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All right, you guys, I am so excited for today's episode. I am here with Lindsay Schaefer. I almost said

Lindsay Evan. You can't say Lindsay Evan, which is such a cool middle name. Thanks.

Honestly, I was so embarrassed about it. Were you? Like my whole life. So my initials are L-E-S and I was made fun of for being a lesbian in middle school, which there's nothing wrong with being a lesbian. But people would like bully me for that because I had my initials in my backpack and I was like, I don't understand it. But now I actually love my middle name. And I love my initials. That's a cool name. Thank you. Are your initials going my backpack and I was like I I don't understand but now I actually love my middle name and I love my initials not too cool name thank you are your initials gonna change my initials are

gonna change but I'm like should I just change them like personally like is that a thing like

personally or just like um socially right yeah instead of professionally because like how are people going to find me if I change my name? I don't know. I'm like going through it right now, but like I probably am. It really is an identity crisis that people don't talk about. Yeah, I agree. And it's funny because I remember when I was single, I was always like trying everyone on Hinge's last name on for size. Right. But then like when I actually met Jake, I never once thought of like, oh, I'm going to be a lot of Solomon. Like, who is she? That's a good last name though. It is. I'm getting more used to it. It's taken a while. Did you change it already? Not yet because we are traveling. So heads up. If passport. Yeah. yeah that's an issue yeah we're traveling we're going to

london in october okay and so i didn't know if i'd be able to get the whole process done before

that okay so i'm waiting okay you are a couple's therapist yes sex therapist yes and a therapist

i'm a general therapist i'm a couples i do like a general therapist. I'm a couple's. I do like

kind of 50-50. So I do individuals. I do couples. And I specialize in sex therapy. So like that's my

thing. That is so unique. And I have a million and one questions. What led you to want to specialize

in sex therapy? Like everything. I like this is just like my calling calling it's my life um I've like always been

in a helping field like I always wanted to like help people I know it sounds like so corny but like

when I was in high school I would like volunteer in hospitals and I would run special needs programs

for like kids who are newer divergent and like all of that kind of stuff so when I went to college

I went into like social work

because that's just like helping in general. So like that's kind of like what led me to like

the helping profession. But to couples therapy and sex therapy, I think I'm just very

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