Hey y'all it is Sunday night October 25th I just earlier this afternoon finished recording an interview with an upcoming guest and as I'm getting ready to record my intro adds to some more work for the night before the week starts so I can get ahead. I just started thinking in my life. I posted an Instagram story where I shared that this

podcast is really just the beginning of what I want to do. I always talk about the fact that I'm multi-passionate and this

podcast is not it. This podcast is something I started to chronicle my journey to figure out

what I wanted to go from Sidehouse at a full time with and exploring ideas and I haven't done as much of that but just know that I'm working through ideas as we speak.

I'm always thinking through, okay, what do I really want to pursue with my whole heart I don't want to leave this earth without going after one of these other ideas that I have and right now I'm vying between like two ideas are really vying for my attention

one that I've dreamed about since I was a young girl and another one that has just

really become a recent obsession in the last five years.

So as I'm thinking through all of this,

I started to think about, man,

I sometimes think it's so surreal that classmates of mine from different schools,

whether that's high school or college or my master's program, will reach out to me and say stuff like they admire me or just

congratulate me and stuff like that.

And I remember, I remember what it was like to be at that stage in my life and always feel like somehow

I just wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing or I wasn't getting it right

sometimes even feeling like a downright failure. Let me elaborate a little bit more.

So I if I could go back and share something with my 18 year old

self or my 29 year old self here's what I would share I would say get comfortable with feeling weird

Be okay with feeling weird strange or, or different.

And those ages, 18 and 29, are significant

because those are the ages when I started

my undergraduate program and my master's program respectively, my graduate program respectively.

At those ages, despite everything I've been through at those particular moments in my life,

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