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supporters get and sign up at about progress.com slash support. Welcome to More Personal, where we lean into the personal side of personal development.

I'm Monica Packer and today I want to welcome our resident

podcast manager and excellent conversationalist Taylor Rockwood. Welcome.

Hello hello. Today's feature is casual convos, and this is where we have casual chats on topics that range from casual to not so casual.

I think today is kind of going to be in between actually.

As I was prepping for this, thought oh this is more serious and I thought

it was going to be in good ways too. Yeah how about you yeah I think so I think so.

Taylor how about you introduce our topic for today? Okay so we thought we'd start things off by talking about influencers

and tell us why you pick this topic today, Monica.

So I picked this topic because in the fall,

we did a couple gatherings with people from the about progress community.

And in one of them, one of the people who came, we had a great night, it was a great conversation

we had, but she was, wanted to talk about influencers and I was like oh yeah, let's talk about it

But I realized as we were talking about it she was asking questions as if I were one and I was I I I don't know I I I think you are that we've already reached an argument

No I know I think you are. In a good way. So funny and that's what we're going to talk about because when she's asking these insider-like questions and I'm like I am not an influencer. but it has helped me think about like, okay, what are our thoughts on this world,

on this profession, on this culture, and how can we kind of comes to some helpful conclusions about it,

even if they're different conclusions that maybe other people carry because it is such an important

part of our adult lives, I think, in the social media world just the whole influencing world.

I agree. So let's start with just talking about what our rating would be if from a 1 to 10

10 being the most in terms of how much we say we could say or think on a topic, what's your rating?

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