If you're watching this and you see me, hello, I'm just kind of throwing this in here just as a
little bit of a not only test, but also because this is going to be a very, very short episode.
If you're really a fan of these video podcasts and would really like to see more of them,
even if they're really longer, please let me know. I will make an effort and not just do a still
video with some captions on them. Although I think you've really been liking that too. Anyway,
I'm throwing in this mini episode very spontaneously because as I'm sure you may have seen,
I have changed the podcast name. Going forward, this podcast will be known as the Once Upon a
Trip podcast and no longer the old name now, Ameripian at Heart. I turned both to Marco,
so my boyfriend. If you're new here and you don't know who that is, Marco is my boyfriend,
as well as my followers and friends on Instagram who follow my podcast account for some feedback
because I really do care and want to hear about how you feel and what you think about the things
that I think about. I was honestly very surprised to learn that a number of you actually really
liked the existing podcast name. You really liked Ameripian at Heart. On the contrary,
I also noticed that another number of you really were a fan of the name Once Upon a Trip. I was
honestly a bit torn as to whether or not to really change the name this soon in the podcast. There
have only been six episodes released, but just evaluating the content now the way that it is,
I just feel that this is a better move and the name Once Upon a Trip is so much more encompassing
and representative of the content and the podcast that you listen to every week or that I hope a lot
of you listen to every week. I know some of them are long, but I really do appreciate your support.
Okay, no more of that. Sorry, I'm going to get back to the episode here. I had spontaneously
thought of changing the name of the podcast recently when I told the owner of my company
that I started a podcast. He asked me, Mary Grace, what's the name of your podcast? And I told him,
Ameropean at Heart. He looked at me and was like, wait, what? Can you repeat that? Okay, not quite
like that, but you understand what I'm talking about. He was so confused. He did not get what I
was saying. He didn't understand Ameropean. He didn't get the reference. The same thing happened
to me the other day when I was out at a restaurant with my family. It was my dad's birthday and my
grandparents were having dinner with us and my grandfather as charming and personable as he is
to everybody he meets, told the waiter at that restaurant, my granddaughter has a podcast. You
should listen to it. And the waiter looked at me and he asked me, oh wait, is it active? You have
an active podcast? What's the name of it? So I told the waiter, yes, I do. Actually it's called
Ameropean at Heart. I got a similar reaction and he was like, wait, can you say that again? Wait,
what is it? So those two recent experiences of people not really registering the connection or
reference or name of the podcast and not being able to connect the dots and realize that this
is a travel story, American, European based focused podcast. It just really started making me think,
maybe I should change the name. Maybe people need something easier to remember, something that
really just hits better with them. And so with Marco's help and your help, I have chosen a very
appropriate encompassing name for the podcast going forward. Many people associate the word trip
with traveling, journeys, going on a plane, going on a car. What is that? Going in a car or going
somewhere. But I also really believe that trip means so much more than just travel. It really
means so many things. It encompasses a wide variety of all sorts of different topics, all sorts of
different life situations. And I really, really believe that this fits so well. This podcast is
designed of course to inspire, entertain and educate you to some degree in every single episode.
Of course this is travel based mostly, but I intended for this podcast to be a whole array
of different things. And I believe that trips involve our journeys with travel. They involve
our journeys with dating. They involve our journeys with life, business, life lessons, friendships,
so much stuff. I honestly felt really stupid saying the name of my podcast is AmeriPian at
heart. And people being like, what is that? Like, I don't want anyone to do that to my podcast. So
that's why this change is happening. I think you can understand. I'm working on getting the changes
officially squared away and published. I am hoping by next week, stay tuned for a new intro,
a new outro, new details, new podcast cover, new stuff. It will be the same content as you've seen,
well heard, maybe not seen. Well yes, seen on Instagram. But as far as Spotify goes,
for what you have heard, it will be the same idea. This is just a mini little rebrand and a little
bit of a six week refresher because that is how long up to this point that this podcast has existed.
It has been six weeks. I have been very, very, very dedicated every single day to putting together
great valuable content. If you know Marco, you can ask him what time I wake up every day. I am like a
crazy old woman. I wake up at 3 30 or four o'clock every single day, brainstorming, scripting, filming,
coming up with new ideas, everything. So when I say that I'm really dedicated and I really truly
care and pour my entire being into this, I really mean it. So if there is anything you really,
really want to hear or something that you want to see or dive deeper into, there are some good
topics I think in the pipeline and you will hear a lot of very juicy stuff. Not that you haven't
already, but you'll hear more of it. Please do let me know on Instagram. You can either message me
on my host account. So at Mary Grace Crawford, or you can use the new IG handle and you can send me
a message at once upon a trip dot PC. Someone else already took the handle once upon a trip. So
I had to improvise. You can reach me on either of those accounts and I really feel so excited and
really, really truly thankful from the bottom of my heart for you tuning in and listening and
telling me these very valuable words of feedback and very kind compliment. I really appreciate that
more than I can say on camera. So I really hope you can feel my gratitude wrapping this up. Now
I love you all and hope that you have a really great rest of your week. Stay tuned. Oh my gosh,
what is this? I give you a lot of my love.