Hello, everyone. My name is Grace Valentine and welcome back to another edition of the I'm Tired

podcast. I'm your host, Grace Valentine. I'm a blogger. I'm an author. I'm a speaker, but most

importantly, I'm a friend. I hope through this podcast that you will be encouraged when you are

overwhelmed and annoyed.

It is my prayer that together we can talk about whatever we're going through, whether it's college kind of sucking or whether you're just tired of your every day.

And together we can find purpose in our every day.

Today I have my friend Caroline Baker on and we actually worked at a summer camp together

with high school girls. She did not want high school girls. I did not want high school girls at first. I was like, I don't know if I cried. Sorry. I don't mean to call you how. But I am glad because we were getting lunch the other day. I was like, I'm so glad you got high school girls, one, because you were so great with it. Yes. It ended up being the actual best thing. And selfishly, I met you, and now I live in Orlando, your hometown. So that was God getting my god. Life just has a funny way of bringing us back to you. But I love Caroline's perspective on a lot of things in life. Like every time I get lunch, I'm left. You know, we all have that one friend that you're like left feeling like better about yourself. And also just God always comes back into the conversation. And I think she has a gift

of seeing things with a perspective that only someone who has a lot of wisdom beyond her years can see.

And so I'm so glad you're on today. Me too. Happy to be here. And so you went to U.F., right?

Yes.

I went to University of Florida.

I graduated in May. So same time as me, yeah. Yes. It's still that weird transition. I know. Post-grad life. I have no idea. Like, no idea what I'm doing. Yeah. No. And I think like it's easy at this stage too to look back on college and to see all the times that like it didn't live up to our expectations like we see the great moments but we also see the times where it kind of sucked and I talked about that a lot of my blogs and everyone's like oh my gosh this is so true like it sucks for me like do you feel like it ever was like that for you too I mean honestly I feel like I woke up every day and I was like I'm just killing it at this life I'm just kidding I was, honestly, I feel like I woke up every day and I was like, I'm just killing it at this life.

I'm just kidding.

I was like, honestly, with Caroline, I was like, probably.

I was like, there's who wisdom?

The reality is that there are so many parts of college.

Like, everyone says that college is the best four years of your life.

And, I mean, I loved college and I'm so thankful for what I went

through and the experience that I had. But I surely hope that, like, those weren't the best four years

in my life because, God willing, I have so much more life to live. And, like, I just hope that

it gets better with this adventure with the Lord. But college is hard. Like, for sure. I think with any new season and with new transitions

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