June 5, 2024 • 16 mins
Episode 50 of If I’m Honest with Julia Landauer marks the end of Season 2! In this episode, Julia recaps her annual Sibling Trip to Iceland, including all of her recommendations for restaurants and things to see and do. Julia then highlights some of her favorite moments from Season 2, specific episodes that listeners loved, and shares what’s yet to come.
Restaurants Julia referenced:
- Otto Matur & Drykkur: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g189960-d14205062-Reviews-Otto_Matur_Drykkur-Hofn_East_Region.html
- Berg: https://www.stayinvik.is/?lang=en
- Vedur: https://www.vedurbarinn.is/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wix_google_business_profile&utm_campaign=2498517376740315429
- Krons: https://www.krons.is/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=wix_google_business_profile&utm_campaign=8459319218968687359
- Amma Don: https://ox.restaurant/
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the season two finale of
If I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. Yes, this fiftieth episode
is the end of season two. It has flown by.
It's also been quite a bit more challenging this season.
Between working full time and ramping up my speaking again
and all that, it's been a lot of work and
it's been really exciting. I'll get into more of a
(00:26):
recap of season two in a bit, but first I
want to talk about my sibling trip to Iceland that
I just got back from on Sunday. Yes, we finally
got to sib trip time of the year. And for
those of you who listened to episode thirty, which is
about building strong sibling relationships, you know that my siblings
and I take a trip every year. We started in
(00:49):
twenty nineteen once we were all done with college, and
this trip is really an opportunity for us to have
somewhat unstructured bonding time over several day period away from
our parents, away from significant others, and it's a really
safe space. It's a space where we know that we're
going to have a pow wow, and in that powow
(01:10):
we can share how we're feeling, what's going on, what
we're proud of, what we're working on, what we're worried about.
We talk about things related to all of us, and
it's also a really cool time where we go in
knowing that we're welcoming unsolicited feedback and we trust each
other enough to do it respectfully, and we know that
it's always coming from a place of caring and wanting
(01:32):
the best for each other. Sometimes excus really heavy on
one sibling. Sometimes there's stuff that all of us have
to think about, but it's really incredible, and we all
agree that this was probably our best sibling trip yet,
combination of the vibes during the trip and what we
were chatting about, and the location. It was our first
international sibling trip, and so that added a little pizzazz
(01:57):
to the whole weekend and it was a nice Now.
I had been to Iceland in two thousand and seven
when I was part of the Formula BMW Education and
coaching program, and so there were about ten or twelve
of us younger like teenagers early twenty drivers who went
over to see the BMW factories in Germany and to
(02:17):
do some stuff over there. On our way back, we
were flying back to New York. One of our engines
gave out on the plane, and so we had to
do an emergency landing at the nearest airport, which happened
to be Reykiavik. So we had twelve hours in Iceland
in August in twenty two thousand and seven, and we
got to see the Blu lagoons and we got to
go on these big cliffs. I don't remember all of it,
(02:38):
but I do remember that, and it was really cool.
So this was a fun way to revisit and make
my own agenda, knowing some of the stuff I had
known from that past trip. This was a short trip.
Most of our sibling trips are three to four days,
and it's really a chance to reset. And it didn't
even feel too short, to be honest, because I think
(02:58):
Iceland is a nice balance of being far enough away
that you feel like you're going to a really cool
new place, but it's only a four hour time difference
from the East Coast, and it's a five hour flight,
so it doesn't feel that jarring. And we left on Wednesday,
May twenty ninth, and as we were getting ready to
meet up to go to the airport, we saw that
a volcano erupted again right near Reykievic and the bluagoons
(03:21):
and stuff, and so we were partially wondering, Okay, well
are we flying to Iceland? Is this a problem for us?
