Welcome to the Girl on Top Shalin Xo podcast. I'm your host Shallin Lester and you might know me from my YouTube channel, where I analyze celebrity relationships and scandals for the lessons we can take into our own lives. But here on the podcast, I answer the best questions you submitted over the past week.

Hello, Shaligators. We are back from our spring break hiatus. I, however, am not quite back

on American soil. I'm still bopping around Paris. If you've been following along on my

Instagram at Shaolin XO or on the YouTube channel, you'll know, yes, I'm in the city of lights.

I don't think that's a French accent.

You guys, I'm so tired.

I'm so sorry.

But I put up a video yesterday about the trip and gave you some tips on solo travel

because I'm here by myself.

And I really talked a lot about why I enjoy traveling by myself.

And there's certain places I wouldn't go,

like certain types of vacations or trips that I definitely don't want to do by myself, one of which is

like a beach vacation. It's just a little too much downtime for me to get lonely and everything.

But in a big city, it's wonderful to be by myself. And I also gave you guys some tips on how to sort of ease into that

solo travel, how to do this essentially right from the town you're living in. Because some people

were like, oh, well, it's easy to do it if you have money. Honey, everything's easy if you have money,

all right? Having a kid is easy. Starting a company is easy. Traveling is easy.

I'm giving you tips to do this without having to get on like a private jet flight to Paris.

Not like I took a private jet, but you know what? Tell people I did. That would make me pretty happy.

So this week on the podcast, I kind of wanted to piggyback off the concept of being by ourselves.

Because in the video, I focused a lot on traveling by yourself.

But I realized we needed a bit more information on the mindset that can create this reality

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