The Mindful Eating Clinic

It feels incredible! Here are some other feelings from my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ clients:

- It quite literally changed my life.
- I realise that the key to my mindful eating is to be gentle with my body, to listen to its hunger cues, to nourish it.
- I never thought I'd have a few bites of cake and be truly satisfied with no guilt or need for restricting the next day.
- This process touched on my childhood and opened up my eyes and mind as to the cause of my problem.
- Instead of eating for two, in secret and hiding food, I now can eat normal portions and still feel satisfied.
- I'm the person I was always meant to be, minus a debilitating relationship with food.
- It's been fundamental in transforming my relationship with food and shifting some really unhelpful patterns and language.
- It's helped me to break cycles of unhelpful eating behaviour.
- I have become so much more mindful and conscious of my eating habits and have gained so much food freedom.
- I understand where some of my negative eating behaviours and habits come from.
- I am now able to approach food like a normal person, without the guilt.
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If you'd like to feel this way then please connect to have an initial chat with me. I currently have an offer on coaching (see my pinned post) and would really like to help you feel an eating breakthrough too!
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The link to a Mindful Moment chat is in my bio.

Tomatoes!! This year I’ve grown lots of different varieties (thank you for the indigo plants 🌱 !)
- lots of colour, lots of flavour, lots of goodness!
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Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, which is good for bone health and is a fabulous antioxidant which can help protect against heart disease, some cancers and high blood sugar too.
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They are also packed with so many nutrients they should just be part of your daily diet. And look how colourful they are!

Thriving or surviving? Many of us with a regular pattern of disordered eating learn to survive with it, to manage it, to accept it, to just survive whilst it plays out alongside all the other areas of our lives.
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I did this for 40 years, living with a narrative of bingeing and dieting, food obsession, tracking and negative body image. I was surviving, experiencing some professional success, enjoying my hobbies and raising two children. I was surviving, but I wasn't thriving.
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It's much easier to convince ourselves that we're ok living with disordered eating. Much easier than addressing the issues and working towards a more normal way of eating. When we've lived with a certain pattern of eating, it's hard to understand what a different life around food might look or feel like. It's scary to think about upsetting what is familiar and in a strange way, comfortable.
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But instead, what would thriving look like for you? Can you imagine it? Because it IS possible to do more than survive. You simply have to make a decision to change how you eat. I did it after 40 years, so it's never too late. And once I started to thrive it became my mission to help others find the food freedom to also THRIVE!
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Believe it's possible and take action to do more than just survive...

Today my kitchen is all about the colour red! I’m roasting and pickling my beetroot. This veg is a round powerhouse of nutrition and very easy to grow.
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As long ago as Hippocrates, the beetroot was thought to cleanse the blood and promote long life. Today we know that beetroot is powerful in reducing high blood pressure and cholesterol. Beetroot stimulates the production of red blood cells and therefore helpful in treating anaemia. It’s also beneficial in improving kidney and bladder function and in helping brain function. And finally the humble beet is a powerful antioxidant, promoting a strong immune system.
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As well as pickling (because I have so many!), I’ll be grating some raw into my salads and roasting more with feta to make a lovely lunch dish. It’s also beneficial to steam the leaves as a side veg where you’ll find more iron than spinach! Aside from all that - what a colourful veg to add to your plate.
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HOW TO PICKLE:
• Wash each beet and remove the roots and leaves
• Brush with a little oil and wrap in foil
• Roast in a low oven for about an hour or until just softening
• Remove and cool
• Peel the beets and slice
• Place into a sterilised jar
• Add spices to taste (mine has black peppercorns, mustard and fennel seeds)
• Cover with white wine vinegar
• Leave for at least two weeks before eating
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Another Power Hour success! Nikki came to me very bored with her diet, particularly around breakfast and dinner and keen to improve her overall nutritional health .
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We packed in loads of ideas for both shopping and meal creation and Nikki went away excited to try them out.
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A happy hour which really packed a nutritional punch! Link to book a Power Hour is here: https://www.themindfuleatingclinic.com/landing-book-now-no-d-call

