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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess Trianne Hermosta, 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, everyone welcome back today.

We are welcoming Anna who I met through the event scene.

She actually asked me to keynote her event last March, which ended up being the last time I saw

anybody in the real world doing anything. It was my last trip. It was my last everything.

And I walked away with so much from one singular event that I walked away and was like whatever

she's doing, I need to know more. I need to be a part of it. But this last year has been a

damn blur. So I'm so excited to finally be sitting down with Anna having this conversation about

not only that event and everything she's doing, but just your whole story, Anna, is I sat in a

car with somebody and they're like, have you ever heard Anna's story? And I was like, I have it.

They're like, you need to sit down with Anna and hear her story. And I was like, okay, this is

so I'm excited to get to know you a little bit better. I'm excited to digest this last year

with you and discuss which was for me the most inclusive event I've ever attended. So maybe let's

start there. Let's talk a little bit about that event. Tell me, let's share with me what that was

and how you came to this place of choosing that level of inclusivity.

Thank you so much for that first question. What a really powerful first question. And thank you

for having me here. This feels like a very bizarre full circle moment because the last show I

produced, you were like on my stage. So now I'm looking at you and thinking how long has it been?

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