28th Birthday Reflections: Healing My Hustle Era, Ditching People Pleasing & Learning to Trust Myself Again

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Vic is reflecting on turning 28 and the mindset shifts helping her feel more aligned, grounded, and true to herself. From exiting her hustle era and protecting her energy, to pulling back on people-pleasing and rewriting her self-talk, this solo episode is an unfiltered check-in on what’s changed, and what’s finally clicking. Vic shares why she skipped a big birthday celebration, how she’s building deeper self-trust, and the small but powerful ways she’s being kinder to herself this year. Tune in for honest reflections on getting older, slowing down, and giving yourself permission to be imperfect.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.4	Welcome to RealPod. It's your host, Victoria Garrick Brown, and this is the podcast where we hold nothing back.
0:11.4	Oh, so we're getting deep, huh? I really cried for 12 days straight.
0:15.9	Why do I want to be perfect? There's nothing in my life that is perfect.
0:19.1	Every week, I'll bring you honest, unfiltered,
0:22.0	and eye-opening conversations to help uncover the real in all of us. I crave the type of content
0:27.5	that you're talking about. I actually felt insecure. Oh my God, I'm not going to cry. Let me just
0:31.8	unload everything. New episodes every Wednesday. Leave those filters at the door because it's time to get real.
0:45.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RealPod. I am really excited about today's episode because I just wanted to do a check-in with all of you. I, as usual,
0:57.3	have been having a lot of thoughts, a lot of feelings. I just turned 28 on April 30th. So that is a fun
1:05.7	milestone. And I feel like as I enter my 28th year of life, I am thinking about my priorities and the life I want to create for myself and the energy I want to have and protect every day.
1:21.5	And I, for better or worse, am like always on pursuit of growth and being the best version of myself.
1:32.0	I say for better or worse because I think the con side of always trying to better yourself is that it's
1:40.3	exhausting and there is probably never an end to it because we can always keep growing and
1:45.6	learning and being better. So, you know, I think if you're looking at it that way, it could feel
1:51.6	negative. The pros, obviously, are that you are learning how to handle whatever life throws at you
1:59.5	in a better way. You're hopefully happier as a person,
2:02.7	right? So for better or worse, I'm always thinking about that. And of course, I've had many
2:07.5	new thoughts that I want to share with you all. And I thought it was just time. It was time to
2:12.4	check in and give you some updates on where I'm at, where my head's at when it comes to my personal life,
2:20.3	my own mental health, and work as well. So that's what we're going to do today. Thank you so
2:25.9	much for tuning in. It means so much to me that you listen to my podcast. Seriously,
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