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Hey, history friends!!! I'm about to share something new and old with you. 

First, I want to tell you a little bit about myself. My name is Robyn. I have a busy household. I have 6 kids, a husband, a dog, and two cats. I'm a serial entrepreneur with ADHD. I love food and my waistline shows it. But most importantly, I'm a lifelong learner, an optimist, and hopefully a disciple of Christ also. That's who I strive to be, but that's not specifically what this podcast is about. 

This podcast is about connecting people through history. So, growing up I went to a high school in a kind of rural area and I did not learn history. Scratch that. I had one good history teacher who I remember teaching things, but he was only there for a year. He got dismissed for some stuff because of the world we live in. The next history teacher I had was the athletics director, so at the beginning of the semester, he gave us a packet of 10 papers and said, "You have half a semester to finish this" and then did that again halfway through. I don't think he taught one single thing. So I graduated high school knowing nothing of history, but I loved books. 

So I would read, especially historical novels. I remember towards the beginning of my marriage, I was reading a book series about WW2 and I asked my husband- I said, "Did you know there was this Stalin guy? And he was responsible for so many people's deaths."

And he gave me this look and said, "Honey, everybody knows who Stalin was (is)." And I had never even heard the name. So, that began my quasi-obsession with history. My cute husband was going to school and decided to make sure that his history class was an online one so that we could study the textbook together because I was absolutely fascinated with all these things I had never heard.

Then of course, Hamilton came out and I became obsessed with checking facts and looking more into the characters and I just kind of became obsessed with that time in history and then luckily enough, I had friends who were also into it and we could chat online and video call and when we got together, that was all we talked about was history. 

I have become absolutely obsessed. My hyper-focus lately has specifically been on the Revolutionary War and I have read several books and I have a whole list of books to read continually. I have some projects in mind, but I realized that one thing that helps me learn is to teach. So as I learn about this war that I feel like we SHOULD have known about, I have found that there is so much even in all the studying I''m doing, even all the books I'm reading, have never mentioned some of these battles. I wanted to teach you guys about them! Some of these episodes will be only a minute or two. Not all of these battles were huge battles. Some of them only took 30 min for the battle themselves, so what would be the point of a 30 min episode about it? I don't have a timeline. With my ADHD  if I set a timeline and I fail once, then I'm done. I don't like doing that.

So what I'll be doing- some weeks you'll be getting lots of episodes and some weeks you won't be getting any because my family comes first. As I learn more and more about the battle of the Revolutionary War and also about the people of the Revolutionary War, I'd like to share that information with you.

Hopefully you can enjoy that as well. But here is the big picture. I'm working on 2 projects. One of them I haven't started yet and one of them I've been working on. The one that I've been working on, I'm not going to tell you about because it's a surprise- it'll come later. I need to convince myself that I can do it first.

The other one includes you. I'm going to set up a Facebook and a blog. I would like to hear your ancestor's stories. So, as I talk about these battle and about these people, if you know in your family history that you have ancestors that fought there or knew these people, especially if they have journal entries or military records or anything, I would LOVE for you to share those. How cool is it that some of your ancestors and some of my ancestors could have helped bring this country into being together? I even found that one of my closest friends, one of her greats and one of my great uncles fought in the same battalion together, so that was pretty cool. But I'd like to see how many people that are alive now that I can connect with who had their ancestors involved as well. So I do want to hear your stories. AND! I'll be sharing some of those stories as well. Some one the blog, some one the podcast if we get some really cool ones.

I hope that you're in this with me- I'm a self proclaimed geek. We love all things geeky. I told you before that I'm a self proclaimed entrepreneur- my business name is Geek Girl, so we're going to do history with Geek Girl. I hope you'll join us for the ride!

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