Hey guys, it's Jamie Scrimter here, second wife, stepmom of three and mum of one.

And you're listening to my podcast, where we talk about all things motherhood, stepmotherhood,

and living a kick-ass life. If you're ready for raw and real conversations and are striving

to live your very best life, then you are in the right place. Every week,

I'll provide you with tips and strategies and mindset shifts to inspire you to live your own

version of a kick-ass life. We'll bring you along as I create my own.

All right. Hello, hello. Welcome back to the podcast. So this episode has been a long time coming. You get just me today. And I am going to finally sit down and answer some of the questions that you guys have asked about my blog and this platform and growing this into a business. Now, there's a few things I want to say

before we dive into the questions that you guys submitted on Instagram. The first thing is,

I just want to say, I still think it is so crazy that I've been able to make my passion of

supporting stepmoms and sharing my life online and screw ups and lessons

and inspiring women into a business. Like it blows my mind to this day. And, you know, the fact that

I have five people who help me with various things when it comes to running this platform,

like graphic design and, you know, podcast management and that kind of stuff. It's wild to me. It truly

is wild because when I first became a stepmom, I had no idea that this world even existed

and that this was even a possibility. I always had this passion for sharing and I had a blog

when I was in university, but or actually not in university shortly after university,

but I didn't know that you could blog for a living. Like I had no idea about this online space.

Now, if you are wondering about how it all started, I do have a podcast is episode 22 and I share

just the story of how it all got started and a little more depth than I'm going to go into in this

episode. So be sure to check that out. But before I dive into the questions, I just want to say,

if you are listening to this and you have an idea or something that you want to start, start it,

do it. I thought about starting to share my experiences dating a man with

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