Whoa! Yes, I don't know what I'm excited about but yay! You know I'm excited to be here with you.

That's what I'm excited about. Yes. Mm-hmm. I am going to try to not say um so much I realize I say like an um and I don't like that about myself

I just said like but I said like in another context I didn't say like like like

okay you know what never mind so how I would like to start like I said like but you know what I mean I mean the like I like I like don't like know that kind of like the senseless like

Let's just take a minute and calm down. Okay. Okay, before we start this podcast, I think I'm just gonna, I'm gonna cut it. No, Laura, don't cut it. It's I fight with myself, y'all. I'm fighting with myself. I'm

immediately once I recorded now I want to quit and stop.

Isn't that crazy that our head tells us to stop?

I certainly have a strong voice in my head that says nobody cares. You have nothing valuable to say.

This is your ego. Just go sit in a corner.

But my first sponsor said something that really stuck with me and always stuck with me. I called her one day, I said I was terrified to release content. I was

terrified to, you know, do the thing that I loved most which was make content, make comedy, make art.

I said I'm so scared, I'm so scared no one will care or even no I'm so scared that they will hate what I'm doing or even worse they won't care and she looked at me she goes

you're being selfish that's selfish and self-seeking. You're an artist, make art. And just feel

free to insert whatever the thing that you love to do is in there.

You're a mom be a mom.

You're a baker be a baker.

You're an architect.

Draw some buildings, you know?

You know?

You're a garden or garden.

Like, just... garden. Like just it's selfish to not do the thing that you love and that you're

good at because I believe our purpose here in this world is to help

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