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Speaker 3: Oh hey, it's your dad word here. Okay, we got
Speaker 3: good news and bad news, folks. Bad news. Let's just
Speaker 3: start with the bad news. It's not that bad. I'm fine,
Speaker 3: but the bad news is, uh, my pneumonia did not
Speaker 3: want to cooperate, and I was back in the hospital
Speaker 3: for four days this past week and things were not great.
Speaker 3: So that's the bad news. The bad news is I
Speaker 3: maybe pushed it a little bit when I should have
Speaker 3: been resting more. Pneumonia is not one to be fucked with,
Speaker 3: and I found that out the hard way. My lungs
Speaker 3: are like can you not? And I was like, what
Speaker 3: about fine? So that's the bad news. Good news is
Speaker 3: I'm gonna be fine. I'm going to be fine and
Speaker 3: I will be back on my feet soon. The other
Speaker 3: good news is that her the recommendation of my doctors
Speaker 3: as well as a couple of very dear friends who
Speaker 3: sat me down with my husband. I've been urged to
Speaker 3: take a break, take a little bit of a vacation.
Speaker 3: I haven't gone on a vacation vacation or taken a break,
Speaker 3: gone to a beach or anything in like over ten years.
Speaker 4: And oh hey, quick aside. Here, this is your fairy
Speaker 4: pod mother here aka pod Mom aka Jared Sleeper aka
Speaker 4: the wonderful love of my life's husband. Allie asked me
Speaker 4: to do this little aside. She got really anxious that
Speaker 4: She said to me, this is actually people to show
Speaker 4: were gonna say, wait, this is inaccurate. Actually she took
Speaker 4: a trip to France. She did episodes about it, and
Speaker 4: therein lies the rup. Okay, Allie turned that potential vacation
Speaker 4: into work, and that happens a lot also those kind
Speaker 4: of a family trip and you know, I love my family.
Speaker 4: We love family we love a family trip. But I
Speaker 4: think we can all agree family trips which we have
Speaker 4: taken some those can be I would include those as
Speaker 4: labor to a certain in terms of RESTful or restorativeness.
Speaker 4: Not for all of us, not for all of us.
Speaker 4: Some of you probably have wonderful families. But there you
Speaker 4: have it. That's the quickest side, she said. So that
Speaker 4: is true. And I'm gonna tell you something right now.
Speaker 4: As your mother, your father works very hard for you.
Speaker 4: Sit you down in a scary way. Your father works
Speaker 4: very hard for you and loves you so much, and
Speaker 4: we just we just got to give them a chance
Speaker 4: to fucking ratt Just let them feel that love. Okay.
Speaker 4: They're so precious to me, They're so perfect, and I'm
Speaker 4: begging you. Just show them that love, send that healing energy.
Speaker 4: She just she needs a damn rest. Oh, she needs
Speaker 4: a damn rest. Okay, all right, back to the back
Speaker 4: to the love of my fucking life. You know what
Speaker 4: I mean. Okay, thank you so much. I can't believe
Speaker 4: she made me do this, but there you go.
Speaker 3: I haven't gone on a vacation, vacation or taken a break,
Speaker 3: gone to a beach or anything in like over ten years,
Speaker 3: and you know, I love my work. This podcast is
Speaker 3: my absolute dream job. It was something I wanted to
Speaker 3: do for years and years, and the fact that it
Speaker 3: exists and I get to do it as a job
Speaker 3: is beyond my wildest dreams. And so it's really really
Speaker 3: hard for me to say, hey, I'm going to take
Speaker 3: a break because I love y'all and this is such
Speaker 3: an incredible audience full of people that I've gotten to
Speaker 3: know and mean, and I don't want to disappoint you,
Speaker 3: but I know that you're also very caring and compassionate
Speaker 3: and wonderful, and that you care about me and that
Speaker 3: you love me back, and I know that you want
Speaker 3: me to be in better health. So I'm listening to
Speaker 3: the people who love me, and I'm taking a break,
Speaker 3: and I'm taking a little bit of a reset so
Speaker 3: that I can a heal my lungs and also so
Speaker 3: that I can just get a little bit more relaxed
Speaker 3: and recharged, because I think what makes this podcast great
Speaker 3: is how much I love doing it and the enthusiasm
Speaker 3: and the curiosity and everything, and burnout is not fun
Speaker 3: for you or for me. So I'm taking a break.
