You're listening to Behind the Bliss, a weekly podcast where Rachel Autry brings conversations to you from women that share what's behind their highlight reel.

Each episode is designed for you to see a message from the mess and encourage you to find balance in the bliss.

We know that what you're facing is important for shaping who God has created you to be.

Some may say it's a process that often happens behind the bliss. Here's today's episode. Hello everyone and

welcome back to another episode of Behind the Bliss podcast. My name is Rachel Autry and I am the

girl behind the microphone around here. And I am so thrilled

and thankful that you clicked play to join me today. Today of all days is going to be such a fun one

from me to you. It's my birthday. I always feel so weird being a birthday girl because I have those

friends that are borderline obnoxious about their birthday.

They make it like a birth week kind of thing. And so I guess because of it, I've just always

muted my birthday to the point where like some people don't even know it's my birthday.

And I'm done with that fake humility. You know what? Like it's my birthday and I want people to know it.

And today we're talking through 27 things that I've learned in 27 years.

These are good.

Like as I was reflecting over these, I thought to myself, man, like these are things that I wish

I would have known sooner.

These are shortcuts in life that I would want to give any one of my friends if we were

sitting down for coffee.

And that's what I consider this podcast to be. So welcome to my 27 things I've learned in 27 years. We're going to dive right

in because this would be a five hour long episode if I wanted it to be. I'm not going to let it be

that long. So I have some exciting news regarding this episode. If you are listening to it in real

time, so actually on

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