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7 Glow Up Tips I Learned This Year That I Wish I Knew Sooner · Blush

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Hello and welcome to Blush, the world's first Wellness show
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that's actually entertaining. I'm Heva and I quit law so I can
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help you look and feel your best.
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Together we got into food, nutrition, all the latest
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Wellness trends. But we also laugh, get silly,
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drop a few F OPS and go on a million tangents.
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So if that sounds like your vibe, we're about to be best
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friends. Hi, Hello cutie Patootie.
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Welcome to another episode of Blush.
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I mean, I guess you've already heard all that in an intro.
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I have my journal here with me. This is the journal that I do my
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morning pages in. And I have some notes for this
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episode in here cuz the printer continues to be in no man's
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land. If you could only see what I'm
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looking at here. This room needs a fucking
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makeover but there are obstacles in the way and honestly
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something people don't realize is lights are massive.
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They take up a lot of fucking space.
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Like what are other people doing with their lights?
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Because I feel like I am lucky enough to live in a home where
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there is abundant space for New York City and I, I like, I don't
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know what the fuck to do with all these lights that are all
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over it like that. It's taking over.
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It's honestly, it's like AB and H store in here.
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It's like a certain section of Best Buy in this apartment.
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Anyway, that's neither here nor there.
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So we are having a pretty fucking nutty day.
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I have no blunders anymore. OK?
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I have had to. I don't know if OK, I'm gonna
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OK, you know what? I'll tell you what happened to
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both wonders. But I'm mentally unwell.
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Also, I'm recording, I'm kind of pre recording a little bit, not
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to break the 4th wall because I'm going to Australia.
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So I feel like I just, I worry that you're going to get
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different segments of this story on different platforms in a
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weird timeline. So I'll just be fully
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transparent that I am pre recording this.
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OK. So I think you might recall my
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Vitamix had an issue, I think it was weeks ago, maybe even a
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couple months ago at this point where it was just like it caused
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like a power outage in New York City.
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Basically everywhere I plug in my Vitamix, it would pop the
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fuse. It was like a whole shit show.
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So what I haven't mentioned is literally years ago, like I want
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to say in 2021, there was an incident where I noticed
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something seeping out of the blender cup.
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And literally Vitamix says if this happens like you, this is
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malfunctioned, you can't use it anymore.
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And I was like, I'm sure it's fine 'cause that's the type of
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crazy ass bitch I am. Like I, I have two speeds.
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It's either so Laxa basical that it's like everyone's going to
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catch on fire because you are just not paying attention, or
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it's hyper vigilant to like a psychotic level and there's no
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in between. As a human being, something I
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really struggle with is balance. That's probably why I get on
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this podcast, get on this fucking mic and talk about
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balance so much because I'm talking to myself.
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Like, bitch, you got to find a little bit of balance anyway.
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So I'm like, whatever, I'm sure it's fine.
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No. And then for the past, I don't
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know, maybe like a year or so, every time I put the blender
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cup, so like not on the Vitamix motor base, but every time I put
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it down on a counter or something, there is wet black
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shit underneath. So again, that probably should
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have been a good cue. Like maybe you shouldn't be
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using this. Like, what the fuck is all this
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black stuff coming out of the bottom?
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Like probably not a good idea. And then there was that incident
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with a, you know, power outage gate 2025 a few weeks ago.
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So we dealt with that and I dealt with that.
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I mean, I just put it away. I didn't use it for a while.
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I do have a backup blender. It's not as good as my regular
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blender, but you know, there's a blender, whatever.
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So I just started using the other blender.
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And then recently I've started playing with the Vitamix a tiny
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bit, not too much. And it's, it's fine.
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Everything's been fine. But I've, I've, I've made a
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mental note that I probably need a new Vitamix soon.
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Anyway, Fast forward to yesterday, I go to make a
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dressing and I'm filming it for TikTok by the way.
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And I use the other blender, not the Vitamix.
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And the other one is one of those where it has several
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different cups like with different sizes.
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And then there's a screw on lid that has a blade on one side and
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the other side of it attaches to the machine part of the blender.
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So I put all the things for the dressing in the cup.
