Welcome back to the After Hours of the Manda podcast. I am so happy you're here. If you're new here,

welcome. If you're not, you know the drill. Grab whatever bevy you want. Let's settle in. Let's settle

down. Let's start by apologizing. I really hope you're not mad at me for doing a audio-only episode.

I love spending time with you, face time with you, frankly. But at the end of the day, the quality of the video was literally struggling.

So until we charge that ringlight, figure out why my face was literally looked like it was in stop motion.

We're doing audio and we're doing audio because I don't want to be without you this week and sharing what I want to share.

I, this is such an interesting episode. And you know, it's hard. I feel like sometimes right now,

especially just where we're at in life, and maybe this is just me, it's really hard to say

something without saying it the wrong way. You know what I mean? Like even with the best

intentions, it's really difficult. So I'm going to do my best today. As always, I'm speaking

from my personal experience. Okay. So if you're like, I don't agree with that. Like I am okay

with that because you know what? Being that it is my personal experience, it's exactly what it

is for you too, your personal experience. So personal experience it's exactly what it is for you

too your personal experience so if it doesn't resonate that is okay we can still be friends

it just might not be the episode where you're like yeah i resonated with that but it's something

really important and let's just kick things off with it doesn't have anything to do with a specific sport but we're going to utilize

that as an example and talk about how our tiny people are all different and what that looks like

and how that's entering in for us in terms of activities and things that we do specifically with

cheerleading, which I just want to say this. I feel super blessed. My girls are having the experience

that they are in cheerleading. It has been nothing but phenomenal for them. That was not anywhere

near my experience, which is why I literally clinched my butt cheeks when the oldest queen was like, I want to do cheer.

And I was like, oh, oh, but do you?

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