But our flight was scheduled and we knew that the
town near the volcano was evacuated, but we weren't planning
on going there right away. So it was all good,
and we flew out. We had some delays getting out,
which was a little stressful and a little nerve racking
(03:42):
that maybe they were going to cancel our flight due
to weather. But we made it and we landed in
Iceland on Thursday morning, and our plan was to immediately
drive out to the southeastern coast. We were going to
spend about five hours driving to Diamond Beach, which is
a black sand beach that it has big chunks of
ice on it and it just looks like diamonds are
(04:03):
scattered throughout the sand beach. And Iceland is so so
cool because one it is not very populated and there's
a lot of basically untouched land. And I kid you not,
the only road that was going from the Raykievic area
out to the out on the southern coast to the east.
Eastern side was one two lane highway where the speed
(04:26):
limit was ninety kilometers an hour, which is less than
sixty miles an hour, and it just keeps going, and
there really were not a lot of cars on that road.
And we drove through so many incredibly different microclimates. One
area was kind of rainy and overcast and looked very lush,
and there was a little more mountainous. Another area felt
(04:48):
like we were on a different planet. It was so
dry and rocky, and you had little little mounds here
and there, and then there were other areas where we
saw snowcapped mountains, and then there or other areas where
we saw glaciers. It was so incredible. And as my
sister heard from one of her friends, the weather can
change in an instant. So we had rain, we had
(05:10):
heavy wind, we had major fog and smog and dust storms,
and then sunshine. And I was starting to get a
little tired at one point after a red eye and
then driving for a few hours, and we decided to
get out and look around at this house that had
been built into the side of a mountain basically, and
(05:32):
we get out and there are these huge gusts of
wind and it was so cold, and it woke us
right up, and then I was good to go for
the rest of the drive. We keep making our way
eastwards and we finally get to the area of Diamond
Beach and we saw that a lot of people were
parked in this one parking lot just off the side
of the main road, and all we could see was
(05:54):
this little hill of dirt, this mound, and we park,
we get out, we walk up and as we crest
the top, we see this big lagoon full of large
chunks of ice that just goes for a while, and
then we see this big glacier in the background, and
it was so beautiful. It was there's something so cool
(06:15):
about seeing big chunks of ice that are just floating
around in the water. And we kept driving to go
to the other side of this lagoon and we got
to get up on the shore of the water and
see these ice chunks, and some of the ice chunks
were floating, and some of them were bobbing in the water,
and we're talking massive, massive chunks of ice, like bigger
(06:36):
than cars, and it was just really romantic and wonderful
and kind of magical. And then we crossed the street
and got to Diamond Beach on the Black Sand Beach,
and we didn't see a ton of ice, but there
were still some ice chunks. It had just melted a
lot by that point. And then we drive about another
hour to where we were staying, which is the town
of Home spelled Hofn. And this was a love little place.
(07:00):
It was just a random hotel literally off that main road.
But we went to dinner at a place called Auto
Mature and Drykar and I'm sure I did not pronounce
that right, but that was my best shot. And this
meal was amazing. I had a smoked cod that was
so light and fluffy but also so rich and flavorful,
(07:21):
a lot of really great vegetables. Emmn Aiden had great dishes.
We had a beautiful homemade sour dough bread with a
whipped butter and then I think lava salt that we
had to sprinkle into the butter. Oh it was so good.
And I kid you not. I had one of my
top five desserts that I've ever had in my life,
(07:42):
and all it was was a BlackBerry tart. But the
pastry of this tart, the creaminess and vanilla and rich
complex flavor, of the filling with the fruit on top.
H it was a religious experience. It was so good.
So when we went to bed, and it is trippy
because in the summertime it feels like it doesn't fully
(08:06):
get dark. The sun didn't set till around eleven eleven thirty,
but even at twelve one in the night, it's still
pretty light out. It is so weird, and it totally
trips you up between the jet lag and that lighting.
It makes it so you just don't want to go
to bed. And then it's just light all the way around.
And the curtains are really incredible in every place that
(08:28):
we stayed. I guess they're prepared for this, but it
was just it was so cool to be eleven PM
and looking like you could just go outside for a
walk because it's so nice. So that was really really cool.
Second day, we got up, had a delightful continental breakfast.
