Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and 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. My favorite Midwestern mama, Emily, you're here. Oh, I'm so happy to be here.

I'm so excited. I feel like you really were this person that we all needed. I don't know what it was about you,

but I remember first finding your content, you were probably rapping pregnant. And it was just like,

oh my gosh, in the rat race of Instagram and I love so many different forms of women in their

lives. But I had never quite

seen somebody like you that really leaned in to just like being yourself in a way that we

had, we've seen people be themselves and it's so often like overly eccentric or overly this.

And I hadn't met somebody online quite like you. And you became like a bit of a warm hug,

I think, for a lot of people. But tell me your story in going online and sort of being you,

because it is, it's been so exciting to watch you sort of grow online and in these spaces

in a way that truly was your own. I thought that was so special,

but I'd love for you to sort of share that journey with us a little bit. Oh, sure. Okay.

So sure. I just love you. Oh, God. I was just saying earlier, Canadians often get mistaken for

Midwest. So it's like you're a little bit, but it's just so,

I don't know, I don't mean to like, you're just adorable. Anyways. Continue on. No, yeah,

Minnesota and Canada, we're like neighbors. Yeah, yeah. It's a lot of the same, yeah,

mannerisms, I think, a little bit. Um, yeah. So I think I doubt, like during COVID, the peak of COVID, we were all quarantined with our kids

and our houses.

That's when like TikTok was really blowing up.

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