Hello hello! It's season three! How is It season three? Well it's here, it happened, we did a thing! Welcome to the Social Media for Humans podcast, that was what I was supposed to say. It's been a long time since I did one of these so a little bit of grace would be appreciated while I figure out how this all works again. So this is not going to be an overly interesting episode, probably shouldn't start with that, but I am just going to fill you in a little bit because there's going to be some changes around here. So for long-term listeners there will be guest episodes this season however there will be fewer, so I'm gonna focus on far more short, just me episodes chatting about various social media things. To be fair probably gonna also veer off into like neurodivergent productivity and ethical business and the fact I'm going to learn to sew, who knows, who knows where we'll go! I'll try and keep it roughly social media businessy, we'll see. Another update the I was going to say videos, I mean there are videos if you're listening to this on a podcast app there's a video version on YouTube. The episodes will be shorter so they are going to be, well the the short episodes with me are going to be between 10 and 20 minutes I'm gonna say based on last season, we'll see, I'm gonna keep them short, we're going for short. And the guest episodes that I do do will be long juicy chats but I will also be releasing a 10 to 20, 15 to 20 minutes episode of the the real highlights from the guest episode so if you're someone who's like in my DMs, I see you, saying "these guest episodes are like super amazing, they look really interesting, where am I going to find an hour or an hour and a half of my day to sit down and listen to them Lex? Where am I going to find this time?" You know, you don't have to okay, I am gonna chop them up, the episodes not the guests, it sounds like a threat to the guests I have already spoken to, it's not I promise! So I would chopping them up into short, er well much shorter episodes so that you can get all the really important information and the best bits from the guest episodes in a much shorter amount of time. And also if you were one of those people in my DMs I am going to be chopping up the guest episodes from previous seasons, so I am gonna essentially be re-releasing the old guest episodes as 10, 15, 20 minute ish, somewhere around there, episodes of the the real juicy bits. So that is what is happening with the podcast. Also very exciting update but I feel silly making it in this episode but I have a microphone, like a fancy proper microphone, I'm not using right now because it's not here and neither is the stand for it to live on so that makes it difficult to use it, and then I was gonna wait to film but also I decided I was going to film today and if I don't do it today it will just be like "oh but I did the podcast yesterday," and I didn't and it was on my to-do list but it didn't happen so it's happening and you can enjoy the terrible quality on this mic and then you can appreciate the excellent quality on the new mic for the next episode! Okay what other information do I have for you? Oh coming up confirmed guests; Caitlin Fisher, we love them! Caitlin was in the Social Media for Humans Club last year, they did a workshop on goal setting for humans, which was wildly popular and frankly incredible, so I am very very very excited to have them on the podcast. There is also a shamefully old episode that I recorded in May of last year. Okay I record a lot of the guest episodes, for previous seasons I used to record very much in bulk and then I would release them, turns out not the best podcasting plan. However so I recorded an episode on accessibility and inclusivity on social media with Rebecca Thorne, that episode, that interview will be coming out, okay do I commit to this? This is the question. Yes, do it! It will be coming out, the full episode, on February the 13th, is that a Friday? February the, it's a Monday! Good job I know what day my podcast is coming out isn't it?! So that episode will be coming out, it's a very long episode, but again there will be a shorter version available so that's exciting. Well I think it's exciting. So that will be the first one that comes out. I I also have confirmed Lisa from Scaling Deep whose podcast I have also been on, so that's exciting, I will be chatting to her later in the year. So that's all, it's all exciting, there are exciting guests but also reminder mostly you're just gonna get me, possibly this unicorn. If you, again, if you're on podcasts like audio only, I will post a photo of the unicorn to my Instagram, okay, that's that's my middle ground. If you're on YouTube, you can appreciate the unicorn as it is. Okay, clearly I am very out of practice with this so I am gonna drink some hot chocolate and figure out what I'm doing with my life! If this is relatable content let me know. Okay so first episode is dropping, well this episode, you don't need to know when that's dropping because you're listening to it, and then yes, stay tuned for shorter versions of old guest episodes. If you have a favorite I am open to recommendations for where you would like me to start chopping up guest episodes, again episodes not guests, so if there is something that you were like "oh I really really wanted to listen to that but do not have the time, or the attention span, or the anything else to actually listen to the whole thing, please please put out the shortened, awesome version of it," slide into my DMs, send me an email, there are links in show notes and descriptions and just all over the place really. Yeah, I think that's, stop talking, stop talking Lex, stop talking, drink your hot chocolate! How do I end these? How do I? Take care of yourselves, that's how I end these! So take care of yourselves!