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Hi Reader,

My summer ended with some interesting conversations with people. How about yours?

In todays episode of You Were Made for This, I share a few of these end-of-summer conversations and what they left me to think about this fall.

You can listen in when you click here. It will be the only episode for this month, as it concludes Season 9 of the podcast. After a short break, the podcast will resume next month with the start of Season 10.

May your fall get off to a great start and I‘ll see you again in a few weeks.

Until next time, I wish you all the joy that you can wish.*

John Certalic

*The Merchant of Venice, Act III, scene 2


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