[00:00:00] Hello, friends! It’s been a while.

[00:00:03] As you know, I wrapped up season one of the podcast earlier this year to give myself some more time to focus on a couple of key projects that I felt impressed to pursue. One of which I’m excited to announce today.

[00:00:16] What you may not know, though, is that at the time of this recording, I still work a 9-5 as the VP of Marketing for a global health and fitness company. And, I manage a couple of rental properties. And, my wife and I launched a new mobile app earlier this year. And…we have a new baby on the way. Which means, I’ve only been able to run this podcast, meet with coaching clients, work on a new book, and do interviews  speaking engagements, and business trainings because of the incredible support of my wife, my fantastic assistant Ali, a very generous PTO offering from my company, and most of my evenings and weekends.

[00:00:56] Yet the irony was not lost on me that every hour I poured into teaching people how to build stronger, healthier, happier relationships was one less hour spent strengthening my own. My wife and I agreed on what we felt was a good balance between work time and together time, but I still had weeks where I was working more than I knew was sustainable. So, when the impression came to create an online training program to really help people master what I talk about here on the podcast, I knew two things:

[00:01:25] First, I knew I had to do it, because I knew how valuable these skills and practices are. And I realized the only way to really teach them as thoroughly and practically as I wanted, would be through this new online video format.

[00:01:39] Second, I knew that I couldn’t take on a project of that magnitude without sacrificing something else. So, I tied off season one of the podcast, paused a couple of other side projects, hired some extra help, and doubled down. And I spent the next six months churning away at my most ambitious project yet, the Extraordinary Relationships Master Course.

[00:02:02] This new course contains over 10 hours of sharply focused training, broken into 12 chapters and over 100 videos. It addresses the same topics you hear me speak about on the show, but takes it into the mastery level and talks about many more things that I haven’t yet spoken about on the show. I get into specifics of how to do the things I preach here, and then give you the tools and training you need, and then back you up with an exclusive online support community – something I’m pretty excited about, even though it’s still in its infancy.

[00:02:36] In the course, I discuss how to recognize the need for boundaries, how to set them, and how to hold and enforce them, and how to use them to connect better with others.

[00:02:45] Again, we’ve touched on that at a fairly high level here, but we go much deeper and dove into many questions that people have written about to hopefully really round out that understanding.

[00:02:55] I dive deep into validation, as you would expect, including how to validate people when you don’t agree with them, how to validate when someone’s angry with you, how to deal with constant complainers, how to invite your partner to learn about validation, and much more.

[00:03:10] We make you a master at identifying and getting out of drama. In the course, we tackle the daming habit of codependency and give you practical, pro

[00:00:00] Hello, fellow listeners of the I Hear You podcast, I'm your host, Michael Sorensen, if you don't already know my voice by now. Today I am announcing actually that this is the end of Season 1.

[00:00:13] I didn't know really when I started into this podcast series, what the best format was going to be, how we wanted to play things out. Then, as I've given it a lot of thought, there's still so many more things that we can talk about, but I think this is a good pausing point to wrap up Season 1 and to carve out some space and some time to help me prepare for Season 2.

[00:00:34] Further diving deeper, diving further, however you want to say it into some of these principles, answering more questions. I'm not quite sure yet what Season 2's format is going to look like.

[00:00:46] We may still take the same approach where they are 30 minute on average episodes where we dive into one specific point. I've considered bringing on experts in some of these fields to go even deeper, or maybe doing some Q&A style sessions where I answer more directly a lot of the questions that you guys have written in about, that's to be determined.

[00:01:06] And at this point, the reason I'm recording this specific episode here, a very short note, if you will, is I would love your feedback.

[00:01:14] I'd love to know what you would like Season 2 to look like. Is this current format working for you? If so, great. If not, what would you like to hear? What do you propose?

[00:01:25] Please send me an email at michael@ihearyoubook.com or you can find me on my contact form on my Website michaelssorensen.com

[00:01:36] I will also be taking some of this time to do some work on some upcoming master courses and on creating other materials and resources for further rounding out the understanding or your understanding on a lot of the principles that we talk about.

[00:01:50] So there is a lot of great things to come, this isn't me ending the podcast or giving up, or in any way stopping what I am doing in terms of sharing and teaching and paying forward everything that I can, everything that has benefited and helped me in my life.

[00:02:07] So with that, I want to give one final big, heartfelt thank you to all of you listeners. Everybody who's tuned in on a weekly basis. For sharing the podcast, for talking to others about it. And especially for reaching out to me, for the kudos, for the compliments, for the feedback, for the questions. All of that is what's made this first season so rewarding for me. And it's given me a lot of direction insight into how I can make this as helpful and as valuable as possible. So I want to thank you all again, and I look forward to talking to you next season.