The Liz Moody Podcast - Answering Your Qs: Wellness Habits That Are Actually Worth It, Corporate vs. Entrepreneur Life, My Oura Ring Review, & More

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

In this special episode, I’m sitting down with my husband Zack to pull back the curtain on the questions you’ve been dying to ask. From the things I’m currently loving to the deeper mindset shifts I’ve made lately, we’re diving into the real-life habits and philosophies that are shaping my health, career, and daily joy. If you’ve ever wondered what I actually use in my matcha routine—or how I navigate wellness and work behind the scenes—this episode is for you. It’s full of honest reflections, personal stories, and unexpected moments that made us laugh (and think).  Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now!  Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast. Check out the previous episodes of The Liz Moody Podcast discussed today: The Seven Key Habits You Need for Any Health Journey  I Did an 8 Day Meditation Retreat to Rewire My Brain for Joy – Here Are My Biggest Takeaways How to Figure Out Your Dream Career (and Actually Get It)! Check out the previous The Take Away with Liz Moody Substack post discussed today: The best functional blood tests to get a full picture of your health (+ how to get your insurance to cover them) This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors: Puori: go to Puori.com/LIZMOODY and use promo code LIZMOODY for up to 20% sitewide. LMNT: go to DrinkLMNT.com/LIZMOODY to get a free LMNT sample pack with any order. Thrive Market: visit ThriveMarket.com/LIZMOODY and get a $60 FREE gift today & 30% OFF your first order To check out our other podcast partner discounts, including the Pique matcha and Birch mattress, go to LizMoody.com/Codes. The Liz Moody Podcast cover art by Zack. The Liz Moody Podcast music by Alex Ruimy. Formerly the Healthier Together Podcast.  This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions. The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 338. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Liz Moody podcast. Today we have another Q&A episode. I'm answering your questions that you sent in and they're being asked by your favorite special guest, the person that you wish hosted the podcast. My husband, Zach. Nobody wants me to host the podcast. They just want me here for charming banter on occasion. On occasion. On occasion.

How are you doing, Zach? Oh, I'm great. Gosh. Yeah, great. Anything new in your life? Nine out of ten. Well, we're in L.A. right now. We are in L.A.

Always nice. Cat sitting for some friends. Yeah, we are available. If you have a nice house and a cuddly cat, we are available. I think luxury cats that might be on my business card in the future. Yeah, that's a very aspirational job. But I want to sit for luxury cats. Like, it's not like an inherently luxury service that I'm offering.

Oh, I think you offer a luxury service. Sure, but I really want the luxury cats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I think they go hand in hand. Like you are. are a luxury cat sitter and you sit for luxury cats and luxury homes. Sure. So if anybody is in need.

Yeah. Holler. We are available. Okay. So you have questions today. I do. I do. Zach gets to basically when we do these, he goes through my Instagram and he pulls out

questions that you've all sent in and then surprises me with them. So if you don't like the questions, that's fault. Or it's everybody else's fault. Oh, but there's always so many to choose from. You're right. You're right. It's like a cornucopia of options. So should we just kick it off?

Yeah, kick it off. So this first question, I think everybody's dying to know the answer for it's super critical and basically like all of our futures depend on it. What is your specific matcha order and how do people mimic it when they want to go? I've recently become a matcha drinker. Sure. I love it. But if you are also a fellow mantra drinker, you may have experienced that loving matcha is setting yourself up for heartbreak all the time because many, many places do not make it that well. I don't know if that's an experience that you've had with coffee.

Not really, no. But with macha, it's rare. So I go into a place and I'll ask, first of all, do you have ceremonial macha? You know when you get a matcha that's like kind of a pallid, seafone green, and it doesn't taste clean and grassy. It tastes kind of fishy and gross. That's usually because it's not ceremonial macha. It's awful. Also, there's a lot of places that we'll use like match syrup or matcha powders that have all these sweeteners and weird stuff in it.

