What's up everybody? Happy Well, that's good Wednesday. I hope you're having a great week per usual. It is about to get so much better. And I can almost guarantee you it's about to get better because this morning, I always say this. Whenever I get to interview guests that come on the podcast, I get so, honestly, it's like such a blessing for me because I get to study their lives to just even have this conversation. And a lot of times, I end up being so encouraged before I even step on. And this morning was certainly that. And it was kind of a surprise because the people in our podcast today are family. You would think I would know all of this. I'd be like, oh, easy interview. But no, this morning I was shocked as I just got to hear more of their story and just the depth of what God is down in their life. So I am thrilled that we have Reed and Brighton on the podcast today. And not to mention, Reed was kind of like the most requested guests to come back.

Oh, well, that's good because every one of you loved him last year.

And it's even better because now we have Brighton.

So welcome back to the podcast and for the first time.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

So exciting.

Reed, yeah, you were a breakout star last year.

How does that feel? Hey, what can I say? You know, not to hype you up too much. Yeah, well, I, whenever we do podcasts together, I always think, like, I want to let Brighton tell her story and be the star, and I'll just support because that is what we do in our everyday life anyways. Look at that. Look at that. That's so sweet. Well, I really mean it. I was kind of surprised this morning because, you know, our team, like, they always prep so well and is like, we reach out to the guests and have conversations. And I kind of thought it was silly that they were going to call you and do like a pre-call because I'm like, well, she's my cousin. We've known each other for so long. Like, I feel like I know. But then this morning, as I was reading, I was just like, man, like God has done so much in y'all's life since high school, obviously. Like, I know that. And I see that. But just getting to like see the depths of it was beautiful.

But going back to high school, we were all very, very close and have some really fun memories.

S&B.

We had S&B Tuesdays, I'm pretty sure.

I know.

I know.

So many spend the nights.

And I don't know if you remember our YouTube video for the podcast days. Do you remember that? No. Me and you did a YouTube video. And it was about the crazy train. It was like, jump off the crazy train. And we were talking about like over-thinking. I have zero memory of this. Oh, I'm putting it up here. This has been like throwback central because when Maricate was on here, I just was looking at her and all of a sudden it was like we did a youtube video together and i was like and it was a dance and we made it out i was like this is before tic-tok we were crying laughing i don't know i'm kind of scared what's even on there we were literally crying laughing we're at your mom's house and we did a youtube video as a message about jumping out the crazy train

if you're overthinking things and having anxiety and we were like we were pouring out some gold okay

yeah this is before TikTok this is just like true from the heart we were before the times we were before

the times um but that's really when y'all kind of met middle school high school when did y'all meet

do you all remember the moment this potts class eighth grade remember some of that this potts class eight grade to be specific

yeah she transferred to our school in eighth grade and i was like all right new girl because we went

k through 12 you know we it's like same same people every single year and now here comes right in the eighth grade. And I'm like, okay. Doesn't matter who it is though. Whoever knew is like the hot commodity. Yep, yep. No, it does matter. I remember you were, you were a big deal coming in eighth grade. She was popular, cheerleader, beautiful. You literally look like the same as you did. You were like advanced beyond your years.

It's actually true. That's actually true. And I just remember, I was like, okay, that's going to be her.

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