 Hello, good morning, everyone. Happy Monday to you. I just learned that I'm probably having a better Monday than the people over on Facebook today. So I might be the last person to know this on the planet, but Facebook is down. So it's 1044 AM Pacific on Monday, October 4th. Facebook is down, Instagram is also down, and WhatsApp, I use WhatsApp to connect with my clubhouse teams. So this is being only broadcast on YouTube and LinkedIn Live today, which, hey, that's great. I'm hopeful that people can find me over on LinkedIn because that's where I like to hang my hat predominantly anyway. So I am coming off a fantastic weekend, a weekend that was a rescheduled weekend. So I had the great blessing to spend the weekend in a Soyuz species, which is about two hours south of Kelowna here with my three close girlfriends. These are my bubble friends. We have been, and our respective spouses have been in a bubble since the beginning of COVID. So we were planning on doing a girls weekend in August, and then the wildfires hit the region. And so we actually postponed the trip to this past weekend. And I have to be honest, when I first, when we decided that we were going to postpone because of the fires, it created some anxiety in me because we were bumping it to October 1st, which means a lot in my world. It's the start of Q4, right? For me, and for a goal setter that Q4 is a big deal. So it's the start of Q4, and it's the fall and our hospitality industry tends to be super busy in the fall, but we rescheduled and we went. So what I did to kind of prepare is, I did a lot of my kind of goal setting and my mindset setting around Q4 last week because I didn't want to take my computer and my work materials to a Soyuz with my girlfriends. And I didn't, well, at least I didn't take my computer. I did take my journal, my goals journal, of course, and a few other work books to read, nonfiction books, but left a majority of the stuff at home so that I could focus on the relationships with my friends. And it's something that has really come out of COVID for me is where I define my own self-worth. And I think prior to COVID, a lot of my worth, if not all of my worth, was put into the business bucket where my success as a site selection professional and any other business venture that I was involved in, that's where I put my worth. And so COVID was that wake-up call. And in a lot of ways, a welcome wake-up call to say, you know what, Leanne, your self-worth is not defined by one thing. It's defined by a multitude of things and your worth is not to be put into one tiny little bucket. Because guess what? When that bucket drains, when that bucket disappears, it can wreak havoc on one's mental health and the way that we perceive our worth in the world. And we talked about that a little bit this weekend. Didn't talk about my situation personally, but these three friends of mine are all hockey mums. So all of our boys play hockey. They're not even on the same team anymore. At one point, they all played on some teams together, but they all play on four different teams now. And so we talked about hockey and we talked about, you know, our friendship because it was hockey that brought us together as women, but certainly it's been everything that we have in common outside of that, that keeps us together. And it keeps us going on these trips to a Soyuz once a year and these bubble people, I see them at least once a week, if not once every other week, because we play pickleball and we have outdoor barbecues and do a lot of outdoor things together, these eight individuals. But we were talking about hockey and in particular about some of the hockey parent peers that we see that we hope that they're not putting all of their worth in the hockey basket. And we hope that their sons and daughters aren't putting their worth in a hockey basket as well. We, I think the four of us are quite fortunate. Our sons are very multi-passionate. So there's other buckets and baskets for them as well. They love hockey, but they also love other things. My son loves a many, many thing. So if hockey was ever to disappear for him or for any of these other boys, there's still lots to do and there's still lots of ways that they can express themselves as young men in the same way that we as parents can express ourselves outside of being just a hockey mom or a hockey dad. And one of my friends kind of said it as we kind of wrapped up the conversation. She said, you know, we are not defined by one thing. And I've lived that truth for the past year very well. Some days better than others. I think anyone who is struggling with or anyone who is facing a mindset shift, it's not an overnight switch. But it was reassuring and another reminder that I am not defined by my business alone. So taking the first weekend of Q4 off with my friends does not mean my business is destined to fail. It does not mean my business is now three days behind because I spent the weekend with my friends. I'm coming into this week with a great energy. As I hope you are to get