Hello, you guys. Welcome to another episode of my podcast. Things can be worse. I'm your host,

Bailey D. Drake, and today I thought it would be fun since I haven't in so long to actually sit down

and record an episode that I have written an outline out for. Um, I don't know why I stopped doing

this. I think because in the beginning of my whole podcasting thing, like when I first started the

podcast, I was very set on making this like a very heavy, I don't know, like mental health,

not like mental health, but like advice oriented type of podcast. And while it still is because

I pretty much give advice in all of my episodes, I feel like in the beginning it was too scripted

to like my outlines were, I was following an outline too hard and it just completely like

ruined it for me. I started hating like the podcast like three episodes and I was like this is

too much like I can't, I can't do this. I can't, this isn't sustainable because I wasn't enjoying

it. And I just knew that I would like love my podcast once I figured out how to do it the right way

for me. So basically in the beginning, I was doing research like before I planned out an episode.

I would do like hours of research either on Google or TikTok or you know, seeing different

people's perspectives on certain things and like accumulating my best advice and just like writing

it all down. And while some of those episodes were really good and very helpful, it just was too much,

it was too much, it was too much planning. So I kind of took a step back and I was like all right,

I'm just going to record podcasts and I'm going to talk through what's going on in my life and

I'm going to give advice when it is applicable. Is that the right word? And you know, just all

answer your guys' questions and give advice like all of that, but I can't do this like heavy scripted

thing. Like that's just not who I am. This podcast is supposed to be me just like talking. So that's

what it is. But today's episode is going to be all about the phenomenon, the well-known phrase,

if you wanted to, he would. Now I have so many different directions kind of where I want to cover

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