Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast. I hope you guys are doing well. I am so excited

because today's episode is just me. If you guys are regular listeners of my podcast, you

know I've had quite a few guests on lately, which has been so fun and I really like, but

I know that there are a lot of people who really prefer just the solo episodes that

are very casual, whether you're on your way to work, or if you're cleaning your house

or whatever it may be. It's nice just to listen to one person talking about about your

random things. That's just very calming to listen to. So I hope that this podcast is going

to be that for you today. I'm doing an episode that I've been wanting to do for a while that

I've been thinking about and that is just about hard lessons that I have had to learn

throughout my life so far. I'm only 23 and to be quite honest, my life has not been that

hard up until this point. I think that there are a lot of things that we go through that

really shape us as people, whether that be getting a new job, moving somewhere new, going

through different friend situations and having a baby one day or losing a loved one. There

are so many things that we go through that shape us and so I've been reflecting a lot lately

about just things that I have learned especially over the past few years. I think from the

ages of 18 to 23, you just learn so much and since getting married and being financially

independent, I've just learned a bunch of different lessons. So I have tend to share with

you guys today. I try to make them from all spheres of life. So I have friend situations

that I've learned from. I have financial things. I have career things. I have just things

that I've learned from going through hard situations in my life that may not be as hard

as other people. I think a lot of times when people talk about these things, it can be

easy to say, you know, oh, you haven't had it that hard or someone's always had it harder

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