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#81: Is Your Environment Keeping You Stuck?
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What Are You Surrounding Yourself With? The Hidden Influences Shaping Your Energy, Sleep & Well-Being
What if your environment is influencing how you think, feel, learn, work, sleep, and connect more than you realize?
And what if creating a better environment isn't about optimizing your life?
It's about becoming more aware.
In this episode of Just Count Me In, Sari Stone explores the environments we move through every day—from our homes and bedrooms to classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, digital spaces, and relationships.
We talk about the light we wake up to, the noise we live with, the importance of silence, the chairs we sit in, movement breaks, exercise, creativity, nature, technology, and even the emotional environments we create for one another.
With a new school year beginning, this conversation is especially relevant for teachers and school leaders thinking about classroom environments, parents creating supportive spaces at home, and business leaders thinking about how offices and meeting spaces can better support the humans inside them.
And there's one question at the heart of the entire episode:
What small change could we make in this environment to better support the humans inside it?
In this episode, we explore:
- Why Sari believes awareness is more useful than constant self-optimization
- How light interacts with our circadian rhythms and sleep
- The health effects associated with excessive environmental noise
- Why silence and periods without constant stimulation may be worth reconsidering
- How physical spaces can influence attention and experience
- Why prolonged sitting matters and why movement belongs in schools and workplaces
- What research says about classroom movement and active breaks
- The relationship between physical activity and executive function
- Why creativity deserves a place in children's environments
- How ergonomic design can better support people at work
- How nature may help restore attention
- The effect of digital interruptions and notifications
- Why our relationships are part of our environment, too
- How to think about feng shui and intentional spaces without turning them into another set of rules
- Using August 8 as a personal moment for reflection and intention
- Why the goal isn't to create the "perfect" environment—but a more human one
A question to take with you:
What small change could you make in your environment to better support the human being inside it?
You don't have to change everything.
Notice one thing.
Then choose.
Research & Further Reading
Light, circadian rhythms & sleep
Chellappa et al. — Recommendations for daytime, evening, and nighttime indoor light exposure to best support physiology, sleep, and wakefulness in healthy adults.
Böhmer et al. — Are we still in the dark? A systematic review on personal daily light exposure, sleep-wake rhythm, and mood.
Read the systematic review on PubMed
Environmental noise
World Health Organization — Guidance on environmental noise and associated health effects, including sleep disturbance, cardiovascular risks, and cognitive impacts.
Movement, exercise & the brain
Mao et al. — 2024 systematic review and meta-analysis examining cognitively engaging physical activity and executive function in children and adolescents.
Teng et al. — 2025 systematic review and meta-analysis examining cognitively engaging physical activity and executive function in children and adolescents.
Read the 2025 research on PubMed
Brain breaks & schools
Reyes-Amigo et al. — 2025 systematic review of school-based active breaks, classroom behavior, executive functions, and physical fitness.
Read the systematic review on PubMed
Sitting, chairs & ergonomics
Rhodes et al. — Systematic review examining sedentary behavior and health in adults.
Leyshon et al. — Systematic review of ergonomic interventions for office workers.
Read the ergonomic research on PubMed
Channak et al. — Systematic review examining chair interventions and lower-back pain/discomfort among office workers.
Read the chair research on PubMed
Nature & attention
Stevenson et al. — Systematic review examining Attention Restoration Theory and exposure to natural environments.
Creativity & well-being
Hugh-Jones et al. — 2025 systematic review examining arts and creative activities and adolescent mental health and well-being.
Digital interruptions
Research examining communication notifications found that reducing notification-related interruptions was associated with improved performance and reduced strain in a workplace field experiment.
The takeaway: You don't need to optimize your life.
You can begin by noticing.
Notice the light.
Notice the noise.
Notice your body.
Notice your surroundings.
Notice what enters your mind.
And then ask:
Does this environment support the human being I want to be?
Thank you for joining me!
