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You're listening to the Wellness Herway podcast. I'm your host, Gracie Norton, and I'm so excited to

provide you with the space where you get to shape what wellness feels like to you.

Wellness Her Way is where we make a home of our body, mind, and soul, instead of jumping on

trends for short-term results. We've got one body. We're going to nourish it, love it,

respect it, and embrace it through all its forms.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Wellness Her Way. I hope you guys are having

a great December. I hope it's been full of just time with family, time with friends,

de-stressing, unplugging, all the things, just getting set for the new year. And I wanted to end the year with

a solo chat and just have a little heart to heart. I feel like I've been reflecting a lot on,

you know, the last two years of podcasting and just thinking back to when it all started,

even from the moment that I just decided to make,

you know, my first video about my health and about PCOS and when I had started creating content

in general. And I'll never forget, I was in Florida. Actually, my brother was living in Clearwater

at the time. And I was sitting on his bed talking to my mom. And it had been, yeah, two years since I had been diagnosed with PCOS. And

you know, at this point I had regulated my cycle and had my symptoms under control. And I think I was

posting on TikTok like maybe once a month max or like sporadically at the time. It was just like

fun dances and lip sinks. And I remember like

YouTubeing how to post a TikTok, how to add to TikTok. I mean, I had no idea what I was doing.

But I was talking to my mom and I was like, I don't know why I haven't talked about my health or

talked about PCOS yet. Like for some reason, I just felt like, oh my gosh gosh I just want to make a video about this because

I feel like there might be other women that are going through the same thing and I was kind of

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