Anna's Guide To Defining Success
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Welcome back. Guys, we just had, at the time of me recording this episode, we just had Labor Day and it's officially September. It's officially fall. I literally said that on the last episode too because it started to feel like fall. Except it doesn't feel like fall now in LA because it's 103 degrees outside. We have not had weather like that all summer long and then suddenly like...

I buy a pumpkin spice creamer and the weather's all weird. Rude. But today's episode I am so excited for. I think I say that about every single episode and I truly mean about every episode. But this one kind of hit me like a train. And I think that it was...

a bit of an epiphany moment for me that I'm really excited to share with you. And truthfully, it's gonna be a little bit different when I share this episode because normally I'm just talking out of my noggin because I could talk for hours about anything. You tell me a topic and I can present on it. But with this episode, I like kind of had a little awakening when I was on a flight this past week. And so I ended up writing down what I was thinking on my computer. And so this episode is gonna be different because I'm gonna be reading to you what I wrote down because I just think that it put my

thoughts into a really good honestly slam poetry-esque way and I felt like in the moment I got down everything that I was feeling and thinking and we're gonna elaborate on it after but I'm excited to share with you guys Anna's Guide to Defining Success.

I'm going to tell you how I define success and maybe it's different and maybe it's the same for you and we're going to find out what you think about it because the question for today's episode at the Anna Guide was how do you define success? Over on my Instagram, I posted a little story and we got some callers. We're going to share how they define success. And if you want to be a part of that little party over on Instagram and you want to call into our fan line, I won't be there but my voicemail will. So if you want to join the conversation and

visit about what each week's topics and episodes are about, you can give a call to 323-433-0683. You'll hear my voice on the other side and I can't wait to hear yours on my episodes. So for today's episode, we are talking about success. But before we get into it, we're going to talk about a rosebud thorn because I

We have them. Sometimes I like lose track of what I've shared in past episodes. You know, like what I did this week. I got home today. Today. What am I talking about? I got home this week from Barcelona, which is really fun. I've never been to Barcelona. I've been to Spain when I was like wee small child. So this was my first time getting to go. I went by myself. I went for a sailing competition. That was cool. So my rose, I would say, was the travel that I had this week. And it's funny. I like...

Every week I get back, I'm like, oh my gosh, I'm going to be chilling for a while. Then I look at my calendar and it's like, you're going again, which is kind of exciting. I have no complaints about that. I love a good adventure. Next up is New York. I'm looking forward to going to New York and I'm happy to be home from Spain. My bud of this week...

It's probably the New York trip. It's almost Fashion Week season, which if you tune in for any of that, which I feel like you can't really miss it on social media sometimes. For about the entire month of September to October, you have Fashion Week. It starts in New York and then it goes London, Milan, and then Paris. So I usually do New York and Paris. I have only done New York once. I usually only do Paris because...

it's paris like why wouldn't i want to go but i am doing new york because i think by the time i can say this i'm going to the vmas i'm gonna see chaparone and sabrina carpenter in the same room and i'm losing my marbles i literally just verified my plus one today um so we're bringing danielle um but i'm really excited because i also got to pick up my dress wait hang on i'm gonna just like give you guys a million buds right now as i tell you about this i picked up my dress last night

And now my phone isn't working. Hang on. I wonder if it'll show you on this. I'll like literally, I'll put the picture. Look at this. When did I get so hot? It is so seductive. I'm very excited. So that's my bud is the dress that I get to wear to the VMAs. My thorn of this week is that my boyfriend doesn't get to come with me. Honestly, that's I feel like the thorn. Like my travel lately has been very individual. I'm missing that really good brew quality time. But

I know he's waiting for me when I get home and cheering for me from a distance. So, Slaybro. And that's it for this week's Falsetto Thorn. I can't wait to hear yours. So DM me them on Instagram because I want to know what your week looked like and what you guys are looking forward to. You can follow me also at the Anna Guide at Instagram or at Anna Exotar on Instagram and the Anna Guide on TikTok and all the places that you get your podcasts. Don't forget to tune in because this week we're talking about Anna's Guide to Defining Success.

And I actually am going to go right into reading to you like a little storybook. So buckle up, cuddle up on your couch, turn up your volume, close your eyes, picture this, and let's get into it. Here are my thoughts from this past weekend. I realized this weekend that living success through other people's eyes will only ever result in the lack of feeling fulfilled in your own life.

