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Hi, I'm Alex L and I write books for a living. The Hey Girl podcast was created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind.

Hey girl, hey girl, hey girl, hey girl. Hey girl. Hey girl.

I'll be sitting down with some phenomenal women to discuss love. I believe we grew distant out of love of some type, like I don't

want to hurt you, loss. Really don't know what's going to trigger that feeling of grief in any moment.

And a topic very important to my work, self-care.

I'm holding on to this self-care with every ounce of me.

Join us as we journey through sharing together.

This week's guests are two wonderful entrepreneurs.

They own a Virginia-based juice shop called Green Heart

Juice Shop, and their names are Alicia and Diana.

I connected with Alicia and Diana actually at a pineapple event and just through

social media it's been wonderful to see their growth and I'm really happy to have

them on the show. On today's episode we discuss entrepreneurship, self-care, boundaries, and

everything in between. There are days where it's like really hard because you've been

on your feet forever and ever and then someone comes out of nowhere and says,

you know, this juice or this milk makes me feel a million times better.

It does so many things for me and you're like, okay.

This is why.

This is why.

This is the moment right here. The story behind Green Heart is one that I didn't know and it's extremely moving and powerful. I was in a corporate job. I was really unhappy. I I started dating and he went over to

Afghanistan when we were dating and it was his last deployment. Doug ended up

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