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Hello, welcome to or welcome back to try not to care.

I hope I sound a little better than I did last week.

I was so sick.

It started out like as a sore throat and then turned into the worst cough ever. And I'm convinced

that I had bronchitis or have bronchitis. Honestly, I have no idea though because I don't really

know what bronchitis is. But it was honestly really hard to record last week's episode just because

I felt like ass and I had to keep stopping to cough and like to breathe.

But I definitely feel better now and I'm excited to get back into recording and talking with you guys.

I was sick for almost two weeks and during that time I felt so guilty about it.

And I was so mad because obviously when you're sick, you have to take some time to get better.

And through doing that, I felt like I was letting people down.

Like, I always say that you need to rest to be able to be on top of your shit.

So I did do that.

Like, I let myself rest. Obviously, I still had to do some

things like record the podcast because I have those commitments. But I had to cancel meetings. I had to

cancel plans. I didn't respond to emails right away. I had to ask for extensions for work.

And it was just really hard for me. And I felt guilty about it. But then I was like,

where is the same energy from everyone else? I feel like I'm normally waiting like three to five

business days for a response from an email and I'm waiting months to get paid and people cancel

on me all the time, which I'm not mad about at all, but I'm like,

why am I beating myself up over being human? Like everyone else does this and it's okay. So why

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