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Welcome to the Real Real, where I take you behind the Instagram reel and into the real lives of

entrepreneurs, content creators, and anyone who inspires me and may inspire you too.

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hello everybody welcome back to the podcast with me Natalie Barboo

today's episode is a solo episode and it is probably the one that I am most

excited to talk about because it means that it's real and it actually happened and I can't believe it and I feel like I'm going to have to do a part two to this because as I was writing the outline for this I I was like, oh my God, this is two separate episodes already in this outline.

So I just kind of want to jump into it because I feel like I have so much to say and I want this to be concise and I want it to be clear and I want this to actually be valuable.

So if you guys are new here or this is your first time ever assembling across this podcast,

I am the founder of a startup.

The startup is called Rella and we launched Rella in January of 2022. It's been almost a year and I had

started working on Rella the previous year,

that previous summer is when I started actually working on it.

But I had the idea September of 2019.

So over a year before I launched it was when I initially had the idea.

And so I kind of want to talk about the origin story of it.

If you guys are, you know, avid followers of mine, you guys have listened to the podcast a bunch of times you

guys have watched me on YouTube follow me on Instagram you probably know a little bit of

this story because I did document it and I was building pretty much in public but I

really want to make this episode very clear, like a roadmap of Rela thus far.

And I also think I should do this every year just to kind of see how far we've grown and kind of give you

guys more insight on the direction that we're going.

And Rella is incredibly community oriented and community centered.

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