Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori Shafrier.

And I'm Elise Hugh and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

And this is a mini episode where we hear from you. We share your comments and your thoughts and we answer your

questions to the best of our ability. But please do remember, we are not experts. We are podcast hosts.

And we do always encourage you to seek support first and foremost from a medical and or mental

health professional as needed. I think this is officially the last mini episode taping in which my kids

are still home from school for summer. By the next time we release a mini-up, they will be back in school

and I will be less harried and interrupted. Oh, man. Yeah,

we were just talking on the, on the full-length episode on Monday about how like all of a sudden,

summer's over. It could not end a day earlier. And not a moment too soon. That's exactly what I just said.

I was like, it could not end a day sooner.

I want to shout out one of our listeners, by the way. I think her name is Kristen, if I remember

correctly. I was sitting at lunch. Or actually, so when I was in Aspen, during lunchtime,

they don't do assigned seats. You just, it's like a cafeteria.

And it's just roundtables.

And then you go and sit down wherever there's an empty seat.

And I didn't really have a crew to hang with.

And so I just went and sat next to a woman who was by herself at one of the round tables.

And we started chatting.

And she works for a preschool, like,

you know, a network of preschools. And she was formerly in state government and has also worked

for the federal government in, you know, like child care policy. And at one point, I mentioned

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