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Welcome And The Power Of Place
SPEAKER_00Welcome, welcome to Just Count Me In. I'm Sari Stone and I'm your host. This week we're going to be talking about environments. And if you've ever walked into a room and immediately felt calmer or walked into a space and felt your energy shift without really knowing why, this episode is for you. You could be a teacher getting ready to welcome kids back into your classroom, or a school leader thinking about the environments you're creating for students and teachers, a business leader designing an office or a meeting space, a parent just trying to create a calmer home for your family, or somebody who just wants your own home to feel more peaceful and supportive, this episode is for you. Because we can do all the work on ourselves and still have some things in our environment that unintentionally are not good for us. If you've ever wondered, like, why do you think better when you're walking? Why do you sleep better in some environments than others? How come certain spaces make you want to stay and others make you just want to get up and get out? Why do you sometimes just desperately need a little quiet? The environments we create aren't just places where life happens. They are actually part of the experience of being human. And after you listen to this episode, please stay till the end and please download and share it with anybody who you think might benefit from hearing this because it does support the podcast when you download. After you listen to this, you're going to start to notice your environment differently. You're going to gain an understanding of how light, movement, physical spaces, technology, nature, the people around you all influence how you think, how you feel, how you learn, how you work, how you rest. But more importantly, you're going to have a simple question that you take with you into any environment. What small change could I make to better support the humans inside this environment? And whatever you're creating, whether you're creating a classroom or leading a team, making a home, designing an office, you don't have to optimize your life. You can become more intentional about the environment you're creating and then notice the changes. And maybe you're going to discover that creating a better environment is not really about doing more. It's more about making a little more room for rest, maybe a little more movement, a little creativity, a little connection, or just be human. So what are you surrounding yourself with? There's hidden influences that really shape your energy and they make a huge difference. How many times have you noticed that you feel restless when you walk into a space or distracted? Or maybe you've walked into somebody's home and felt, wow, I could stay here all day. Maybe you've walked into another space and realized I don't think I can be here for five minutes and you don't really know why. Maybe there's not an obvious reason why. Maybe you've noticed that you sleep differently in different houses or different hotels or different places. You think differently when you're walking than when you're sitting at your desk. You feel different after you've spent even just 15 minutes in nature. You feel different after you've spent time scrolling. You feel different after an hour of conversation with one person than you do to another. It really got me thinking how much of how I feel every day is actually being influenced by what is surrounding me. Not just my home, the light, the sound, the furniture, the clothing, the phones, the schools, where I work, my relationships, even the amount of silence
Stop Optimizing, Start Noticing
SPEAKER_00or lack sometimes in my life. Today I want to really explore all that, but I want to do it a little differently because I don't know about you, but I'm really tired and a bit over it with the idea that we need to constantly optimize ourselves. I don't even want to use that word anymore. We need the perfect morning routine, the perfect sleep routine, the perfect supplements, the perfect workout, the perfect productivity system. And now we're we've got biohacking. Track this, measure that, import this, optimize that. At some point, I don't know about you, but I think wellness started to become another performance project for me, and I nipped that right in the bud. I do not want the episode to in any way, shape, or form do that. And I don't want you to finish this episode with 25 more things that you feel like you should be doing. Instead, I want to give you a question. A question that you can use at home, at school, at work, with your kids, with yourself. And the question is, what small change could we make in this environment to better support the humans inside of it? That's it. Not perfect, not optimized, just a little bit more supportive.
Building Calm Through Intentional Design
SPEAKER_00And I'll tell you something I noticed when people come into my home, they often comment on how calm it feels, and I love that. I want people to relax in our house. Our house is not fancy. I can even have a picture of it in the for the cover of this podcast. I think I'll do that. It really is not. It's simple, but we've been really intentional about it. How do we want to feel in our home? And if this object contributes to that, it stays. If it doesn't, we chuck it or donate it. We pay attention to natural light, we pay attention to the materials that we're sitting on and that we have around. We don't like a lot of clutter. We're pretty mindful about colors because my husband is actually an artist also, and he loves to paint, so he's sensitive to colors, and I love the mood that I get from different colors. We think about where things go, and we have things in our home that have meaning to us. And the same thing was with my classroom. The years that I was in a mobile classroom were actually the best because we had fresh air and sunshine and we could hear the sounds outside, the nature outside, and we didn't need the other lighting, and people would just come and sit in my room and be calm. So it's not about convincing you that one particular thing is the reason why the whole room feels better or the house feels better. It's more like what does this space feel like to you that you're in right now? Does it feel like a place where you can exhale all the way? Does it feel like a place where you can think? Is it a place where you can just be? Because our environments don't have to be in expensive to be intentional. That distinction is really important. I'm not talking about going on house or Pinterest and designing the perfect home. That's fun, that's a project. I'm just talking about noticing. And I wondered why. Why is this? Is it just me? Is it other people? Is it the way I'm wired, or is it everybody's brain?
