Hi everyone . This is Carmen from All About the Joy . I wanted to jump on here quickly and let you know some of the new changes that we implemented this past week . For one , our weekly hangout live stream has moved from Thursday nights to Friday nights . We will still be on at 6 pm Pacific , 9 pm Eastern , and we'll be available on all the channels .
We really wanted to change the night because all of us have to work on Friday mornings , but it was a little bit harder to do last year and finally , in 2025 , we had the conversation and I'm so glad to say we were able to do it and we just did it this last Friday night and it was just a lighter vibe .
It was so much fun and it just felt good not to be rushed . So hopefully you'll meet us there on Friday night , 6 pm Pacific , 9 pm Eastern , and again we're on Facebook , twitch , youtube , tiktok and LinkedIn .
The second piece of news is really for my podcast listeners specifically , so the time for posting my podcasts is now going to be a little bit later on Sundays . I do know that we get some regular people who listen to us on Sunday early mornings .
I think I know who some of them are on the East Coast , so I appreciate that , but we will be posting now , starting today , january 26 . We'll have a new episode of the Private Lounge , which will be at 12 pm Pacific , 3 pm Eastern , and that will be every Sunday . So I guess that's not just a little bit later , that's a lot later .
But the reason why we're doing it is because we're also providing now more content , so we have so much more to do and say and so we need a little bit more time to put that together and those few hours give us some time to actually do that . And while I'm here , what I would like to do is also just say thank you so much .
I know I say it all the time , but it really does warm my heart that I have even one listener , let alone the amount of people that do listen to us and watch us and provide feedback , and so much joy watch us and provide feedback and so much joy .
As much as I , you know , complain about the work that I actually do , what does give me such happiness and that inner joy every time is knowing that I'm going to be doing this podcast and live stream and , even though I may be exhausted most of the time .
I do enjoy getting it done and I do enjoy having this collaboration with my guests and my friends , who are just amazing people Rick Costa , cynthia Ruiz Lopez , mario and Alma Dawson .
They have just been so incredible , and so I want to give a shout out to them as well , but also to all the guests and everyone who has been on the show , and for the people we're going to have on the show in the future as well . I also want to thank , of course , the audience .
You guys are awesome and I appreciate you , and so please tune in later on today If you want to check out the live stream that we did this last Friday . It is available on YouTube and on Facebook . I just wanted to jump on here and make sure that you were aware of what was going on and that you weren't missing an episode .
It's just going to air a little bit later this afternoon , and so hopefully you can catch it live when it posts or at your leisure when you can check out any of the replays .
So the whole point of All About the Joy , the way it was set up and the hope that I have that it'll become a little bit bigger and maybe we could duplicate this in other days is that we have a place to build community and just to hang out , and I always referred to when I was growing up . That's how it was in the neighborhood .
You would come home after rehearsal , after school , and all the adults who came home after work would hang out on the stoop right .
They would hang out on the porch , on the stoops , on the stairs , at the corner , whatever , and people would be talking and communicating and just chit-chatting , gossiping mostly , but there was this sense of belonging and I feel like so much of the internet is missing , so much of that beautifulness .
And as the world gets bigger and as we get more and more technology that is supposed to connect us , sometimes it feels as if we are less connected to each other and we don't have a place to just come and hang out and be who we are and be okay with it , right .
So I hope that's what you are getting from All About the Joy , our conversations , and I hope that in the future we do better to make that more of a vibe , and hopefully changing some of these days and hours will help with that as well . So we'll see you on Friday night at 6 pm Pacific , 9 pm Eastern .
We'll also see you on Sundays now at 12 pm Pacific and 3 pm Eastern . Again , have a great one and remember at the end of the day , it really is all about the joy . Thanks for stopping by . All About the Joy Be better and stay beautiful folks . Have a sweet day .