Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori-Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And today we have a guest who has been on before. Melissa Walker holds a special place in our hearts

because of where she works and what she does and how important it is for our democracy. She works for

the states project, which helps flip state legislatures and which so many of you have contributed to to help flip those state legislatures. So we are so grateful to you. And yeah, we get to talk to her later in the show.

Election Day is right around the corner for those of y'all who have, you know, off-year or off-cycle

elections, odd year elections like the state of Virginia, which has a big one coming up on November

4th. We here in California are voting on Prop 50 on November 4th. And I got my ballot in the mail,

but I have yet to actually fill it out.

Same.

Early voting is going on. Mail-in voting is going on for as long as we have the right to vote,

we should exercise that right. So Melissa Walker will talk a lot in our interview coming up

later in the show about the importance of what's going on at the states

and kind of what the national playing field is looking like. So really looking forward to that.

But first, we'll catch up. We'll catch up a little. I had a big weekend. This will be a weekend

ago by the time this airs. But I had one of the girls who dances was dancing.

She did a big show on Saturday, which neither of her parents made it to because we had

another daughter who was at an away game in soccer.

And then the older daughter had volleyball-ish. I mean, she can't really play

yet because she has that sprained ankle. Oh, yes. But she's trying to practice and learn approaches

without jumping. So like no dynamic exercises. And then she was doing some kid fluencing with other

kids who are on like Darman and welcome what thundermans thundermans is a show I think

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