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like you sign up for your one dollar a month trial at shopify dot com slash set up and welcome to

em bloom podcast and welcome back if you're a regular listener or welcome if you're a new. My name's Abby Asseland and I'm the host of

this podcast and I'm super excited to have you all here for this week's episode. I really

prioritized getting this episode very thoroughly planned and everything like that despite the

craziness that is my life right now just from from the day I'm recording this I'm taking

the CPA and gosh is today Sunday Monday Tuesday yeah like five days which is insane I keep thinking

today is Saturday but it's not and the fact that I take my first CPA exam in five days makes

me sick to my stomach and want to throw up.

But that's besides the point.

I really wanted to be sure to get this episode out and like recorded and everything just because I feel like it's almost what I needed to hear for my own advice this week,

taking my own advice type of situation.

And I'm sure a lot of you all can relate to it.

I think it'll really just cause a lot of you to think in a way you haven't thought before.

So hopefully it's inspiring and helpful for you if you're listening.

And I guess we'll go ahead and get into the quotes of goal and gratitude

for the week before we get started with the whole meat of and potatoes of the episode um so the quote

this week is to work on yourself is the best thing you can do except that you are not perfect but you

are enough and then start working on everything that destroys you your insecuritiesurities, your ego, your dark thoughts. You will see on the end,

you're going to make peace with yourself, and that's the greatest thing in the world. I really

like that quote. I feel like that's kind of like where I've, like where it describes where I've

been at, I feel like over the last couple of months, at least in my

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