ready for Q4 and to get ready for all the great things that are happening this month. But our businesses, our conferences, our brands are not defined by just that one thing. So keep that in mind as you go through this week, which is gonna be an incredible week because it is the first week of Q4. So welcome to Q4 peeps. If you did not catch my live from last week, I encourage you to go find it because here's what we talked about is extending ourselves the grace that we need to get through Q4 and the goals that we set, especially as we analyze the goals that maybe didn't go our way through Q1 to Q3. So I encourage you to check out that live as we talk about resetting our Q4 goals, staying on track to achieve some objectives and some projects, but extending ourselves that grace as we wrap up the year and get ready for a fresh year in January. There's three things happening this week. I'm sorry, I apologize. There's one thing happening this week, one thing happening later this month that I wanna bring your attention to. So the webinar of the week is actually a LinkedIn live that I'm doing on Thursday with my good friend, Ryan Young. He's with the Ottawa Marriott. And so what Ryan and I are going to do, first time doing this live, so it's gonna be a hoot, is we're actually going to review his LinkedIn profile live on a LinkedIn live. And here's why we're doing this. Ryan is gearing up to head to the Canadian Meetings and Events Expo later this month. I'm also going to be there. But a big part of going back to these in-person shows is making sure that our professional presence is up to date and ready for new people that we're going to connect with. So that's why Ryan and I are going through this exercise. As he's heading to see me, October 19th and 20th, in Toronto, he'll be at the Ottawa Tourism booth and he's ready to meet meeting and event planners. Maybe you, if you're heading to Toronto and the Canadian Meetings and Events Expo, Ryan wants to meet with you. And he's gonna get his LinkedIn profile all spit and polished up ready for you to view on Thursday with me. So that's the first one. This Thursday, October 7th, is we're doing the LinkedIn live profile review with Ryan Young. That's happening at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern. Jeez, I hope I got that time right. And then you can meet Ryan and I at the Canadian Meetings and Events Expo in Toronto October 19th and 20th at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. Super, super excited to be going to this event. This will be my first event, my first return after COVID, first event. I've forgotten how to pack. I have forgotten everything. So I'm really excited to get ready to head to this show. So those are the two things I'd like for you to look for. The third resource I wanted to hand you today is one of my favorite apps. It's called Book Buddy. And this is the app that I use to organize and track all of the books I read. Everything from my cookbooks to my fiction, which isn't a lot, to all of my nonfiction, which is my business books, my craft books, my, what else have I got? I've got marketing books. I've got all of these titles that I read or even partially read. I log into Book Buddy so that I know that I've read them. I catalog if I own the book or if I read it from the library, I also catalog my favorites. So if there's ever a reread that I want to do in a particular season of life, I'll go to my favorites and find those rereads. And I do do that. And I do flip through my books more than after the original read. So if you don't have Book Buddy, it's a great, great app. If you have other book organization apps, I'd love to hear what you're using. I love Book Buddy, but I'm always open to new ideas. So drop those in the comments if you use a different app to keep your books organized. And sorry, I just needed a sip of tea because I am quite dry today. I went for a bike ride yesterday and played pickleball yesterday. So I probably didn't have enough water yesterday. So just as a reminder, or what I want to wrap up this live is, spending time with friends was one thing, but the lessons we learn being with our friends is what I took out of this weekend. I'm grateful for my friends. They remind me every single day that my worth is not tied to one thing. And I hope if you are in a similar situation where you are putting your worth into one bucket, I hope you hear this message today because take it from me, your worth is not in one bucket. You are a multi-passionate individual and you play many, many different roles in your life and people you have worth in many, many, many, many people's eyes. Thank you so much for watching today's live. Like I said, catch Ryan and I on Thursday at 11 a.m. Pacific, 2 p.m. Eastern for that LinkedIn live review. And I hope to see you at See Me later this month. Drop in the comments if you have any questions or if you'd like to get in touch about See Me, would love to see you there. Have a great, great week, everyone. We'll see you around here next week. Bye for now.