Hi everybody welcome back to the Be There in Five Podcast. I'm Kate Kennedy your host.

First of all I wanted to thank everybody for your kindness, your well wishes, you

reaching out in any form. I'm going to try to write back people over the coming weeks.

I'll ask you this episode truly meant the world to me. Thank you so much for allowing me

to take a personal detour and tell you are exciting news still going well. I honestly

feel like a new woman. I don't even feel that good. I still feel like the pregnancy

hung state of hungover at all times. But I love this job so much. But it's hard for

me to have the creative headspace to stay up to date with pop culture news when I'm

busy and doing other stuff. The book took up so much headspace and so much of my creativity.

It was hard when I had a really good idea or something to say. But for a year I had to

be like, nope, that goes in the book. Now I have to have residual ideas. Sometimes I'm

just like, I'm so boring. I felt like I was so, I just what I don't know. Thank you

for sticking around because I now have opened up headspace and I'm having fun actually

reading shit again. I'm just like making lists on lists of all the things I have to share.

Then as always, I go to those lists and realize, oh, this is not interesting. But still

I'll tell you what I learned this week because I'm trying to be better. TikTok really

does to code a two. So I feel like being in the waiting room of your own life, like you're

just killing time, you know, when you're waiting to do something else. And like it's kind

of this, I don't know. I don't know. It's like I absorb so much and I genuinely learn

interesting things, scrolling in the deep on the internet. But I don't retain them. And

I'm trying to be better at like writing down stuff like that's actually interesting.

And like even repeating it here might help me out. And weirdly, the news, the news I could

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