What Your Environment Asks Of You
SPEAKER_00So, you know me, I looked up the brain research, and our brain never stops processing. We don't stop processing just because we're not consciously paying attention, which is a good amount of the time. Our surroundings provide information all day long: light, sound, movement, temperature, visual information, people, technology, and environmental psychology has spent decades examining how physical environments can influence attention, behavior, productivity, stress, and well-being. Even visual clutter can compete for our attention. So instead of asking, how can I make my environment perfect? the first thing that you can ask yourself is what's my environment asking of me? Is it asking me to focus? Is it asking me to react or relax or rush or defend or create or connect? That question changes a
Light, Sleep, And The 5-10-20 Rule
SPEAKER_00lot. One of the things that really affects me a lot, and I know because I have a good friend who comes over and she's trying to get more natural light into her house, and it's something that we all experience. Our circadian system uses light and darkness as really important cues. Light during the day actually helps us to regulate our biological clock, while at night light can shift circadian timings and affect your sleep-related processes. Research does support the general principle of getting brighter light during the day and reducing unnecessary bright light as much as you can in an evening rather than obsessing over it. I mean, I know some people are going like candles, no electricity at night. I'm fine with that. You do what works for your family. We don't do that here, but we are aware. We are aware. Maybe the question isn't do I have a perfect lighting system? Because that might not be something that I even think about. It's more like does my environment give my body a clear difference between day and night? Can you get outside or look outside in the morning? Can you let natural light into your home? I was listening to a Mel Robbins podcast. The research is clear that it's 510-20. It's five minutes if you can look at the sun for five minutes when you wake up in the morning or around that time. And 10 minutes if you're looking at it inside from a window, or 20 minutes if it's cloudy, those amounts of sunlight getting into your eyes resets you and resets your melatonin so that you can get a better night's sleep. And that that's 5, 10, 20 rule, and you can look that up. So, can you just spend some time outdoors during the day? Is there any way to get a little more natural light into your home? And then as evening comes, can you allow things to become a little darker, a little quieter? Not because you're failing if you don't. Please don't do that to yourself. Just because you're working with your biology, and we all need better sleep.
Noise, Silence, And Overstimulation
SPEAKER_00There's noise that we don't even notice. I went to the beach one day this week to think, actually, yesterday, to think about trying to write this podcast down. So I just write it down and get my ideas together. And to be honest, this has never happened at this beach. I couldn't hear myself think there were so many different radios on. And I'm a music person. I'm not insulting people if they listen to music at the beach at all. But I am saying that I personally, hearing three different boxes going at the same time, all different songs, I literally had to just get up and walk around. And so just notice, notice noise. How often do you have something playing? A podcast, TV, music, an audiobook, YouTube, your phone. I'm guilty of this too. I love audiobooks, and I literally have to just force myself to have some quiet time where I'm not listening to somebody's podcast and I'm not listening to an audiobook, and I'm just hearing the birds or hearing nothing. I love learning, and it's hard for me to do this. I'm not suggesting that sound is all bad. I also love music, but part of me just gets to where I need it to stop and just be quiet. I had to ask myself, hey, am I choosing this because I really want to hear it, or am I uncomfortable with silence? Those are two really different things. I know people who literally, my dad for a while, started sleeping with the TV on all night. God bless him, you know, and my poor stepmom actually moved out of the bedroom for that and up the hall because she couldn't take it, and good for her. I mean, there are people who literally can't have any quiet in their day at all, and it just makes you wonder. We need to distinguish between ordinary sound and having something on as noise that ends up just being a blur after a while. There is research on chronic environmental noise, and that is pretty substantial. The World Health Organization identified excessive noise, and I mean excessive, as environmental health risk, and it links it with disturbance-related effects, cardiovascular outcomes, and cognitive impacts. And I would look that up if you have curiosity about it. Here's something that really made me think. We talk about air pollution. In my neighborhood, people talk about light pollution, but what about the amount of stimulation that we're voluntarily putting into our brains all day? Sometimes I wonder, do we ever give our brains a chance to just be quiet? Try driving somewhere without turning anything on. Check it out. Sit outside without your phone. My friend Zach goes for a walk every day without his phone. It's literally his break. That's his only break from it. Drink your coffee without drinking information. Maybe take a walk and listen to what's around you. This is definitely not a wellness assignment. I just want you to experiment, become curious. It's your life. Play around a little bit. Just notice what happens.
