Hi everybody this is Hoyle Sarate first of all I hope that you are having a great new

year and I hope that this year also brings you closer to your goals.

Happy New Year everybody.

In this brief message, I just want to share with you that I have started my new co-phone me campaign for this year.

If you would like to support us this year, you can donate now to my go-phone me and you can find the link on

the shownuts. This month of January and February are very important because depending on how much I raise this two

months, then I can see how much I can invest on transcripts and new episodes.

I saved enough from last year to invest on the transcripts for the month of February, but after that I depend on new donations.

This year I am going to save the first 5,000 to cover the necessary expenses like subscriptions and software that I need to maintain and

produce the podcast and after that I can see how much budget I have to be able to invest on new episodes and transcripts.

So if you are able to contribute this month, that would really help me to plan the year. I enjoy creating all

we do to help you learn Spanish, but we cannot do it without your support. My approach is different from

most podcasts out there. For most podcasts if you want the transcripts, additional episodes or supplemental materials,

you have to subscribe to a monthly membership and I am actually happy for our podgaster friends who are able to generate

the income to continue making their podcast episodes through a membership approach because it is a lot of work and we also need the

financial support to be able to continue to make episodes. In my case I want to be an option for those of you who have limited resources

and cannot subscribe to various podcasts and be able to get the additional materials.

If most of you listening to this podcast donated $3,

I would have my budget for the whole year in A-plus that I could actually use to pay my contributors better

and create even more materials for the podcast.

Now, I don't want to discourage those of you who would like to donate more than $3 please if you would like to donate

more than $3 I welcome what you would like to contribute to the podcast, but I can see from the podcast statistics

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