I thought the fancy degree meant success. I thought the following online would mean success. I thought the money meant success, but truthfully, as cliche as it sounds, it really is always about the happiness. It's the unforgiving confidence in your own ability. It's your joy. I did a triathlon this weekend and decided to share the journey. Days leading up, getting my first bike, training only the few days before the race. My comment section was fueled by empowerment.

Except for on the day of, a few girls who I had seen in my comment sections before decided to reply and respond in their own way after I shared the results of my triathlon, which I was very proud of. To my own surprise, even my own results exceeded the expectations and small internal goals that I had set for myself. These women went comment by comment, replying back to individuals who left empowering and encouraging feedback to something I defined as a major success, with belittling that achievement.

She didn't win. I wasn't even in the top 50. Someone else could do better if they tried. I'm normally a very sensitive person who would get their feelings hurt from something like this. But for some reason in this scenario, I was really surprised when I actually didn't feel anything. I didn't feel anger and I didn't feel sadness. If anything, I was just shocked that in a world where the Barbie movie literally came out a year ago...

Someone would say this, especially one woman to another. But I realized that I was unbothered and unwavered because I truly knew the success of what I had just accomplished. I trained for only two weeks. I woke up earlier than I've ever woken up before. I completed a triathlon before 10 a.m. on a Saturday. To design the Lexus ES, all we had to do was listen.

Your ears said exactly where to put the speakers. Your eyes told us where to put the available head-up display. Hey, Lexus, find me an alternate route. Even your right foot helped out. It let us know you'd enjoy a little more torque. Turns out you had a lot to tell us. We certainly heard you. The Lexus ES. Not just for you, by you. Experience amazing at your Lexus dealer. This race wasn't about placing for me.

It was about doing something that I've never done before. And I succeeded. It was about proving to myself that I was strong enough to complete something and face my fears. And I succeeded. I succeeded beyond the measure of a mark or a rank or time or place because I just did it. I finished something.

And at the end of my race, I can look in the mirror and say, thank God for the body that carries me. Thank you for the lungs that breathe and regulate filter and fuel. Thanks for the muscles that empower me through every second of the day. Thanks for the mind that picked up a new skill quickly, understood the strategy of transitions and routes and learned how to ride a bike for the first time days before the race. Not like a normal bike, but like a road bike. You know what I mean? Those things are harder than regular bikes. I don't know if you've ever ridden them before. It's so much shakier. I thought I was going to fall over like every five seconds. Anyway, back to the story.

Thank you for the sunshine. Thank you world for the community. Thank you for the family and the partner pushing and cheering me from the sidelines. Thanks to my friend Danielle who introduced me and cheered me on throughout the sign up. Thanks to my little brother who's always down to join an adventure and try new things. That was my version of success. I might not always be happy. I might look in the mirror and sometimes talk negatively about myself or not like the way I look or the way my body sits or the way my face is.

But when I look at what I accomplished that day, no matter how small or insignificant or seemingly unimportant it might have been to somebody on the internet with a little bit of hate in their heart, I can say to myself that I did that. And I'm proud of myself for it. I do not always feel that way. But on Saturday, something that I would say is potentially the best day of my life. Truthfully, the day of the triathlon was a dream day for me. I felt loved. I felt adventure. I felt accomplished.

And if I really take a moment to consider the comments, I realized that if I was in the top 50, they would have said that I wasn't top 25. And if I was first place, they would have said the race was too easy. Because my point is, in someone else's eyes, the finish line will always be moving. Your joy is your success. Your accomplishments have to be on your own scale. You will never satisfy someone who's only ever looking to humble what you've succeeded in.

And I felt this way in engineering. In my first internship, I got a callback for an additional interview, but the boy sitting next to me in my physics class who walked in and out of the exact same office before me for the interview did not. And to my face, he looked over to me during class and said, you only got that because you're a girl and they're trying to even out their ratios. I have better grades and I deserve this spot more than you did. Now, I was really just happy to be there, truthfully, and I couldn't believe that I even got an interview in the first place.

And that comment used to eat me alive. It used to bother me until I realized that actually I got the interview because I was qualified. I got the interview because I'm a good person and I'm knowledgeable and I had the same education no matter what scale it was on. Unlike that guy, I would never say that to someone. I wouldn't see their success as a loss to my own success. And I ended up getting the job because I had experience, creativity, and skill. But if I live my life on his scale...