I love a European style continental breakfast. My sister loved
that they had canned fish that were basically preserved and
(08:50):
eating that for breakfast, and the egg situation was fantastic,
great jams Natella as always, and then we started driving
back westward, so we had made it to our furthest
east point. We started driving west and we were trying
to get to vic which is another city on the
southern coast, and this time we made a bunch of
stops at different hiking points. We had some really brutal wind.
(09:12):
At one of them, we had a beautiful, lush hike
that would have been absolutely stunning had not been raining
the whole time, but it was still very cool. I
just wasn't totally prepared clothing wise, and we made it
to our place in Vicim. We stayed in a little house.
It was a tiny house that we rented. Had another
great dinner where we had carrot soup and we had
(09:36):
the great Icelandic gin and tonics. Mine had lemonon thyme,
my sisters had blueberries. It was absolutely delicious, and they
are Their food is so good. It is really expensive.
Food and drink is expensive in Iceland, and I think
that's the same in most Nordic countries, but oh my goodness,
it is fresh and they do it well. That second day, Friday,
was when we had our pow wow and it was
(09:58):
just really good. It was really fruitful. I'm really grateful
for my siblings to be able to have these conversations,
and then we went to sleep and woke up and
started driving to Rayyevic. We had planted make some more
stops on the way to Raikievic, but it was really
nasty weather. It was raining, it was cold. There was
really low, dense fog, so we just couldn't see very much.
(10:19):
We wanted to see if there was any chance we
could see the Blue Lagoons. We couldn't because it was
closed because of the eruption of the volcano earlier, so
we had to skip that and we went to Raikievic
and Raykevik kind of feels like a small seattle. That
was the vibe I was getting. And we were staying
right in downtown, got to park the car and we
(10:39):
walked over to their National History Museum, which is really cool. Honestly,
Icelandic history doesn't go that far back and it isn't
particularly dense, and I don't mean that in a disrespectful
way at all. It's just that it was uninhabited for
so long, and then it's still a very small country.
And so we got to see kind of the Danish
and Norwegian rule over it. We got to learn more
(11:00):
about the lifestyle it was really cool, but it's definitely
interesting to have such a short history based on just
the lack of a population for a very long time.
And then we went out and about in Reikievic. We
went to the main church. We went to a few
different food establishments. I'm going to butcher these names, but
(11:22):
I am going to link them. We went to a
really cool, seemingly very local pub called Vidor. I don't
know if that's how you pronounced it. We went to
dinner at a restaurant called Corns, which was so good,
and it was really funny because one of the waiters
he started speaking a little bit in French and I
got all excited. I was like pan. He was like
oh no, no no, And I felt a little a
(11:46):
little great for my ego because I felt like, ah,
I know more French than this person. But I will
side note say that Icelandic's Icelanders had him. I actually
don't know how what you refer to them, as people
in Iceland have been peck up English. So bravo to
them for mastering that second language. And anyway, so we
went to Corns. It was really good. We then went
(12:07):
to a speakeasy called Amadon, which is a sister establishment
to the Michelin Star restaurant that's in Raykievic. And then
the next morning we had breakfast or one cinnamon roll
that we shared at Broad and Co. Which was a
very good bakery. We got to listen to a little
live music. We got to you know, kind of get
ready to pack and leave, and then we went to sleep.
(12:28):
And then the next day we went to the airport.
Pro tip, there are a lot of long lines at
the Raykievik airport between security, passport control, and then additional
customs to get on the plane. It was a very
long process that we were glad. We had a full
two hours for so heads up there and that was
our sip trip. It was so so cool. I posted
(12:50):
pictures on my Instagram. I just again feel so grateful
and my heart is so full, and I ten ten
recommend a visit. Actually if you were a little more
outdoorsy and like hiking and wandering and exploring other territories
and terrains. It was really really cool. But the last
little bit of this episode, I want to give a
(13:11):
recap of the season. As I mentioned, it was a
different season. It was challenging, I really tried to diversify
the type of content that I provided. You know everything
from episode thirty two, which was driving tips from a
race car driver. That was a PSA that I feel
very passionately about, and I do hope that you share
that with everyone, because everyone should know some of the
(13:32):
rules of driving because it can be made a lot better.
