And the Hello, hello hello, it is me Julie Bauer Roth and I'm here to share a special guest today.

My friend Ariel is on the podcast.

I've only known, let's do that again.

I've only known Ariel just a couple years now,

but we've really become close over the past, I would say, six to eight months.

And Ariel has a story to tell. She has been through some craziness the past few years. She shares her fertility

journey. She talks about being in the hospital for five weeks before giving

birth to her son early and then what it's been like to drive back and forth to the

NICU every single day. She also talks about in this podcast her son coming

home and since we recorded this her son came home just two days ago which is pretty

freaking cool he was born a tiny tiny little boy and he's gained weight he is

breathing better his heart is pumping correctly, and he is back home.

It is such a cool story, but not only do we talk about that, we talk about confidence and

Ariel is one of the most confident women I have ever met.

She just ooze's confidence.

She oozes a person.

That sounds weird.

She oozes this light that comes out of her.

That also sounded weird.

I'm going to stop saying ooze is.

But she is just a bright beam of sunshine,

of color, of light in this world.

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