Touch, Clothing, And Body Comfort
SPEAKER_00Your physical environment is not just what we see. It's what we touch. It's our clothes. It's what touches us. It's our bedding. It's what we sleep in, or towels, or chairs, or desks, our shoes. And again, I'm going to be really careful here. I'm not going to tell you that polyester is poisoning or every natural fiber is automatically healthier. I don't know. You can do your own research on fibers. But I do want to say that something we can pay attention to is how does your physical environment feel in your body? Are you comfortable? Do you feel too hot? Do you feel restricted? Do you feel too cold? Do you feel at ease? Is your bedding helping you settle down and relax? Does your clothing feel good? And I know when you choose your clothes, you can ask yourself, what are the three feelings I want to have when I put this outfit on? I mean, it could be confidence, it could be fun, it could be strength, it could be there's any number of things, but you can just choose three words and see how many of your clothes you toss into the goodwill bag. Does your workspace actually support your body? And if you're designing a classroom, do their workspaces support their bodies? That's increasing awareness. And awareness is useful without becoming fear.
Sitting, Ergonomics, And Movement Options
SPEAKER_00And then we've got one of the most ordinary objects in our lives: the chair. We sit at school, we sit at work, we sit in the car. I'm sitting right now. We sit while watching TV, we sit while looking at our phones. And I don't want to say chairs are evil. I've said that before, but I'm not gonna don't quote me on that for life. The issue is more that modern environments often encourage long periods of sitting with very little movement, and this is not good because our physical bodies need to move. Ergonomics asks that question all the time. How can we design an environment around a human body instead of constantly asking the human body to adapt to the environment? And that's a huge question. I in my classroom didn't even have kids forced to sit in their chairs. They were allowed to sit on the floor and use their chairs to prop their notebooks on if they were writing. They were allowed to lay on their stomachs, they were allowed to sit on yoga balls as long as there wasn't excessive bouncing, they were allowed to sit on yoga blocks so that they could sit with their hips higher than their knees. And I wasn't some kind of weirdo. I was just a person that was in touch with what was best for them and helped them feel most comfortable so that they actually weren't fighting their bodies and it wasn't interrupting their train of thoughts and they could relax and do their best learning. There are some interventions that can help in workplace settings, although the evidence isn't always pointing towards one particular chair, one particular workstation solving everything, because we still need to move. Maybe it's changing positions if you don't have the option to buy the $2,000 chair. Maybe it's standing up. Maybe it's walking while you're on the phone. Maybe it's remembering to stretch or take a meeting while walking if you can do that. Just remembering to get up in between tasks is really important. With kids, we had stretch breaks, brain breaks, and they were always allowed to stand up and take a stretch break. There was never a question about that. The best position may be the position you don't stay in all day. And that brings us directly back to schools.
Movement Breaks That Help Kids Learn
SPEAKER_00So think about a typical school day. A child may be sitting in the car or bus. I know some kids are lucky enough that they get to walk to school, and I think that's about the best scenario because they're getting fresh air, sunshine, and movement. But your average child sits on a car or bus, sits in class, sits at lunch, sits in another class, sit for homework, sits for screens, and sometimes you look at a child who's wiggling, moving, tapping, or getting released, and you just are like, hey, drop in, pay attention, let's lock into this right now. But maybe something that we need to ask is what is this child's body telling me? We can look differently at our kids and the kids that we teach and the kids in our life. They are teaching us about them. Movement breaks have been studied extensively in school settings. And there's a recent systemic review of school-based breaks found evidence of improvement in classroom behavior, and some studies are showing improvements in executive function. Another review found that physically active learning and classroom movement breaks can actually influence physical activity, cognition, academic performance, and classroom behavior. You can look at, you can Google this. That's what I did at the beginning of the school year. I would get a picture of an MRI on the screen, and you can see how lit up the brain is, and do one after 20 minutes of sitting and after 20 minutes of exercise. And it just shows you how much of your brain gets engaged when you're moving. So imagine if we stopped asking, how do we get kids to be still longer? and started asking how we can create a day that gives their brains and bodies the appropriate opportunities to move. That is a totally different question. And it doesn't require radical change, it just requires a movement break, walking outside, PE that's actually protected. Instead of my kids had PE for 50 minutes a day in Virginia Beach at that time, and it was the best thing that they could have done for their kids, for their discipline and for their learning. And PE has been cut. Some kids don't even have PE during during semesters in middle school and high school. It's so important to be paying attention to these things that make life better, easier, more manageable, and more fun for children so that we have less of a teen suicide rate, so that we have less teenagers making choices that are bad for their bodies later on.
