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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine 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, I am incredibly stoked on this next guest. I can't even just this week has been

so crazy and I needed this to happen. I needed this conversation to happen because it is

one that I've wanted to have for a really long time. So I would like to welcome Julian

Brass. He is the author of Own Your Anxiety, which is now a national bestselling book.

Just found that out, which is super awesome. But Julian, there's something really cool that you

don't actually know or potentially don't even remember. So a year ago you wrote me an email

almost like to the day. And this is what you said and we've never met. We've never met before.

I'm not going to read the whole email. You said all I can offer you right now is to say that I'm

happy to make your acquaintance to support one another's endeavors and who knows maybe even

collaborate someday. It's so important to surround ourselves with positive people in the same path

in this social media world with gratitude, Julian. And here we are. It's been a year. Wow.

And I remember that you emailed me at some point and I was like, oh, I want to go find that.

I want to go find as I just, to be honest, in social media, it can be very isolating and you often

feel like you're a lone ranger in this world. It's very rare that somebody reaches out and says,

hey, just support what you're doing. I think what you're doing is cool and happy to me,

your acquaintance. And so when I went back and I read that and I looked at the date, I was like,

you're kidding. A year. I'm so glad you just brought that off. It's crazy. I actually got

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