So I ask ceremonial macha. If they don't have ceremonial matcha, I usually just will skip it and not get it. then I ask, do you have any house-made syrups? Because if we're choosing between like a house-made brown sugar, a house-made vandalibine versus a Tarani, I'm going to choose the house-made syrup every single time. Then, depending on how annoying I'm feeling at that moment, I'll say, do you have any house-made milks? Because again, if I'm choosing between like a house-made almond milk and a milk that was

sorbought, I would prefer the house-made milk, but that's rare to find. So I like that combo. So the way I order is an iced macho. latte with a small, I say very light amount of whatever the house made sweetener is. Vanilla bean is always my choice if there's different ones. But I also love like a lavender and orange blossom. Mix it up. Brown sugar.

So good. And then I get that with almond milk. So if I want to replicate the Liz Moody experience, I walk into, let's say a gas station. I go, no, let's say, I walk into a cafe and I say, hey, do you have any ceremony of matcha and they're like, no, get out of here. And then I go to another one. And they say yes. And I'm like, okay, great. And then it's like, do you have any housemade syrup? And I'm like, oh, bummer. That's okay. Anything vanilla? And they're like, yeah. Okay, great. So far. So good. And then I say, do you have almond milk? And they say, yes. And I say, okay, iced on milk. And then I say, not too much

syrup, not too much sweetener. Don't overwhelm the match. That's ceremonial. That's extra that I know I'm paying for. The biggest thing for me, I want to walk in and say, hey, how strong is arm. Do you whisk? Do you like really like to whisk? Because what I don't like to do is, yeah, yeah, we got one recently and it's just like the whole top was like this like foamy little balls of like green powder. I was like, that has to be like five dollars of matcha just floating there right on the top. And that's not what you want. And then I will say if you want to make it at home, which I do quite frequently, I make my own nut milk. I'll just blend like a handful of walnuts. Sometimes I'll mix in my Brazil nut dose for the day. Macadamia nuts, pistachias. It's just like a. mix of soft nuts. I don't use hard nuts because then you have to strain it. Blend that up for like two minutes until it gets very, very creamy. And then I'll have that with my peak macho, which is my absolute favorite one at home. I didn't do any caffeine for years and years and years because of my anxiety. And the peak one has a ton of Elthianine in it. So it's really helpful if you are more of an anxious girlie like myself.

And then I use these syrups called the Transcendence Syrups. I'll put this in the show notes. Transcendence coffee. They have syrups like they have a miso caramel syrup. They use all incredible ingredients. They have a saffron, like orange blossom syrup. So that's how I make it at home. While we're talking about you staying calm instead of getting hafi, people want to know if you meditate. And if so, do you have a routine? Give us a situation. I feel much better when I'm regularly meditating. I notice a difference all day long. Am I regularly meditating right now? No. Not at this moment in my life. Okay, got it. We did a meditation retreat called Journey. We have an entire episode about that that I can link in the show notes back in October. I was on such a good

streak after that meditation retreat. We're the we in this. Yeah, me and you. I was doing like 30 minutes an hour a day. I felt amazing. I was enjoying my meditation sessions in a way that I never had. And then we came back and Bella immediately got diagnosed with cancer. And then whenever I tried to sit in my own thoughts, I was like, no, these thoughts are terrible. I don't want to hang out with these thoughts. This is awful. So I stopped completely. But I've been craving it. And we're We're going to do a little mini meditation retreat together next weekend, which I'm really, really excited about. So this is something we noticed when we were at this last meditation retreat, how much being removed from our normal environment and being in a place where there was like nothing to do, nothing was expected of us, really helped our minds calm down so we could kickstart this meditation journey in a different way. And we were like, wait, we could do this ourselves by just rent.

I mean, the journey retreat is incredible. And like meditation retreats, you learn a lot. But we were like, we could do. do this part of it ourselves. And we should do it more often. Setting up the environment, kind of making it easy for yourself, especially if you need to get back in it. Yeah. So I think we're going to rent an Airbnb just for like two nights in the middle of nowhere where there's nothing to do and try to meditate a lot and maybe do like a silent thing and have some readings or something like that.

Like, you know, create the space for it. Let's do a silent thing. You're like, who's that going to be hard for? Let's try that. Yeah. We were the other day. Was it like yesterday? We were like we're having like a real Alex and Span.