Work, Nature, And Notification Boundaries
SPEAKER_00We say we want innovation, but are people constantly being interrupted? We say we want productivity, but are people sitting for hours without moving? We say we want collaboration, but do they have time to themselves? Because I don't feel like really being and interacting with people until I've had some time with myself. Even something as simple as digital notifications creates interruptions. There was a field experiment with 247 workers and they reduced notification interruptions for one day. Reducing notifications and different types of interruptions for just one day. Was actually associated with better performance and lower strain. That's not an argument for throwing away your phone. It is an argument for asking, does everything have to get my attention immediately? Maybe a workplace can create a quiet hour. Maybe there's times when people don't need to answer every single notification. Maybe some meetings can become walking meetings. I've noticed a trend in that. Maybe people can have more access to natural light in some way. Maybe there can be plants or views of nature if you can't be outside more. Research that is coming out now on nature-based workplace interventions suggests that there's a lot of potential benefits for employee well-being. Again, we're not talking about redefining the entire corporate world, although redesigning it might be a good idea. We're talking about little things, email signals, constantly getting texts. You're a human being, not a machine. And this brings me to something that's really, really simple. And people are calling some of this part of biohacking. And I'm frankly, it's just common sense sometimes. Nature, hello, we're not here without nature. Nature was a big part of our lives. We don't necessarily need another gadget. Sometimes we need to be around a tree. Maybe we just need to clear our heads and go for a walk. Be in a little bit of sunlight, feel a breeze on our skin. I know it drives me crazy when we just go from cold where we need the heat on to heat where we need the air conditioning on, because I feel like I'm in this controlled bubble. I've got to just open the windows and hear the birds outside, hear the trees blowing in the wind. Research synthesized in reviews of attention restoration therapy. And this is a thing now. It suggests that exposure to natural environments have restorative effects on aspects of people's attention, including your working memory and your flexibility, your cognitive flexibility. This is huge. This is a simple fix. Other systemic review evidence suggests that nature-based outdoor activities support mental well-being. And I have all the documentation in the show notes for this. I love this because nature doesn't ask you to optimize anything, it doesn't really care about your productivity. When I go to the beach, the ocean does not care about my inbox. I don't have to accomplish anything when I'm outside. I can just be there. And I'm not saying it's not fun to do things and maybe play a game or have an activity when I'm at the beach. I'm also saying there are some people who can't even sit and do nothing there. They have to have something moving. They have to be doing something. They have to be listening to something, they have to be drinking something. And I think it would benefit all of us to take a breath and just take a minute. We also have this environment that might not be what we're walking on or what we're looking at or what we've designed. And there is an environment that most of us carry around in our purses or pockets, and it is our phones. So think about this. Before a lot of people have even gotten out of bed, they've already possibly been exposed to news, opinions, notifications, other people's lives, other people's bodies, other people's accomplishments, other people's kids' accomplishments. And then we wonder, how come my mind feels so crowded all the time? Why can't I just be quiet and be still? So maybe try asking, what's the first thing that I want to put in my mind each morning? And can I choose it? Because your digital environment is still an environment and it makes the choice for you by holding off, even just for a little while, even just for 15 minutes, a half hour, an hour, the time before you get on your phone, that shows you're putting yourself first. You have to have boundaries there too. So pay attention a little bit to your space. What do you see when you walk into your bedroom? What do you see? If somebody was just walking into your room that had never been there before, what does your room tell them about you? What's directly in front of you when you wake up? Does your house have somewhere that you can sit quietly? Does it have something beautiful? Is there a window that shows something beautiful, something natural? Does it have something meaningful? Maybe there's photographs that mean something. Maybe there's a plant. Maybe you've got a piece of art or a shell or a stone that you picked up somewhere. Maybe there's a candle you can light, or maybe there's a book that means something to you. Just something that reminds you: hey, I'm home. This is part of who I am. The object is not the point. The meaning you give your environment is the point.
