It's your daily dose of Donna. Welcome to the show. I am so so happy that you guys are here. Happy Labor Day. Happy Labor Day. It's September 4th. It's Monday. And I am laboring away bringing you the gossip the tea the fun the chatter the

the friendliness the hanging out with someone you know I always say I love

doing these podcasts because it feels like you get to hang out with a friend and that's the way I do it so welcome welcome

I was on the fence about whether or not to do a show today but I do want to clear up some things I want to talk about some things

and of course I think this is the coolest thing about the show it's a daily show

obviously I don't work Saturdays and Sundays unless I had to an emergency, I've done some of those emergency

episodes, but today is like, you know, this is, there's not a Monday where I can't be here

with you guys, like I gotta do it. Okay, for all of you that are new here, I know so many of you are new here because I have already

surpassed 9,000 subscribers on YouTube blows me away, but more than that.

You guys, as of this morning,

this little podcast that could,

this little baby self-produced, self-created,

self-edited, self-everything produced podcast called Daily Dose of Donna that started in

January of 2023 is number 28 on the TV and film charts in the podcast app. It is such a big deal, such a big deal that like I can't get over it. I can't believe it. I am so so excited. The

dosers are really showing up. They're showing out and I know that they're not all here because they love me because I have not been blind to the fact that my name is getting thrown around and thrown around in a lot of Facebook groups and

Reddit pages and I guess that's part of the gig right like if you're gonna put

yourself out there I talked to my friend, my love

Zach Peter last week, like if you're going to put yourself out there, if you're going to be a public figure, if you're

going to choose to put your name on something and put your face on camera and put your voice in the world, you will get

criticized, you will get people saying things about you, you'll get people calling you all kinds of

names or taking you down or creating like a false narrative of who you are.

So I'm just gonna without getting deep deep into the details of what was said about me

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