Hey everyone, it's your girl Breeney Lee and welcome to the pep talk podcast where we have real, raw, relatable conversations with the pep talk you need.

You have the power to create your future, the choices that you made today.

What do you bring to the table? Baby, I am the table.

Fuck yourself a little bit more than that, ladies. Come on. Dust settles, queens don't. And don't forget,

know your worth and then attacks. Period. I am going to be speaking to dating. I'm going to

speaking to relationships, but you can apply

it to whether family, friends, whoever you have to set standards and create boundaries with,

you can apply to anybody.

But I'm going to specifically be talking about the dating streets and basically how not to be taken advantage of.

Ultimately, I think there are a lot of men getting away with a lot of things because we are making it too easy for them.

A way not to be easy is to have standards, but not only to have standards, but to actually stick by them.

I feel like some people don't struggle with having standards.

They have trouble with enforcing those standards when it comes to it.

And I've found of a lot of people, even myself, I can have these high standards.

But I know inside me, if, let's say, there's a season where I've been feeling super lonely or I feel unseen or unlovable or invalidated.

And someone came along that did not measure up to my standard, but they were showing me the attention that I needed at a time.

I would actually drop my standards in

order to accommodate them and I would end up getting hurt.

So if that has been your experience, I have come here.

I've come here to help you guys today.

Now, I'm going to kind of use the term standards and boundaries interchangeably.

But to be honest, they're kind of similar.

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