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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Trin 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. Aaron, welcome to the damn show.

We have been friends for so many years. I know so much about you. If somebody were like,

who the hell is Aaron and what is raw beauty? Would you give us a little rundown of who the heck

you are and what we're doing here today? Thank you so much for having me on the show. I've obviously

been listening to it since you started and have always been such a fan of everything that you put out into the world, but then also it's such a treat to know you more personally as well. So just love, love, love everything that you're doing. Wow, who is Aaron? That's such a big question. You know what?

It's a huge question. It's an intimate. I'm like, tell me your life story. You have 30 seconds.

No, no, no. But like, let's be real for a second. Rob Beauty and your page on Instagram, which

has, you know, over 100,000 followers on it, you, you were one of the original accounts to

start talking about bodies, featuring bodies in different ways, in different angles,

and kind of collectively bringing people together into this conversation.

Maybe let's start with why you ever decided to do that and the roots

of your own story that kind of made that come to be. Because nowadays, we've seen a lot more

of these pages start up. But for anybody who's been in any type of body hate or body discussions

in any way is very aware of the impact of

raw beauty and its origin. So I would love to hear because I actually don't know this full

story of why you started it in the first place. I think like so many people, this whole journey

for me began with my own story around accepting my

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