Hey guys, it's Ashley and welcome to the Extra Dynamic Podcast.

So I know a lot of you guys listening into this podcast might not be people who usually listen in,

but I just want to say hi. So it's nice seeing you here and I hope you enjoy getting to know me

in a somewhat more intimate setting.

I feel like if you guys really want to peek into my life, the podcast is probably the best way.

So anyways, today I have a lot of things that I want to talk about.

Some of them will be happy and some of them probably won't be and that's okay.

First of all, I just want to thank you guys so much

for the amazing feedback on my last podcast, which was about insecurities, making friends, socializing

post-grad. It was definitely one of my more vulnerable podcasts, so I just got so many amazing and

kind DMs back from you guys, and it really honestly meant the world to me. I didn't get the chance

to reply back to

everyone just since I've been really busy recently, but just know that if you sent me a DM, I read it

and I really took it to heart. I'm literally giving you the biggest virtual hug back and we're all in this

together. Yeah, I've actually been feeling a lot better for the past like two or three weeks, especially this week I've been feeling just a ton better.

I've been feeling motivated.

I hung out with some of my friends and I've gone to the gym, film videos, and I finally feel like I'm sort of back to being myself and not holding myself back anymore.

I feel like recently I've been able to go about every day with a lot of gratitude, you know, playing music, taking myself outside on little self-dates, going and like looking at the water or like the lake or the river or something, which is actually like kind of terrifying to go places by myself like that because I'm a little bit afraid that I'm going to get kidnapped, but you know what? I did it. I've been getting outside, and it's made me feel so much better than just sitting inside,

obviously. I'm feeling very hopeful and just good. So anyways, today was especially productive

because I filmed a productive day in my life. So I woke up, cleaned the apartment, edited. I went to

Orange Theory, and overall I had a really good day.

So a lot of you guys have been to ask me what Orange Theory is, and basically it's like a place

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