I remember being that woman that was like I'm in my 30s already have a child.

The clock is ticking right? I remember telling him which is so frightening now but I remember telling him, which is so frightening now, but I remember saying,

I'm not going to be dating you forever.

So you need to figure out what you're like, we're in our third date.

We didn't really know each other.

We had dated for six months before he proposed, had a very small wedding, and had we dated longer, we would have realized that we were better as friends as we are right now. And I had not thought about what I wanted and needed for

myself as a woman only what I wanted and needed for myself as another he had been

given an ultimatum by a beautiful woman and felt he's in his 30s, it's time for him to settle down and be serious. You know, it's just like this recipe for disaster that I feel so many couples find themselves in and some are able to make it work and some are not. Hey there it's Light Watkins, your host of at the end of the tunnel, which is a

podcast that features the backstories of individuals who have found their

calling or their purpose with large or small causes,

and they are now using their voice or their art or their platform in a way that leaves the world a better place.

Well, my guest today is Christine Platt.

She is an advocate.

She is a storyteller.

She is a minimalist.

And more specifically, she is known as the Afro minimalist.

Christine grew up in a single-family household where she read a lot of books as a child

and she ended up getting two degrees in African American Studies and then later she got her law degree.

But after initially not being able to find legal work and she wasn't sure why,

a mentor suggested that she changed her resume to say that she actually got degrees in social sciences as opposed to African American studies,

which was something that she was initially very conflicted about doing, but because she needed a job to take care of her new child,

she gave it a try and lo and behold, she secured a great job in environmental law, which looked great on paper and it paid well but

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