Stitches & Picks S1:Ep 15 - Setting Goals for Next Year and Reflecting on The Last Year

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Dave Dougherty: All right, welcome to Stitches and Picks. I'm Dave. I'm Kristen. And on this episode, we are going to talk about planning, uh, goals, uh, for the next year since we are closing out 2022 here soon. Um, but before we get going... Kristen's in a new room. So the studio update is, uh, ongoing.

Kristen Juve: Yeah. Um, I was, I was telling you before we officially got on here, like the conversation that we had about envisioning the space that I wanted for myself.

was significant. The fact that I took the time, which is not surprising, this is like everything we talked about. I took the time with you to speak out loud about like, okay, what do I want it to feel like? What would really be energizing to me? And it deferred to feel more like a studio, more like, uh, what I experienced in college where I could come in and there would be, you know, space.

So I was like, what is that? That's white walls because it's clean slate. It feels It doesn't feel cold or impersonable, but it feels like a clean slate. And that usually means like a lot of space too, which I know in like my studios in college, there wasn't always a lot of space because you had those big like butcher block tables, basically.

But I was like, but I still want kind of a feeling of an open space so that I can Come in and create. And it's not perfect, but I've really happy with where I'm at in progress. So I've got like things hung up on the wall. I've always got my yarn. Like you can see the baby blue that it was still in the closet.

And I just moved my bookcase into there. Um, we have almost essentially spent 0 doing this. No, that's not true. So I did buy a rug for myself. Because it's hardwood floors. And then I did buy primer because this wall over here was covered with, um, that old wood paneling.

Dave Dougherty: Gross. Do you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah.

Kristen Juve: Yeah. The former tenants, whether it was the ones before us or before that, Not only took adhesive, black adhesive and like glued it on to the drywall But they also nailed it in in multiple spots. So like my husband sanded it all down I removed some of the nails. He removed more of the nails We sanded and wiped, sanded and wiped, sanded and wiped.

Then the bottom part was this dark purple color and the Like a maroon and the top was like a light pink. Wow. We're like, no way we're getting around this without using a primer. So But now it's white, and it looks amazing. You'd never guess that that wall was, like, janky, and looked like it was falling apart, and was this weird, multiple colors of baby blue, that were just, like, not even nice.

So

Dave Dougherty: nice well and for anybody who's actually on the podcast and not on the youtube, maybe we'll uh Yeah, take a photo if you're cool with that and put it up I

Kristen Juve: really really want to Do a quick video once i've got it done Or more done. I should say there's just some like random like this will eventually go that's a dresser um And once I have like my easel up for painting and have like more of my creative space i'd love to do like a little video and tour of it because I just It feels right.

It feels like the right space for me to create, so it's been very energizing for me. Nice. I don't know if it's the moving of space, because I recognize that it is a full on privilege that I get to move a space from one space in my house to another, but the purging itself has been probably the most energizing piece.

It has been fucking hard. So much because it's like emotional, right? Like I'm going through photos of like my ancestors and obviously I'm not purging those, but I bought like photo, photo boxes and stuff, archival photo boxes. Um,

Dave Dougherty: so no bonfire of old uncle Jimmy.

Kristen Juve: I would, but the shredder and, uh, And the, the organizational boxes have been the way that I've been going right now, so.

Dave Dougherty: Mm hmm. I, um, the, the shredding thing was, uh, interesting for me because I, too, am in my, my studio update. Um, much more of a minor, minor thing, but. Um, I found articles I printed off back in 2014 from my agency job. Yeah. Yeah!

And I still have

Kristen Juve: my first job ever outside of college and I was like, why do I have this? I don't care. Yeah

Dave Dougherty: Yeah, it was it was interesting because I still hadn't read a lot of those articles They're no longer on the company website. I tried a couple of them just to see And, um, but what was interesting about it is because when I realized they were from so far back, you know, we're talking eight years old now, um, like, okay, how many of, how much of this has changed?

Right. Because especially with our jobs in digital marketing or launching something online, it feels like everything moves really quickly, but I've always argued that the tools change, but the fundamentals don't, um, you know, I'm not the only one to say that, but, um, that's kind of a core belief of mine.

And it was really interesting to see like, okay, yeah, here's this kernel of truth. Here's, um, how something's changed, right? Like the 12 step guide to Pinterest. Nah, you know, don't really need that anymore. Um, yeah. And I mean, I, I was just never that into Pinterest other than for clients. Um, but as soon as I stopped having those clients, wasn't reason, reason to know about it.