If you watch 1923, there's this couple. And I thought this was a huge compliment at first. There's this couple called Alex and Spencer. And he's this like hot, rugged man who like fought in World War I and stuff like that. And she's this like super chatty socialite. And there's all these scenes of them like out in the middle of nowhere. And he's like, I don't know, protecting them from lions. And she's just like chit, chit, chatting.

Or just walking. Yeah. quietly walking. And I don't know what I thought you meant, but you were like, we're being really Alex and Spencer Corps right now. And I was like, oh, my favorite couple. Why? And you were like, well, because you're just chatting at me.

And I'm just standing here being ruggedly silent. I was walking along. And I felt like I hadn't said anything for quite a while. And I was like, oh, it's like a parallel to that, to that narrative. But you had a lot of really interesting things to say at the time. Do you remember what I was talking about? Not 100% no I'm trying to remember

Oh I Okay It was Do you remember We were Okay Like a few summers back Lays did a competition

Where they invited people To write in potato chip flavors Oh it was about the flavored chips They invited people to write in potato chip flavors And then had three finalists And we went to the store And bought all three of the finalist chips So that we could vote on the best flavor

One was like chicken and waffles One was like hot honey or something I don't know. They were really good flavors. And I was like, that felt like a marketing win to me. I wonder why chip companies don't do something like that more often. I wonder why that was a one-time thing. I'm sure tons of people like us went to the store, bought all three flavors who normally wouldn't buy chips. Yeah, it was about 10 p.m. We were just leaving the grocery store. And for about a 15-minute drive back, you sat there and talked about chips. Okay, what's the next question? And what really lay should be doing with their. I thought it was a good marketing gift. And you know what? And you know what? And you know what, you're right. But I think after I said, great point, that was all I really had. What was the next question?

You want to hear the next one? Oh, someone loves your meal prep approach. Hmm. How often do you eat out at restaurants, which feels like a slightly different, but interesting common. Okay, so the answer is not often. If I'm eating out at restaurants, it's because I really want to experience that restaurant. I want to experience that flavor. I really try not to get caught where I have to eat at a restaurant just because I'm

hungry or just because I want to socialize because usually that's when I end up being disappointed. I feel like I spend so much money. I don't necessarily feel as good after I eat out at a restaurant. So if I'm eating out, I really want it to be like a restaurant with flavors that I am excited about trying. And we do that. Really not that often. I'm trying to think about the last time we ate at a restaurant. And the fact that I like kind of am not recalling right now means it was a while ago. You took me to a pancake place a number of days ago that I really enjoyed. In L.A.? No, in New York.

Okay, so like weeks ago. Yeah, like a couple weeks ago. Yeah. Like about 14 days ago. That was Salts Cure. Breakfast, I think it's breakfast by salts cure. Gluten free pancakes. They have gluten-free ones and non-glutin-free ones.

And those were incredible. So those were like, we heard about these pancakes. I saw it online and then my New York friend said these actually live up to the hype. They're worth going to. So we went to seek out these pancakes, really enjoyed the pancakes and then went home, which is basically how we approach eating out these days. Shout out. They taste just like the pancakes my mom makes.

Aw. Are you shouting at the restaurant or your mom? My mom. Okay. 100% my mom. Hi, Susan. Hi, Susan. So I would say just like not often.

If we're eating out, it's tries. I try to make it for a very specific reason. And I try to plan so that I'm not just caught. Like, if I'm doing a full podcast day, I will bring a meal-prepped lunch or dinner so that I have that with me during the day. So I don't need to eat out just for the sake of eating out. That makes sense. additional health journey stuff.

Do you recommend the aura ring? Yes, I love it. I'm going to say I love it. I have friends who cannot do it. The question is, what are its best and worth features? The best feature for me, hands down, is that I use it as birth control. So I have mine hooked up to natural cycles. I love it.

It basically takes her temperature all day long. It's FDA cleared to be 98% or 99% effective for birth control, which basically puts it at condoms and the food. pill with proper usage, which is the caveat with all of these. Because if you look at the efficacy rates of condoms in the pill with typical usage, they go way down and same with this. So I use it for that and it makes birth control for me much more effortless than any other type of birth control that I've done other than the IUD, which I'm never going through

the experience of putting that up in my body. It's bad news. Again, that is like the most painful thing that I've ever been there in my entire life. So I love it for that. So that's the number one pro for me. Also, I really like the step tracker. They recently updated the algorithm, I think, to make it even more accurate. And I really like that it doesn't have a screen on it.

