This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Welcome to the mom room. It is Thursday's solo episode. And let me tell you the last little while because I've been like since my dad passed away and my dad, even before that when he was really sick, I just had no motivation to do things or put much effort into things. And so I wasn't

doing my solos how I usually would. Usually I hop onto the platform where I record and I just press

record and start talking and then I'll edit out anything that, you know, if I have a big pause or whatever.

That's how I usually would do it.

But I started to, first of all, not record video at all of my solos. I would just use, it's like,

it's kind of like a voice recorder on your phone, but it's for your computer to record podcasts or

music. And so I would just open that up and talk into the microphone,

but then pause and then like press record again and then pause. And it was just wasn't like me

sitting and letting my thoughts go if that makes sense. So today like I'm starting to feel normal

and feel good. Also I had that sinus infection that would not go away. And I was like, you know what? I'm going to feel normal and feel good. Also, I had that sinus infection that would not go away.

And I was like, you know what? I'm going to open up Riverside and I'm going to actually just do a solo how I used to do them.

Record video. Who cares? My room is a mess behind me, except my jelly cats are on my headboard and they look cute.

I'm just feeling better about everything,

like creating content, podcasting, everything. So here we are. And the topic I want to talk about

today is not, it's like a sensitive subject. And so I'm a little bit nervous to just press record

and not be able to stop and think about what I'm going to say. But I feel like these are the best

episodes, the ones where I just let my thoughts go and talk to you as if I'm just talking to a friend

and like bouncing ideas off of them. Because a lot of the time, I don't even know what my fully formed

thoughts are. I just know these things are going through my head. And I just want to work it out and like talk it out on a microphone to myself in my bedroom. So here we go. I wanted to talk about. Okay. So full disclosure. The other day, I've never owned a scale before in my life. And again, this is like sensitive subject. Honestly, sometimes I'm like,

can I even talk about this on social media? I feel safer on the podcast to talk about things than on

social media. I don't know why. I feel like if you're listening to my podcast, like, you know the kind

of person that I am. Like you're not like a lot of people watch social content who, like they might not even know me.

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