Hello, it's Brooke Devard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast.

Okay, so this episode is all about being 29. I've just turned 29, and it's kind of a weird age

because you're not yet 30, but your 20s are all in your rearview mirror.

I did some searching for this episode, some research to see what was out there around being 29.

If there were any good studies or any good articles about what this age means and so I could just put it into context.

And in searching I came across this really interesting article. It was published by The Guardian. The headline was is

29 The Perfect Age and it referenced a study around how many friends and

connections people had at different phases of their life and the study revealed that 29 year olds are actually at their peak of popularity.

When you're 29 you're still young enough that you have connections and ties with your school friends, but you're old

enough that you now have work relationships and professional relationships.

They said that on average 29-year-olds have 80 friends versus 63 friends for every other age.

And I can kind of see that.

I can see in a lot of ways how I'm surrounded by a lot of people both from school and

from just working for this past eight years

So yeah, I thought that insight around how many friends you have at 29 was interesting

I think for me personally a lot of things are clicking in a

professional sense in just overall the quality of my life feels like it's in a

really good place. I have passions outside of work,

this podcast being one of them. My family is happy, they're healthy, I'm in a great

loving marriage with a partner that I love very much.

So net net everything feels really good.

That being said, and this is where I get into, this is where we get into the bulk of this episode.

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