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You're listening to Satellite Sisters. What's a Satellite Sister? The person you call when the best thing in your life happens or the worst.

The person that gets you up gets you going and gets you through. And every once in a while changes your mind.

This podcast is part pep talk, part weekly check-in. Like grab and coffee with a friend. Thanks for being here. Welcome to the Satellite Sisterhood.

We are the Satellite Sisters. I'm Liz Dolan. I'm an on-again off-again corporate executive, a podcaster, and I live in Santa Monica with my little dog Hooper. I'm Lee and Dolan. I'm a writer and producer. I live in Pasadena, California. I have two sons, a dog, and a husband.

I'm Julie Dolan. I'm an urban Nana, an empty nester, a former university administrator. I live in Dallas, Texas, but I've lived all over the world.

And this is a very special show today. It's an Ask Us Anything episode. You know, remember sisters, we used to call these our Summer Splash episode.

Like back in the day. We had a special name for everything. Summer Splash. We would do all the fun, special things during summer.

So that's what we're going to do here today. It's Ask Us Anything. Thank you to everyone who listens to our show. And we are grateful to all of the new listeners, because we know we have many, many over the last year or so.

And for those of you who have stuck by from the very beginning. So thank you so much for that. We love the Satellite Sisterhood and Mr. Hood.

And thank you for sending in these questions. These were all sent to us in the Satellite Sisters Facebook group. There were more than a hundred there. We're not going to get to all of them.

But we are trying to get to the ones we thought were the most fun, the most interesting.

And we just, we so appreciate the way everyone participates so positively on social media.

And we love it that you responded to these questions. We love it when you listen to the show, when you write comments. And we love it a lot.

When you share the show with your Satellite Sisters and your friends. That's such a nice thing. Thank you so much.

We also appreciate that you've supported the Satellite Sister Store and the books that we've written and the live events that we've done. You keep showing up at things.

Even if it's just like a beer in somewhere near the bar. Yeah, you're there for us. We really, really appreciate it.

And we want to thank you sincerely for supporting the people that support us. We are going to talk about the production of the show and how we get everything done.

But we do have a really healthy group of sponsors. And that is because you Satellite Sisterhood are fantastic about supporting those sponsors.

Our sponsors just sometimes can't believe. They can't believe it. So wildly enthusiastic reactions are. And we love that.

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