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Hello, friends, and welcome back to the podcast.

I'm so excited because today is the 500th podcast episode.

I cannot believe it's already been 500 episodes. It's so,

so wild to me. And I wanted to do something special for today's show. So we did a live

recording. So I'm here with all of these beautiful faces. And I'm really excited because we can

actually talk back and forth now. And I wanted to open up the space for anybody

to just ask questions for us to have a collaborative conversation and just have fun celebrating

because, you know, through the last six years of podcasting through these 500 episodes,

even though I'm talking, you know, to myself in the moment, I'm, I'm, to me, it's the community

piece that has made me want to continue this and it's the conversations that come after

that and the community that we have built. And I know everybody listening kind of came in at

at a different time, but I know a lot of you have actually been listening to the show

since I was, what, 19 or 20 and in college in my, in my apartment,

on my apartment floor with my roommates talking about who knows what and been with me

through all of the different iterations. If you are newer to the show, my podcast was first named actually adultish and it was supposed

to be all about college life. And that liminal stage in between, you know, being like a teenager

to being an adult and you're like, am I really an adult? What's going on here? That's when I

fell in love with podcasts when I was in college and I learned so much and I felt like there wasn't

really much for people my age. Everything I was listening to were really for people

who were like in their 30s, business, health. So I wanted to create something kind of in

between. And then I started my business and then we shifted to wellness, realness, which is where

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