Hello, good morning and welcome back or welcome to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan or Alana. I'm

currently sitting on my bed in my bedroom. Where else would my bed be? But this feels extremely

nostalgic and like OG Morning Ray. If you know, you know, I used to sit in my old bedroom in my old

apartment lying on my bed with my mic on my chest. Almost think Emma Chamberlain-esque, if you know

like the old episode recordings of her recording her podcast. But it is actually today. Today is November 20th when I'm

recording this episode for you guys. It is my five year anniversary, or rather our five year

anniversary of Morning Ray, which is absolutely insane, you guys, like five years of me just yapping into the abyss hoping that someone is listening

on the other side all of your incredible and sweet and heartfelt messages tags on social media

shares chats over dms all of it it is crazy that we've been together for five years, whether

you've been here since the start, whether you've joined along the way. I appreciate each and

every single one of you, even if it is your first time listening to the podcast today. Welcome.

This episode is definitely going to be a very candid conversation.

I feel like I've been on very much a glow up, if you will, for the past year. And not only,

I feel like a lot of the times people, when they think of glow up, they think of a body transformation,

your physical appearance

changing, and it having to do with a lot of external factors. But honestly, I feel like this

has been also very much an inner work journey and it rippled into an external effect. And there was a lot

of mind, body work that was done, a lot of inner work.

And I know this is something that I've been asked about a lot. I've shared a few reels and

TikToks here and there and maybe discussed it a little bit on my stories when you guys have

asked and all of that. So I thought it would be a good starting point to kind of go through everything that I worked on,

that I changed what I think impacted my mindset, my perspective, the way I make decisions,

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