I can leave my phone at home. And it motivates me to get out and move. I don't think there's like a magic number of steps, but I do think that tracking your steps can motivate you to move throughout the day. Like if you have a goal, my sister and I have a goal together of 12,000 steps right now. And we text each other, our aura scores at the end of the day, every single day. and that means that when I have like 10 minutes between medians, I'm like, oh, I should go get some steps in so they can meet my goal in Texas to my sister. When we win, by the way, you know this, but everybody else is, and I get to get us like a spa day or I get to take us like two and five minutes. It's the best deal for her.

She's like, I have to like field this girl's text messages and then I get to go to the spa. Yeah, it's very little sister core. You know she just used the same screenshot every day, 100 across the board. I think it has the date on it. I'm not positive. She's also like crazy about stuff. She's bonnet. There was one point where she didn't have an o-ring and she just was doing circles holding

her phone around her apartment because she wasn't in her apartment's teeny tight. I tracked her location. You just see her little like head running across the block. So I love the step tracking. I love the birth control element. The sleep I'm more medium on. I'd say my favorite use of the sleep is sometimes I feel like I haven't slept well and I'll use it to reassure myself that I'm not dying. But recently I was in New York and I thought I didn't

sleep well and then my aura gave me like 30 something like it's 30 sleeps. Go to bed. And I was like, am I dying? I was like, I wasn't sick. I was just having insomnia. That was like in the insomnia at the period at the beginning. And I literally like it made me more nervous every day or it made me more nervous all day long because I knew that my sleep score was that low. And I have a girlfriend who had an aura briefly and got rid of it because it just made her so anxious about her sleep. So I think one of the best uses of it for things like sleep and HRV and stuff like that is to run little experiment so that you can get the information on how something is impacting your body. So if you're like, I wonder how saunine before bed impacts my sleep, sauna before bed for like two weeks and compare

those sleep scores to when you're not sauning before bed and see the difference. I'm saying that because I've been zoning before bed. We have a son at our gym. And it really has helped my sleep quite bad. Most people I know it's one of the things that pushes them to stop drinking your drink less. That was a big part of your drinking journey was you started tracking your sleep on your aura. That was the summer. We got it the fall after that study had come out that said that drinking was one of the biggest causes of cancer.

And then you were like, oh, shoot. And also it's impacting my sleep. And that really helped your decision making around drinking. I think that's mostly true. I was frustrated that all it took was one drink to disrupt my sleep. But it was the studies. It was the actual like. And I probably should have just been like, oh, yeah, sleep is so important.

That's enough. But it was the cancer for me that was like, hmm, bad. Let's stop. Let's stop drinking. And then I also like, like for experiments, you know, I was really interesting for me to notice how much strength training and also losing weight impacted my HRV, which was something that was, it's a measurement of health. And it was consistently quite low for me. And those two things combined shot it way, way, way up pretty consistently. Also, it knows that I'm sick before I know that I'm sick.

And that's fascinating too. When I got COVID, my aura scores, my HRV went way, way down. My resting heart rate went way up. I woke up feeling completely fine. It was like, these are weird stats. Took a COVID test because we were staying with your parents at the time and your dad's quite a bit older. This is the first time you got it.

And took a COVID test. I was positive. And I was like, oh, shoot. Like I wouldn't have. And then I slowly. deteriorated throughout the day. But my aura knew that I was sick before I knew I was sick, and I thought that was really interesting. Look, it depends the type of person you are. I love mine. I get tons of use out of it. It's one of my favorite little, like, health devices. But if you're the type of person

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We definitely glamorize being a social media, content creator, a podcast host, or these types of jobs, and it's not lost on me that I have a job that many, many people would enjoy having and I'm very, very grateful for that. But I do think we glamorize this type of job. And I miss a lot of things about the other jobs that I've had. I really miss having a paycheck that just comes in consistently. And I can rely on every two weeks. That was really, really nice. And kind of you always want to be doing your best at a job, but like was it directly dependent on what I was producing. I would show up. I would do my work and the paycheck would appear. and it was less directly tied to my specific outputs.