If I felt bad and took what he had said to heart, that I wasn't good enough, that my grades and my ability to take the tests were the only way to measure how much I was worth, I would have lived my life constantly wondering if I was ever deserving or enough for the interviews that I had. But listen, I got the job. Not only did I get the job, I got the degree. I made it on the dean's list and I still remain kind no matter what that immature little boy just said.

And my scale to success was happiness and following what at that time brought me joy. My scale to success was working on something that made a difference, not my class rank, not my GPA, not how much money I made during the internship, not how many girls were in my class compared to how many boys. Because when you get lost in these numbers, when you get lost in these comparisons, you're going to constantly find yourself feeling inadequate for something that you were absolutely adequate for. And I want to remind you, you will never meet someone above you who talks down to you.

Not a single person crossing the finish line at the triathlon weekend looked back and talked negatively to a person who came after them. If anything, every person who was ahead and behind of me were continually cheering to keep going as we all ran toward our own versions of success. The only thing I've learned is that the only people who will talk down to you are those who talk down to themselves every day.

And that honestly makes me so sad because I wish that they could see how many incredible accomplishments they have in front of them that they're not willing to cherish. They say to you what they fear someone would say to them if they were to try. And keeping you exactly where you are allows everybody else to stay comfortably exactly where they are. But listen, you should be celebrating your wins. Even if you think they're little because they're not, they matter. And even last place still means that you did it. And I'm always proud of you for that. Oh, okay.

Anna in her feels. As you can imagine, I had this epiphany while I was on a flight to Barcelona and woke up out of the middle of the night and was like, I need to write this down. I need to get these thoughts onto paper because I realized that like you can spend your life trying to impress the people around you when like, why does that matter if you're really happy with what you're doing? And I hope that you get the chance to feel that way. And so I hope that lesson one is that your success is defined by your own scale.

You can make your version of success whatever you want it to be. I think that on this weekend, I felt the most successful feeling really happy. And maybe your happiness is driven by like your achievements or things you completed or maybe it is like that you got first place or that you got fifth place or that you did it in the top 50. But truthfully, I find myself oftentimes being really comparative to my own success, like looking at things that I've done in the past and comparing myself to past versions of myself.

And that's a really tricky road to go down because I don't think that I exactly remember how life was when I'm comparing what my success looked like. Like I could have been so unhappy, but I just don't remember it. But I think that I was doing better than than I'm doing now. I hope that made sense. But it becomes a difficult turmoil and you have to be sure to set your scales for success as the things you want to accomplish and that make you proud of yourself. I like literally did a TikTok this week that was like

But what's really important is that, like, younger me would think that I'm cool and hot. And truthfully, yeah, I bet she would. Like, I feel like younger me would look at me now and be like, she is slaying the house down. And that, to me, is its own little version of success. That I grew into my skin. That I became confident in who I am. That I'm proud of what I've accomplished so far. And I know that I have so much ahead of me that I get to do, too. So...

For today's episode of Defining Success, it's just a thing of your success is whatever makes you feel like it's right. And I can tell you all day long that my success is driven by like my happiness or my joy, but it really has to be something that like you feel at your core. But just remember that like looking to other people for defining how well you're doing, I don't think will be as fulfilling as looking into yourself and saying, what am I proud of myself for? And what have I done that I really think was amazing?

And y'all, I live for another podcast episode. I made it to the end of the triathlon. What the heck? What the heck?

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I think for success, we live in an age where social media has such a huge role in how we view success. And I think like even as another creator and as a viewer, like I watch the creators that I admire reach huge accomplishments from things like what events they go to, to what brand deals they get, to what brands they want to work with, to what products they're launching.

It's very easy when you're looking at your phone and you feel so parasocially connected to these people online that you can see it and think that because they're achieving that, you're falling behind. Or because they're achieving that, you can become, like I said earlier, that comparison game, that numbers game of like, oh, they've made it that far. That means that I'm not successful if I haven't made it that far. But

It's still on that thing of success is on a scale. Even I get guilty of looking online and seeing other people living their life differently. And I think an interesting scale for success that I've noticed as I've gotten older is kind of like your personal success versus your maybe business, I'm going to say, or like, I can't use the word corporate in this scenario, but in some ways I sometimes think it's interesting that like, I see a lot of my friends right now

Here, this is a better way to say it. Growing up, I admired a lot of creators who did lifestyle. So I viewed success not as a financial, but as hitting the check marks of adulthood. So when I was growing up, I thought that like getting to getting married and like finding your forever person and then having the wedding and then buying a house and then having a baby. Those were depending on how far along you made it in those checkpoints were the amount that you've succeeded in life.

