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Hi, everyone. If you're new this week, welcome.

This is a podcast all about women in the outdoors,

all the different ways we find ourselves and express ourselves in the outdoors.

This particular episode is about a fellow podcaster, I hope you enjoy.

I'm Gail Straub and you're listening to She Explorers.

So I always convince myself like, it's okay that it's cutting into my personal time

because this matters to me I'm passionate about this and I care a lot and so I think I'm

constantly having to unlearn that pattern and unlearn those voices that say it's okay to work all the time because you love it because

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