Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostus, 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, today we have on a guest that this has been very kismet to have

on because Shelby, Shelby Say What blog, we followed each other for years. But you had a close friend story recently. First of all, an honor. It is an honor. It's an honor when you notice that you're in somebody's close friends. And you're like, oh, oh, this is like an inner circle. But you had shared like, hey, I'm really looking for a space to sort of talk about some of

these things that are happening so behind the scenes. I'm noticing it among so many creators.

There is a lot going on. And I want a place to talk about it. And I was like, let me pitch you.

I was so honored that you reached out because giving me this space to like expand on this.

Like, yes.

So amazing.

Yeah.

So first of all, welcome to the show.

I'm so glad that this worked out the way it did.

I am such a fan of your work.

You have challenged me.

We have like we have crossover in like terms of some of the content that we post around like some

different forms of body acceptance body confidence whether it's fashion or just normalization

fluctuating body weight it's something that i have really uh listen anybody who's ever

struggled with any forms of like disordered eating or hyper fixation on their

body, you notice very quickly if somebody feels like safe and comfortable to follow or not.

And you're somebody that I was like, I actually saw your content for a while.

And it was like a lot of fashion forward stuff.

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