You guys particularly liked some of the guest episodes, one
with fan Behavior and f one podcast that was episode
thirty six, And you really liked my episode with Dad Joke,
TikTok Star and prop Master Scott Reader. He was really
fun to talk to and to learn more about the industry.
(13:53):
I gave my emotional thoughts on Luke Combs and Tracy
Chapman's Fast Car in episode thirty four, and on the
music theme, I shared my opinions on Taylor Swift's The
Torture Poets Department, which has evolved from episode forty four
when I recorded that. My feelings have changed a bit,
and it is so fun to see the kind of
(14:15):
grainy videos from people going to our concerts again. We
love seeing Taylor Swift on tour. We also learned about
new things together, like psychological safety, which was episode forty eight,
and I had not heard about it before a speaking
client attendee had asked me about it, and I also
did a little deep dive into the psychology of pre
competition rituals on episode forty six, so it felt like
(14:38):
a really fun, diverse topic range for me. It was
really fun to learn, it was fun to share opinions.
It was really cool and engaging to talk with so
many cool guests, And thank you again to all of
my guests, and I would love to hear from you
as we take a little break between season two and
season three. I would love to learn what you found engaging,
(14:59):
what you did, did like, what you didn't like, did
something in particular resonate, what would you like to see
more of moving forward? If you're willing to share some
of that feedback, either by leaving your thoughts in a
review or commenting on some of my social media posts
or posting at me on x It's weird to not
use the Twitter terminology, but that's okay. It would all
(15:21):
be really helpful because I want to give you, guys,
contents and discussion that you like to hear, and as
we round out season two, I plan on taking a
couple months off before starting season three. I am taking
a decent vacation and have some other travel going on.
But I also really want to take the time to
let my creative brain really think about what we want
(15:44):
to do next for season three. I have some ideas
and I want to hash them out. I want to
find really great guests for you to listen to, because
there's so many cool and interesting people. If you have
a guest request, please let me know. And again, it's
really helpful for me and my producers and the podcast
in general if you're able to share episodes that you
like with other people, if you can follow the podcast,
(16:07):
rate it, leave a review, encourage your friends to leave
a review. It would mean so much to me. As always,
thank you so much for letting me be honest with
you for two seasons and fifty episodes. It's been incredible.
This has been a journey, and I look forward to
seeing you at season three of If I'm Honest with
Julia Landauer
Hello everybody, and welcome to the season two finale of
If I'm Honest with Julia Landauer. Yes, this fiftieth episode
is the end of season two. It has flown by.
It's also been quite a bit more challenging this season.
Between working full time and ramping up my speaking again
and all that, it's been a lot of work and
it's been really exciting. I'll get into more of a
(00:26):
recap of season two in a bit, but first I
want to talk about my sibling trip to Iceland that
I just got back from on Sunday. Yes, we finally
got to sib trip time of the year. And for
those of you who listened to episode thirty, which is
about building strong sibling relationships, you know that my siblings
and I take a trip every year. We started in
(00:49):
twenty nineteen once we were all done with college, and
this trip is really an opportunity for us to have
somewhat unstructured bonding time over several day period away from
our parents, away from significant others, and it's a really
safe space. It's a space where we know that we're
going to have a pow wow, and in that powow
(01:10):
we can share how we're feeling, what's going on, what
we're proud of, what we're working on, what we're worried about.
We talk about things related to all of us, and
it's also a really cool time where we go in
knowing that we're welcoming unsolicited feedback and we trust each
other enough to do it respectfully, and we know that
it's always coming from a place of caring and wanting
(01:32):
the best for each other. Sometimes excus really heavy on
one sibling. Sometimes there's stuff that all of us have
to think about, but it's really incredible, and we all
agree that this was probably our best sibling trip yet,
combination of the vibes during the trip and what we
were chatting about, and the location. It was our first
international sibling trip, and so that added a little pizzazz
(01:57):
to the whole weekend and it was a nice Now.
