Hi, welcome to Cheers. I'm your host, Avery Woods.

Hi, you guys, welcome back to Cheers. Today is my 30th birthday and I really wanted to share it with you guys. I thought it would be fun to

record an episode talking all about 30 things that I've learned in my 30 years of life. And I feel like as

women, our 20s are so difficult. We go through so much. And if I can use my platform for anything, it's to share my

experiences, my fuckups, the things that I've done wrong but also learned from and hopefully give you guys

some advice to maybe make situations in your life a little bit easier or maybe give you advice

on how I wish I would have handled things. All in my 20s, I remember

my friends that were approaching their 30s or had turned 30 told me that 30s were the best years

of their life and that as soon as they hit 30, they just felt like when the 20s chapter closed,

their life really opened up to their 30s, 40s, 50s, and so on. And I have felt like that for the majority of my year

as a 29-year-old. I felt like I was so ready to hit 30. I had gone through so many things in my

20s that people don't even experience throughout their entire lives, let alone in a decade of time.

I, in my 20s personally, I experienced obviously graduating college,

meeting my husband, getting married at 21, becoming a stepmom to two daughters, having two of my

own kids, so becoming a mom of four by the age of 26, working as a pick you nurse,

changing my career to social media while doing aesthetic nursing, buying my first house, moving states. That is so much. And there was so much

few and far in between as well that I can't really touch on that are more personal. But there

was a lot of stuff that I've also experienced behind

the scenes that people don't really realize. And I just remember getting to a point at like

27, 28. And I was like, when is this shit going to end? Like this decade has been so rough. And since

then, I've had a lot more rough things coming my way. And this year was a battle

with my mental health as I've talked to you guys about. But I'm so excited for my 30s chapter.

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