Welcome to the Girl On Top, Shallon Exo Podcast. I'm your host, Shallon Lester, and you

might know me from my YouTube channel, where I analyze several relationships and scandals

for the lessons we can take into our own lives. But here on the podcast, I answer the best

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on YouTube for four new videos a week. Welcome back to the podcast, Shallogators. This week,

we're going to be talking about sort of boundaries, which I feel like we talk about that a lot,

so I don't want to say, oh, that's what we're going to talk about. But how boundaries manifest

in different ways in our lives? Because sometimes when we think about boundaries, it's like, no,

I won't do that. But there's other ways. They're saying no to something that isn't necessarily bad,

and it isn't misery-making. But those are the times we need boundaries the most,

because that's when things, people situation, quote unquote, opportunities can encroach on our peace

and our sanity and leave us feeling, well, not peaceful and kind of insane. You'll see what I mean.

So for a mantra this week, we're going to do the mantra. No is a complete sentence.

No is a complete sentence. Hell yeah. So let's relax. Ooh, let's roll out our shoulders,

loosen our jaw. I like to pull on my earlobes and pull on my ears like a little monkey. It makes

me feel good. And we're going to inhale through the nose. No is a complete sentence. Now we're

going to exhale one more time in through the nose. And out through the mouth. Oh yeah.

So the reason we're talking about no being a complete sentence is because my latest YouTube

video is on the art of saying no. It's a new challenge, which is a challenge challenge for you.

And it is the challenge of I don't want to. Learning how to say I don't want to. And I

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