Yo! I'm Lauren Toms. I'm glad that you are hanging out here with me.

I'm so excited for you to hear this week's interview that we did.

It's someone that I haven't had a chance to talk to you in a minute.

And we used to have big fun together

when I used to work over at Channel 5 and look at her being a star now.

Being on top of the world as a morning show anchor. You're going to hear from Michelle Relifer coming up in a little bit.

Before I get to the interview, I wanted to tell you some stuff as listeners of the House of the House of El podcast that I want to explain to you

that I think that the podcast is getting ready to enter a new phase. And it's been kind of leaning and crawling this way, but I think now there are some things in place that are going to allow the podcast to grow and take some really

interesting leaps over the next few months to what I'm hoping is in 2021 like it takes that kind of next

step like we're closing in on a million downloads which when I started this

podcast two and a half years ago in my wildest dreams I didn't think that we were getting to that point but we're there like we are knocking on the door of 1 million downloads of this podcast. So I thank you for your

support of it and I can tell you that we're really trying to grow this into a network of

podcast and it's going to take some discipline on my part to make sure that I'm handling the business side of House of El,

which is not my favorite part of it.

My favorite part is being the creative.

Being in these moments where I get to talk

with really interesting people about what it is they do

or helping other people put together

different types of podcasts that are hopefully successful.

The Baseball From Home Podcast that Connor and Joe did,

I thought was outstanding and I really appreciated

people gravitating towards it.

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