Welcome back to the podcast. I hope you're having just the best morning, afternoon, whenever

you're listening to this, when you're listening, I'm having a great day is actually Friday

when I'm recording this. And I typically, actually I typically do record these close

to the end of the week because I like to give kind of a summary of my week and I think

it's easier to do that on a Friday. But today's podcast is just honestly kind of a come

to Jesus moment with myself. The funny thing is I sat down to actually write out this podcast

thinking of kind of when I moved back from when I moved from New York City to Texas, things

that I learned about embracing like a slow life and really trying to eliminate habits

of heriness and busyness. I don't really know if heriness is a word, but I think busyness

is. And I was writing it and I was just thinking, you know what, I actually don't have all

of these things down. Like I'm still learning so much and especially when it comes to kind

of living a quiet life and prioritizing my walk with God and prioritizing my prayer life

and my spiritual life. And so I do just want to give a disclaimer that this is going to be

a more like faith based podcast. I still think that these topics, even if you're not a Christian,

do really apply to you, but a lot of it is kind of centered on actually all of it is centered

on my relationship with God. And that kind of being on the back burner lately,

and me just feeling very convicted in prioritizing the wrong things and focusing on the wrong

things, I am literally about to start crying and it's like two minutes into this podcast,

but it really is just kind of an emotional thing for me because I think in life, sometimes we

get so caught up in living life out through kind of the basic things of your job and your

relationship and your family and kind of going through the motions. And it has quite honestly

been a very long time since I just sat down and kind of asked myself, you know, how am I doing

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