I was so afraid in the beginning because I felt like I wasn't at the level.

I needed to be to start something.

And I feel like that is such a lie to yourself.

And in the beginning, I thought, I'm only 25, 24.

Nobody will trust me to do this. Nobody will think that I'm educated enough to do this.

Nobody think I have enough experience to do this. But people showed up on that first event.

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Hey everyone.

Welcome back.

I am bringing you another mentor session with someone that I got to meet live and in person at the Powerhouse Women event. Kristen,

I am so excited to have you here. I am so hyped to be here. I feel like this is how a lot of

my friendships start. I just basically was like, you look really cool. We should know each other.

And do you want to start like a hip hop backup dancing crew? I think that's

pretty much how it's how it happened. Yes, exactly. I had my hair in a slick back bun and it was giving

off very hip hop vibes. Yeah, I felt it. Yep. So that's where that's how we got to where we are.

And also you are a member of the girl gang and you had submitted some awesome questions that have to do

with planning events and building community, which of course is my jam. I love talking about that all day long.

So I was super excited to have you. So I want you to start off just by telling everyone a little bit about

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