You know, like how much are you filling your cup? How much are you doing the things that are like traditionally like huge milestones? I think like a younger version of myself looked at that and thought that. Now, as I've gotten older, I think I've floated a little bit in and out of the perception of that. I still feel very young. Even at 27, I sometimes still look in the mirror and I think like,

Am I old enough to get married? As I watched my best friend literally get married like a couple weeks ago, sometimes I still don't feel like I'm at that level in life. But I've realized that my success is like, how happy am I in this era in life? How much am I enjoying what I'm doing right now? Am I signing up for new things? Am I trying new things? Do I get the chance to like be a new better version of myself? And everyone, like I said, it's your own individual scale. Sometimes I look at my life in the terms of like what I've achieved, you

in my more personal life and more like that lifestyle like getting married and having a boyfriend and like making those next steps and I feel a little bit behind and I can fall into this mentality of like comparison like oh my gosh everybody else in my life every time I open Instagram somebody's engaged every time I open Instagram somebody's having a baby am I behind am I succeeding enough am I accomplishing enough but then I look at the other areas of my life like maybe in my more like

entrepreneurial work focused side of my world and I think I'm really proud of what I've succeeded in thus far and I think that I'm excelling in a lot of the areas and

In a comparative mindset, I think that I'm excelling. But if I don't look at it from comparison, am I happy with where I am right now? That's the scale that I think really matters. And I kind of learned about this scale in an interesting way. I did this retreat at the start of the year and I told the story on TikTok. Unfortunately, I'm going to cancel TikTok because they removed my sound from the video and there's no reason to have. It was a

it was like a true story but they took the audio off of TikTok and so they removed my voice from it I don't know I don't even want to talk about it I still beef with them because it's one of my favorite videos ever made but I tell this story about climbing a mountain and I'm going to retell it for you now because I think that this analogy completely changed my perspective on success I went to this retreat at the start of the year that was like a wellness and health retreat

It can be on a variation of things. You could have some, there were divorcees there. There were people getting into their health journey. I was kind of there for the mental health aspect of it. You pretty much like hike a bunch of the Malibu mountains. Okay. That's in a nutshell what the retreat was. It was like very much, you get like fitness classes, you hike mountains, you like live on the property and like you're vegan for a week. Okay. It's a lot, but

But it was cool. And I was like, my mom signed me up for it because she was like worried about me or something. I don't know. So she like sent me off to this camp. Okay.

And on one of the last days that we were there, I had just hiked all week long. My feet were absolutely wrecked. I was covered in blisters. And the only requirement on the last day of camp was to do this one one-hour hike up and down the mountain behind the retreat. I'm going to call this the retreat. Behind the property.

So I, because I was covered in blisters, my shoes hurt me so bad, had to sit and wait to get my feet wrapped before I could head out for the hike. And as I'm sitting there, I'm like waiting for somebody to come and help me because they like had people who like really knew what they were doing. I was not one of those people. So I'm sitting and waiting, but I'm watching every other person go ahead of me and start this hike. And there was no start time, no end time. They just said, as soon as you get the chance to go, go out on this hike and do your one hour.

And I'm sitting there and I'm like antsy. I'm like, I'm going to be behind. Everybody else is getting started already. And I haven't even started. My feet are not even wrapped in like, everybody's going to finish the climb before I finish the climb. And then somebody comes, they help me. We wrap my, my fricking blisters that are falling apart. I put on my hiking boots and I literally, when I tell you, I like was lightly jogging in my like mountain boots, like trying to get to the hill fast enough. And I couldn't see anybody else. I was totally alone. There's nobody, I can't see anybody ahead of me or behind me or like coming down the mountain.