And that was really nice. And now on the flip side, my paycheck is tied to my outputs and the paycheck of my team members, which is a lot of pressure and really, really scary and something that keeps me up at night, quite frankly, because I have other people's livelihoods dependent on me. I miss the camaraderie and the team energy. My last job that was for another company was an in-person job. And this may surprise everybody, but I'm like a real watercool. chatter.

I'm not surprised at all. And I miss that. I miss that a lot. I made some of my best, best, best, best friends at that job. And I really miss that element. The reason I would not go back is because I feel like I'm doing the thing that I was put on this planet to do right now. I feel so in my element.

Susie Welch talks about the ideal job for you is where the Venn diagram overlaps of The thing that you're good at, the thing that you like to do, and the thing that the market demands. And often will miss one of those elements. So we'll be like, wait, I love to do this. And I'm really good at it. Why can't I get paid for it? It's like, well, because there's not market demand for that thing. Yeah, nobody wants that right now.

Or the market's demanding it and you're really good at it, but you don't like it at all. So then you're just showing up in your miserable day after day after day. And I feel so lucky that over the years of gathering these skills and kind of like I have career pivots, but they've all sort of built on each other. And this is advice I give to people all the time is that these days, people are not just working their way up a ladder in their jobs. They're acquiring skills. And then those skills apply to your next job and those skills apply to your next job. And I feel very lucky that that has happened over time in a way that I get to do something that I absolutely love doing, something that I feel like I'm very, very good at.

It feels like it utilizes the skills I have developed over the course of my career and the course of my life and something that at least at this moment I'm lucky enough for the market to demand. I wake up every day just feeling so incredibly grateful that this is my job, that I get to ask the world biggest experts, all of my questions. I feel very lucky that I get to do that and I get to research things and I just get to lean into my curiosity. So that's why I wouldn't go back. But I do think we need to encourage entrepreneurship, but also acknowledge that there are so many other ways to build a satisfying career and stop just over pedestalizing one. Yeah.

I have a question for you. How do you think your friends would describe you? Curious. Okay. I also am a person that people will come to for things that, I don't know, they might be worried that other people would be like judgy or they'd have shame around. Like, I have been the person people tell if they have STIs or if they cheated or if they've been cheated on or things like that.

I tend to be just like a very safe space in that way. I think funny. I think funny. I feel like funny is like a core attribute of mine. Like I'm always kind of like cracking jokes and blah. And I feel like that does not come through on the podcast at all or on my social. And I'm like, do people think that I'm not funny? Which makes me really sad.

I think they describe me as always down to have an adventure, always interested in having an adventure. I don't like to go out to a bar and sit there, go to a restaurant and sit there. I'm always like, should we go explore this museum or go check out this new thing? And less involved flying. And then I'm less down to have adventure. Or coffee. Right. So like a gentle adventure.

They describe me as a gentle. Not a rugged adventure, but like a soft. A soft adventure. A soft adventure. Is there anything that you would like that you've heard people say about me behind my back? I mean, people think you are a great conversationalist, which is like an obviously like no-duh situation like people talk about how you like light up a room and like light up a social setting in that way yeah that was nice it was nice we should have an episode where I just call up all

my friends and ask them to talk about me why do you have that that'll be my birthday episode you with yourself though that'll be my birthday episode that's the plan all right if you had to choose three products to invest in for your health what would they be invest so like more expensive expensive stuff. The word is invest. I think that's a fair interpretation of invest. It should pay dividends. Pay dividends.

Or crash to zero. Yikes. The thing is, I did an entire episode about like the seven key things you need for any health journey. And I'm pretty sure they're all free. So I'll link that in the show notes. Those are the foundational things, like the health things that every single person would benefit from.

