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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood.

I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery.

And with me in the studio this week is Bridget Todd, the host of the IHeart Radio podcast.

There are no girls on the internet and the founder of Unbossed Creative, a media company that makes podcasts and other digital content.

Bridget, welcome to the show.

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

I am so beyond excited to be here. I am so excited that you're here, not least because you're joining us internationally. And I'm already feeling just like a certain Grace Kelly quality. Like we're both

wearing scarves and like zipping around Monaco and maybe we're going to go play back rat later.

Yes, I've been wearing a lot of like scarves and striped shirts and like sitting in cafes, pondering.

Absolutely. If you get the chance to later insult someone on a yacht, I hope that you take it.

Oh, I always do. Good, good. Whenever you're near a yacht, behave rudely. That's my number one piece of advice to people wherever they go. And I'm just so pleased that you are staying safe from all the many, many fires in Portugal. And I hope that nothing's ever on fire again.

Same. That's a good hope. Unless you want it to be, unless it like, an active choice. Or like the sun. The sun should be on fire. Some things are okay to be on fire, but other things should not be. Or combusting. I don't know if it's technically correct to say that the sun is on fire or in the process of combusting. But actually, that's like a weirdly good segue because the subject of our very first letter is more than burnout.

And I don't know that I'm going to get a better chance than this to lead into it.

So if you don't mind, I'm going to read our first letter.

Go right ahead.

I've recently noticed that I don't let myself pursue anything, even most hobbies, that won't provide me health insurance in the next few years.

I'm almost 21, with no real long-term career ideas or education plans that I think I'd make

it through. I'm neurodivergent, and I have a history of deeply enjoying special interests

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