And as I'm speedwalking, I'm like working my way up this mountain. I'm out of breath. I like look over and I see this beautiful view of the Malibu mountains. And if you've ever been to California, if I've ever been to the mountains, it's like the most breathtaking thing. You look one way and you have mountains and Valley. You look the other way and you literally have like the ocean, like the Pacific coast highway driving up like the curve. Like if you look, you can see the entire edge of California. It's breathtaking. But as I'm hiking up this hill, I'm like,

I can't stop to take a photo. Like I also was like kind of on like a no phone kick for this entire retreat. And so this is the last day. So I'm kind of like, you know, having on my phone all week, but I'll bring it out to take photos. And as I'm climbing up this hill, I'm like, I'm not going to stop for this photo because I'm going to be late. I'm going to like, I'm so far behind everybody else. Like I need to catch up and I need to hurry up. And as I'm hiking, I walk past the corner and I'm still going. I start thinking, I'm like, am I really behind though? Like if you really think about it,

I know that they're ahead of me, but what am I rushing to finish? What is the worth of sprinting through this if I'm not enjoying it? How am I going to be better by finishing as fast as everybody else? And what am I missing along the way if I do? And I kind of stopped in my tracks in that moment. And I like took a deep breath and I was like, ooh, that was a little bit like a bone chilling, like,

voice that came in my mind and was like what's your rush and I turned around and I actually hiked back down the hill to the corner that I liked and I took out my phone and I took a photo and then I started walking a little bit slower and suddenly I noticed that I could hear the birds in the mountains which is not something you hear in LA I know there were so many flowers in bloom and the sun was really warm it was January so I was in a sweatshirt but like the sun was still so warm on my face and

The hike like kind of hurt, but kind of felt nice. Like to get your muscles moving in that way. There were so many trees and so much greenery. I could hear the ocean from the mountains. And I was like, oh my gosh, all these things that I would have missed if I would have rushed through this process. And what's crazy is, is I finished the hike. I made it to the top. I made it back down to the bottom. I finished the hike in an hour and I wasn't behind anybody else. I finished in my own time.

It didn't really matter how anybody else finished because I still did exactly what everybody else achieved. But like maybe slowing down let me enjoy the journey a little bit more. I actually got to experience something that I'd never seen before. So that analogy I often equate to life that when you see other people sprinting up the mountain and rushing and getting to things faster than you are, first off, maybe they had a head start.

Maybe it took a little more preparation for you. Maybe you had to get your blisters wrapped. Maybe you were waiting for the right time. Maybe something else came in the way and you had to wait for this door to close for the next one to open. Maybe the path was closed when you got there and you had to wait. Okay? So they might be ahead of you because they got a head start. But also they might be ahead of you because they didn't really enjoy the journey. They're rushing to the peak of it all. And the only place you have to go once you do get to the top is back down.

Not always. I have a friend who uses this analogy that I really enjoy about mountains. One last mountain analogy and I'm done. And he said to me once when I was feeling a little bit overwhelmed with work and sometimes I like look at my like I just talked about, you know, I'm very proud of myself for what I've achieved, how happy I am in my success and like what I've done in my career. But then I'm like.

Is this all I'm good for? Is that the end of the mountain for me? Is this my way back down? And he literally looked me in the eyes and he goes, you can either look at the way of the mountain that you came and say, now it's time to go back down. Or you can turn around and realize there's a bigger mountain behind you and keep climbing.

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Okay, fine. It's a lot of sweat. But with HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools, launching benchmark-breaking campaigns is easier than ever. Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers. Whoa. Okay, so I want you to keep that in mind too. That like, just because you made it to the top doesn't mean it's the top of every mountain. There could be another mountain behind you. Turn around and look. But also, the timing of your success compared to other people's

is never really benefiting or scaling what your success could really look like. So keep that in mind when you like look around and you're like, oh my gosh, someone's up their mountain faster than I'm up my mountain. That doesn't mean you're not going to make it to the top of your mountain. Okay. Literally this episode should be called like Anna's guide to mountains at this point. Like what the heck? But I think our lesson too, is that the comparison of your success to someone else's doesn't mean you're not going to make it that far.

So with that little lesson, I think that the most important thing to remember is that the speed of your success will not equate to how much you will accomplish. And shit, enjoy the journey on the way. That's a lesson three, like two back-to-back ones, honestly, because I think like if I would have climbed that mountain and I just had my, like if I was doing what I did when I started, blinders on, staring at the pathway, thinking about nothing except for getting to the top because I couldn't be last. What was gonna happen if I was gonna be last? I was gonna be the worst person that was ever climbing the mountain. No, why?

