This is going to be a selfish podcast episode, so I hope you're ready.

Welcome to the Happy Times Podcast.

Hello everyone, my name is Joey Kidney.

I am your host of this podcast. I am 27 years old. I live in

Ottawa, Canada. I have been an author poet influencer for the past. Oh gosh, 10 years of my life and I've been doing this podcast for the last six years and here we are.

If you're new to this, if you do enjoy it, please leave a review and if you're still here, well thank you for being here.

Now, if you follow me on any of my socials, then you would know that I recently did a series on my

channels called Joey's Journey to self-love.

And the first one got a lot of traction.

The first one did quite well.

And it was interesting to me because I find self-love

is very advertised, let's say it's very promoted, it's very marketed, it's influenced at the end of the day.

Self-love is just like, I guess, like the influencers way of marketing to make it so you think that you need this in order

to love yourself so then they can push a product on you.

Which I guess I talk a lot about self-love. I talk a lot about

self-help. My books are about self-help. I make every video about self-help.

So I guess like people think that the same for me, but you know I do it because this is the type of video that I needed when I was 16 that I needed when I was lost and I was lonely and so that's why I do it. and so I can't speak for anybody else but I know

a lot of creators that that's if they get a brand deal immediately if you noticed okay they're

just making something about self-care or self-love and it's like this moisturizer I use

every single day it helps me take care of myself and love who I am and it's just

such an easy little advert but I started this series because I wanted to get back into

talking about myself and how I'm feeling. I feel like that's how I started out on

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