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[0:09] Leah Walsh: Hi everyone, it's Leah. I'm just coming to check in. I wanted to give you an update on where I am with The Compass Podcast right now. I apologize for my long silence. I have always been very proud of the consistency that I've had with this podcast over the last six years. I have prided myself on it. It had become a practice holding myself to putting out an episode every week and then every two weeks after my daughter was born. Um, but that's not the case in this season of my life. It's it uh that practice is not serving me any longer. So I need to make a change so that this is a conscious shift in the podcast and not just a slow dwindling because my life is a little overwhelming at the moment.

I had taken a little bit of a break over the summer, put out some more episodes towards the end of the summer, and then I've been falling behind again. So I'm making a new plan. Thank you all for staying with me, sticking with me, your patience. I appreciate it so much. I love this community, and I look forward to sharing many more interviews and stories with you in the future. I'm going to be taking a break from publishing episodes for the rest of 2021, and I am going to be stockpiling interviews and releasing them starting in January as a season model. So I'm aiming to do a season of eight to ten episodes to start, which will, as I said, be released at the beginning of 2022. And then I'll go from there.

The pandemic has been a lot. It's been a lot for my mental health, for my anxiety, which I'm realizing is a much larger problem than I ever thought it was. And my husband just left for his first um pandemic play out in San Diego. So I'm doing the solo parenting thing right now and my full-time day job from home and uh needing to find some other outlets for myself. I'm sure a lot of you can understand and empathize. So that's the plan. Keep an eye on social media. I'll continue to share projects that past guests have been involved in. And I look forward to sharing the new season of The Compass with you in the new year. Take care and keep in touch. Bye-bye.