I had been to Iceland in two thousand and seven
when I was part of the Formula BMW Education and
coaching program, and so there were about ten or twelve
of us younger like teenagers early twenty drivers who went
over to see the BMW factories in Germany and to
(02:17):
do some stuff over there. On our way back, we
were flying back to New York. One of our engines
gave out on the plane, and so we had to
do an emergency landing at the nearest airport, which happened
to be Reykiavik. So we had twelve hours in Iceland
in August in twenty two thousand and seven, and we
got to see the Blu lagoons and we got to
go on these big cliffs. I don't remember all of it,
(02:38):
but I do remember that, and it was really cool.
So this was a fun way to revisit and make
my own agenda, knowing some of the stuff I had
known from that past trip. This was a short trip.
Most of our sibling trips are three to four days,
and it's really a chance to reset. And it didn't
even feel too short, to be honest, because I think
(02:58):
Iceland is a nice balance of being far enough away
that you feel like you're going to a really cool
new place, but it's only a four hour time difference
from the East Coast, and it's a five hour flight,
so it doesn't feel that jarring. And we left on Wednesday,
May twenty ninth, and as we were getting ready to
meet up to go to the airport, we saw that
a volcano erupted again right near Reykievic and the bluagoons
(03:21):
and stuff, and so we were partially wondering, Okay, well
are we flying to Iceland? Is this a problem for us?
But our flight was scheduled and we knew that the
town near the volcano was evacuated, but we weren't planning
on going there right away. So it was all good,
and we flew out. We had some delays getting out,
which was a little stressful and a little nerve racking
(03:42):
that maybe they were going to cancel our flight due
to weather. But we made it and we landed in
Iceland on Thursday morning, and our plan was to immediately
drive out to the southeastern coast. We were going to
spend about five hours driving to Diamond Beach, which is
a black sand beach that it has big chunks of
ice on it and it just looks like diamonds are
(04:03):
scattered throughout the sand beach. And Iceland is so so
cool because one it is not very populated and there's
a lot of basically untouched land. And I kid you not,
the only road that was going from the Raykievic area
out to the out on the southern coast to the east.
Eastern side was one two lane highway where the speed
(04:26):
limit was ninety kilometers an hour, which is less than
sixty miles an hour, and it just keeps going, and
there really were not a lot of cars on that road.
And we drove through so many incredibly different microclimates. One
area was kind of rainy and overcast and looked very lush,
and there was a little more mountainous. Another area felt
(04:48):
like we were on a different planet. It was so
dry and rocky, and you had little little mounds here
and there, and then there were other areas where we
saw snowcapped mountains, and then there or other areas where
we saw glaciers. It was so incredible. And as my
sister heard from one of her friends, the weather can
change in an instant. So we had rain, we had
(05:10):
heavy wind, we had major fog and smog and dust storms,
and then sunshine. And I was starting to get a
little tired at one point after a red eye and
then driving for a few hours, and we decided to
get out and look around at this house that had
been built into the side of a mountain basically, and
(05:32):
we get out and there are these huge gusts of
wind and it was so cold, and it woke us
right up, and then I was good to go for
the rest of the drive. We keep making our way
eastwards and we finally get to the area of Diamond
Beach and we saw that a lot of people were
parked in this one parking lot just off the side
of the main road, and all we could see was
(05:54):
this little hill of dirt, this mound, and we park,
we get out, we walk up and as we crest
the top, we see this big lagoon full of large
chunks of ice that just goes for a while, and
then we see this big glacier in the background, and
it was so beautiful. It was there's something so cool
(06:15):
about seeing big chunks of ice that are just floating
around in the water. And we kept driving to go
to the other side of this lagoon and we got
to get up on the shore of the water and
see these ice chunks, and some of the ice chunks
were floating, and some of them were bobbing in the water,
and we're talking massive, massive chunks of ice, like bigger
(06:36):
than cars, and it was just really romantic and wonderful
and kind of magical. And then we crossed the street
and got to Diamond Beach on the Black Sand Beach,
and we didn't see a ton of ice, but there
were still some ice chunks. It had just melted a
lot by that point. And then we drive about another
hour to where we were staying, which is the town
of Home spelled Hofn. And this was a love little place.
