Welcome to the Girl on Top Shalin XO podcast.

I'm your host Shalin Lester and you might know me from my YouTube channel,

where I analyze celebrity relationships and scandals for the lessons we can take into our own lives.

But here on the podcast, I answer the best questions you submitted over the past week.

Welcome back to the podcast, Shaligators.

Well, yesterday it was International Women's Day, and I thought, you know, there's no

real celebrity tie-in for this.

So, of course, it's something I wanted to move over to the podcast and talk about with

you guys here.

And I thought, what better topic

for this holiday, I mean, holiday, as if we like what got the day off, everyone got a free

massage or a box of chocolates or, I don't know, even a free Papsmear? No, of course not. But it's a

holiday. Whatever, I digress. I thought, what would I tell my younger self? And I really,

you know, I like to keep things short and sweet. Why did I even say that? Because no one talks

more than me. But in terms of wisdom, I really try to funnel things down. And I thought, is there

one word I would tell my younger self like if I could

encapsulate or distill all of the advice and the wishes and the hopes and the

dreams and the wisdom to who I was 20 10 even five years ago what would be? Could it be funneled down to one word? Oh yes,

it can. I'm going to tell you what that word is. And we're also going to hear from a shaligator

who's dealing with some sorority issues. And I'm going to tell you why all these things kind of

tie together because I was just up in my college town this past weekend.

And it was like I went back in time. And I think so much of the time we avoid going to places

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