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Welcome to Balance Flat Girl. My name is Les. I'm your host and I appreciate you tapping in.

Hopefully this episode can keep you company if you're doing any holiday travels or holiday cooking or you just have a

little bit of downtime and you're looking for something to listen to. So if you are new around here,

or maybe you have been around for a little while and don't remember what's been going on with me,

in December of 2023, I left my corporate job to do content

and to do balanced black girl full time. So I wanted to do kind of a year in review to just talk

about how that's been. My first year of full-time entrepreneurship, what's worked, what didn't,

what I've learned, how it's felt, and just how it's gone. But to give a

little bit of context about my career leading up to this point, and I did go into a more

detailed version in an episode I released earlier this year called how I became a full-time

podcaster, but I worked in corporate essentially from 2011 when I graduated college up until the end of

2023.

Honestly, I would say I worked in corporate a little bit earlier.

I started doing corporate internships in 2009, 2010 through 2023.

So about 13 years of corporate experience and the transition from full-time corporate to full-time creator

in some ways was really smooth and in other ways was really bumpy.

And I want to just get into all of the nitty-gritty details about how that was.

I will say, I have been creating content in one form or another since 2014. I actually

started creating content in 2014 as a wellness and fitness blogger. And from day one of me

starting my blog, my intention was to do content full time. And a lot of people have a different

story where they say, oh, I just started it as a hobby and I fell in love with

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