Um,

Kristen Juve: We should pick one of these articles and go through some of, like, the nuggets of truth that still hold true. Because I'd like to hear what they are, specifically.

Dave Dougherty: Yeah, it would be interesting. Um, maybe that'll be a Christmas holiday to do. Maybe. Maybe. Um, I did think about making a fuller thing out of it, but we'll, we'll see.

Um. Okay. Yeah, but anyway, it's just fascinating to see those, those things. Because I had huge, you know, whatever. And I think. Let's see which way this no, that's not gonna work. Uh behind me. I have more folders of Like almost every riff idea that I sketched out in college and high school and I discovered

Couple of string quartets Yeah, so I wrote some string quartets, um, one of which was performed live, but then the other three I forgot about. Um, so that was kind of cool to find that and some old, like full orchestra pieces that I did and haven't looked at since they were performed. Um, so yeah, anyway, memory lane, but that's not why people are, are, are listening.

Um, we're talking about goals. So, um. I think

Kristen Juve: it's interesting to think about stuff that you find that you've held onto that you felt like a really important that you needed to hold onto that somehow that's going to help you in the future. And then you realize it didn't. And so when you're thinking about your goals, like, I think that that kind of like, that's a good thing to think about is like, what has actually helped me and what isn't helping?

Dave Dougherty: Yeah. And I think that was the, I mean, that's part of my process at this time of year. Um, I kind of put a pause on everything with December. And I use December as my reflection time, right? So, um, I'll sit down, I'll, maybe I'll do some journaling, maybe I'll just do some free writing, just to see, like, you know, this worked, this didn't, um, but then also try to, you know, you for, at least for me, at the end of the year, it feels like more than a year went by, right?

Like, when I think back to January, I'm like, God, that is forever ago. Who could even, remember what happened, right? Um, so just that reminder of, oh yeah, I did do more than I give myself credit for. Um, or I completely forgot about that project and that was, you know, four weeks of my life. Uh, so sitting down and doing that, um, is important just for the perspective, but then also, um, to give yourself credit for what you, you do.

Um, and then I think that shapes. My perspective on what I want to accomplish because I have an inkling of what I want to accomplish But I haven't like, you know quantified it yet, you know, like we would with our day jobs. Um, So yeah, i'm more directional with it. But you know, what what do you end up doing?

Kristen Juve: So I actually love that you do this reflection because I do it as well But I find that I never do at the end of a calendar year and like we've kind of talked about this before where like Your quote unquote fiscal year for bgo is the end of the calendar year for me. It is very much like I get two bursts of energy.

I'm going to call them energy. I get two times of the year where like my brain goes, okay, I have the mental capacity to like focus on what's next. And that's in spring and in fall. And so spring is what I'm kind of terming my like end of fiscal year, even though I'm making 0 right now. Um, and that's going to be the time that I'm going to reflect on my business.

But that doesn't mean that I don't reflect on other things. I've actually been doing like a lot of journaling lately too, just for my own like mental health and whatnot. Cause like, it's been a fricking journey. I know that I've shared some of my journey. Um, but like between updating this space and where I'm at my mental health, I'm noticing that All of these things that I'm doing are adding up to me being able to actually accomplish more.

Like, how many times have I gotten on this podcast and been like, I didn't do anything? Or like, I'm not giving myself credit for anything, even though I did like, I did a couple things. And now I actually feel like I'm doing the things. Um, so that's been a huge reflection for me too, of like, this journey is taking on a new, I'm in a new chapter.

And it is largely due to my medication as well as the, uh, therapy and other healing things that I'm working on outside of, like, my business stuff. That's actually having this massive impact on me working on my, my business, being happier at my day job. Being better at my day job, having appropriate boundaries at my day job.

And then also, uh, the side stuff. So it's, it's still been a give and take because there's only 24 hours a day. But I don't feel every time I used to feel pressure about like, you should be doing this. I'm like, you know what? No, I have energy. I'm working on something. It's one of the top three or four things that needs to get done.

Right. Do one of them. And that's okay. So that's been like my reflection lately.

Dave Dougherty: Yeah. I've reached a point where you, you know, you listen to some people and it's just, okay, do more, do more, do more, do more. Push, push, push, push, push. No. And then anytime I find myself doing any of the shoulda woulda couldas like that to me is a red flag, you know, like I've trained myself that that's a red flag to like, all right, stop and figure out why, why that is.

