What is up, you guys? Welcome back to the pod. Happy Friday. Hope you all had a great week. I certainly did. I

really just am kind of high on life right now, which is a good time for me to do this podcast.

Because today I want to talk about the state of dating. Some comments I made recently about

they're not, they're what I'm calling the great imbalance and the

and how that relates to scarcity mindset because I never want to just skate over things with

you guys I want to talk about them even if they're difficult and I have kind of changed my mind

on the the whole dating everyone will end up with someone idea.

And I just want to talk through it. And I'll be the first to say I'm not even sure I have like a

clear answer, but I have some well thought out thoughts that I want to share. So we are going to get

into that in a second. I am at the

ranch with my mom right now. If you don't know what the ranch is, it's a spa hiking camp thing where

you hike every day. And I did it before. And I did it in 2022. It was like the summer after I got canceled and I was so fucked in the head and I was really like

really had I was having a really hard time like mentally and I went with my best friend from childhood

we went for eight days and I remember on like the second day I thought I was going to have to go

home because it's bad I think they've changed it and made it more kind of lax but then you would get up at five you would meet downstairs you would hike for four hours it was an in and out so you would hike for two hours and then turn around and go back for two hours and it was just like a lot and you I loved it make no mistake I absolutely loved it but in the in the

beginning it was so difficult because I was really out of bad shape I was in bad shape I didn't

work out I had gained a lot of weight after I got canceled because I was honestly drinking a lot

and I was eating I was like definitely like eating my feelings and I had just come from mecanos

and it was just like it was just like a lot. But honest to God, it like really healed me and something about walking it out. I mean, obviously we love our rich mom walks, but, but something about walking it out in nature really help me process everything. And it was really great bonding with my best friend. And so I wanted to do it again.

Well, okay, here's what happened. I got it from my mom. I got her like a gift card to the ranch as a

present because my mom is obsessed with hiking. It's honestly really weird. She loves to hike.

I'm not really much of a hiker. I don't really like it. I lied when I lived in L.A. and I said I liked it, but I don't really enjoy it. And my mom loves upstate. She loves nature. She loves all that shit. And I thought, wow, I'm such a shitty daughter that I won't go with her. It's four days. Life is so short. You know, one of my, one of my resolutions was to spend more meaningful time with the people that I love. And I was like, just go, Christina. That's actually bullshit that you're not going with her. So I book myself a room too. And now I've literally ruined the whole thing because I've been so bitching and moaning the whole time about going. I'm like, oh no, the weather's bad. Oh my God. I hate hiking mom. Do you have extra socks? And she's like, I didn't even invite you. She said, you invited yourself. And I was like, oh, God, you're right. But anyway, it'll be really fun. It's really relaxing. I honestly, you can keep your phone. So it's not like a full shut off. but it's it's very chill and I honestly need to dry out a little bit

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