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Hey y'all, it's Lauren Ash and Dionne Ivory.

And thanks so much for listening to the Black Grown on podcast. Also, congrats on the essence, Waa! Thank you! Thank you. Of course. So excited.

I would be too, shoes. Y'all just out here glistening and glowing and, mmm.

We are, it's crazy.

I mean, I see it and I feel like, I'm like, wow, that's me,

but like I don't feel like, I don't know, it's so weird.

It's always a disconnect and I'm looking at myself on something like on a huge platform of some some kind. I'm like yes.

It's like never quite real but it's just it's just like all of the hours and days and minutes and weeks and months in years of your lives that you've really been working dedicated consistently to cultivating something that has really grown and

blessed people in a lot of ways.

And this is why we need people like you around us, affirming and getting us to pause and focus on the moment because it's not like we're not but it's just like it's like the day that it happens then we get another email

Right about something else that's fly and pop in so it like, it's kind of just like on to the next,

like yay and on to the next, you know?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's like someone said it or maybe you guys said it

in one of your episodes.

It's just talking about like taking the time

to actually celebrate

yourself. That was the because you talked about that all the time exactly. Yeah but I

think that's so important because you're just like wow look at this thing and then you know like then that's it and or

people like it's just weird like people want things from you now that like they see they

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