Welcome to the Mary's Cup of Tea podcast. I'm your host, Mary Jilkovsky. I'm an author, speaker,

an all-around self-love advocate. And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

Hey, self-lovers, I'm so happy that you're here to celebrate my birthday with me. My birthday was actually on February 8th. Waho, cheers to Aquarius season. But today I wanted to do a list of 25 life lessons that I'm learning, code word learning. I don't have it all figured out, nor do I ever want to pretend to. But these are just 25 things that I really

hope to embody in my 25th year on this earth. And this list I've been compiling for about a month.

I feel like it's such a beautiful way to reflect, look back on my life and record this,

not just for you, but for myself as well. So if you are here

listening to this, I know that I also shared some clips of this on social media. But in this

podcast episode, I'm going to elaborate on each of the points, maybe share a personal story

or how I came to learn that specific life lesson. And I'm just really honored and grateful that you're here.

If you want to give me the best birthday gift ever, first of all, you listening to this is already the best birthday gift ever.

But also, if you haven't yet rated the show on Spotify or reviewed it on Apple, it would just mean so much to me.

I mean, it really helps the show

grow. It really helps me do this for a living. And something like content creation and podcasting

is not possible without your support. So thank you so much in advance. And if you have my books,

either the gift of self-love or 100 days of self-love. I'm not going to say go buy the book

for me as a birthday gift to me because I don't want you to do that. I want you to buy the book

for you only if it calls you. But if you already have a copy and you have a minute to leave a review

of the books as well, either on Amazon or wherever you bought it from. Again, it just

really helps me grow as an author, as somebody who just like really hopes to eventually get off

of social media and pursue writing and podcasting full time. Those reviews are really what

help other people find the book and continue to

spread the gift of self-love. So thank you in advance if you're doing that. And either way,

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