Thank God that I caught that I wasn't recording because I just about poop my pants thinking

that I was like way further into the episode than I was. Thank God I just kicked it off.

What I said in the beginning was I'm so critical when I'm doing an episode by myself because I'm like,

oh my God, what do I want to say? How do I want to line this up? I'm thinking about all things

career, which is a perfect segue into this episode because we all need to take a deep breath and understand that we are right

where we should be and need to be right in this exact moment right now. Granted, yes, many of us

probably need to make a shuffler change sometime soon because we're itching for it, because we're

passionate people. That means you're passionate,

you're aware, you're efficient, likely with your time. So take a deep breath. We all need to do it. We're all in a good place. I promise you we are going to get there, my friends. It is all

going to be okay. But today's episode is about careers and work balance and when to move up and how to know

when to move up and what I wish I would have known in my early career, like post college and

what did I do and what's actually important and how to find love and what you're working on.

There is so much to talk about for careers. I held this one off for a little while because

I wanted to gather my thoughts on it and be in a better spot in my career.

And now that I am, I can, you know, powerfully talk about it and feel good about talking about it.

And now we can talk about the conversation, have this conversation really, really robustly.

There will be more because there is so much to talk about.

And the influx of write-ins was insane.

Like, write-ins from our live episode,

call-ins, even write-ins just in my advice column area. Oh my God, I'm like overwhelmed by the

amount of people who want career advice, which just means we're all feeling the exact same thing

at the exact same time. So if you're feeling it right now, it is so extremely normal to feel a little bit

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