You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 263. We're talking about what to do

when you feel like you don't fit in or that you don't belong. Stay tuned. Hi, I'm Jen Ritey,

and this podcast is for women who want to feel more vibrant, happy, aligned, and alive.

You'll gain the emotional, physical, and spiritual tools you need to get your sparkle back

and ensure that depression, anxiety, and struggle don't rule your life.

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We are talking in this episode about what you should do when you feel like a fish out of water, when you feel like you don't belong. I think we all have moments in our childhoods or in our teen years when we felt that way. One of my memories was when I decided to go to a music camp, I drove three hours from my teeny tiny hometown in southwest Iowa to the big

city of Iowa City, where it was a college town. Everyone was different. And there were people with

piercings and dyed hair and emo and dreadlocks and all the things I

didn't see in my small hometown. And I felt like a total fish out of water. But I took the leap.

I stayed for the two weeks of the music camp. I learned a lot not just about music, but about people

and who I was in the midst of it all and started to explore who I

wanted to be. And I feel like life is a series of that exact scenario, a series of things

changing where we get to examine, oh, how do I want to show up in this situation? How do I want

to show up with these kids? How do I want to show up now that my

kids are teens? Oh, my kids are leaving the house. What am I going to do now? Oh, maybe I'm going to

start this new career. Maybe I'm going to change careers. Maybe I want to, you know, we do these things

over and over again. And I think it's beautiful because we get to explore who we want to be.

So in this conversation with Alberta, we're going to be talking about some of her scenarios of being that fish out of water, like when she came to the U.S.,

when she was about 10 years old, she came from Ghana, Africa, to the U.S. and how that felt for her. So we talk about that and other situations.

And you're going to learn and just think about as you listen how you can apply a teaching

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