Welcome to the Girl on Top ShalinXO 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. Gotta love quandary? Head to my website, shalinlester.com, to get connected, and also shop my merch

and take some fun quizzes. Be sure to rate and review this podcast if you like it, and follow me on

Instagram at ShaolinXO, and find me on YouTube for four new videos a week. Welcome back to the podcast, Shalinders.

Let's do our deep breathing. Our relaxation exercise is going to get us ready to receive the message.

If you place, drop those shoulders down away from our ears, relax our jaw,

take our tongue off the roof of our mouth, and we're going to breathe in through the nose,

and out through the mouth. One more time, holding that inhale for a few seconds, in through the nose, and out through the mouth.

All right.

Now I know that the podcast was a few days late.

I am sorry.

I was traveling.

And yes, that's right.

Traveling.

What do we talk about here on the channel, right?

We talk a lot about fear-based decisions, not making fear-based decisions, whether it's,

I'm just going to marry this person who comes along because I'm afraid that no one else is going to love me,

or I'm going to stay in this dead end job because I'm afraid to go after the career I really want because it seems scary and what if I fail?

And you know, goddamn what? I'm not making fear-based decisions and not traveling because of this

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