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I have been looking forward to this recording and this conversation all week because I

spoke with Meg Reynolds a few weeks ago on her podcast, not the girl next door.

And it was one of those times, like, you know, when you meet somebody

and you just instantly click and you're like, oh, we get each other. We've been through similar shit. We have like the same value. Like it, it was just perfect. So Meg Reynolds, welcome to seeing other people. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you. Yeah. It's definitely validating when you meet somebody else and it's like, oh, I'm not crazy. Like what happened to me was fucked up?

Wait, can I curse on this? I was so excited to be here. Thank you. Yeah, it's definitely validating when you meet somebody else. And it's like, oh, I'm not crazy. Like, what happened to me was fucked up?

Absolutely. Oh, thank God. What happened to me was fucked up. What happened to you was fucked up. Like, people suck, but we're working through it. And there's something so validating in sharing those lived experiences with other people, which of course is a big part of what I talk

about. I'm not the girl next door. A hundred percent. And it's like, it's, it's one thing. I mean,

so many people go through traumatic shit in their lives, in their relationships, in their

dating lives. We took it one step further. And we're like, well, we have to talk about this and we have to warn

people. And we have to let people know, like, if you're going through it, like, first of all,

you're going through it. It is a process. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Abs of freaking looting. And like, I have always been somebody who I find healing and talking. I'm a, I've,

I popped out of the womb a yapper. Like, my grandmother called me five o'clock news growing up. Shut up. I love that. No, literally, she, like, my whole family, we thought I was going to be like a news anchor because of, I just loved to tell stories and all that stuff. That's what I originally went to Syracuse for. And obviously,

switched majors. But we can dive into that later. But obviously, like, being able to start a podcast,

I think, you know, in this day and age of social media has been so healing for me because it's

connected me to people. And like, I've made so many amazing friendships who I otherwise

wouldn't have met without this platform. And it provided

me with so much healing because it validates one that I'm not crazy. Like my I love to say I was.

But also I always say like if my pain can help one person navigate theirs, then that's worth it to

me. I don't care if it gets an episode gets one listen. If that one person gets what they need from it, I did my job. I'm happy. A hundred percent. That's kind of what it's really all about. Like dating is so hard. Life is so hard. Our 20s are so hard. And, you know, we were sold a false promise of our 20s. That's something big that I preach of like your 20s are not going to be,

you know, like season one of friends started when they were 26. Sex and the city. It's crazy because also

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