Someone once told me this and it really stuck with me. They said that your life is full of exclamation points. There are high

highs and low lows. The high highs are like, it's a girl. I do. You won the lottery. It's your day. You got the job. And then the lows are tragic sometimes. He's gone. You lost your job. The divorce is coming through all those things. But what I

realized is that most days are not those high highs and they're not those low lows. Most days are just

Tuesday. They're just regular ordinary days. So think about this in a year full of

days, 365 days,

you'll probably have 10 that are either super high or super low.

The other days are just regular old days.

So if you look at life through that lens as I tried to,

the ordinary actually can become extraordinary.

It's those quiet moments, the small encounters, and the everyday routines that shape who we are and

shape our lives.

And those days, those days are worth celebrating.

But today I am leaning into a big moment because my 60th birthday. Yes indeed there will be cake. I think there will be some balloons

But on my way to celebrating I'm actually in reflection. I'm honoring what has shaped me, the people who have shared their knowledge and the lessons I've learned along this journey, and I cannot wait to share my gift of experience with you. So today's

episode may look and sound a little different. It's a solo one, it's just me, but I

did not get here alone as I turned 60 and close out season five of my

podcast I am the sum total of everything I've learned from all those around me.

I've had the incredible honor of taking wisdom from other people

and applying it to my own life and today I want to take a moment to sit in all

that wisdom. So together, let's celebrate this beautiful, complex, and

extraordinary life. I'm Hoda Kottby. Welcome to a very special episode of my

podcast, Making Space. I'm freaking out. Okay, so when I learned that Brooke Shields is turning 60 and

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