Welcome back to school's over now with the podcast, and I'm excited. I have somebody here today. She's a speaker. She's an author. And I just think she's overall just phenomenal. Miss Pauliana Reed is on the show today. How are you?

Hello. Hello. I'm fantastic. How are you? Doing great. So people are looking you up right now. They're searching all through Instagram, trying to find out more about you as we speak.

And I want to go back to like you as a kid growing up. Tell us a little bit about your background

story. Yeah, absolutely. So it's interesting because I feel like our generation is so stuck on

titles. We're the CEO, we're the marketing director. So I always try to encourage people

to think about and start nurturing who they are beyond it. Right. So I like to say that I'm a

millennial woman who has fought for her dreams and won. Right. And I say that because when I was

younger, like I was bullied and tormented in school. I was not the cool kid. You know, dudes were not checking for me. Like, you know, I was younger, like I was bullied and tormented in school. I was not the cool kid. You know,

dudes were not checking for me. Like, you know what I mean? I didn't fit into, I didn't fit into

the clicks. And so I always felt misunderstood. And so a lot of the work that I do today is as

as the result is from the result of like being trying to figure out myself and like

sharing similar paths with other millennials of like being stuck in that gray area because when

we're younger we're taught that we can be anything and everything we want to be and then we grow up

and we go to high school and everyone's like nah bro like he needs to be a little bit more

realistic and it's it toyed with my mind.

It, like, totally screwed me over because now that I had to be realistic, I was like,

I'm someone who's imaginative, I'm creative.

And so for me, to who's a natural, I color outside the lines,

for someone to put me in a box and to label me was very frustrating for me. And that's

where downward spiral began. Wow. So like, like so when people were labeling me and putting

you in a box, like where did you feel like that way like early off in childhood? Was it like high

school? What was it for you when you start to feel that way? Yeah. Well, I think in high school,

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