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Are you going on date after date and still not finding the one we're getting a text back?

Well, you're probably doing something wrong and I am here to tell you exactly what that is.

I'm Lindsay Metzlar and I host Wee Metedakmi. It's a dating podcast that gives you all the rules

and guidelines that you need to date successfully. Hey, it worked for me and now I'm married.

So you really should give it a listen if you haven't already and you can also hear the horrors

of dating. Everything that you want to hear is in Wee Metedakmi, so check it out.

Hey friend, it's Nicole, host of the Nicole Walters podcast.

Here's where we laugh, we cry and we grant ourselves grace as we do life together. Let's get started.

Hey friend, so today I know I always start off by saying I'm so so excited to chat and I am,

but this particular chat I wanted to come in and kind of do real time. So sometimes I do these and

they are like a week or two right before the time they actually go live to you, but this chat I wanted

to do kind of real time. Now just this past week I had the joy of celebrating my 28th birthday.

Now I know that so many of you are like, what Nicole, that's crazy. Oh my gosh, I can't believe

you're 28. You look 25 and I'm just playing with y'all. No, the truth is I am a woman of a certain age.

However, I am grateful for the many years of life that God has given me and this past week I

had the opportunity to celebrate my 38th birthday and it was a really good one and I wanted to

talk about some of the emotions that went along with it and what it's like to celebrate

a birthday when your life has changed because I think that holidays often mark whenever you've

experienced a lot of change. So it's why whenever a holiday is coming, we argue with our family,

you know, like, well, is someone so coming or are they bringing the girlfriend or, you know,

whose house are we having it at? You know, a lot of the reason why we start having those types

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