Okay, hello and welcome to another week of my pleasure. I have been looking forward to recording

this all week. I'm not kidding you. And I'm so energized and ready to talk. So let's just dive right in.

This is kind of the first deep dive into a topic. And the topic is authenticity. So I've been getting a lot of really

great questions from you guys. And my favorite thing is when you guys ask something that is already

a subject that I am bursting at the seams wanting to talk about. So let's talk about

authenticity and basically like how to live your life more authentically. I definitely identify

as someone who is an expert in this field and not because I've done like a ton of research

or studying, but mostly because throughout the years I have realized that this is a skill that I have.

And once I realized that, I then started to look within and look, look within and without

and figure out exactly what it is I'm doing that helps me live authentically so that I can

connect with others on it. And I want to share with you guys this moment very, very early on in my career. I had

probably been living in L.A. Gosh, I want to say a year and a half, definitely less than two years.

And I had gotten my first big meeting with a manager and this was a really

big deal to me. It was, I don't even remember how I met the managers. I think maybe they came to a show

of mine and they had called me in for a meeting in their office and it was a Beverly Hills like

Wilshire Boulevard fancy high-rise office like something that today would make me gag with

just like an ill cringe I don't want to be a place like that. But 21, 22 year old Esther, fresh to

L.A. from the Midwest, I'm like, oh my God, a real building with a real office that I've been

invited into? Like, this is unheard of. Is there free coffee? Like, oh like oh my god and it was a newer management company

in fact like i kind of think an absolutely no disrespect to these people i kind of think they were

like two rich la kids who like were using an office space they had access to and were pretending to be managers. And I think

they still are managers. I think they're great. But that, you know, it wasn't exactly ideal.

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