Happy Tuesday! Over the next two weeks, as part of the Be Your Own Best Teacher launch, we're going to be exploring how our Language Learning Pasts are affecting our Language Learning Presents and how to bring what's good and leave behind what's weighing us down. And today, we're reflecting on how things that worked before might not work for us now, because in the words of Dr Benjamin Hardy, "what got you here won't get you there".

This is a really exciting time for The Language Confidence Project, and a lot of things are changing over the next few weeks! Keep an ear out on the podcast for more details, but these are the basics:

- From 11th September onwards, Tea with Me has officially been renamed and rebranded to The Language Confidence Project

- 11th September will also be the launch of my brand new and shiny website, and I'm SOOOO excited to show you! It even has a tiny boat! It's so cute.

-To celebrate everything that's happening, I'm inviting you to a two-week Be Your Own Best Teacher taster. It'll be entirely online, all on Zoom, and we'll mix workshops, journaling, coworking and group accountability calls to help us detangle our schooldays from our present-day language learning, sift through our experiences, and make sure we’re bringing all the good stuff along, and leaving the less useful stuff behind. More details will be follow soon! If you're interested, DM me on Instagram at @teawithemily or send me an email at [email protected]

Also, I have a request! The Language Confidence Project is growing and I could really use a hand right now. There are so many ways you could help. Firstly, is there anyone you know who you think might enjoy this podcast? Anyone you could share it with? Or, could you support me on Patreon? If you would like to and you're in a position to do so, it would be so appreciated. It helps keep this podcast going and allows me to keep creating free content, and there are loads of bonuses that you get with each tier. Take a look here at patreon.com/TheLanguageConfidenceProject

And don't forget... I'm still on a mission to meet you!

I'm on a mission to meet with 100 with listeners of the podcast, to get to know you, and to find out how your language journey is going and what carving your own path means to you.  If you fancy a cuppa and a 30 minute chat about all things language learning, I would love to hear from you! And of course, it's completely free, and nobody is going to try and sell you anything. Sign up here at calendly.com/teawithemily/100conversations or in my Instagram bio.

Join your host, Emily Richardson, every weekday for a short and snappy dose of language courage to get you unstuck, whether you love languages or whether you really don't, but need to learn one anyway. Emily is the tiny and colourful creator of The Language Confidence Project, formerly Tea with Me, a platform to help multi-passionate and unconventional language learners splash language into every part of their lives. She is also the author of the How to Be Me series of language journals to help you to tell the stories that really matter in your new language. Join her on Instagram at @teawithemily or visit her website at https://teawithemily.com/ (new website coming NEXT WEEK!)

A huge thank you to Samuel Peter Davies for the happiest music in the world, and to Anna Bovi Diamond for using every colour in the box on the cover art.