Welcome to the first of what I hope many Robert Hester Entertainment Podcast episodes in 2026!

In this first episode of 2026, I look back on the last half, and most of 2025 in terms of further celebrating my mother's life, reflecting on the USL Championship season for the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, the AFC North Championship win for the Pittsburgh Steelers (and the personal drama I endured during the game!), spending time in Ocean City, Maryland, shooting a concert headlined by country music legend Sara Evans—and her opening acts, photographing (and attending) my first-ever Pittsburgh Marathon, purchasing a new Canon T5 camera after the previous one suddenly stopped working at a full-circle moment in my photography career, and reading an encouraging and inspiring letter from 1979 by the late, great Lou Adler of WCBS Radio in New York City to an Upstate New York college student by the name of Keith Olbermann.

No words. No script. Just sharing my thoughts and feelings in the aftermath of suddenly losing my mother after a brief illness.

In this “Here’s The Thing About Me" episode of the Robert Hester Entertainment Podcast, I mention why I’m personally celebrating Autism Awareness Month by taking a Pause from my usual, monthly photography pursuits by having April of 2025 also serve as Pause-Tism Awareness Month. For me, April of 2025, Pause-Tism Awareness Month, will give me a chance to practice the three “R’s” Reevaluate, Reassess, and Recharge myself in an effort to find and share with you multiple ways I’m positively moving on from a very BRUTAL photography month of March. These three “R’s” will also give me an opportunity to share and celebrate the exciting things to come beginning in May, as well as other potentially exciting things to come for my photography career, and other things besides photography, throughout the rest of 2025!

I also mention some other exciting things to come from Pittverse Community to the More Than Pink Walk, and all other exciting things related to Robert Hester Entertainment/Beaux Cliché Photography throughout the rest of 2025!