Hi All, 

Been a while between episodes - a LOT has gone on this year. 

I've had a bit of a crisis of confidence in this whole podcasting stuff, so I have avoided it for a while. Plus mental health stuff. Today's episode I do a bit of a catch-up on where I'm at in 2022 around work, hobbies, life etc, before the meat of the episode 'bout halfway through.

Rounding out the first few initial episodes to give you, the listener, some overall scope on your hosts' lived experience with mental health recovery and fun stuff, is a dive into how I've more recently fallen down into nerd hobby holes I never thought I would. 

We dive more into how the hell a weird bogan-nerd-hybrid like me ever went from scoffing at Tabletop RPGs as a hobby ('You mean telling stories with paper and maths?! Gross, yuck, ew no') to that now being a huge aspect of what I enjoy in my non-working life. 

As this is a podcast focused on how mental health and other factors intersect with enjoying and growing in non-work interests, we go briefly into how that, executive dysfunction and other factors play into it too - these will be touched on in a more meta level in future episodes.

From here, I do intend on making the podcast less 'me-focused' (although using lived experiences as examples, ofc) and more on the meta of gaming, music, mental health in the community as well as strategies and tips for you guys, too.

Stick around, some in-depth stuff coming in the future, but more casual and fun stuff as well. 

If you wanna support the podcast - don't. Donate to a good, charitable cause (and me not slamming $10 house pints til I'm near-chundering) at:

https://www.dryjuly.com/users/brady-irwin

Cheers, and both good fun and mental health to you! 

Thanks for listening. 

Brady.

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