Um, But yeah, I think the investment in yourself, whether it's working out or changing your diet or, you know, doing that, um, cause those have been some of the sort of developmental things that I've tried this year. Um, I do feel lighter. I feel healthier. I don't know any kind of, you know, medical metrics around it, but I'm sure it's better.

Kristen Juve: I don't

think you need to. Yeah, feel.

Dave Dougherty: Right. Um, so yeah, it is. It's the um, and then just having all of that surrounding stuff taken care of. Um, definitely helps with paying attention, focusing, bringing your best ideas to the situation you're in. Um, even though it is super easy to say, you know what, I'm going to, you know, I'm going to skip the workout and, you know, go to the side meeting that, you know, I might not actually have to participate in, but I'm going to have it in the background.

Um, yeah.

Kristen Juve: Yeah. On the whole thread of keeping things simple. So I know that we said that we were going to come up with goals and discuss them today. I have one goal. All right. That's how simple I've decided to keep it. The goal to get to the goal is not simple. But the one goal is simple. I'm a little scared of saying it out loud.

Dave Dougherty: Does it start with an L? Should we, you know, queue up the game show and use it? Yes, it does!

Kristen Juve: Okay, so I, so, I'm really big into SMART goals. For those that are unfamiliar, I'm sure you are, with SMART goals, uh, it's an acronym. SMART S. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time bound. So I had it and I, I literally, I wrote down the goal and then I was like, shit, is that achievable? And so I started to walk it back and it's funny cause like I'm a project manager, right?

Like I think I even texted you, I'm like, I'm project managing myself right now. Yeah. I was like, okay, I need to do this thing. I want to do this thing. I need to do this thing. Okay. How much time does that actually give me to edit up the sample? A month. Okay. Well shit, so I go and look at my sample Also, can I just say like I'm really in the fuck around and find out situation right now Like I am fully embracing it I'm just going to embrace it and we're just because I can't keep like trying to anticipate what's gonna happen and I Don't lie, some of this is coming from my new manager, like she sent me this really awesome post on LinkedIn, and it basically was like, uh, they did a research group on, um, they had a group of kindergartners, a group of MBA students, and a group of CEOs, and they gave them all the exact same task, and that was to build, have you ever heard this one?

Mm mm. Okay. To build the tallest tower, out of like, it was like tape, and like, Uh, sticks or whatever. And a lot of this was talking about the team dynamics. Not obviously just one individual person. But I still thought it was really interesting because the team that built the tallest structure was the kindergartners.

Right. And it was because they threw everything out the window and they just said, Fuck this. Let's fuck around and find out. And they just kept building. The MBA students CEOs first figured out the hierarchy of who was to lead, what, who was to do this, who was to do that. And then they all had like fallen rank, right?

So I'm like, well shit, like I'm just me. I don't need to figure out rank. I don't need to figure all this stuff. I could just fuck around and find out. So I got out my knitting sample and I started like, I need to like do some math on it. And I realized after putting all this yarn up here, I have one ball of yarn left to get this thing done in two sleeves.

That's not enough yarn.

I'm lucky enough that this yarn is still in production. There's a nuances there that might still be a problem, but I think I can make it work. I'm not going to let this stop me. So it's, it's, I just got an email notification today that says it's on his way. I have one ball of yarn to work with. Well, until it comes here, so.

That was the first obstacle.

Dave Dougherty: That's an interesting study. I mean, maybe we can grab the link to it and put it in the show notes. Yeah. Because it would be interesting to share that. Definitely. It's one of those things where it's like, yeah, I'm not really surprised, you know, because like adults just we we

Kristen Juve: Overcomplicate things.

I'm the worst about that I'm like, I need to project manage my project management of my stuff and then it's then I'll act then I'll do it No, I'm always in the mindset of project managing my stuff and then I'm like, well, I'll get to it eventually I've already got it planned So it's done. It's not done.

The things haven't been

Dave Dougherty: done. So, speaking of the, um, potential plans for, you know, interesting content that you could write, I've had this idea for a very long time and I, it, I've never actually written it, but maybe I will, just because of the, um, conversations and whatever else. But I feel like, you know, okay, so I've gone through the MBA.

I have that background, but I also have a lot of the try it out, figure it out, build it because you have to, right? Cause you don't have any. Um,

and the stuff that you learn from being in a band is more informative in terms of management and product development than any schooling, you know, that I've been a part of, or any real world application that I've been a part of, because you've got a team of specialists, right? You hire the drummer to be the drummer and only the drummer.

