You're listening to the A Beautiful Mess Podcast. Over the years through a combination of

luck and hard work we've carved out a career that we love.

We have learned a lot on the way and we decided to dedicate this episode to advice that we would

give our younger selves if we had a time machine.

And at the end of this episode, I'm going to share an embarrassing story.

So we're each going to share three things that we would tell our younger

selves if we could. I think this is going to be a good episode because when I was younger I was an idiot.

I think everyone is right? I mean I hope whoever was really smart when they were

younger good for you but that was not me either I also think

some of my advice at least I don't know about yours Elsie but it could apply to lots of

different ages because I kind of love it when people start a second career in their like 40s or 50s or you know I think it's

awesome and super inspiring. Our mom did that and you know what Nancy Sinatra says you only live twice.

Oh that's a good quote. I love it.

Yeah. I'm gonna put that on my pinboard.

Okay. I want to have a late in life career change.

I think that that's yeah very inspiring. So anyway three things that we learned

that we would this is advice we would give to our younger self or maybe let's put it as

ourselves when we were just starting off.

All right, my first piece of advice is learn to tune out what other people are doing.

This is the hardest piece of advice on my list at least and it's something I still struggle with because you guys know I'm the

Inagram 7 and everywhere I look is something exciting and new, you know, should I do this?

Should I try this?

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