know. You're not going to be the worst person climbing the mountain. If you make it up the mountain, you still climb the fricking mountain. Do you know what I mean? That's how I felt about the triathlon. It did not matter if I was last place. I still did the thing. And you want to know what's next? I'm running the Honolulu marathon. So like, watch out. Okay. Now I'm saying that I haven't signed up yet, but like, listen guys, we're thinking about it. It's really, it's really deep in the brain. But so I just want you guys to keep that in mind. I think that like

It's back to school season. That was my last episode on this podcast is back to school season. You think about your future. You think about the start of something fresh. You're thinking about what is your purpose? What are you doing in life? All these things. Oh my gosh, life is so complicated. Sometimes don't even think about it. Just enjoy whatever era of this journey you're on. You might only be like you're heavy. This is going to be cheesy, but like, you know how people are like, this is if you look at like a day of your path, it looks like you did this. But if you look at a year of your path, it's like you did this much. That's it. That's it.

Don't forget that your day might just look like the littlest steps forward, but you're still moving forward. That's success. Okay, what if we hear what your guys' versions of success are now? Okay, we're moving on to the next segment of this podcast, which is Anna Answers. I'm going to move my feet down because can I be so for real with you guys for a second real quick and then we're going to talk about Anna Answers. Since I feel like you can see my feet in the videos, can you just like not notice those of you for me?

Sometimes I, like, have noticed I've given myself the ick. If any of my producers behind camera are cringing right now. Sometimes I, like, am freaking flying my toes. Like, I'm, like, doing this thing. Like, I'll catch myself, like, deep in thought with my feet up like this. And I'm, like, petting myself with my foot. The camera punches in.

I am canceling myself for that activity. I didn't even know. This is the thing. When you're on camera, you don't even know that you're doing it. Okay? I'm just so comfortable with all of you. I can't even help it. Okay. I have to be done. But listen, if you want to give me a ring, this segment's called Anna Answers at 323-433-0683. So this week we're asking, how do you define success? And I cannot wait to hear what you guys define success as because I have a feeling it's going to be either super similar to mine or it's going to completely change my perspective. So...

Let's hear the first one. Hi, Anna. It's Anna. I always refer to you as West Coast Anna and I'm East Coast Anna. Wait, that's so cute. I'm going to answer your question how you define success. I think it's really based on when you're successful, if it fulfills your core values and values

Makes you happy in your soul. I truly believe that you can be successful at something but not be happy about that success I think really the true definition of success is when you are satisfied in your soul and your core values with what you achieve

I hope you have a lovely week and I can't wait to hear back from you. Thank you. Bye. Anna, East Coast Anna, I hope you have a lovely week. I could not agree more. I like think that's such a great perspective. I've been using like the words happiness and joy, but fulfilling your core. Oh, that hits different. That just gave me like little chili bumps. It's like I feel that way where it's like when something just strikes that nerve, when it like you feel it like,

oh I can't even reword it better than the way that you did I totally agree I'm happy like we see it the same way because sometimes I also worry that sometimes I have ideas about how things are and then I'm gonna listen to like how would you define this nobody's like no that's literally completely opposite of what I thought about the world I'm like oh take away my microphone um so yeah I agree when it's like not only fulfilling on paper but fulfilling in here I love it

Let's hear another one. Hi, girl. It's your girl, Pam, from Mexico. I just saw your story on how I define success. It is a great question and something I'm going to say and that I need to hear myself. And I think that for me, success is not measured in achievements or numbers or awards or anything materialistic or that goes in your resume. I believe that success is measured with fulfillment of your own.

So it can be as successful as you threw a party for a friend and you feel really good about it. That's success on its own. And if it fulfills you in any way, shape, or form, emotionally, personally, professionally, then call it a success. And, yeah, that's all I can say. So I hope it helps, and I want to know your opinion, too. And I love your podcast so far, girl. I'm so proud of you. Bye. Wait, bye.

Thank you. Okay, wait. The way that I feel like I feel success right now from, like, being validated that, like, other people see success the same way that I do. Oh.

wait that's so nice um i could not agree more the same way like it's just that fulfillment it's that feeling of like you did it i love that analogy that you just used to like that example of um saying if you throw your friend a party and like you know you did a good job that's a perfect example of like there is no monetary value to that it is solely the value of like feeling good about it it's the emotional it's the emotional fulfillment oh

guys I feel so energized right now I don't even know what to do with this energy that I have in my body but I just feel like it's boiling over I can't wait um but thank you so much for calling in you guys I love hearing your voices it just made me so happy to hear both of you guys like literally call me your friend on the phone that

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