Welcome Back: Where We've Been and What's Next for the Podcast







In our 280th episode, we provide an update after a five-year hiatus!







We discuss our personal experiences, including burnout, career changes, and coping with the pandemic. The episode covers the transition from our old OnlyYouForever brand to the new Therapevo Counselling brand, highlighting the expanded focus on diverse counseling topics and services. We also touch on rebranding the podcast to 'Normalize therapy.' and adding a new YouTube channel. We talk about upcoming content and plans to expand our social media presence and blogging.







We are so excited about returning and invite listeners to join us on this new journey!















Timeline







00:00 Welcome Back! Introduction and Episode Overview







00:31 Reflecting on the Past: Life Since 2020







07:19 Current Affairs: Rebranding and New Beginnings







12:34 Looking Ahead: Season 2 and Future Plans







18:32 Conclusion: Thank You and See You Soon







Episode Transcript







Caleb: Welcome to the marriage podcast for smart people.







Verlynda: We haven't said that in a long time.







Caleb: we have not, this is our 280th episode! And we're thankful that you've joined us again today. And our plan for today is to talk about three things. Number one, where we've been since 2020 when we last published an episode and what's been going on. Number two is where we're at presently. And number three is what is coming up next in season two: a rebrand, a new name for the podcast, and a lot of the great content that you're already used to. So







Verlynda: Hmm.







Caleb: Without further ado, we're going to skip our usual intro roll because we are changing a lot of things right now, and we'll get to all that.







But let's, you know, Verlynda, let's start in with this topic[00:01:00 ]







Verlynda: Yeah.







Caleb: been since 2020. What are







Verlynda: Life has changed. Yeah. Big pieces. I mean, well, in your life is kind of one of the big ones that played a major part.







Caleb: Yeah. Yeah. So, and I think we should tell folks too that we're recording this five about five years since we last recorded.







Verlynda: Yes.







Caleb: to it sometime in the future, that's the gap between episode 279 and episode 280. So yeah, the biggest thing for me 2020 was kind of that second year of COVID, am I right?







Verlynda: March 2020, it started or our country shut down.







Caleb: Okay, yeah, we started getting into the thick of it. We were getting pretty burnt out on podcasting at the time, because we'd done a weekly show for quite a while, and that had been pretty intense for us. Kept up, a pace on that. I think we were doing like a little more sophisticated, a little more complex episodes too, which was cool.







Verlynda: Yeah. More research.







Caleb: Yeah. And I'd also been like hammering away at starting this [00:02:00 ] business or counseling business at that point for six years had been counseling for 20, that'd be about 10, 11 years at that point myself doing some mixed vocational stuff, of course, in there. But I also had a huge bout of burnout, compassion fatigue as a therapist. So that was a big thing that was going on. And I think it was 2020. Was it that summer or the next summer where I actually...