Welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style, and joie de vivre in your everyday life.

I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess, and thanks so much for tuning in. Let's get started. Hello everyone.

I am so excited.

And let me tell you why.

I think I'm always excited when I record these podcasts.

But here's what I'm excited about this week. I am getting ready to unplug for five days. Five whole days without internet. I know.

It's crazy in this day and age. But this is a trip that I look forward to every year. I go to Lake Powell. If you've never been, put it on your list. It's the most incredible and beautiful place, unlike anything I've ever seen. And it's right here in the U.S. of A. I highly recommend it. But anyway, that's not what I'm

talking about today. Today I'm going to talk with you about the power of walking away.

So I've really come to love the image of me walking away from things that don't support me.

In fact, just this week, I was informed that someone who's never met me is not a fan.

She has said some not so nice things about me behind my back.

Now, I will admit that my old self would have tried to prove her wrong and went her affection and convince her to like me. But did I do that?

Nope. No longer. I am so done trying to convince people to like me. It's exhausting and such a waste

of energy. So what did I do instead? I just walk away. I turn my attention elsewhere. I let people

not like me. I don't try to convince them that I'm a good person or that we should be friends or that

they're just really misguided. I just walk away. And what I can tell you is that walking

away from these types of situations always means that I am walking towards more, towards more

of the things that do support me, the people I don't need to convince and towards more joy and more of what I love.

Now, I know that some of you listening are probably a lot like I used to be. I thought that if the

whole world didn't like me, that something was really wrong. And what I've come to learn is that, you know,

we all have different preferences, right? Like when you go to a restaurant and you look at the

menu, there's certain things on there that you just do not want. And it doesn't make those things

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