It’s that “Back to School” moment in the year isn’t it? And that’s true either with or without children to buy new uniform and shiny pencil cases for!
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It’s often a moment for a reset or a new start. And that could easily mean your relationship with food. It could mean thinking of starting a new diet (again!), it could mean a feeling of despondency about ever being able to eat ‘normally’, it could mean a sense of high motivation but confusion about what approach will help you resolve your issues.
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So, if you’ve been considering getting help with resolving your eating issues once and for all, I have a “back to school” 10% offer on my one to one coaching. It’s valid for any packages booked until 30th September, irrespective of when you want to start your coaching.
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These are some of the issues I can help with:
- diet and weight gain yoyo
- binge eating
- bulimia
- emotional eating
- poor diet
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The first step is usually to have a no obligation, free chat with me to understand your issues and advise which package is most appropriate to bring you the changes you’re looking for. I call this chat my Mindful Moment. The link to book is in my bio.
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If you want to go straight to booking a package, go to my “Get Help” page on the website and use the code: BACKTOSCHOOL at the checkout.
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For further details just drop me a DM

It's that "Back to School" moment in the year isn't it? And that's true either with or without children to buy new uniform and shiny pencil cases for!
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It's often a moment for a reset or a new start. And that could easily mean your relationship with food. It could mean thinking of starting a new diet (again!), it could mean a feeling of despondency about ever being able to eat 'normally', it could mean a sense of high motivation but confusion about what approach will help you resolve your issues.
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So, if you've been considering getting help with resolving your eating issues once and for all, I have a "back to school" 10% offer on my one to one coaching packages. It's valid for any packages booked until 30th September, irrespective of when you want to start your coaching.
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These are the issues I can help with:
- diet and weight gain yoyo
- binge eating
- bulimia
- emotional eating
- poor diet
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The first step is usually to have a no obligation, free chat with me to understand your issues and advise which package is most appropriate to bring you the changes you're looking for. I call this chat my Mindful Moment. The link to book is here: https://www.themindfuleatingclinic.com/contact
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If you want to go straight to booking a package, just use the code: BACKTOSCHOOL at the checkout.
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For further details just drop me a DM

My Power Hour could be just what you need! A quick and practical way to break into your eating issues and receive some clear strategies. An hour to begin your journey to food freedom and/or better health.
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All you do is fill in a short form in advance, we meet online and I guarantee to turn around your current situation into something you can immediately change - into something better. After our Power Hour, I send you an audio recording of our chat, plus relevant handouts and web links, all to further embed the changes and learning.
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There are some ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews for my Power Hour on Google if you'd like to take a look - the link is here: https://g.page/r/Cc4b03sVvqXdEAE/review
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The Power Hour also a great way to get a feel for one to one coaching. If your issues need some deeper and longer focus, you'll know what working with me would be like.
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AND, if you take a Power Hour, you can benefit from 10% discount on any future coaching package.
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Now that packs a powerful punch doesn't it? Here's the link to book in: https://www.themindfuleatingclinic.com/landing-book-now-no-d-call

Homemade and homegrown goodness!
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Lots of lettuce still to enjoy from my garden and now crisp cucumbers and (finally!) ripened tomatoes of all colours - they really took their time because of cooler weather early in the growing season, but they are worth waiting for! And I made a courgette and stilton quiche for visiting friends last weekend.
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WHAT YOU NEED:
Shortcrust pastry sheet
2 large eggs
200ml full fat milk
50g stilton
2 small or one medium courgette
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WHAT YOU DO:
- blind bake the pastry in a greased, loose bottom quiche tin for 10 mins in a mod. oven
- slice the courgette and sautee in a little olive oil until soft and a just browning. Transfer to kitchen paper
- beat the eggs into the milk, add salt and pepper
- remove the pastry case from the oven and allow to cool a little. Place on a baking tray (you'll thank me for this step!)
- lay the sauteed courgettes over the bottom and crumble the stilton across the top
- pour over the milk and egg
- bake in a mod. oven for 15-20 mins or until springy and golden
- serve warm with salad, add some new potatoes if you're really hungry
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A colourful rainbow 🌈 lunch for three. Eating a wide variety of colourful foods is by far the easiest way to increase your range of nutrition. It also looks pretty, don’t you think?

Here are some colourful foods to bring your meals to life:

❤️ - tomatoes, peppers, radish, beetroot, raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, rhubarb
💜 - blueberries, aubergines, indigo tomatoes, red onions, blackberries, black grapes, olives, radicchio, red cabbage
💛 - peppers, sweetcorn, yellow tomatoes, pineapple
💚 - leafy veg, spinach, lettuce, peppers, broccoli, herbs, mange tout, beans, avocado, olives, peas, asparagus, apples
🧡 - apricots, peaches, nectarines, peppers, carrots

And remember that foods can also hydrate you:
💦 - courgettes, cucumbers, celery, watermelon