Um,

the, it might be your song, like if you wrote the full song, but you hired them unless, I mean, this is, I'm, I'm speaking in broad strokes here, but if you want them to play verbatim, you hire them and there's like a cash thing. But when you're starting out and it's the, you know, I can only pay you in, you know, beer tickets and pizza, uh, from the venue, you have to allow them to put their stamp on it.

Right, so there is no, because then there is no incentive, so any of the economists or the, you know, whatever else is talking about incentives, that doesn't, that situation doesn't make sense, right, because there's no economic incentive other than doing it for the enjoyment.

Kristen Juve: There's no general psychological aspect to this that I think we could go into, like, about.

Dave Dougherty: So but it's But the main thing with that is if when you find yourself in that situation, it really is the oh, hey We really like this person's playing right? Like say you want to bring in a new bass player a new guitar player We really like the way they play in that other band. We would like their skill set in ours Let's hang, let's do a jam, and you just see what happens.

You might, you know, you might have a couple of songs that you play to test them, right, do the audition. But then if you're, you know, if you're a bad hang, forget it. You're not getting the job. Right. Um.

Kristen Juve: It's not a full tangent. Have you seen the movie Soul? Oh, of course. Okay. We just saw it for the first time.

Highly entertaining. Made me think of a lot of it because of everything you said was just like, jamming and like, putting your stamp on it and stuff, so, okay. Yeah,

Dave Dougherty: and it's, um, It, you just automatically in that situation have a group of people saying, Well, let's just see what happens.

Kristen Juve: I love that though.

Like, I feel like you, yes, you could end up with shit, but you could also end up somewhere with really great, a really great product. And that's, I feel like that's like, and that's, so I'm a certified scrum master and my, in, I'm not technically doing that for my day job anymore, but like, that is the mindset that I bring to project management is like, and I'm going to call it project management.

I'm just convoluting words here. I don't like it. Anyways, the whole point is that you, like, have this team that can do some really amazing things, and you're supposed to, like, get out of their way and let them do it. Like, that's the whole premise of it. So, I don't know. When it's just me, I need to get on my own way, and that's really freaking hard to do, and I don't know how to do that.

But I'm trying.

Dave Dougherty: Well, so in terms of getting to that one goal, you know, saying that you project managed project, right. You know, we had, we had talked, I forget if it was on this or, or, you know, in our texts, but, um, you know, I remember saying like, Hey, why don't you just treat yourself as if. You were your own client, right?

Like, create this third party client person. Do you not remember this?

Kristen Juve: I don't remember this. Are you sure it was me?

Dave Dougherty: Yes. We got, we talked about writing your own bio, and how the way that I write my own bios is to pretend that I am writing it for someone else who has the same attributes as what I'm trying to define for myself.

Yeah, so I was wondering if you had used something similar to that in order to project manage yourself No, you just great gritted your teeth and did it

Kristen Juve: it was more of like I feel like I'm actually able to maintain a Steady level of productivity whether it's cleaning up my house moving this studio room up here any of those items And granted, like, we've had illness go through our family too, but at the same time, I haven't been totally knocked on my butt, knock on wood, um, in a while.

So I feel like this, like, steady level of productivity has allowed me to be like, okay, you can anticipate, which with my disorder, that is not the case. Like I have two weeks of every month, so literally half my life where I, I cannot anticipate, I can anticipate that I probably will be out of commission.

Because of the meds I'm on, because of the therapy, because of all the other stuff, I'm actually able to anticipate that, like, I have a fairly steady level of productivity. And it's not, oh, I need to be overproductive. Because I'd go in these waves before where, like, I'd have two weeks where I was, like, dead to the world.

And then, to catch up, I would burn myself out in the next two weeks, trying to get everything else done and being everything to everybody because I hadn't been that way for two weeks. And then the cycle would continue. And right now, it's like, oh. I'm getting better at understanding that I can maintain a slightly more cleanly kitchen when my husband also puts in that work, too.

And I can continue to, very important, Partnership, um, and communication about it. And then, um, like clean up my own office and little by little, like do things and not feel like I'm burning myself out and if I feel myself burning out, then I stop because I know tomorrow the likelihood that I'll be able to get up and do it all again is there.

And it doesn't stress me out to think that way. And that is all my mental health, I think right now. So. That's why I think I've been way more comfortable putting down what's like, this has been very helpful to put down a goal. For you to be like, we're going to put down a goal. You're pushing me. And this is exactly why we have continued these conversations.

Cause I know this is good for me. Cause I, I need the accountability. So I had the pieces in line. I just haven't fully leveraged them or I didn't because I needed the mental space for a while for, with my disorder. And now the little bit of like healthy pressure that I'm feeling is a really good thing and it's motivating instead of like completely overwhelming.

