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Hello, welcome to or welcome back to Try Not to Care if you're new here. Hello my name is Ashley I'm so happy to have you

I first want to say thank you so much to everyone who listened to last week's episode.

Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you for making Tik-tocks to it.

Genuinely from the bottom of my heart,

I fucking love you and I just appreciate you so much and thank you for listening to this

week's episode. It is always just so cool and special to see us charting on

Spotify and Apple. It literally never gets old and I just owe you my life so thank you so much for hanging out

with me and listening to me yap.

I appreciate you so much and I'm so excited to sit down today and talk to you. I won't lie though. It does feel like I'm dying. I have my period so bad and it feels like someone stabbing me and like just playing bop it with my uterus it's awful but I'm

really happy to be here I'm in my pajamas I was just like there's no way I'm

getting changed today it's a pajama day for sure but I'm getting changed today. It's a pajama day for sure, but I'm happy to be here.

I'm happy to sit down with you. Today I'm going to give you some of my tips on how to be

the most interesting woman in the room.

I have definitely struggled really hard with social anxiety

and this fear of being perceived and being perceived badly.

I think a lot of it was just rooted in me not being confident myself and me feeling

like I'm not interesting enough and people aren't going to like me and people are going

to think I'm annoying and I'm not going to have anything to talk about with people.

And I would just be so unexcited to go out and socialize with people.

I also found myself making me small in situations and not wanting to be seen because I thought that if people would see me, they wouldn't like me and they wouldn't enjoy talking to me. And I was just really insecure but now I am in a much more confident era in my life

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