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Well, hello, my beautiful friends, and welcome back to the Simply Be podcast.

I'm your host, Jessica's Weig, and I am just so happy to have you, as always, every single week on this show.

The show has become one of the jewels of my life.

And I hope it's become one of the jewels of yours. This is a place where we talk about at the core

authenticity, right, and how that comes to life in your business, in your brand, in your platform,

but also in your life, in your soul, in your platform, but also in your life, in your soul,

and who you are being on this planet, not just what you are here to do.

I am the founder and CEO of the Simply Be agency.

We are one of the top ranked personal branding companies in the world.

We've served close to a thousand clients and

two offices, Chicago, Nashville, a bestselling book that I'm going to talk about today, a workbook.

I'm also going to talk about that today, this podcast, a team of 25 people that I built in less

than six and a half years. And, you know, my story, if you've been following me for quite

some time, you know that it wasn't always this quote unquote sparkly and successful, quote

unquote. I actually had a long chapter of my journey, many chapters of my journey, frankly,

where I was completely out of alignment, where I was not truly being myself,

where I had a lot of inner darkness and demons that I wasn't facing. And as a result, on the

outside, my life was a mess. Of course. It was filled and riddled with a lot of financial scarcity, true financial

scarcity. I went broke at 33, toxic relationships, both in my personal and professional life,

a ton of anxiety and panic attacks and just mental unrest and sickness and physical sickness. I was struggling with an autoimmune

disease for the majority of my late 20s and early 30s because my body knew I was so out

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