...from Ivy and me. Just a simple post of my beautiful tabby cat. Celebrate your cats today, fellow cat lovers - they are the most incredible creatures aren't they?
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Homemade and homegrown goodness!
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Lots of lettuce still to enjoy from my garden and now crisp cucumbers and (finally!) ripened tomatoes of all colours - they really took their because of cooler weather early in the growing season, but they are worth waiting for! And I made a courgette and stilton quiche for visiting friends last weekend.
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WHAT YOU NEED:
Shortcrust pastry sheet
2 large eggs
200ml full fat milk
50g stilton
2 small or one medium courgette
S & P
WHAT YOU DO:
- blind bake the pastry in a greased, loose bottom quiche tin for 10 mins in a mod. oven
- slice the courgette and sautee in a little olive oil until soft and a just browning. Transfer to kitchen paper
- beat the eggs into the milk, add salt and pepper
- remove the pastry case from the oven and allow to cool a little. Place on a baking tray (you’ll thank me for this step!)
- lay the sauteed courgettes over the bottom and crumble the stilton across the top
- pour over the milk and egg
- bake in a mod. oven for 15-20 mins or until springy and golden
- serve warm with salad, add some new potatoes if you’re really hungry
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For anyone living with allergies, this super podcast conversation is coming soon. to get an update, please follow the podcast:

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It's the first of the month and I'm celebrating with the harvesting of a new crop - the humble radish!
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What a colour they are! Radishes are very, very easy to grow. They need a small area and they are ready to harvest from seed in 3-4 weeks. And why would you? Well, apart from the lovely peppery crunch which they deliver to any salad plate, the leaves are also edible. Plus you can roast radishes the same way you would a carrot, or use them to make fermented foods like sauerkraut or kimchi.
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Radishes are also very nutritious. They are terrific antioxidants (which means they may reduce cancer risk). Plus they are little power houses of vitamin C and fibre.
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It's not too late to grow some at home. If you have a medium sized pot, get yourself a packet of seeds, evenly space seeds about 6" apart, add some compost, put them somewhere with partial shade with a good watering and let nature do the rest. I'll see you in a month's time for a radish fest!
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Went to a pub, had some wine, felt peckish, ordered some chips.
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This sound simple to some. To many others there would be a lot of internal dialogue about calories, weight and ‘bad’ food. And whether I should or shouldn’t eat and drink these things.
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Years ago I would also have wrestled with ordering the chips and drinking the wine. I might ask myself: Would I blow the day’s eating, how would I count the chips in my tracker, would I weigh more tomorrow? And if I chose to eat them, I would follow this with hours of guilt and anxiety about the choices I’d made.
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This is dieting mentality, obsession with weight gain and skewed thinking about certain foods. Is it how you think?
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Instead how would it be to make the choice to have the wine - because it tastes good and it’s lovely to share - and eat the chips because they also taste very good and are immensely satisfying. And then… stop thinking about either! This is food freedom. I have it and so do many of my clients. It’s a really calm place to be.
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(I realise that these ‘chips’ were more like sautéed potatoes but it was Sunday roast day at the pub so we understood and we didn’t care at all! They were delicious and wonderful!)

I hear these statements very often. I heard them in my own head for years. Are they the kind of things you say to yourself, I wonder?
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Eating can feel like that, can't it? Confusing, frustrating and ridiculous. You do a fab job, you look after a family, you organise your social life but the one thing you can't get a grip on is the way you eat.
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The first thing to realise is that you are not alone. The second, that there are any number of reasons why your eating is an issue. And thirdly that with some compassion, understanding and practical help it can be different.
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I start with compassion because the blame game is never going to help. Your lack of control is very likely because the way you eat is serving a purpose for you. It might be soothing, distracting or rewarding and all of that is valid and OK. By understanding it and having more awareness, it is possible to make different decisions to help soothe, distract or reward yourself, which may not always involve food.
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Mindful and intuitive eating can help you reduce the quantities of food you eat. It can help you improve your nutrition to reduce cravings. It can help you bring an awareness to your eating which is calming and empowering.
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Above all, be reassured that you CAN control how you eat to make helpful choices, choices which serve you properly and more effectively than the food you are currently choosing.