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I screw on the lid and I go to put it onto the base and I, I
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just, something catches my eye and I look back and I'm like,
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what is that? And then I swear I see movement
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and then I look a little bit closer.
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I look a little bit closer. There are maggots.
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There are like fucking thousands of maggots crawling out of the
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base thing of the fucking blender.
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I, I'm just speechless. Like I scream, I back away from
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it and I'm just staring at it for a good 5 minutes.
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Ozzy was like, hey, what? Like are you OK?
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And I'm staring at it like I've seen a fucking ghost.
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Like, I'm staring like he must have thought I.
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He's like, oh, she's full schizophrenic now.
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We've been waiting for the visions to start.
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No, she's in a full manic episode.
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Like, this bitch is not OK. Like, I mean, it looks like I
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was on drugs and, like, seeing things like those urban legends
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of people taking mushrooms and then thinking that they're a
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class of orange juice that can't tip over.
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Have you heard that urban legend?
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Did someone tell you? Oh, a friend of a friend of mine
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tried mushrooms one time, and then he thought he was a glass
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of orange juice. And now he's permanently stuck
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thinking he's a glass of orange juice and he's in a metal
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facility. And that's why I don't do drugs.
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Yeah, that's not true. That's like a literal urban
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legend that someone made-up. And for some reason, it's really
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made the rounds. There are such, like, nutty
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urban legends about drugs out there.
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It's, like, kind of wild. Anyway, neither here nor there.
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That's what it must have looked like to Ozzy.
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Like I was just staring, freaked out, speechless, couldn't talk.
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So he's like, I'll deal with it. And he's like tapping, tapping.
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I mean, the maggots never stopped coming.
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Like it was horrifying. I've no idea how the fuck they
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got in there. So I just threw away that part
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of it. I kept the cup and the machine
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and stuff because there's no evidence that there's maggots
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anywhere else. We did throw away that thing,
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despite Aussie trying very hard for very long to get all the
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maggots out. God only knows how many fucking
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maggots are in that little shit. I am horrified.
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Like there are like what the fuck?
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Also I have another question, just kind of like a sciency
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question. Where do maggots come from?
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Like do they, you know, like matters never create, neither
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created nor destroyed. Like what?
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Like how like are there maggot eggs?
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Like with like does food turn 'cause you know when food gets
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old and spoils it can get maggots, right?
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I've had another maggot incident before with mushrooms.
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Not today I can't, I cannot talk about it today.
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I've been dealt with enough. I really can't get into it
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today. But like, where do they come
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from? Like the few the food just
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transforms into maggots. Is it is it like a chemical
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reaction? Is it you know, the glucose in
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the food plus enough oxygen over enough time equals maggots?
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Like what? Where do they come from?
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I just want to understand Or do they are maggots just kind of
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everywhere and then they fester play.
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I I just don't understand the life cycle and the creation
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process of maggots. If someone could explain that to
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me, maybe I could ask ChatGPT, but not today, because I feel
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like we did a lot of ChatGPT work last week, so not so much
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ChatGPT today. But yeah, so that was really
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traumatizing. And then I still really wanted
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the dressing. I really wanted to taste it.
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Like I I have this vision for a dressing and I want to make it
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for an upcoming plush kitchen episode.
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So I'm trying to test out this recipe and I was really excited
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to have it. So I pull out the Vitamix and I
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make it in there and then I pour it into a jar and I was looking
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at it and I was like, it's really Gray.
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Her dressing that should be yellow like it's kind of
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shockingly Gray like just not a normal color.
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But I tasted it. It tasted kind of fine and I eat
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it and it was yummy. So like I literally ate it.
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I made a salad with it, but the whole time I was like, this
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doesn't feel right. There's something wrong about
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this and I don't like again, it tasted fine, but just something
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was setting off my Spidey senses.
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So after I finish eating, only after I find it like the fact
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that I'm, I did throw up today, we should be checked in on.
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So after I finish eating, I say to Ossie, I was like, hey, I
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think we need to get rid of the Vitamix.
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And he said why? And I said I think there's
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something wrong. And he said why?
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And I said, well, look at what color that Dijon dressing is.
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And it's it's Gray. It's literally fucking Gray.
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I don't know how else to say that.
