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If you're watching this and you see me, hello, I'm just kind of throwing this in here just as a

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little bit of a not only test, but also because this is going to be a very, very short episode.

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If you're really a fan of these video podcasts and would really like to see more of them,

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even if they're really longer, please let me know. I will make an effort and not just do a still

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video with some captions on them. Although I think you've really been liking that too. Anyway,

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I'm throwing in this mini episode very spontaneously because as I'm sure you may have seen,

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I have changed the podcast name. Going forward, this podcast will be known as the Once Upon a

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Trip podcast and no longer the old name now, Ameripian at Heart. I turned both to Marco,

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so my boyfriend. If you're new here and you don't know who that is, Marco is my boyfriend,

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as well as my followers and friends on Instagram who follow my podcast account for some feedback

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because I really do care and want to hear about how you feel and what you think about the things

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that I think about. I was honestly very surprised to learn that a number of you actually really

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liked the existing podcast name. You really liked Ameripian at Heart. On the contrary,

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I also noticed that another number of you really were a fan of the name Once Upon a Trip. I was

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honestly a bit torn as to whether or not to really change the name this soon in the podcast. There

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have only been six episodes released, but just evaluating the content now the way that it is,

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I just feel that this is a better move and the name Once Upon a Trip is so much more encompassing

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and representative of the content and the podcast that you listen to every week or that I hope a lot

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of you listen to every week. I know some of them are long, but I really do appreciate your support.

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Okay, no more of that. Sorry, I'm going to get back to the episode here. I had spontaneously

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thought of changing the name of the podcast recently when I told the owner of my company

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that I started a podcast. He asked me, Mary Grace, what's the name of your podcast? And I told him,

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Ameropean at Heart. He looked at me and was like, wait, what? Can you repeat that? Okay, not quite

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like that, but you understand what I'm talking about. He was so confused. He did not get what I

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was saying. He didn't understand Ameropean. He didn't get the reference. The same thing happened

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to me the other day when I was out at a restaurant with my family. It was my dad's birthday and my

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grandparents were having dinner with us and my grandfather as charming and personable as he is

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to everybody he meets, told the waiter at that restaurant, my granddaughter has a podcast. You

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should listen to it. And the waiter looked at me and he asked me, oh wait, is it active? You have

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an active podcast? What's the name of it? So I told the waiter, yes, I do. Actually it's called

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Ameropean at Heart. I got a similar reaction and he was like, wait, can you say that again? Wait,

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what is it? So those two recent experiences of people not really registering the connection or

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reference or name of the podcast and not being able to connect the dots and realize that this

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is a travel story, American, European based focused podcast. It just really started making me think,

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maybe I should change the name. Maybe people need something easier to remember, something that

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really just hits better with them. And so with Marco's help and your help, I have chosen a very

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appropriate encompassing name for the podcast going forward. Many people associate the word trip

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with traveling, journeys, going on a plane, going on a car. What is that? Going in a car or going

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somewhere. But I also really believe that trip means so much more than just travel. It really

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means so many things. It encompasses a wide variety of all sorts of different topics, all sorts of

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different life situations. And I really, really believe that this fits so well. This podcast is

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designed of course to inspire, entertain and educate you to some degree in every single episode.

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Of course this is travel based mostly, but I intended for this podcast to be a whole array

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of different things. And I believe that trips involve our journeys with travel. They involve

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our journeys with dating. They involve our journeys with life, business, life lessons, friendships,

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so much stuff. I honestly felt really stupid saying the name of my podcast is AmeriPian at

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heart. And people being like, what is that? Like, I don't want anyone to do that to my podcast. So

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that's why this change is happening. I think you can understand. I'm working on getting the changes

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officially squared away and published. I am hoping by next week, stay tuned for a new intro,

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a new outro, new details, new podcast cover, new stuff. It will be the same content as you've seen,

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well heard, maybe not seen. Well yes, seen on Instagram. But as far as Spotify goes,

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for what you have heard, it will be the same idea. This is just a mini little rebrand and a little

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bit of a six week refresher because that is how long up to this point that this podcast has existed.

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It has been six weeks. I have been very, very, very dedicated every single day to putting together

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great valuable content. If you know Marco, you can ask him what time I wake up every day. I am like a

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crazy old woman. I wake up at 3 30 or four o'clock every single day, brainstorming, scripting, filming,

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coming up with new ideas, everything. So when I say that I'm really dedicated and I really truly

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care and pour my entire being into this, I really mean it. So if there is anything you really,

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really want to hear or something that you want to see or dive deeper into, there are some good

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topics I think in the pipeline and you will hear a lot of very juicy stuff. Not that you haven't

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already, but you'll hear more of it. Please do let me know on Instagram. You can either message me

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on my host account. So at Mary Grace Crawford, or you can use the new IG handle and you can send me

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a message at once upon a trip dot PC. Someone else already took the handle once upon a trip. So

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I had to improvise. You can reach me on either of those accounts and I really feel so excited and

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really, really truly thankful from the bottom of my heart for you tuning in and listening and

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telling me these very valuable words of feedback and very kind compliment. I really appreciate that

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more than I can say on camera. So I really hope you can feel my gratitude wrapping this up. Now

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I love you all and hope that you have a really great rest of your week. Stay tuned. Oh my gosh,

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what is this? I give you a lot of my love.