Hey everyone, welcome to almost 30. It's Lindsey and this is a solo app so I am opening

up this episode. Probably not with a song and dance but it's just me. I'm so happy you're

here, so grateful you're here. If you're new to almost 30, whoo, welcome. No idea how you

found us, but I'm super grateful you did and I can imagine you are a deeply curious human

being wanting to know more about yourself and the world around you and deepen your relationships

and feel more on purpose and we see it. We've been there. We're there. Always going through

it. But hey, if we're not enjoying the process, then what the heck is the point? So we hope

to really bring a lot of joy and clarity and insight as you are in your process and hopefully

you feel less alone. To learn more about what we're doing over at almost 30, you can go

to almost 30.com. You can also follow us on Instagram, on TikTok, all the places. It's

at almost 30 podcasts. And I'm at Lindsey's Simpsick on Instagram. I'm super excited to

talk to you all today in this solo episode about clearing conversations, what they are,

when you need to have them and how to have them. And I'm going to go into it in a moment

into the actual episode. But you know, my intention in sharing any solo episode is coming

to you from a more processed place. There was a time in which I didn't know how to have

a clearing conversation at all. And it was super funky. And I would be totally out of my

body when approaching what I would call back then as hard conversations. And as an adult,

as a woman who is the right page of 35, I'm realizing that my relationships require

clearing conversations as regular maintenance and as regular up leveling. So my intention

in creating an episode around this is that we can normalize this. This can become a normal

part of our relationships that mean a lot to us, whether it's family, friendship, maybe

business partner, maybe it's your actual romantic partner, right? These are important ways

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