Hello, everyone. Welcome back to In Bloom Podcast or welcome if you are new. My name's Abby Aslan,

and I'm the host of this podcast. And I'm so happy you chose to listen in today and tune in.

And I'm really excited for this week's episode because I have had this topic in my notes for a while.

But the last time, like, when I thought I was going to record this episode,

I just couldn't get the content I was wanting for it.

Like, when I was planning it, it just wasn't what I knew I wanted it to be.

It was one of those things where it was like,

I have all these thoughts and feelings about this topic, but I can't really figure out how to really just articulate

any of them. So everything I was like putting in my notes just didn't really feel or sound right,

basically. And I felt like it was incomplete. So I like completely scratched it and then this week it like all came to

me. And that's what I love about like podcasting is like a lot of times you'll have ideas for like a

topic. And then sometimes it just takes literally like just more time and more experience to let

something really sit and then it all like will come to you in time like even when you're not

looking for it and that's kind of like what happened this week and I wasn't like I never went back

to that topic as a plan but I did go ahead and just have like so much happen I guess recently

where it was like oh I should do this episode now So I'm really excited because it's just like truly

authentically like what felt best and right in this moment. Um, you know, like this time last year I was

studying for my exams. Like yes, I was out of school, but I wasn't working my full time job, like my

corporate job yet. Um, and now that I am and it's fall, like it's so easy for me to be like,

wow, it was so nice when I actually, but basically we're going to be talking about being an

advocate for yourself and advocating for yourself. And I know I've done the episode on being

your own biggest fan. And I did that a one a while a while ago but and I've also done one on like

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