People, Meaning, And One Small Change
SPEAKER_00Now we're going to get to the most important factor of all, and you're not going to get this in a pottery barn magazine. It's not going to be on a Pinterest board. It is the people. Who are you around? And how do you feel after spending time with them? Do you feel more like yourself? Do you feel expanded? Or do you feel drained? When you're around them, do you feel like you have to perform? Do you feel safe enough to just be honest? Because you can have the most beautiful home in the world. You can be on a beach in Hawaii, but if the emotional environment is chaotic, you are living inside that. And you can have a very ordinary workplace and feel wonderful if the people there treat each other like they're humans. So when we talk about environment, let's not only make it about furniture and lighting. Human beings are the most important part of one another's environments. So there's another reason I want to release this episode today. It's 8-8. I love numbers, not just because I'm a math coach. I just love numbers. I always have. For those of you who follow some traditions, August 8th is often associated with what's called a Lionsgate portal, and it's a symbolic period that's connected with intention and courage and possibility and transformation. I don't need for you to believe in that. I'm not presenting it as a scientific fact, but I do think there's something beautiful about using it as a meaningful date and a moment to pause. So if 8-8 means something to you, or if eight's one of your favorite numbers, use it. If it doesn't, create your own meaning and ask yourself, what am I inviting more of into my life? What am I ready to release? Give away, donate? What do I want to become more conscious of? And maybe most importantly, what's a small change that I could make in my environment to just support the human being that I want to be? If I feel better about adding a picture of somebody somewhere or a picture of a place somewhere, I'm going to do it. If I feel better if counters are clear in my house, I'm going to make sure I don't leave the room without putting everything back where it goes. If I feel like I feel better when things are organized, I want to make sure that if I pass through a room in my house, and this is a rule for me, I pick some, if I see something that doesn't belong there, I'm picking it up and putting
Closing Reminders And Subscribe
SPEAKER_00it up where it goes. And that just makes me feel calmer. And that's just me. So I want to come back to where we started because I don't want you leaving here thinking, okay, now I've got 17 more things to do. Good grief. Please don't. That is totally not the point. You don't need a perfect bedroom. You don't need a perfect chair or perfect lighting. You don't need to throw out your clothes. Please don't stop listening to all podcasts. You don't need to redesign your entire house. And you certainly don't need to turn your life into one giant biohacking experiment because optimization can become exhausting. Life is not a lab, it's something we're supposed to experience. So instead of optimizing, just notice. Notice the light. Notice the noise. Notice your body. Notice your chair. Notice how you feel when you come home after a day. You open up the door and you walk into your home. Notice what happens when you spend 10 minutes outside. Notice what happens when you don't fill every moment with sound. Notice what enters your mind first thing in the morning. Notice the people who make you feel more like yourself, like you're just home. And then choose one thing, not ten, just one. And take a look at what you're listening to. I recently unsubscribed. I don't follow a lot of podcasts. I'm pretty picky and choosy about what I put into my head. Um, and to be honest with you, I recently unsubscribed to one that I used to get a lot out of a couple years ago because I realized that I was getting maybe 20% of the time I was feeling better after I listened to it, and the rest of the time not. And that doesn't mean there's not value in it, it just means I outgrew that particular teacher. So maybe transformation doesn't always begin with doing more. Maybe sometimes it begins with you noticing more. The environments around you are influencing you 24-7. Once we become aware of that, it gives us the power of choice, not to control everything, and God knows not to optimize everything, but to make small, thoughtful changes at home, at school, at work, our relationships, in our digital lives. And maybe the most important question we can ask is this what small change can I make in this environment to better support the humans inside of it? Because we are all humans inside environments, and I think we deserve environments that give us a little more room to breathe, a little more room to think, a little more room to move, a little more room to create, a little more room to connect, and maybe, maybe a little more room just to be. I'm Sari Stone. Thank you so much for joining me today. This is Just Count Me In. Please remember to hit that subscribe button and I'll see you next week.