Going on a one-month leave + Announcement!

A well-needed break + what I've been working on

As you're reading this post, I'm currently away on vacation for a month.

I'm tempted to call it a forced annual leave because if it were up to me, I would continue working until my brain gives out.

Since August this year, I have been writing a weekly column for this newsletter, covering topics ranging from small life lessons to rants about reading the right books.

Alongside these weekly columns, I've also been preparing to start a podcast. But like so many projects that never came to fruition, I got so carried away with writing weekly posts for you guys that I virtually forgot about preparing for this podcast's launch.

This all changed when I read a comment from a YouTube subscriber.

In a recent post: Why Our Talents are Invisible To Us, I confessed that I never liked editing videos. This led to my decision to do all of my videos in one continuous take.

People loved it, but this unedited format also gave rise to a different problem: the videos were getting a bit too long to watch in one sitting on YouTube, to the point where one of my subscribers eventually had had enough:

"If it's just one continuous take, why don't you make these episodes into podcasts so we can listen to them?"

Et voilà. I found the missing link that has been stalling the podcast's launch.

Ever since I started the podcast page on this newsletter, the episodes have been all over the place: Q&As, post readings, etc. But now there's a new way in. From now on, every time I publish a long-form YouTube video, I will convert the episode into a great audio experience you guys can listen to anywhere you like.

Now this circles back to my month-long break from writing. The podcast is currently 4 episodes behind my YouTube videos. So for the next month, I've scheduled one podcast episode weekly that will roll out around the same time our regular columns are published.

I also want to take some time to sincerely thank all of you for reading everything I’ve been writing. You guys kept the lights on and my spirits high during this time. At the end of the day, nothing I do here is possible without your support and this newsletter is a culmination of all our efforts.

I'm super excited to hear your thoughts on these upcoming podcast episodes. So, tune back in next week for our first episode of A Mug of Insights Podcast. See you there!

Until next week

Robin