Welcome to Mary's Cup of Tea, the self-love podcast for women, though all self-lovers are welcome here.

I'm your host, Mary Jolkovsky. I'm an author, speaker, retreat leader, and all-around self-love advocate.

And this is the podcast that will inspire you to love yourself.

I just got home from hosting a women's self-love retreat in southern Portugal,

and afterward, my best friend Dolly and I, we stayed in Portugal to explore Lisbon and spend some quality time together.

My friend Dolly, who maybe you've seen on

social media, but if not, I'm really excited to introduce you to her now because she is just

such a spectacular, down-to-earth magnetic person. And what I really wanted to do with this episode is finish off

24 with just high vibes, big friendship energy, and really just talk, I guess. I have been thinking a lot

about how to make the podcast more dynamic and bring a little bit more

unstructured authenticity to the show. So instead of me talking explicitly about tips for self-love

or how to whatever, I just kind of want to like exist and share what I love with you. And what I love

the most in my life is the amazing people that I'm so grateful to call friends and chosen family,

and in this case, my soul sister, Dolly. So in this conversation, you'll hear us kind of just shoot the shit,

reflect about the retreat that we just had. Dolly came with me to the retreat to document

and photograph and hang out with me. And then we also talk about her recent like autism

slash ADHD discoveries. And then at the end, we wrap up by talking about our goals

for 2025, what we're really trying to create, lean into, and ultimately share that kind of

like motivated lit up energy that we've been feeling. I just wanted to share it with you so that hopefully

you feel less alone on your journey to self-love and 2025 and beyond. So without further ado,

please welcome my bestie Dolly Durley to the show for a special in-person recording that we did

out of Lisbon, Portugal.

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