It's like if you're starting your health journey, start here. Or if you're way late on your health journey, like go back and make sure that these things are checked. These boxes are checked before you're worrying about all these little things. Like this is the Sunday. You need the ice cream foundation before you start adding all the toppings. So I would say like that is really important for me to say always is the we talk about like the red light therapy and the sauna and the like hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Like I don't know. People talk about this stuff because we're always like looking for new stuff to talk about and also because there's a lot of people out there who've covered the basics, tried other things, and they still aren't feeling

the way they want to feel. So I want to make sure people know what tools are available to them. But, like, first make sure you're checking the boxes. Like, are you getting enough vegetables? Yeah, you're building your fun. Exactly. Like, these are ostensibly or they should be free-ish things. And it's a short episode, 25 minutes. I'll link that in the show notes. So make sure you have that done. That said, if you would like to invest, research shows that the single best investment that you can make in your happiness, in your health, that you can spend much. money on is changing your commute to a walking or biking commute. So this would be an investment

in your housing, in your neighborhood that would change your commute from a driving commute to a walking or biking commute outside. Which depending on where you live could be the most expensive thing you could ever commit. Yeah, 100%. And I don't think very many of us think about that when we're picking where we want to live. But you're getting an automatic circwalk in in the morning. You're getting movement in, you're getting fresh air, you're getting that clarity of thought, you're getting creative thinking as the outside environment is streaming past your eyes. So that's like a huge, huge thing that I would spend money on if I had the money to spend and I could arrange that in some way. Which if you were from home, it's as much as as as simple as like committing to

yourself to go on a surfwalk in the morning. Yeah. That's a nice way to, none of the researchers are like, it's like a really long commute. Yeah, like go on and get. you're like mottian them all years. I feel like the researchers are like, and that's not how you interpret this research, but that's fine. I like that. So that'd be number one, number two, and these are in no particular order, is I would get a blood panel. I'd get full labs done, and then I would go over those labs with a doctor or an RD who really knew what they were doing, who could put those pieces together and make those connections that say,

like, oh, these numbers are elevated, these numbers are elevated when those two elevations are combined. like that is indicative of this. Getting that specific information about your health is so incredibly helpful. And we have a substack. Actually, I can link that in the show notes too. That's like, ask your doctor for all of these blood tests if you're going in and you want to get a full panel that gives a really good picture of your health.

All of the information on podcasts like this are so, so, so, so, so helpful. And they're great starting points. But nothing replaces having specific information about your health and your body. that's how I found out that I was sliding into more metabolic dysfunction than I wanted to have in my body. It was that blood panel plus a dexas scan, which I also recommend. Dexas scans tell you the composition of fat on your body and also bone density. I found out I had osteopenia, which I really mild, but I don't know. I had that.

So now I'm like wearing my weighted best and I'm focusing on my strength training. I have the information I need to keep that from getting worse. And it can tell you if you have visceral elevated visceral fat, which you can't see. to the outside eye, but is the most dangerous type of fat. It's around your organs and it increases your inflammation levels. It increases your cancer risk. It increases your risk of dementia. Sometimes if somebody's carrying more fat in their midsection, that can be indicative of it. But like really, you can't see it with the naked eye. So a dexas scan is really helpful for that. So I'd get these specific information about your health. And then third, I would say optimize your sleep in any way that you can.

Like get a mattress that feels really good for you. We have a birch living mattress. We think we have a code for them right now that I can put in the show notes. Get an eye mask or blackout curtain. So make sure that it's really dark at night. Get whatever type of blanket that you need so that you don't overheat. Get an air conditioning in your room if you need that. Like anything you can do to make your sleep environment conducive to sleep is money that is really, really well spent.

And then I'll add in as like little bonuses. Gym membership or dumbbells at home with some sort of home workout program. like how are you strength training? Like spend money figuring out how to do strength training. And then high quality food. Like I spend quite a bit of money on vegetables and high quality meat and high quality food. Okay. I think that is unfortunately all we have time for today. I know you guys love these. So we are trying to do them every like five or six weeks. And I know you guys like having Zach on. So I try to rope him into coming on. And yeah, thank you guys so much for listening. We really, really appreciate you spending this time with us. Make sure that you're following the podcast. Wherever you listen up to 50% of you listening right now, do not follow the podcast. So just go check. Even if you think that you're following, go check on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, on YouTube. You can watch the podcast now on Spotify or on YouTube. So if you want to see our situation in real life. You can see my new sunglasses. Put them on. So this will make people go to the YouTube.

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