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Hey everyone, it's Tiffany.

Welcome back to this week's episode.

Raise your hands to say yes.

This week is a really fun one for me, and I will say it's slightly out of my comfort

zone, and I like to challenge myself and have on guests who have different opinions than me.

And my guest today is Mara Glatzel and Mara is a friend of mine.

She is a coach who I've known for a few years and I absolutely adore.

And she has a much more gentle approach to things than I do. She is a big believer in

self-care, and that's a huge part of what she teaches is self-care and trusting your intuition and

listening to what you need in order to do big, important creative work. And she works a lot with women and kind of helping them get

whatever their authentic message is out into the world. And I was really excited to talk with her

this week because as many of you guys know, I have spent a lot of time talking about how I think self-care is kind of bullshit. And I think it's a cop-out that I feel like people use a lot. And, you know, everyone says, like, oh, self-care. And then I look at all the things that I'm supposed to do in order to take care of myself. And it's just like, well, that's three hours a day. And I think we're all super busy with all the things we have to do anyway.

And so it was really fun to talk with Mara about, like,

what self-care really looks like and how, especially busy people.

And busy, you know, part of, I think, one of the challenges that we face as creatives

is having just so many things to do and so many things we want to do and how do we know which

to follow and really the answer is not trying to take on more, maybe trying to take on less.

And Mara and I talked a lot about that and her approach to self-care, I think,

is really wonderful. It's really gentle and it's not all candles and bubble baths, which,

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