Shame thrives in silence. At least it does for me. And I'm over.

You're listening to Side Hustle Pro, the podcast that teaches you to build and grow your

side hustle from passion project to profitable business. And I'm your host, Nikala Matthewsukome.

So let's get started.

Hey, friends. Hey, welcome, welcome back to the show.

It's Nikaela here, back to kick off this fall season with a solo episode.

Now, this isn't just any solo episode.

This is the beginning of what I'm calling the expansion era.

Why?

You'll hear more about it in a second.

So, first of all, I have to admit, I am a little bit nervous, y'all.

I feel that I have never been this vulnerable and open on this show before.

And as I was outlining today's episode, to be honest, I teared up more than once because

obviously I was reliving some stuff and I'm just honestly just sitting back and looking at how much I've been

shouldering the last few years and how much not talking about it has probably been to my detriment.

And so this expansion era is, it is about expanding in more than one way.

It's about opening myself up to the Nikaela I know I can be and stepping into a new era of myself

in not only business wise, but personally and also hopefully by sharing my story, being able to open up community

for other women and other entrepreneurs and other mothers and just community in hearing that

you are not alone. I know how impactful that's been for my journey. So here we go. So let's take it back, all right?

The whole premise of this episode is how I lost my mojo and what I'm doing to get it back.

So first of all, let me say today I'm going to be real about what it all looks like, how I'm getting back to me.

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