Good morning, everyone. Good evening, good afternoon, wherever you are, and welcome to this week's

weekly energy boost. Weekly energy boost is a seven-day spiritual weather forecast where we

provide our listeners with the most powerful and practical tools

to navigate the coming seven days. We do that by gleaning through the wisdom of Kabbalah and

sharing wisdom tools and our experiences to provide the most practical insights to help you both prepare

for what's coming this week and also invite what you might not realize is available to you.

And inevitably those lessons can be used, those tools can be used any day of the week, any week of the year.

And that's why Erin is here to share with us both her experience and her expertise.

And I hope to be able to chime in with some wisdom and expertise as well.

So, Erin, maybe you can start by sharing with us a little bit about how you even entered the design world.

I know it started with fashion and led its way down other paths, but how did it come to you?

Yes. Well, it's quite a story. I always had a love of clothing as a child. I was very creative. I was interperforming arts. And to me, always crystallized with the costume. The clothes always had to be right. And I think I understood at an early age how transformative clothing can be. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and there wasn't

much of a fashion industry presence there. So the idea of fashion to me was pretty abstract.

I just knew I really loved clothes. So as soon as I was a college student, I would use every summer, every opportunity to get closer to that industry.

My first internship was at L Magazine, understanding what a magazine does.

Then I did various other internships at, you know, showrooms, PR offices.

I was a fit model. And so I got this insight into what is fashion.

And by the time I was done with college, I was very clear, oh, I understand how I want to participate.

I want to be a designer. So when I graduated UC Berkeley, I went to Parsons in Paris to do a fashion design program

that was designed for people like me who had already gotten their BA. So it was a special program.

And I remember the day that I got there, I said to the headmistress, you know, oh, I won't be here for a long. I'm going to be

starting my own line soon. And she really gave me a look, like, uh-huh, sure you will. But sure

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