Hi everyone, it's Sophia. Welcome to another bonus episode of Work and Progress.

Over the course of the show, we have gotten to talk to such a wide variety of inspirational people

from all walks of life. And so I thought, for this exclusive, it might be fun to check up

on some of my Work and Progress guests and give you all a little update on what they have been

up to since you heard them on the show. But before that, I'd like to answer a few of the questions

that we've received in our comments and through our social channels at Work and Progress.

So I'm going to dive into a few of these. A heavy hit or two, what is your favorite type of question

to ask guests? It really depends on the guest for me, what they're interested in, especially when

I interview people who are experts on something that I may not necessarily know as much about. I want

to really get into how they got into their field. How did they become passionate about what they

do? Does it feel like a calling? Did it find them in some interesting way? And I want to know

how they view the world through the lens of what they do. So whether someone is an activist or

a scientist or a writer, how does the thing they do every day enable them to see the world

differently and how connected we are? So those are the kinds of questions that I really like to ask

of everyone, even though they differ guest to guest. But I will say my favorite consistent question

to ask people is who they were when they were a kid. And I'm talking like single digits, you know,

around eight or nine years old, maybe 10, depending on when big things happened in their life.

But I'm always really interested to discover if guests have always been a version of who they are

when I interview them or if they've had a really winding life path that's changed up a lot

through the decades of their lives. So I think that's my favorite consistent question and

definitely one that I always get out within the first, you know, five minutes of the show.

Ooh, and this is a good question that you guys have. How do you pick your guests? Honestly,

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