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Welcome to the Marindo podcast.

Hosted by me, Brenda Gonzalez, a fitness coach, political nerd, and nonprofit capacity builder. And me, Delsey Sandoval, a Guatemalan American licensed therapist and passionate creativity advocate.

Together, we're here to uplift our community through powerful conversations with changemakers,

creatives, and healers. Each week on the pod, we talk politics, culture, and personal development.

Listeners called Tamarino, the advocacy and self-love podcast.

Let's start the show.

Hello, Tamarindo listeners.

Hey, Brenda. How'stas? I am, oh my gosh, just got to say exhausted.

This has been a crazy week. You know, those short weeks actually end up feeling like overwhelming.

You know, last Monday was a holiday. But a couple of reasons why I'm very exhausted is we're recording here on a Friday.

As listeners know, I teach a workout class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 a.m. But I also substitute it for one of my colleagues.

And so she teaches three classes back to back.

So that means on Tuesdays and Thursdays of this week, Tuesday and Thursday of this week,

I taught four classes. I was so dead. I needed to take a nap. Like literally, as soon as I came

home, I was like, I got to take a nap. So physically exhausted and then work. But anyways,

that's been my week. But how are you?

I feel the same way, like completely thrown off my routine.

But also I think what happens to me is that I get into the vibe of like I had so much fun during the weekend that it's hard for me to get into the groove of wanting to be serious and do my work during the week. And I'm sort of like fighting with myself about it.

And so even yesterday, instead of doing some to-does that I really had to do,

I just like took myself to the park.

I got myself a picnic.

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