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For women who know they are meant for more, and have waited far too long for someone to give them the permission they thought they needed.

I'm your host, Cara Allwell, bestselling author and mentor to women entrepreneurs.

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Okay, hi guys. Welcome back to the show. I am so excited for today's conversation and today's guest.

I found Mesa on TikTok. Okay, we all know how TikTok has these crazy algorithms and it started feeding me like all of this dating content over the past couple of months.

And I came across Mesa and I was like, oh my god, this girl fully gets me like we have the same similar at least attitudes towards dating. I found out that she's divorced as well, we're both young divorces.

And we're out there in the dating world again. And she's also a boss babe and entrepreneur, we're going to get into everything on today's episode.

You have over 18,000 TikTok followers, right?

Yeah, yeah, no, and I'm so excited to be here. Cara, thanks for having me.

Yeah, so can you kind of introduce yourself for the audience and kind of let them know who you are and what you do?

Yeah, absolutely. So I'm Mesa. I'm the founder of Behave Candy. That is a company that I started a couple years ago.

And I recently just started posting videos on TikTok, just talking about anything and everything that comes to mind.

A lot of days that's dating and relationships and a lot of days it's also business and entrepreneurship.

So that's been a really fun ride. I've grown a little bit of a community and an audience there.

And before starting my own company, I was, you know, a corporate girly. I worked at a number of different companies from the NFL to Uber, daily harvest, soul cycle.

So I've kind of been around the world when it comes to the corporate world. And now I'm having a lot of fun building my own business.

I love it. I feel like you and I have so many similarities. I came from the corporate space too. I was working at MTV for a while and then started my own business.

Yeah. And we're both from New York, which is kind of cool too.

Yes. Yeah. Okay. So let's start off with like your business journey. I just want to quickly touch on that because a lot of our listeners are entrepreneurs or aspiring entrepreneurs.

Can you talk about like what inspired you to start Behave?

Yeah. I mean, at my business story, I think it's so typical. It's it really I started my business and my product out of a need that I had for myself.

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