What's up everybody, this is a little Samaroso, aka publicity, who is ready to spill some tea?

What's up everybody, welcome back to tea with publicity. I am currently on vacation, but don't worry, I pre-recorded this episode. I told you guys I would be better at being on time. I rushed to get this out the door.

But I have an exciting, important episode for you guys today. I am sitting down with my good friend, Louis Lavante, and we're talking about his coming-out story.

And I think it's really powerful, and he's just such a good person, and you'll see and hear why we're such good friends when you listen to the episode.

Although he's quite younger than me, he's the opposite sex. We have different things like we're both Capricorns, and we just click. So I think you guys will really enjoy it. Also has promised I am going to get everything back on track in terms of, we're going back to the old format, the personal life catch-up, the interview,

Ask Alyssa, and spill the tea. And this really all came to me this week after a conversation I had with my mom, and I decided to open up on TikTok about my confidence and how it's really kind of tanked these last few years.

I think I'm an innately confident person, but you know, just different trials and tribulations have really forced me to take a look at myself and reevaluate, and I think there's things that I get nervous to talk about because of my past job.

Like I really wanted to stay out of their line of fire, or like there, I don't know there, even old co-workers like when I first left were like getting in Twitter wars with me, and like that's just not the kind of attention I want.

I only want positive attention. I'm not trying to like get involved and be for saying anything. So I feel like I keep a lot quiet.

And then in turn, like I'm not being as vulnerable with you guys, because I feel like I'm almost like silencing myself or being silenced and not saying what I really want to say.

But I just think that the last year or so has been a lot for me in terms of getting laid off for the first time in my life. I've never been laid off.

I also was kind of encouraged to say it was mutual, and then I looked kind of like a liar for saying that.

But again, you know, it's tricky. So I think that there's just certain things that I wish I could say.

I feel like I'm naturally such an open book, but the things I'm private about are either one to protect my family or two for legal reasons or three for like a greater good.

So just know I'm an open book and anything I can and want to say like I want to be open, but there are things that I can't say.

And I think I just noticed though that I haven't been as vulnerable with you guys like I haven't talked about dating.

I haven't talked about weight or nutrition or any of these important things and like I had a really good conversation with my mom that prompted this last week.

And then I had to even better conversation with my therapist. And she was like, why did you start the podcast?

And I was like, I started the podcast to talk about taboo female topics, things I thought weren't being talked about like body image, like self love, self care.

I don't know. I want to talk to sex workers. I want to talk to people across different industries, taboo industries and and really dive into things like psychics and this and that.

And yada yada and and I want to bring people together and she was like, so where do you get away from that?

And I was basically saying I'm like the more closed off I became to talking about my personal life for various reasons.

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