It is the battles that we have with our fear, our resistance, our self-doubt, our insecurities,

and it is a reminder that we are resilient.

Welcome to the Lavenderer Lifestyle, the podcast on personal growth and lifestyle design.

My name is Eileen and I'm here to guide you to shine as your bright

aself and create your dream life. We all have a light within and the power to create a life we love.

Every Sunday we'll share thoughtful conversations exploring how we can build a better future

for ourselves and our world. Life is an art, make it your masterpiece.

Hello my loves, welcome back to Lavenderer, so today is a special occasion because

this is a solo video podcast and I believe it's my first time doing this. So what that means is

this is a video but it's also going to be on my podcast, the Lavenderer Lifestyle.

If you're listening to the podcast version, just know that there's a video version of this as well.

So I wanted to do a video podcast because today's topic has a big audio element to it and I'm

going to be spending a little bit longer telling my personal story and reflecting with you guys.

So I wanted to share about a time in my life where I was really struggling to figure out who I was,

I was finding the courage to become my true self, finding the courage to overcome self doubt

and the haters and finally start living from a more authentic place and also creating from

an authentic place. And I'm thinking about this time in my life because it happened exactly 10

years ago. So I feel like it's just been a whole chapter. It literally feels like I was a different

person back then, but I wanted to share about that time in my life now because I feel like it

helps someone out there. So 10 years ago, October 21st, 2013, I launched my first album called

Honestly. If you're on video, I'll show you an image of what it looks like because I still have

a lot of these. This was a huge creative project and goal that I set for myself to finish and release

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