.

Good for you, LJ.

You know, what would be the best thing

since sliced bread?

Yes, I am that old.

It would be people getting in touch with

me and saying, you know, Wendy, with your

podcast, and with the community you created, I

could not have imagined that I would have

paid the attention to myself that I needed

to, to know that I had something to

offer, and that my, my security actually comes

from within me.

I would love to see women who have

a dream, have a goal, have a desire,

someone like Danielle, but a dream, a goal,

a desire, and say to me, I thought

it wasn't possible.

But I was willing to question that.

And I was willing to change my mind.

Thank you for your support.

That would be like wonderful.

And if one person shows up and says

that there are probably lots more people out

there experiencing it, who may not raise their

hand and let you know.

Lovely.

Yeah.

And thank you, Wendy.

So my, what I would love to see

a year from now is women coming saying

that they have been edified, encouraged to be

more in alignment with who they are, rather

than living by the expectations of the various

roles that they carry.

And by doing that, they get to evolve

and elevate in a community, not alone, kind

of like what we've been doing.

We've been elevating each other.

We've been evolving, stretching to new levels that

we maybe never thought possible.

And that is what I would love to

see in a year from now because of

the community that women choose to join me

in.

It's a partnership.

It's a collaboration.

It's, there's no forcing.

It's, hey, you see yourself in what we

are saying as I bring the mirror, the

map, and the method.

And you're like, oh yeah, I want to

join with Elle.

And I'm like, yay, she wants to join

with me because it would be such an

honor.

And these women get to impact the world,

namely their children, because once this space has

been created for them to be authentically who

they are and they get to own their

roles, they open the door for their children

to know who they are and align with

themselves at a much earlier age.

And that is really what I envision happening

for the women.

And your podcast, I think, is in some

ways inspired by your mother, right?

When you were watching your mother as a

young girl.

Yes.

So my mother...

Oh, sorry.

You put me on the spot.

Hot dog.

All right.

So yes, my mother was a stay-at

-home mom after being a nurse, having a

career.

And by seeing her operate in her various

roles, I saw that that's how she was

kind of defined.

And what I saw her do in order

to continue to evolve and elevate was she

had conversations with friends and family members where

it was a mutual giving and receiving to

where they could elevate each other.

And since she has now passed away and

I had the time to reflect on what

she taught me, what she gave me, how

she actually helped me elevate and evolve with

all of her encouragement, that is what I

want to be able to...

That's what I want to share with other

women because there's strength in that.

And for the longest time, I thought she

was missing a lot, but that was my

perspective.

But when you reflect and you dig in,

you're like, oh, she was strong and everything

else.

And she had more than what I even

knew.

Yes.

So you're carrying on a legacy and I

love that.

All right.

Anyone else have a vision for the coming

year?

Tammy?

I feel like we've talked about how we

don't want to be doing this alone.

And this community brings us together to support

each other.

I feel like it's not...

The parents shouldn't need to be doing it

alone either.

And I love the saying, it takes a

village.

And so I really hope that we can

be a little bit of a village for

families and that parents can get little tidbits

that help them feel supported, that help them

feel more confident in their parenting and some

ease with the challenges that we all...

Everybody faces going through parenting.

And then ultimately, then our kids will grow

up being understood and just growing into the

best versions of themselves.

And then they can...

Our world is changing and kids need that

support as they go into this world that

we have.

And they can grow up full of who

they are and their full potential and make

the world a better place.

To piggyback off of what my mom said,

we absolutely want to have a village for

our listeners.

And my mom's also writing a book that

should be out within a year from now.

And so we have the perfect synergy of

having a podcast that helps draw people to

the book and the book helps draw people

to the podcast and really create this whole

guiding mindset, little village or community to just

really support families specifically that want to have

definitely more confidence.

Because I know for me, feeling confident in

how I parent really seems to be what

makes or breaks how you feel about doing

the hard stuff.

And so I think that that will, hopefully,

we'll see a year from now, this lovely

little village of listeners and readers all together.

Anyone else?

I'll jump in and say I was hearing

everyone and it finally, I'll say hit me

that, oh yeah, we're going to meet in

a year from now.

This thing is still going.

That just in itself sounds amazing.

And I so look forward to that because

what an accomplishment.

And if I were to be so dreamy,

thinking about people saying, oh, I got some

help on how to, like, I had a

great day.

It felt so cool.

Like that just sounds, that just sounds great.

And I had this dream of having a

podcast a few years ago.

And then so many things happened in life.

And that would be the other thing I,

my hope to help people know that, that

your dreams can change, but it doesn't mean

you have to give up on your dreams,

even if they don't quite look like what

you thought.

Because this is more than I ever could

have, could have imagined being in a creation

podcast group.

And now it's here and it's just been,

it's just been everything.

So thank you, Danielle and everybody here.

Danielle, do you want to contribute to the

vision?

I was going to ask you, I just

want to say reality often surpasses fantasy.

So I just wanted to say that.

You, you question that.

I would like to see people changing their

relationship with fear and starting to realize that

fear isn't a stop sign, right?

Sometimes it's a sign along the route that

says, hey, you're going the right way.

If there's some fear here, there's probably a

reason.

You know, this is probably a good thing

for you to be stretching.

And I'd also like people to start to

recognize their own agency in a deeper way,

not only to have their best lives, but

to also contribute to betterment of the world.

