Hi everyone, welcome to Bada on Paper podcast. I'm Olivia Mentor and I'm Becca Freeman.

And today we are doing an in-person episode talking about our goals for the year and

how we're doing six months in. I really can't believe it's been six months, but yeah,

I'm excited to learn about how back has been doing. It's a mixed bag, but I'm excited

that like live from New York, it's it's Friday afternoon and you're here.

Yes, it's great. It's honestly, this is perfect, just what I needed this week.

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Shall we do some highs and lows? What's what's your high? My high is, I guess it's fitting

that we're talking about yearly goals because one of my sort of small goals this year was

to really commit to doing an email newsletter. I paid for the newsletter subscription

site for years and years. I've tried to make it a consistent habit and I think I was just

trying to make it too perfect or something. I don't know, but I have finally sort of

just taken the pressure off myself. I write whatever I want every week and it's the only

time I've been consistent about it and the feedback has been really great. It's an opportunity

for me to write things that feel a little more vulnerable than usual and it's just been

a really great creative outlet and I'm feeling really excited about it.

I have loved a lot of the essays that you've put out for your newsletter. Thank you.

That means a lot. I remember one in particular about body image and it was probably like a

month ago. That sounds right. I feel like it was like about your stomach or something?

Probably. Oh yeah, yeah. Maybe the how I built one. Yeah. It really stuck with me.

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