Hello everyone and welcome to the Evolved Emily Show. I'm your host, Emily Hayden. And today, we actually

had a little bit of a schedule mishap. So I am recording a solo episode. I was going to have someone here to interview. But I'm under the belief that things always happen for a reason. So I don't know. Maybe there's something in this episode that needs to come out that you guys need to hear. So I first want to start with kind of a little bit of a life update where I've been, you know, what I've been up to

and where I'm going next. I recently announced something huge on Instagram. I announced that I am

moving from California to Texas. It's something I'm so freaking excited about. This year has just,

it's done a lot for me. I think the biggest thing that 2020 has done for me is it's really

revealed to me different things in my life. It's revealed what's most important to me. I've never

been more clear about my core values and where I stand on certain issues and things. And, you know,

that really makes me want to be surrounded by people who share those same similar core values and

beliefs. And it's also shown me just what's

really most important in life. You know, I've lived in California for almost seven years now

away from my family and I have a huge family. And, you know, those years were so beautiful and I've

grown so much as a person. I would never replace it. I would never go back and change my time in California.

But 2020 has, you know, you guys know how it's been. And here in California, things have changed

quite a lot. And I would say it was actually in about June that I started to kind of sense.

I was like, I feel like my time in California may be done soon. And it was such a weird feeling

for me to start feeling that. But I just kind of like allowed that feeling to sit there. And I knew

that if the time came for me to move, that I would be totally open to it. You know, that's one thing

that I've learned to do. People would always ask, would you ever move back to Texas. And I'd always say, never say never, but I don't desire to right now.

You know, I'll go wherever my life takes me. And I've learned just to be really open to where

life takes you because sometimes life takes a hard left and you never saw it coming. But sometimes

that left ends up being like so beautiful and you would have never known it. You would have never

like planned that for yourself. But by taking that left and going wherever the world ends up taking you, it ends up being such a

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