Hi, besties, and welcome back to the Sad Savage podcast. I'm your host, Shelby Sacco, and I'm really

excited for today's episode. I feel like I'm excited for every episode, but I basically made an

entire list of things that I wish I knew sooner and also just advice from me as a big sister.

I was thinking about everything that I wanted to know or like

looking back that I wish I could tell myself for my own life. I was thinking about advice that I give to

my sisters currently actively. And I was just thinking about big things that like I've realized

more recently in my world. Now some of these things are quotes from my books, things that I've

written in my notes. Some of these things I've just seen online and written them down, or just from my thoughts.

And some of these are going to have stories.

Like, I'm going to go through this really long list of just little things I knew better.

And if they don't have stories, I'll just be reading the list.

But I'm excited.

I've never done an episode like this. When it comes to picking your friends,

quality over quantity. It doesn't matter how many friends you have. It's that the ones that you

have have the qualities that you want in a friendship. Nicotine is actually really fucking

addictive. If I can go back in time, I would tell myself that it wasn't cool and that

when people warn you that it's addictive, like I didn't even know what that means. It baffles me

that vapes are actually legal, something that's allowed. If you don't know this, I really

struggled on and off with vaping throughout college and after college. It was my worst habit ever.

I'm actually going to do an episode talking about how I changed my habits to stop vaping throughout college and after college. It was my worst habit ever. I'm actually going to do an

episode talking about how I changed my habits to stop vaping. And I think that, okay, this is I know,

I think that people get embarrassed about it, but it's like, it is, nicotine is so addictive. Same with

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