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Welcome to the tortoise. A

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podcast that digs deep. Into

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the power of slow. I

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am Brooke McAlary and I am joined by my

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husband, Ben McAlary.

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It's not a podcast. It's

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a podcast. So

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what's the tortoise going to be all about?

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Well, it's about slow, but it's a

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much more expansive

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idea. Or look at what

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slow is in the world.

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You know, when we first started the Slow Home podcast,

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it was really about home and,

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you know, self development,

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self awareness and what

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slow living could do individually

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and in a closer sense. And it grew

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over time. And I think we tried to make it expansive,

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but the idea of it being about

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the home somehow felt like it kind

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of put walls around what slow could be

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in the conversations we were having. And

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when it became clear that the slow HomePod

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was coming to its natural end,

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we didn't want to finish podcasting and we

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didn't want to finish talking about slow, but

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we were looking for some different kind

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of way in. And that's what the tortoise

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is going to be because you think about what a tortoise

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is, it's slow, but

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it's intentional, it's

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powerful, and that's the lens

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through which I want to look at heaps of different

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topics on this podcast.

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Yeah, absolutely. So how is it different

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to the Slow Home podcast

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R.I.P.?

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It's just more expansive. Yeah, the

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idea of the slow home was

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really what it needed to be for us

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for many years. But

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over time, it it kind of felt

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restrictive, whereas this feels

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much more expansive

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and invitational and looks

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far beyond the home it looks. We're

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going to look at topics that will impact.

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Family, work, community.

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You know, you can take it as broad as you want,

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and it just feels like permission

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to me to make

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a change, which I think we need sometimes.

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You know, we did the slow HomePod for eight

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years and it was wonderful. But

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slowness represents more than

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that to me. And I feel like the

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conversations that we're going to have

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will ripple further.

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And these conversations are going to be recorded

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where we can outdoors.

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They'll be unedited, unfiltered,

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complete with dog barks, wind in the background

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and cars going past.

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You know, and that's the draw to me, actually. You

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and I recorded a couple of episodes,

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the final episodes of The Slow HomePod like

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that. And there was something really

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joyful and candid

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about it. And I want to

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play around with that. You know, I think that

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it's the antithesis to what a

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lot of podcasts have become. And,

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um, and I know I'm

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drawn to real conversations

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rather than highly edited, scripted.

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Jeff.

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I don't know if you can hear it, but the black cockatoos in the background

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going overhead. Sorry, that's just made

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me really happy. They

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mean a lot to me. They do?

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Yeah. You're spirit are an animal.

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Yeah. Do we say spirit? Animal?

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I do. That's

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my spirit animal. The

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car, getting.

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Past neighbors driving down the driveway.

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So, yeah, as you said, they're always

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going to be candid. They're sometimes going to be

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funny. I hope so. And they're going

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to be a monthly podcast.

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Yes. So that's the other shift

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that we've made. I'm all about

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being really intentional

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with our outputs and

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overcommitting is is not

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slow, you know, So

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really just committing to having

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a deep conversation

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once a month at this point feels

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right. Yeah. And so much of what we're doing,

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the changes that we're making are all

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about how things feel and it feels right.

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So I'm and it feels exciting

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and I think it will give us it

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will feel like a. Like

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a treat almost, you know, to to

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to dig in and explore a topic

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deeply once a month.

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We're incredibly excited about what this

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podcast can do, not

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only for us, but hopefully for you, the audience. So

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we encourage you if you haven't already,

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subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify

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or your favorite podcast platform

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and we will be in your ear holes

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with episode one very shortly.

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Until then.

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Take good care.