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You Had Me at Black

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4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2016

⏱️ 9 minutes

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At 25, Niema planned the rest of her life out. At 28, she panicked when it didn't go as planned, until changed her perspective and the very thing causing her anxiety became her source of reassurance. Produced by: Britney Abrahams Music & scoring by: @phdirac Photo by: @micholiano

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to you had me up black.
0:03.0	Today's story comes from Naima.
0:05.0	At 25, Naima thought she had her whole life planned out.
0:09.0	By 28, she realized she didn't.
0:12.0	This is a story about coming out of your midlife crisis on top.
0:17.0	I want you to breathe all this in,
0:20.0	and I got... This is you had me at Black, the podcast where black millennials tell true life stories?
0:34.0	So my anxiety around turning 30 actually started when I was like 25.
0:42.0	I was living in New York and I was working as a
0:45.8	magazine editor and I was also blogging about my like dating misadventures and
0:50.6	whatever else came to mind. And so my blog was called 20-something Renaissance.
0:57.0	And the tagline was, this is me growing into myself.
1:01.8	If I was going to be this super successful, happy 30 year old I envisioned myself
1:06.0	to be, then I also needed to change everything I was doing, buckle down, get my shit together.
1:12.1	So like, it's time to follow. I was doing buckle down get my shit together.
1:12.8	It's like it's time to focus.
1:15.3	I'm 25 and I'm getting old.
1:17.2	I need a life coach.
1:20.3	At 25 I decided I needed a life coach.
1:25.0	And it's like my home girl is starting up a coaching business,
1:30.0	so I decided to do a few sessions with her and the assignment that I got that jumps out the most is my letter to my 30 year old self.
1:42.6	And so in the letter, I'm like,
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