What's up, Batty Bees? I'm Brianna, Mom, Wife, Serial Entrepreneur, and host of the Badass Basic Bitch

podcast. Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,

and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive

into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. It is so easy for people in the nosebleed seats to have a comment about the person on stage.

And that's kind of what I'm living right now.

Like, it is so easy for people who aren't where you are to talk crap about you.

And that has nothing to do with you.

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch, our first in-person episode.

I'm so excited.

Today we have Brianna Jenkins.

Obviously, beautiful name.

Obviously.

So Brianna is from Austin. Well, not from Austin. You're from Connecticut, but lives in Austin here with me. And we are going to be talking about how comparison is the thief of joy. And what I love about Brianna is how she says her friends describe her as a love child of Oprah, Beyonce, and Michelle Obama. And I get that vibe. So

welcome to the podcast. So excited to have you. Why don't you tell us a little bit more about

yourself? I thank you so much for having me. I am still working on taking compliments, but I am so

excited to be here. Yeah, originally from

Connecticut, born and raised, lived there for the first 26 years of my life, visited Austin for

four days, and decided to move here six months later, didn't have a job until a week before I left,

had an apartment and a roommate, and I was like, it just felt right. So I've lived here

for now almost six years. In that time, I've worked at a number of nonprofits. I've worked

in direct client support, but then also doing fundraising. I've worked at a tech company helping

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