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You know, that Gray sweater that I seem to live in this season,
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it was that fucking color. Like it wasn't yellow.
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It was, there's no other there. Well, I don't even know what the
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explanation is. And so he's like, Are you sure?
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And so we decided to put some soy milk in the blender and
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blend it and see what happens with that.
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Just work with something white and see what happens.
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Not only did it turn Gray, but the fumes, the fumes that were
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coming out of that thing, it was repulsive.
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So we immediately threw that away.
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And I now have no fucking blender.
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And if you know anything about me, you know the blender is the
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hardest working appliance in this house.
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Quite frankly, the blender is the hardest working object
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living or dead in this house. Other than maybe the fucking
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maggots. Those maggots, let me tell you,
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those little shits were moving around.
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They were dancing around like I think those maggots have been in
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my food. They've been eating nice
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healthy, energy generating mood. Those things had some fucking
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stamina. They were doing backflips there.
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It was like Cirque du Soleil in that blender base.
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Anyway, I ordered a new blade for the backup blender 'cause
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that's only $32 apparently, although shipping was 999, which
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we need to talk about, but that's neither here nor there.
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And so yeah, that'll come and I'm sure I'll get a new Vitamix
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at some point somehow, some way. But I that's that's that's a
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bridge we will cross another day Anyway.
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So I wanted to do this episode because I feel like this year
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was a big self-care year for me. It was a big year where I just
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changed so many things about my lifestyle.
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I started fucking washing my face kind of for the first time
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ever, at least consistently. I started doing skin care.
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I did so many home decluttering and reorganization projects.
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I came up with new morning and evening routines.
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I mean, in so many ways, I would say I up leveled my personal
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care this year. And really that's because to be
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fully honest and transparent, it's because historically I've
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had a really bad depression. And last year it was the worst
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it's ever been. And this year was the first time
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of my adult life where I consistently didn't have
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depression. So I just suddenly had way more
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energy and was able to just do things that I never did before.
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And I looked around and I was like, wow, I am living like a
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filthy, vile animal and no more like we're going to start living
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better. So I wanted to share a few of
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the things that I learned about and started implementing this
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year that have really, really helped contribute to me just
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feeling better about myself and showing up so much more
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confidently and energetically in the world.
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So let me get out my little journal, OK?
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And these are in no particular order, by the way.
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So number one is Guacha and face lymphatic drainage.
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So I actually did Sculptra earlier this year, which if you
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don't know, go back to my episode with my dermatologist,
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Sam. Sam, her last name starts with
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AB. I don't, I don't know.
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Sam B it's a long last name. It's very Hiba coded, some might
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say. And we talked all about various
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facial treatments. And so Sculptra, my
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understanding of it, although I don't fucking remember, is they
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inject something into your skin and and it takes a while.
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It's not one of those things where you see immediate results,
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but it helps I guess your skin regenerate its own something or
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another. I don't know.
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And honestly, honestly, I don't even really know if I see
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results from it. So and it is really expensive.
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So I actually don't know if I would recommend it.
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It's just hard to say, you know, because especially with
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something that takes a while to take effect.
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Like I remember one time I got a laser treatment.
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I've had a couple laser treatments.
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I don't think I will ever do another one because they're
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really expensive. And I just like, I like to be
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able to see my results. And if I can't really see and
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perceive my results, then I'm, I'm just going to be skeptical
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of it. And I remember saying it, this
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was the different dermatologist, by the way, it was a couple
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years ago. And I remember saying to her, I
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was like, yeah, I don't know that I want to do a laser ever
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again because I feel like that laser was so expensive and I
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didn't even notice the difference.
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And she said, well, The thing is, had you not done that laser,
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your face would be more saggy now than it than it than it is
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or yeah, whatever you get where I'm going with this.
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And that's kind of a hard, it's like hard, hard to argue with
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that, you know what I mean? It's like hard.
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It's like, OK, but you know what I mean it, it's like it's kind
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of a genius pitch. So anyway, as far as sculpture
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goes, like I don't really know if I see results, but that's not
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what this is about. But I just want to tell you
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about how I started doing guasha.
