Summer, is that you? Sure, it's August, but we have a few more weeks to enjoy this weather so let's celebrate accordingly

welcome to the TBG University podcast tailored for the 20-something who's still

obsessing over the finale of Love Island,

we're playing the hottest song of the summer,

getting her tote bag pack for the first day of classes,

and everything in between.

I'm your host and TBG coordinator Jaina Ellis.

Hi, I'm Zaria Taylor and I'm the TBG Podcast Production

Intern. We'll return to Jaina right after the break. Here at TVG, we believe in the healing power of sisterhood and one of my favorite parts of

female friendship is getting to sit down and kiki about everything that's going

on in our lives at the moment. So in this special girl chat episode myself and the Association the In our girl chat today, we explore the pressure to have a quote-unquote productive summer, dive into some recent pop culture, and share some advice for both the people going back to school and the postgraduate who's feeling

unsure about their new normal. Here's our conversation.

Hi Zaria, how are you doing? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. I'm so excited to have our little girl chat. I know we don't get to do this often, but I'm excited.

Same. Let's start off by sharing a quick overview of how our summers went.

I can go first.

My summer honestly has been pretty slow, which has been surprising.

But this year overall, I've been traveling a lot.

So the summer I felt like I didn't need

to continue the, every weekend I'm somewhere or every other week I'm somewhere

but I had two solid trips this summer which I think is a win I think sometimes we can overwhelm ourselves with like a

planning of summers I tried to keep it super intimate and

super chill overall in comparison to like when I was in college and I did a lot during the summer time.

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