Good. So I'm going to say the goal. I was just gonna. My goal is to launch my pattern by February 18th. Okay. So that means that, so it's specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. I even, so I did a couple things to like. Get excited about this. I wrote it down on a piece of paper So I actually wrote down february 9th And I was like, I don't actually feel like that date's actually achievable and I wrote down that date because it's my sister's birthday and that date, uh Has obviously special meaning to me because this sweater is supposed to be for her like this was Designed for her actually it was one of my designs and I showed her a bunch of them She was like, I love that.

Can I have that and I was like, yes I don't feel like I feel like it's a little too tight. So I gave myself an additional nine days I know that's not a lot, but I'm thinking that I still wanted to, like, make it a little bit of pressure. And then, so I wrote it down, and it's just sitting in my office. And I picked a Saturday specifically, too.

Mm

Dave Dougherty: hmm. Well, I now have it, I now have it in my calendar. So, I will.

Kristen Juve: I downloaded a countdown app.

I'm also, I don't have it on my calendar yet, but I'm going to have, I'm going to set up multiple reminders. It's not going to be a thing I forget about. I need to finish the sample and finish like the patterns essentially written except for the sleeves. And I need to get tech edited, which potentially, I don't know how long it takes, but it could take a week because I have to send it off to somebody else and they are, I have to pay them to do that.

And then once I get it back, I need to do testing. So I need to get a group of people. Which also means I need to have a sample so that I can tell people that I need to have testers and get them into my website and on my email list and into the forum of conversation and or like survey tracking and all that stuff.

So it's like, it's not just simply like me, like knitting a sweater to me, like it's published. Um, but it's, I'm going to try really damn hard to get this. Out the door by then. So you're gonna

Dave Dougherty: need basically all the infrastructure and the thing done by the end of December Since you're relying on all the other

Kristen Juve: people Yes Okay, the website is Um, the bare bones is there, it's wired.

Except for the whole email part and the survey part, which I intend to do. I have, I already have the tools picked out for that. But the wire of the product thing, it's, I'm doing all Shopify and the main page is ready. I just need photos. So, I've started to, I found a little inspiration, like, Sun was streaming in through here and there was, like, on my yarn, and it looked really pretty, so I took a couple photos.

I'm like, I could use this! Like, it's yarn! I could use this for my shop. Just, you know, as a placeholder, whatever. And, um, yeah, I've been getting on TikTok a little bit more, too, and so I'm like, trying to use the momentum and the excitement within me to, like, keep, keep it just forefront. So I gotta get the, the website stuff.

Done. And then, yeah, the infrastructure, the, like, consumer, the tester journey is what I keep calling it. I want to have this fully plotted out so, like, I don't miss any great information, um, and I have a bunch of different sources that I can get testers from. I already have those. So I'm not starting from scratch on a lot of this stuff.

I've already thought about it. And, and I have them in place. I just haven't had the pattern yet to start it, start the testing process. So I've thought this out. Nice. That's why I only knew it when we do one goal, also another

Dave Dougherty: goal after that. Well, yeah, because we can move on to the next thing. Um, exactly.

No, but that's cool because there is a lot of behind the scenes work on that too, right? Um, I think we talked in the last episode. What has been interesting for me this year is the fact that, you know, we had the machine kind of turning for BGO for a while. You know, we were sending out the emails. We were sending out, you know, um, a lot of good content.

And then we hit. injuries and technical problems and all this other life stuff happened. Um, so I thought about doing smart goals, but really honestly, for me, it's just staying consistent and continuing to improve because during the time we were off. I continued to get new followers. I continue to get new subscribers.

Um, there was enough content there that it is kind of working itself, which is pretty sweet. Yeah. Um,

Kristen Juve: I think that's completely reasonable, especially given where you guys are at, it's, it makes complete sense. And there's nothing wrong with that. If you need the space for just to see what happens to continue to fuck around and find out, or if you were having family stuff, personal stuff, like I literally just talked about how my disorder totally disrupts everything.

If you need space for that and just be like a goal directionally is to stay the course and then iterate. I think that's a great goal to have.

Dave Dougherty: Cause yeah, the, um, you know, as we talked about the production issues of, um, getting the guitar tone and the vocals and the, you know, so I did a little research into that.

I have a new experiment, a new piece of kit to experiment. And I feel good on that, which would be great because then I could leave it set up and I can do, you know, um, it would make social stuff so much easier because I could just turn it on, do some practicing videos. Shut it down, you know, be done, right.

