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Hey guys, and welcome back to another episode of Casual Chaos. Today Today I have a super fun guest who I was blessed to meet on the Tart trip.

Julia Filippa, welcome to Casual Chaos. Hi, Chia. I've missed you. I know. I've missed you. I kind of want to start back to the beginning of where you grew up, what you were like growing up, and kind of how you made

it to this point. So I grew up in North Carolina, a small little city, but it felt so big when

you were so young, because like compared to Miami, it's small. And I grew up with like a pretty

small family, but like I lived with my cousins, my uncles, my aunts, grandmas.

I like floated around my whole life.

So I was always surrounded by like friends.

And I was, I was, I'm a very outgoing person.

So like when I'm like alone, it doesn't feel right because I grew up with so many people surrounding me.

But I grew up in North Carolina.

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