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All right, you guys, so welcome back to another episode of Bad Decisions.

I am here with Sarah.

Sarah is a very resilient young woman who is a listener of the Bad Decisions podcast. So first off, thank you.

You're welcome. More importantly, Sarah is a woman who has survived both being in an abusive relationship with an alcoholic. She has came through

a lot of adversity in her personal life and also even with her career. And she's somebody who's made

bad decisions that for a long time society and who else out there, you know, would tell her to

feel ashamed about. But Sarah has a story and Sarah's story is important. And Sarah, it's

interesting, like before we started, you know, with this formal start of our conversation here,

she was telling me, you know, I feel like I have this story and I just don't know if, you know, like other people would want to hear about it. And the first thing that could pop in my head was absolutely yes. Other women and people out there need to hear your story. You need to tell your story because at some point in time, there's going to be

somebody out there who might be in the same situation, and your story could be what helps

point them in the right direction. Because back when I was in a really bad abusive relationship

and dealing with an alcoholic, I wish I had somebody to help pull me out of the dark place.

So I'm going to open the mic up to Sarah and I just want to thank you, you know, again,

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