Or, um, play alongs or there's a whole, you know, a whole number of things that I could do with it, which would be pretty sweet. Um, so we have to wait and see on that. Cause I still haven't had time to sit down and play with that, but just doing the consistency there and then getting the email, like focusing more on the email marketing, um, cause I feel like that hasn't necessarily been explored in the way that I, uh, I wanted.

Uh, but also repurposing content. Right. So it's not just cause like the YouTube guitar stuff, it, there are, there's so many people doing the guitar, um, video things and it's great and it's awesome because our mission is to just get more people playing. Um, and, and to get you, get you started. And then if it, if you don't like learning from us, we can point you to the places.

Right. You can, you can go in and continue the journey. Um, but there's kind of a big section and, and, you know, maybe you'll discover this with, with your thing, but once we started, we had like a specific launch content that we wanted, right. And we did that and then it became this with the content creation.

Well, I'm practicing these scales. I'll just do the video of, you know, these scales or. Um, the next step in this would be, you know, these particular things, but we completely forgot about, okay, how do you actually, you know, like, what are the differences between like learning online versus learning in person?

That experience. Right. Yeah. So I have this whole begin here section that, um, I just, it's totally underdeveloped and I think I could do better with that. So I'm going to look into that. Um, Where it's like, you know, not sure where to start, start here. Um, so, you know, look into that. And, um, again, to your point, just try new things and, and go, but, you know, get the, um, with the updates to the space and the other things that we're trying, I think it'll, it'll benefit, you know, continuing to put out new content and, um, filling in some of those content gaps for what it is we're trying to do, because eventually we want to repackage things into the first product.

Right. Whether it's an ebook or a set of courses or, or something. So building towards that, um, with the content we've already done. So, yeah, I mean, there's a lot of options. Yeah, there's a lot of options there, but I think, well, it'll fall into a groove again. And, um, we'll just, you know, see what happens. And, you know, on, on the show, we'll, uh, we'll talk about it.

Um, so

Kristen Juve: yeah. Oh man, I'm like starting to think about like, not the things that I have to do, but the fact that I have to talk about if I made my goal or not on here.

Dave Dougherty: Again,

Kristen Juve: yeah. Again! But like, this time I'm actually trying. Last time I was like, yeah, I think I'm gonna do this, and then that was it. So. Right.

I learned. From. That.

Dave Dougherty: Well, we'll talk offline about the actual download numbers of our show. And so you can know exactly how many people you've, um,

Kristen Juve: so I know

Dave Dougherty: was that higher or lower than you would have thought by now?

Kristen Juve: I thought about that. I was like, man, this many people actually want to hear me talk or hear you talk. That's cool, but weird. Hahaha

Dave Dougherty: It is, it is a bit of a trip. But it's fun. Um, I've been enjoying this and, um, to queue up next week, since this will be, this is the second to last show of, um, the first season.

Season one. Yeah. Um, and,

um, what else did we say we were gonna do? I don't know, I have it written down.

Kristen Juve: I know we talked about this and my brain's like, are we talking about plans for Stitches and Picks, or are we talking about plans for individual businesses?

Dave Dougherty: Um,

that's a good point. This is why we write things down. Exactly. Yeah. Writing things down is good. We'll figure it out.

We will also have, yeah.

Kristen Juve: We'll have something for you next time about what the plan is.

Dave Dougherty: Exactly. You know, like teaching, like any teaching, you just have to be a week ahead of your students. Um,

Kristen Juve: I mean, is that like every content creator's life too? I mean, some people are really on top of their stuff and they're like a month out, but then you can potentially miss the moment.

Dave Dougherty: Yes, yes, no, but we will have, uh, an announcement on what at least 2023 will look like for us and, uh, changes to the format a little bit as we have learned, um, more and more by, by doing these, uh, throughout. So we're fucking around and

Kristen Juve: finding out and then iterating.

Dave Dougherty: Exactly. Yeah. Walk the walk. I think that'll be, um, that might be one of our first t shirt designs, you know.

Or if we ever have a Stitches and Pix 5k, it could be Kristen's fuck around, you know, fuck around and walk.

Kristen Juve: I like it.

Dave Dougherty: Yeah. Um, anyway, cool. Uh, kind of a weird toilet flush, uh, ending, but we'll stick to it and we'll, uh, we'll go with it. So thanks for listening and, uh, we'll see you in the last episode, whatever it may be.

Take care. So excited.