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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Tran her most is 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 the

digital space together.

Okay, I'm so excited everyone gets to kind of tune in for a girl friend chat today because my

friend Lauren is on the podcast. She is such an incredible person. I followed for so long

but she has been just like seemingly felt like a star on the rise since the moment I laid on

eyes on her Instagram account. She's doing so much. She's here today with us. Lauren, thank you so

much for being here and welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I'm so excited. I mean, honestly,

I wish I could give up and dance right now but the anticipation of being on here is such a joy

and I'm just so excited to hang out with you. So tell me, I love your Instagram page. You've done

so much in terms of like body acceptance, sort of like all these different conversations. You were

huge in the Black Lives Matter movement. You went very viral around that time as well. I had

found you slightly before that, which was, I mean, good and probably hard for you as well.

You had such a surge as many Black folks have experienced a surge of attention, a surge of support

and then ongoing. It has been a very different story. So I would love to kind of hear what got

you started in creating for social media and how does that sort of relationship for you stand

today? Hmm, powerful question. There's and just unfolding it, almost like an onion,

where I started initially, so when I was younger, I was such a, I was almost like a go-getter.

I was always on my report card. It was always I was talking of one, I was a social one. I was

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