Hi, it's Gail. Before we get started a couple of quick items. First, I have a cold, so I'm doing my best, but bear with me.

Second, the Women on the Road Gathering with Bam Life Diaries is coming up in Taos, New Mexico this Friday,

and there's still time to join us. Tickets are linked to the show notes and on our episode landing page via she hyphen explorers.

Okay, on with the show.

I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explorers.

As I've learned with just raising children in general,

they're all different.

They all have different needs.

Originally, you know, you have these,

I want you to go to, know the best school and get an

amazing job and you realize that's not everybody's life path everybody has a

different path because everyone has different abilities and I think that's the whole thing of us being out there with Ruby is that it's not just

you know somebody who has this diagnosis but we all have something that we're either not

good at or or can't accomplish and so let's you know let's cut everybody slack and let

everyone do the path that they're able to follow. This week's episode features Meli Forsyth, a woman whose life is made up of many roles. What definitely takes up the most of my time. I

definitely spend the most in the mom role and then definitely next would be the

nurse role and after that definitely hiker and probably

not proud to admit but then wife comes on the very last on the list.

But what's lucky is that I do have a husband

that's very supportive.

And so on a lot of the adventures,

I think that's why I love hiking,

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