Hey, everybody. I'm Leah body here coming in with the last episode of season 14 of hurdle.

It's a, it's been a little bit of an unconventional week for the podcast, large in part due to the fact that I am all over the place, aka I am in Florence as I speak about in this week's marathon recap.

I want to say thanks so much to everyone for so many of your kind words and response to that, your emails, your DMs. It's so appreciated. I'm so happy that you love the recap episode.

For five minute, Friday this week, I don't talk about my personal life really ever on the podcast, very, very rarely. And I'm not really going to talk about it today.

But I am going to tell you a story about what happened yesterday, walking around Florence. I wish that the story was like I met the most beautiful man and we are now going to travel to the multi coast and I'm actually not coming over a month.

No, that's not what this story is. But every time I'm in Florence, I book a session with a photographer through Airbnb experiences. It's something that I've loved doing over the last couple of years just to have photos, a snapshot of this time in my life coming years so so special to me.

And so yesterday, I was working with a woman named Tamara, who was in her mid 20s. And we were walking around the streets and she asked me, she says, I absolutely love to talk to people who are from New York about dating. And I was like, oh, yeah, why is that she's like, well, I'm in this Facebook group. I died when she told me this, I'm in this Facebook group called are we dating the same guy.

And in it, the stories that woman post about their dating experiences in New York are absolutely ludicrous. And so she's telling me all about this Facebook group, which I immediately joined upon getting back to the room. And yeah, it is some crazy stuff. I can say that not most of my dating experiences are nothing like what I'm reading in this group.

So God bless women dealing with the chaos in New York, regardless of whatever your sexual preferences. But she said to me, you must date so much in New York, it seems like there's so many options. There's so many people like millions and millions of people.

And I said to her, you know, can't play, I guess I don't really. And she asked me why. And I said, it just hasn't been a priority for me. You know, over the last few years, I've really made it a priority to invest in myself, invest in my business.

And that's where my focus has been. And I don't regret it. I don't regret it at all. I think I'm coming into a season where I am really ready to make some shifts and prioritize dating and that aspect of my personal life. But in the meantime, this is where I am now. And I feel truly good with that.

I feel as though many individuals have some kind of thought opinion feeling about a woman that is in her mid 30s and single. And in New York, it's common. But in general, I would say it's less common, maybe.

And I cannot let and will not let those people make me feel any kind of way about the choices that I have made in my life granted that can be easier said than done.

But I know having had so many of these conversations with other women, both single and not single.

That it's a common feeling and it's a valid feeling. And all we can do is be honest with ourselves about where we are at.

You can be and I can be. This is where I'm at. I am confident in the decisions that I've made, what I have chosen to prioritize and where I am at in my life.

And I also wouldn't mind having a long term partner. It's both. And so I give myself the grace in the season to be where I am.

And know that what is meant to be in my life is what is meant to be in my life. And I share this with you, but I also kind of shared the sentiments with Tamara as we walked around Florence. And she, she think me were my perspective.

And that was kind of special. It was kind of special to see the light bulbs go off for her. And know that I was also staying really true to myself and not allowing someone else's opinion or thought.

I'll be unintentionally for sure to make me feel any sort of way because I get to decide how I feel. I really can't wait to see those photos. My prompt for you this week.

What are your priorities right now? What are you focused on? What's important to you? My prompt for you this week, what is important to you? What are your priorities? And now, I listen to your question.

Hi, Emily. This is Ross. Congratulations on the Berlin marathon. I can't wait to hear all about it.

...