Message

So I hope that helps.

But if you've got any questions, then shoot me a message.

Have a lovely day.

Bye.

This is episode 25, season 3, for Sunday the 25th of October 2026, and I'm Elizabeth Guilt.

Your 100-word story for the day is The Message.

I saw it and stopped dead.

The square bricks with their one-sentence message were a common sight around town.

And it's only going to get worse with more AI agents downloading podcasts and all this junk is going to happen.

But at the end of the day, like, are you connecting to real people and are they writing you messages? If you go to an event, do they show up? And that's what we're trying to build.

And that's what we want to get closer and closer to.

And the stats are all just a representation of the people who are engaging with the thing that you want to share with the world.

Brian bringing this up has made me think that maybe we need to actually do a sponsorship deal with Podmatch so they can pay us because it sounds like we're promoting them

enough.

Brian actually sent in two messages.

The other was, can I ask if you'll be reviewing the Rodecaster Studio software? I've been using it for the past few weeks and it's definitely helped reduce my production time.

This is a habit that I've spoken about at length with people and on the podcast.

When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do, I make my coffee and then I read and then I journal.

I am not checking my phone, my notifications, what my clients have messaged me.

I'm not checking Instagram.

I don't even check Instagram until like three hours after I wake up.

useful.

The shot in the review video that got me was the Messages app, where you open up the Messages app.

It pops up the keyboard and the Chrome at the top, and you can see a text.

There's one text in view.

So happy you're here to the Tone It Down podcast.

I'm sitting here right now, it's like 6:00 AM on a Monday morning in beautiful Palm Springs, California, where I've been, and I just had this thought of a lot of messages I'm getting are about feeling like seasonal depression and all these mood shifts and something's in retrograde again.

But I was thinking, "What if we woke up in the morning and we didn't have [laughs] the Sunday Monday scares, but we gave ourself permission?" 'Cause I fall, I fall to that as well sometimes.

I'm like, "What if I gave myself permission to not be anxious on a Monday morning or a Tuesday morning or in the mornings or when the sun doesn't come up till 7:00 AM and there's all this darkness?" And I just recalled this morning as I'm journaling and meditating, it's the dawn of the day, and it's after the darkness that the light comes a-shining.

We celebrate you, and we pray that the Lord will preserve you.

Proverbs 4:18, the Message translation, "The longer you live, the brighter you will shine." You will finish well.

You will finish strong in the name of Jesus.

It's an honor for me to be sharing this platform with you today, and I do not take it for granted at all.

They can be your schoolmates.

They can even be the men that slept with you before you got born again, and now they notice that God's hand is upon your life, and they are wondering, "Can God ever use you? What are you talk- are you talking about?" Can I shock you if you're an Eliab here? God does not consult my past to determine my future.

[audience cheering] Micah chapter 7, I love the Amplified version and I love The Message translation.

Every time you repent, when you repent of your sins and God forgives you, the Bible makes me to understand in Micah chapter 7 that God throws them into the ocean of forgetfulness.