Hello and welcome to February 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 Alex L on the show, who is a really, really interesting person and I think so insightful about so many things that, like, I care about and that our listeners care about?

Yeah, she came highly requested by listeners.

So we did a call out on our Patreon for who we should have on Forever 35.

And somebody's like, you need to have on Alex L.

And then other folks, I think, chimed in.

You all probably know her because over the last, I think from the

pandemic and on, she's been very well known on Instagram and other places for her books and

her writing and her thoughts about how to get introspective, how to heal ourselves, the work that

we need to do kind of at the soul level. And she's out with a new

book, which we're going to talk about later in the show. But in the meantime, here we are.

As this is airing, I am still at Disney World. Oh, yeah. In your UV protective clothing.

In my UV protective clothing, you know, I will post some pictures of my Disney World fits.

Great.

It has been suggested that I become a sun care influencer.

I could see that. I could see that.

I'm ready for this journey for me. I did just go to my dermatologist. Oh, I haven't even talked about this because you were at TED. And so I feel like there was a week of things that happened. Right. Exactly. One of which is that I went to my dermatologist, and he was like, your skin looks great.

Great. And I was like, great, because there's skin cancer in my family. So, you know, I have to be very vigilant, which is also part of the reason why I do, you know, I kind of joke about it, but I do take

like the sun care stuff very seriously, not just because of like sun damage and wrinkles, but because of actual

skin cancer. So to get a clean bill of health for my dermatologist every year is like,

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