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Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Tryin' Hermostis, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom

or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all

in this digital space together. All right. We're here. Oh my gosh. We're back. Okay. So I'm very excited

today because I was just a guest on her podcast, but I've been a fan of hers for basically ever, which we kind of unpacked last time we spoke.

But welcome, Allison.

I want to call you like the Allison show, but like your name is legit Allison.

Allison Show, Allison Party.

You're the party of Instagram. You can call

rewind. I'll answer. Oh my gosh. Okay. So let's go back a little bit because you are kind of like

me. You're a little bit of an O.Ger, but it's evolved so many times for you. So bring us back. Like, how did you even get started in this? And, you know, I've watched you evolve a few times. I've watched you go from cookie making to event planning and, and branding and all of that stuff. But kind of take us to the journey of like, why did you even get in this in the first place? Like what brought you on that desire and kind of bring

us to where you are now? Yeah, you know, I feel like a lot of, well, I don't know. It's hard to say.

A lot of people that I know, a lot of people I came up with, we started on blah, right? And so

basically the idea that you could have your own platform. You could have your own place to say what

you wanted to say, share what you were excited about was the most exciting thing to me ever.

And I felt a little embarrassed about it, a little stupid. Like at the time, like the people I knew

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