I almost never sit down to record a podcast without an outline, almost ever. And that's because I have the

tendency to sort of bounce around. It's kind of hard for me to just sit down and talk off the dome

and have it feel concise and make perfect sense, especially because I don't talk to anyone else, right? I'm just talking to the

wall. I am talking to you, but you're not here. So, you know, it's a bit, it's a bit bizarre. I'm sort of

talking to the wall. But today I wanted to sit down and talk unfiltered. And to be honest,

I'm a little bit nervous because this is kind of out of my comfort zone.

But I've had something heavy on my mind for probably years now.

And I don't know if it's sort of out of touch for me to discuss.

That's going to get clipped.

That's going to get clipped and put on TikTok.

Out of touch influencer says before she starts talking,

I wonder if this is going to sound out of touch.

Have a field day with that if you want.

I'm not sure if this topic is out of touch or it's like too industry centric,

but I'm going to give it a try anyway.

In worst case scenario, I throw this episode away into the virtual garbage bin that is on my desktop computer. You know, that's the worst case scenario.

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