We need each other right now.

We can't rely on the powers that be

to have our backs right now.

So we need each other and we need

to be our best selves now.

So I'm really looking forward to a year

of people really starting to see themselves more

clearly and step into the power that has

always been theirs, that they might now have

the courage to start using for the betterment

of everyone.

Just a little thing.

No pressure.

This is it.

This is it.

And this is why I've brought these, these

people together.

And this is why I will continue to

curate this network very consciously, because this is

what it's about.

I want to live in a world where

people are emotionally aware, emotionally conscious, emotionally mature,

but also deeply emotional, emotionally alive.

I want to live in a world where

people are honest and about who they are,

not just technically, but embody a self-expression

and an honesty and a self-love and

a self-acceptance.

And of course, that extends as soon as

one has for oneself, it extends to others.

I want to live in a world where

people are accepting of differences and not just

tolerant, but celebrate diversity and bringing us all

together in this beautiful, compassionate, passionate, compassionate,

passionate, raw, real, messy, human, vulnerable, fragile world.

And I want to celebrate that.

And that is why I've brought you together.

And that is why I will hopefully continue

to bring people together.

In a year, I want this community to

at least have doubled.

And I want to be part of a

movement.

I want us to be actively making the

world a better place with our voices in

whatever that means.

If that's on a very small, I'm just

emotionally regulating today and that's all I can

do, but I'm doing it in a way

that feels good and I'm not feeling reactive,

or I'm parenting a child, or I'm running

a team, or I'm running an event or

a movement.

Whatever works for you, if we all do

our part, I think we can make the

world a better place.

And I think it's totally within our grasp.

And that's why I'm here.

Yay, yay, yay.

It is why we're here.

And it's why, yes, it's why everyone is

here.

So Danielle, I don't know the best way

to share links or to tell people how

to find the network.

That is an excellent thing.

And I got so excited about making the

world a better place, I forgot to say,

because you kind of started mentioning it.

All of these beautiful hosts have gifts in

our gift vault on the network.

So not only can you go and look

at all the different podcasts and read about

them and interact with them on the network,

but you can also download gifts or tickets

or events.

There's all sorts of different types of gifts.

We're constantly adding to the gift vault.

So keep checking it out.

We only launched yesterday, so it's still building.

But there's a few things there.

And the network is inspiredspeakernetwork.com.

I will put a link everywhere that this

is.

It's just, there's no the.

It's inspiredspeakernetwork.com.

And you can also find us, all of

us, everywhere that there are podcasts.

So I think everyone should just say their

podcast name one last time.

I am the Inspired Speaker Podcast.

Christine?

Surfing Your Edge.

Great.

Shannon?

Oh, you're on mute, Shannon.

I'll get Tammy to say it because you're

both together.

Anyway, say it at the same time.

The Guiding Parrot Podcast.

Excellent.

Elle?

Evolving With Elle.

When Capable Women Carry Too Much.

Wendy?

The Awakening Woman On The Rise.

Conversations to Awaken Soul and Spirit.

And Tiff?

Positively Yours.

There's more to it, but I just remember

the Positively Yours.

That's the important part.

And you've got all of our names too.

So you can find us everywhere that you

find podcasts.

I'm going to hand it back over to

Christine, but I just wanted to put that

in everybody's minds.

Well, I just want to say that I

am grateful for all of you for being

here today, for all of our viewers and

our listeners.

And I can't wait to see where this

journey takes us.

And I have a feeling we'll be doing

more of these as we go along because

we need each other and we need you.

So I hope you'll come along for the

ride.

Thank you, everybody.

And oh, my signature sign off is wishing

you wonder.

So I am wishing you wonder.

I think we all are.

Wonder is the best thing to have.

Let's all, let's all on three.

One, two, three.

Wishing you wonder.

Wishing you wonder.

Thank you.

Yay!

I hope you have fallen in love with

these podcasters as much as I have.

I am so honored.

I am so honored that they have chosen

to take this crazy journey with me.

It was so intense, but I feel like

we've all grown so much.

We have all really grown in the last

month in a way that I don't think

we would have if we'd taken the time

to do this more slowly.

We've really come together.

They've supported each other so beautifully.

And I can't wait to see where this

network goes.

I'm excited to grow it.

I am going to be curating it.

There's going to be an application process because

the values of this network are very important

to me.

The production values as well as the, you

know, value values, the internal ethical values of

the world that we want to create.

We want to create something positive.

We want to inspire change for the better

and tolerance and celebration in diversity and all

of those wonderful gooey things that I think

are so important to the world.

So that's what we're endeavoring to do.

This is just the beginning of something truly

marvelous.

I am so excited that you are here.

Thank you for joining me.

Thank you for sticking around.

Thank you for giving me another chance.

I'm going to be doing some solo shows,

some episodes with interviews, all sorts of things

in between.

I'm excited to see where this goes.

I will do my best to build some

sort of consistency around it because I know

that's important.

But also diversity is important to me and

being able to follow curiosity and keep things

interesting and on their toes.

So it's not going to be a completely

predictable kind of show, but I do hope

that the through line, the through line should

be predictable.

This emphasis on truth and honesty and embracing

vulnerability and messiness and loving the human experience

and living it as loudly and lively as

we can.

Thank you so much for being on this

really exciting journey.

And I can't wait to introduce you to

some more of my friends.