I hear these statements very often. I heard them in my own head for years. Are they the kind of things you say to yourself, I wonder?
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Eating can feel like that, can’t it? Confusing, frustrating and ridiculous. You do a fab job, you look after a family, you organise your social life but the one thing you can’t get a grip on is the way you eat.
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The first thing to realise is that you are not alone. The second, that there are any number of reasons why your eating is an issue. And thirdly that with some compassion, understanding and practical help it can be different.
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I start with compassion because the blame game is never going to help. Your lack of control is very likely because the way you eat is serving a purpose for you. It might be soothing, distracting or rewarding and all of that is valid and OK. By understanding it and having more awareness, it is possible to make different decisions to help soothe, distract or reward yourself, which may not always involve food.
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Mindful and intuitive eating can help you reduce the quantities of food you eat. It can help you improve your nutrition to reduce cravings. It can help you bring an awareness to your eating which is calming and empowering.
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Above all, be reassured that you CAN control how you eat to make helpful choices, choices which serve you properly and more effectively than the food you are currently choosing.

Good morning!
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OATY BREAKFAST:
Jumbo whole oats
Homemade nut and seed granola (recipe on website)
Grated apple
Chopped kiwi (with skin)
kefir
oat milk
Flaked almonds
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If you do nothing else to improve your nutrition, just focus on COLOUR!
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Nourishing yourself will aid your recovery from disordered eating by helping to stabilise emotions and improve your ability to think more clearly.
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An easy way to do this is to include on your plate as many foods of different colours as you can. (Haribo and Skittles not included - at least not every day!)
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SUMMER SALAD:
Homegrown leaves
Homegrown indigo cherry tomatoes
chickpeas
Homegrown baby courgette
Cherry tomatoes
Homegrown cucumber
Organic eggs
Pumpkin seeds
Ground linseed
Extra virgin olive oil
Balsamic glaze
Dollop of mayonnaise
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A new walking plan starts today! I’ve missed it very much. But my hip tendon has healed - no pain; I have a new heel insert - reduced limping; and today I received some ‘gait coaching’ from an excellent physiotherapist friend. More LH turnout required = 🩰

It was such a pleasure working with Annabel. She came to me desperate and confused. She left confident and clear.
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I have three places for new one to one clients. If you are feeling desperate and confused I'd be very happy to chat with you about how I might help you become more confident and clear. Just arrange a Mindful Moment call via my website here:

https://www.themindfuleatingclinic.com/contact

Thank you, thank you to all you listeners! My podcast has just passed the 60k downloads milestone. I'm thrilled, naturally, that the varied episodes have such global appeal and people keep coming back to hear more.
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I'f you're new to the podcast head over to hear some interesting conversations with guests who have valuable personal experience to share, or professionals with expertise to help us resolve a number of mental and physical health issues. You'll also find many eating issue related topics, as you would expect.
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In addition to these chats, there are also Mindful Moments episodes - me emptying my head on a variety of eating related subjects.
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I do hope you can join me!
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The podcast is on all the usual channels and here: https://open.spotify.com/show/6postkwRep8h1OJQPHP6Rb?si=d9c2bc2a7ed84f82

Hello everyone and welcome to another Monday Meets - my regular slot for new episodes of the Mindful Eating Clinic podcast.
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In episode 78, we talk all things digestive with the lovely Anna Mapson from .  Anna is a registered nutritional therapist working with clients from all over the world helping people reduce unpredictable bowel symptoms like bloating, constipation, excessive gas, and abdominal pain.
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She’s a firm believer that we don’t have to suffer with digestive disorders and gives us advice on how to have a friendlier gut! IBS, SIBO and ARFID all feature in our conversation (not sure what they are - listen in!).  Like me, Anna also has a practitioner diploma in eating disorders from the NCfED and we discuss the relationship between digestive issues and eating disorders, a fascinating connection.
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Listen link is in my bio or just search for The Mindful Eating Clinic on Spotify.

A small but beautifully-formed home grown broad bean crop. First time of growing and tiny first harvest. But just enough to scatter through a green salad for tonight’s supper. 💚

Spelt spaghetti with creamy pesto greens 🥬
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FOODIE STUFF:
Shredded Cavolo Nero
Chopped spinach
Chopped leek
Green pesto
Crème fraîche
Squeeze of lemon juice
Spelt spaghetti
Toasted pine nuts
Grated Parmesan
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Packed full of iron and fibre - delicious!

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It’s Mindful Meets Monday again (that came round quickly didn’t it?!). Today I’m delighted to be joined by Caleb Nelson, all the way from NY state. Caleb is a Performance Coach with over 15 years of experience helping busy professionals and entrepreneurs, overcome challenges such as weight loss, burnout, and poor work-life balance, whilst juggling family and career.
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In our lively and inspirational conversation we talk about what it means to carve out your own life, your way and how to live it.  He calls it playing your own game, playing the game that’s right for you.
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It’s a great listen! Link in bio and on my website. Please follow my podcast on Spotify or Apple (and all other podcast platforms!).