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