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Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of

entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

You know with my background like my ethnic background and culture I just think I

faced a lot of adversity at a young age and also being an athlete growing up so I feel like I was in the

phase of like going through stuff alone a lot and so by the time it came to like doing a business

and taking initiative I was very used to that feeling like, okay, you have to take initiative, like no one's going to help you and no one's going to make this easy and sweet for you, right? Like I feel like I saw a lot of adversity at a young age, so that's why like I don't believe in work life balance because that is part of why there is a thing called Sunday scaries, right? Like I think people get scared to go to work on Monday

and they throw out, oh, I have the Sunday scaries.

Like I wish I could stay brunching and stay drunk on a Sunday.

But I think that's the issue is like,

it's because you separate life and work too much and I try to merge them into one

Hello Hello. Welcome back to the real podcast. Can you guys believe that it's almost August?

Can you believe it? I am recording this on July 21st, this intro, and I'm not okay with that because that means that the summer is

almost over and summer is my favorite season not just because of the weather

because I'm a very strange person when it comes to weather anything below below 70 is cold, like it's chilly for me. 70

and above is the weather that I thrive in. I mean me and my boyfriend have a joke that

like summer nap comes out like in the summer I

swear I have an alter ego or something because I just thrive in the heat and

obviously like yes sometimes the heat is uncomfortable but I really really do love it, and I prefer any day over like chilly weather.

Summer is my favorite season, and I can't believe that it's almost August already.

I feel like that is just not okay. The summer has absolutely flown by. I mean, I think it's a good thing because that means that, you know, things have been going on. I mean, in my personal life, there has been so much going on and I think there is a great energy in the air.

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