Hi everybody. Thank you for listening to the women's dating and confidence podcast. Today is the 40th episode.

And I always create an episode about lessons that I've learned from one of my

teachers or mentors every 10 episodes so I'm the 10th, the 20th, 30th, and now the 40th.

And today is a special episode because I decided to do it about my best friend, Julia.

So usually I would do it about a teacher or like an author

or something like that, but I feel like sometimes the best lessons that we learn are from our friends

and our family and people that just happen to be in our lives that aren't famous authors or something like that. So I wanted to

share some things that I've learned from her that I don't think she really notices that she taught me.

So first of all, Julia and I have been best friends since we were 14 and our story of friendship is kind of funny because when I first met her,

I thought she was really freaking annoying. So we were in class together and I just did not want to

talk to her and every time she came up to talk to me, I was like, oh my God, this again. And somehow she always,

like she was in the same friend group as me. So we were always in the same place. And I was just

really not fond of her, to be honest. And then one day, she said a really funny joke and I burst out laughing. And then from

that day forward, we were best friends. Basically, I kind of had to win her friendship at that point

because she moved on and made other friends when I was ignoring her, not talking to her.

But we became best friends really quickly.

And so actually the first lesson that I learned from her is that people's judgments of us are not always correct.

Because I had a judgment about her that turned out to not be correct at all.

And she's literally my favorite person on the whole entire planet. And I at first didn't think so. I thought she was annoying or I thought

I didn't like her at all. But literally, she never annoys me. And we've been friends for like eight or nine

years.

So sometimes we take people's judgments really personally and we think that they might be right

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