(07:00):
It was just a random hotel literally off that main road.
But we went to dinner at a place called Auto
Mature and Drykar and I'm sure I did not pronounce
that right, but that was my best shot. And this
meal was amazing. I had a smoked cod that was
so light and fluffy but also so rich and flavorful,
(07:21):
a lot of really great vegetables. Emmn Aiden had great dishes.
We had a beautiful homemade sour dough bread with a
whipped butter and then I think lava salt that we
had to sprinkle into the butter. Oh it was so good.
And I kid you not. I had one of my
top five desserts that I've ever had in my life,
(07:42):
and all it was was a BlackBerry tart. But the
pastry of this tart, the creaminess and vanilla and rich
complex flavor, of the filling with the fruit on top.
H it was a religious experience. It was so good.
So when we went to bed, and it is trippy
because in the summertime it feels like it doesn't fully
(08:06):
get dark. The sun didn't set till around eleven eleven thirty,
but even at twelve one in the night, it's still
pretty light out. It is so weird, and it totally
trips you up between the jet lag and that lighting.
It makes it so you just don't want to go
to bed. And then it's just light all the way around.
And the curtains are really incredible in every place that
(08:28):
we stayed. I guess they're prepared for this, but it
was just it was so cool to be eleven PM
and looking like you could just go outside for a
walk because it's so nice. So that was really really cool.
Second day, we got up, had a delightful continental breakfast.
I love a European style continental breakfast. My sister loved
that they had canned fish that were basically preserved and
(08:50):
eating that for breakfast, and the egg situation was fantastic,
great jams Natella as always, and then we started driving
back westward, so we had made it to our furthest
east point. We started driving west and we were trying
to get to vic which is another city on the
southern coast, and this time we made a bunch of
stops at different hiking points. We had some really brutal wind.
(09:12):
At one of them, we had a beautiful, lush hike
that would have been absolutely stunning had not been raining
the whole time, but it was still very cool. I
just wasn't totally prepared clothing wise, and we made it
to our place in Vicim. We stayed in a little house.
It was a tiny house that we rented. Had another
great dinner where we had carrot soup and we had
(09:36):
the great Icelandic gin and tonics. Mine had lemonon thyme,
my sisters had blueberries. It was absolutely delicious, and they
are Their food is so good. It is really expensive.
Food and drink is expensive in Iceland, and I think
that's the same in most Nordic countries, but oh my goodness,
it is fresh and they do it well. That second day, Friday,
was when we had our pow wow and it was
(09:58):
just really good. It was really fruitful. I'm really grateful
for my siblings to be able to have these conversations,
and then we went to sleep and woke up and
started driving to Rayyevic. We had planted make some more
stops on the way to Raikievic, but it was really
nasty weather. It was raining, it was cold. There was
really low, dense fog, so we just couldn't see very much.
(10:19):
We wanted to see if there was any chance we
could see the Blue Lagoons. We couldn't because it was
closed because of the eruption of the volcano earlier, so
we had to skip that and we went to Raikievic
and Raykevik kind of feels like a small seattle. That
was the vibe I was getting. And we were staying
right in downtown, got to park the car and we
(10:39):
walked over to their National History Museum, which is really cool. Honestly,
Icelandic history doesn't go that far back and it isn't
particularly dense, and I don't mean that in a disrespectful
way at all. It's just that it was uninhabited for
so long, and then it's still a very small country.
And so we got to see kind of the Danish
and Norwegian rule over it. We got to learn more
(11:00):
about the lifestyle it was really cool, but it's definitely
interesting to have such a short history based on just
the lack of a population for a very long time.
