Hi guys, welcome back to Fun on Weekdays podcast. I'm your host, Jenna Palak. And I am so excited

for today's episode because I feel like I'm sitting down with my childhood friends and I'm

filling them in on the last five years of my life, except for it's with all of you and it's

basically the last month. So in today's episode, I'll talk all about how to have the best summer

ever, the power of believing in yourself, manifestation, lucky girl syndrome, and a ton of life

updates between fun on weekdays and my personal life. There's a lot going on. So it is the first

week of June, which means it is officially summer, which also means we are kicking off the fun on

weekdays summer series of all of the incredible events that we've been planning. When I started

fun on weekdays, the podcast, I always wanted it to be more than like just a podcast. I wanted to

reach other people. I wanted to host events. I wanted to create basically this whole like brand.

And now two years later, I'm starting to see a lot of those components come to fruition and it's just

so insane. It's so rewarding, so fulfilling. And I just want to say thank you to everyone.

On that note, let's share some fun on weekdays updates. As many of you know, in January, we hired

Gabby, who is our full-time graphic designer, creative marketing manager. She's our photographer

at all of our events, and she is incredible. And in February, we hired Halle, who is our full-time

event planner. Since expanding the team, we have been really focused on planning events far out.

So we have plenty of time to coordinate event updates from the beginning of 2023. So in January,

we kicked off the year with the New York City rooftop happy hour to celebrate the new year. It was

125 people. It was actually my first time meeting Gabby in person. Second event, I had just hired

Halle, but she wasn't at this event because she wasn't part of the team to coordinate it yet,

but we did a Nashville Gallantine stay brunch. I think that was 175 people. And since then,

we've done a couple walks around Lady Bird Lake in Austin. We've done a walk in Houston. We did

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