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Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast. I am your host, Amanda Bible, and I'm really pumped to talk to you today.

So I want to give you guys a quick little snippet of what's been going on around here.

And really, what's been happening in the life of Amanda, because we've had a couple of guests episodes,

which have been absolutely amazing. And now let's like dive back into it and spend some time again, just me and you, kid, me and you.

All right, so a quick recap of the last week. So last week, I was walking and I shared this on my Instagram story,

but I was so thrown off by it. And it made me really sad. And this is really going to like transition into what our topic is going to be about today,

because this is what really helped me get through something. I was walking around the block near my office in Red Bank, New Jersey.

So if you're around Red Bank, New Jersey, and you want to come and stop by, I am right here all the time.

But I was walking with a coffee, actually, I think I had a matcha tea. And I can't even explain to you like what happened, because I was so shocked.

But I was walking in a car, a Jeep, I remember, stopped, rolled down their window, called me a fucking slut, gave me the finger and sped off.

A girl, it was a girl too. And I'm like, whoa, okay, what? First of all, I was so shocked that I didn't even have time to react before this whole like this whole orchestration happened.

And then I'm walking and then I got really sad. And I'm like, you know what? A couple things went through my mind.

The first thing was, thank God I am secure enough and happy enough. And I feel really good as far as who I am and what I stand for and all of those things.

But it still shook me. I do all the emotional regulation. I do all the tapping. I do all the meditation. I do the journaling and all of the things to have me feel present and human.

And good and like all that. But like imagine if I didn't like imagine if I had been walking and I was, you know, someone who was dealing with a lot, I do, I carry a lot, I deal with a lot.

But like someone who didn't know how to deal with that and this happened. Like what a fucking bully. So if you are listening to this and this was you who did that, fuck you.

Like that is so messed up. And like on the flip side of that, too, is like how miserable or how upset or how horrible of a person and how bad do they have to like it just make you feel bad.

Like it made me feel really bad not only for the person who did that because they had to be going, you have to be going through some nasty shit and some dark stuff.

If you're gonna stoop to that level and try and ruin somebody else's day, like I feel really, really sad for that person. And I also feel really sad for anyone else who that person is going to go and bully because like we're all adults here.

And like adult bullying is like a real thing and it happens and it happened to me also in a Facebook group a couple weeks ago where I am a paid member of a group and I posted something.

And then like people were really just straight up mean. So like if you don't like someone or if you don't like something like just go the other way, look the other way.

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