Hey guys, this is Joy.

And this is Claire. Hello. We're here. Happy September. Oh, this is my birthday. We're thriving. We're doing great. How are you? What's new in your world? We're making it through another month. Yes. Happy birthday to me. Maybe the best month. September, I think maybe my favorite month. It's so full of cozy promise.

Possibilities. It's full of possibilities. So how do you feel about your birthday in a couple

days? I love birthdays. I love birthdays. I think birthdays are just a time for you to focus

on yourself and people to celebrate you. I love to be the center of

attention. So I really appreciate birthdays. How do you feel about like, I know a couple weeks

ago you were saying you're trying to feel like this is now you're on the sleigh right of 50 and it's like,

whoa. Do you been thinking about that more? Well, I mean, I feel like yes and no, like how can you not? But I've just seen such a trend lately. I think this is just kind of like across the board. I've been talking to some of my friends like from high school and talking about midlife and how much we yearn for the younger days at times. Like we just have this weird nostalgia pain that comes up.

And I'm like, why is that?

That's so bizarre.

But I do think it's just like when you're approaching 40, 50, whatever, you are midlife.

So I think that is something that's been on my mind a lot and how I'm trying so hard not to like do the thing of like wishing you were

somewhere else but really appreciating where you are. But it is, it's a weird conflict in my

brain right now because there's kind of like this feeling of you feel younger but you're like

you look in the mirror and you're like those wrinkles were there last year. You know what I mean?

Like I sent you that photo because Megan, our videographer, sent me some photos from the Emmys in like 2010. And I texted it to you and I was like, oh my gosh. Like it made me kind of sad because I was like, look how young I look. And you're like, you look the exact same. I'm like, but I don't. Like those wrinkles here. No, I don't. Her hair was like slightly different.

So I'm trying, I'm trying not to do that.

It's hard.

Because I think it is.

I think that as we get older, I think we start to worry that our best days are behind us.

And I think that like that is where a lot of the nostalgia and like resistance of getting older comes from is that we start to think

like what if and I think that's what we miss about being younger is if we had these like fun good

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