And then we went out and about in Reikievic. We
went to the main church. We went to a few
different food establishments. I'm going to butcher these names, but
(11:22):
I am going to link them. We went to a
really cool, seemingly very local pub called Vidor. I don't
know if that's how you pronounced it. We went to
dinner at a restaurant called Corns, which was so good,
and it was really funny because one of the waiters
he started speaking a little bit in French and I
got all excited. I was like pan. He was like
oh no, no no, And I felt a little a
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little great for my ego because I felt like, ah,
I know more French than this person. But I will
side note say that Icelandic's Icelanders had him. I actually
don't know how what you refer to them, as people
in Iceland have been peck up English. So bravo to
them for mastering that second language. And anyway, so we
went to Corns. It was really good. We then went
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to a speakeasy called Amadon, which is a sister establishment
to the Michelin Star restaurant that's in Raykievic. And then
the next morning we had breakfast or one cinnamon roll
that we shared at Broad and Co. Which was a
very good bakery. We got to listen to a little
live music. We got to you know, kind of get
ready to pack and leave, and then we went to sleep.
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And then the next day we went to the airport.
Pro tip, there are a lot of long lines at
the Raykievik airport between security, passport control, and then additional
customs to get on the plane. It was a very
long process that we were glad. We had a full
two hours for so heads up there and that was
our sip trip. It was so so cool. I posted
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pictures on my Instagram. I just again feel so grateful
and my heart is so full, and I ten ten
recommend a visit. Actually if you were a little more
outdoorsy and like hiking and wandering and exploring other territories
and terrains. It was really really cool. But the last
little bit of this episode, I want to give a
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recap of the season. As I mentioned, it was a
different season. It was challenging, I really tried to diversify
the type of content that I provided. You know everything
from episode thirty two, which was driving tips from a
race car driver. That was a PSA that I feel
very passionately about, and I do hope that you share
that with everyone, because everyone should know some of the
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rules of driving because it can be made a lot better.
You guys particularly liked some of the guest episodes, one
with fan Behavior and f one podcast that was episode
thirty six, And you really liked my episode with Dad Joke,
TikTok Star and prop Master Scott Reader. He was really
fun to talk to and to learn more about the industry.
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I gave my emotional thoughts on Luke Combs and Tracy
Chapman's Fast Car in episode thirty four, and on the
music theme, I shared my opinions on Taylor Swift's The
Torture Poets Department, which has evolved from episode forty four
when I recorded that. My feelings have changed a bit,
and it is so fun to see the kind of
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grainy videos from people going to our concerts again. We
love seeing Taylor Swift on tour. We also learned about
new things together, like psychological safety, which was episode forty eight,
and I had not heard about it before a speaking
client attendee had asked me about it, and I also
did a little deep dive into the psychology of pre
competition rituals on episode forty six, so it felt like
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a really fun, diverse topic range for me. It was
really fun to learn, it was fun to share opinions.
It was really cool and engaging to talk with so
many cool guests, And thank you again to all of
my guests, and I would love to hear from you
as we take a little break between season two and
season three. I would love to learn what you found engaging,
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what you did, did like, what you didn't like, did
something in particular resonate, what would you like to see
more of moving forward? If you're willing to share some
of that feedback, either by leaving your thoughts in a
review or commenting on some of my social media posts
or posting at me on x It's weird to not
use the Twitter terminology, but that's okay. It would all
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be really helpful because I want to give you, guys,
contents and discussion that you like to hear, and as
we round out season two, I plan on taking a
couple months off before starting season three. I am taking
a decent vacation and have some other travel going on.
But I also really want to take the time to
let my creative brain really think about what we want
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to do next for season three. I have some ideas
and I want to hash them out. I want to
find really great guests for you to listen to, because
there's so many cool and interesting people. If you have
a guest request, please let me know. And again, it's
really helpful for me and my producers and the podcast
in general if you're able to share episodes that you
like with other people, if you can follow the podcast,
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rate it, leave a review, encourage your friends to leave
a review. It would mean so much to me. As always,
thank you so much for letting me be honest with
you for two seasons and fifty episodes. It's been incredible.
This has been a journey, and I look forward to
seeing you at season three of If I'm Honest with
Julia Landauer
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