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From The Vault: What Would You Say To Your 18 Year Old Self?

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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If you met your 18 year old self and could only say 3 words to them…what would you say?




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0:00.0

The Birch Show.

0:02.4

We know the last thing in the world that you want when you're listening to a radio morning show is philosophical question.

0:07.4

So let's hit you with a couple of them right now.

0:10.4

Kristen left this one first.

0:12.0

All right.

0:12.1

So this was on Instagram.

0:13.3

We all have to answer this.

0:15.5

You meet your 18-year-old self.

0:18.7

You're only allowed three words. What are they? Three words to tell your 18 year old

0:25.6

self. Okay, that was just last year for you. Abby, so what would you tell yourself last year?

0:33.6

So for me, I was trying to figure out something that would be both hopeful and encouraging without being too cryptic.

0:39.6

Because for me, I live in worst case scenario land and always think the worst is going to happen.

0:44.9

So I wanted to give myself something that would give a little bit like hit that like things are going to be okay.

0:50.2

But everything I came up with kind of, I could still spend to be worse case.

0:54.6

Can we dive into that for just one second?

0:56.5

So what's the defense mechanism there?

0:58.6

So if you're, because it just seems so stressful to me to always think the common denominator in every problem is going to be the worst case scenario.

1:07.4

Mentally, that would be exhausting for me.

1:09.1

Well, my last name is Murphy.

1:10.3

Like, what can go wrong will go wrong?

1:12.0

Like, it's just naturally built into my DNA.

1:15.3

I don't know what it is.

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