Speaker 3: I know I took a little bit of a break
Speaker 3: last summer when my dad passed away. I had a
Speaker 3: lot of funeral planning to do, helping my mom move,
Speaker 3: stuff like that. This is a little different. This is
Speaker 3: for me, and so I'm not gonna lie. It's pretty scary.
Speaker 3: I care about how well the show does. I care
Speaker 3: about job security, I employ people, and I again, I
Speaker 3: don't want to disappoint you. So it's tough to take
Speaker 3: a break because I'm afraid of losing everything that I've built.
Speaker 3: But I have to just trust that you love the show.
Speaker 3: Because you love the show, and that you'll stick by
Speaker 3: me through maybe some encore episodes you've never heard, maybe
Speaker 3: you want to re listen to them again, Please share
Speaker 3: them with friends who maybe haven't heard in the first time.
Speaker 3: And when I come back, I'll be the same curious,
Speaker 3: goofy weird me, but just with a little bit more
Speaker 3: brain energy. One of the things that I've learned from
Speaker 3: doing this podcast is that y'all are here to learn,
Speaker 3: and you do learn a lot, and we're friends, and
Speaker 3: so I feel like it's kind of a bad example
Speaker 3: if I'm burning out or exhausted or not taking breaks
Speaker 3: like a person should that's not modeling good behavior. If
Speaker 3: I'm living in a massive scarcity mindset of being afraid
Speaker 3: to step away from work because I'll lose everything, then
Speaker 3: what does that tell you? And so part of doing
Speaker 3: this is also to model by example some healthy boundaries
Speaker 3: and to listen to my own body and brain and say,
Speaker 3: I'm really sick, I've been in the hospital. I need
Speaker 3: to just take a big, deep breath, maybe go to
Speaker 3: the beach, literally turn my phone off for the first
Speaker 3: time in a decade, read some books, do a lot
Speaker 3: of journaling, and really get back to my voice and
Speaker 3: myself and who I am. So I'm doing this for
Speaker 3: me and hopefully for all of us. And if you're
Speaker 3: listening to this and you're feeling burnt out or you're
Speaker 3: feeling like you're prioritizing things that maybe aren't the healthiest
Speaker 3: for you, I hope that this is assigned to you
Speaker 3: to kind of take stock of that and really figure
Speaker 3: out are you doing the best things for yourself or
Speaker 3: are you doing things because you think you should or
Speaker 3: because you're scared to stop doing them. So let my
Speaker 3: little journey with anxiety and putting work ahead of my
Speaker 3: health be a lesson to you. So when I come back,
Speaker 3: I'll be me, but just more me, which is what
Speaker 3: my friends and family and doctors and hopefully y'all want.
Speaker 3: So the next few weeks have really, really good encorse,
Speaker 3: and I've reached out to the guests who have become
Speaker 3: good friends now and obviously they want this for me too,
Speaker 3: So they're going to give you some updates in each
Speaker 3: of the encores what they're up to. And again, if
Speaker 3: you haven't listened, enjoy. If you have listened, again, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll be back in a few weeks with better lungs
Speaker 3: and an even happier brain.
Speaker 4: See you then.
Speaker 3: In the meantime, stick around, make sure you're subscribed from
Speaker 3: rate Review, all of that, and I'm just going to
Speaker 3: trust that this little house I built for all of
Speaker 3: us won't collapse while I'm away, all right, Okay, off
Speaker 3: we go, bye bye.
Speaker 1: Just get well soon, Okay,