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So when I got the Sculptra Sam, my dermatologist, she said now
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for five days or so, I think after the sculpture, you have to
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guasha your face. And I was like, which I don't
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know, no fucking guasha. Like, do I look like someone who
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owns a guasha? I barely own soap.
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And she was like, just fucking buy one.
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Like, why are you being so difficult about this?
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So I finally fucking bought 1, and I started to really love it.
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Like I didn't do it before. Because before it just struck me
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as one of those things, like it just sounds so superficial.
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It's like, OK, I'm just going to drag this thing across my face
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and I'm going to look better. Like, what the fuck are you
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talking about? But when I started doing it, I
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realized, no, it really does make a difference.
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So I'm not saying it makes a difference in the way of like,
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it's not going to look like you got a fucking facelift.
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Actually, I just saw this influencer today.
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Who is someone who I think embodies a lot of the things
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that I talk shit about. I actually really love her
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presence on social media and I love looking at her stories and
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she just has great energy and stuff.
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But she is someone who in my opinion doesn't says a lot of
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things wrong on social media. Like she's always trying to push
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the way that she eats is the right way to eat and the way
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that she eats is kind of radical and not normal.
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She talks a lot about things that I genuinely believe are
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absolute bullshit and are not rooted in science, like food
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combining. And she posted like a clip of
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herself doing guasha and she's like, look at my instant
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facelift. And it's like, OK, it's it's not
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an instant facelift. That's the problem.
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I think that's the problem, quite frankly, with a lot of
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holistic and alternative medicine science type things,
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it's that we're trying to sell them as something that they're
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not. Like it's no guacha is not a
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facelift. Do you know what a facelift is?
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I actually don't entirely know what it is.
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Actually. If, you know, could you tell me?
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I mean, my understanding is they make an incision and they
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fucking like, pull the skin or some show, right?
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Like Glashaw isn't going to do that.
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Like, let's stop. Or I remember there was this
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face cream that my friend sent me a while ago, and she's like,
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yeah, it's like, it's supposed to be like Botox.
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And I'm like, Botox paralyzes the muscle.
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I don't think the face cream is going to do that.
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Like, But like, yeah, Botox can reduce the appearance of fine
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lines, but not because it's doing something topically or
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even moisturizing this skin. It's going into the muscle and
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making it cease to move. Like, no fucking face scream is
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going to do that, nor should it. That would be terrifying if the
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face scream had the ability to do that.
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So yeah, I'm not saying guasha. Is this like, what's that word?
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Well, here's another word. I don't know how to.
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I've never. It's like panchea Pansea.
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Oh my God, this is so embarrassing.
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Why do I do this to myself week after week?
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I could just use words that I know how to pronounce and not
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fucking embarrass myself. I'm looking it up.
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But you know, it means a cure all.
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I think. Panacea.
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Panacea. Yeah, Panacea.
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That's what the word is. See again, I have a twofold
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problem. My first fold.
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Why does that just remind me of a vagina?
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My first fold is that I don't know how to pronounce words even
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if they're right in front of me. But the second fold is I'm not
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even sure what fucking letters are in these words because
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remember how saying I can be very laxatical and very airy?
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It's the Gemini moon, you know, nutty.
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I will see a word and just not even fully register all the
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letters that are in it and move the fuck on.
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OK, anyway, so I've been obsessed with doing guasha and
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facial lymphatic drainage on myself and quite frankly even
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manual lymphatic drainage on myself.
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I really see such results. I actually haven't really guasha
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in a while and I feel like I can see it in my face.
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It's really sagging. Maybe it's time for me to get a
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laser treatment really is kind of sagging and it just I I feel
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like it even makes my complexion feel brighter.
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I really like this one gua sha from kitsch.
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You know that brand kitsch it's a stainless steel 1 and I like
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it because A it doesn't break I've broken several gua shaws
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now B because it's stainless steel.
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I actually think it's a little bit more germ resistant and C it
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has a really thin ledge and it just it feels so good.
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I also love to massage the back of my neck with the gua sha.
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Like not only does it de puff you and just brighten everything
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up, but it fucking feels good and who doesn't want to do shit
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that feels good? OK, moving right along to number
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2. So #2 I wrote the Magic of
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tidying and decluttering. But in all seriousness, it is
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fucking magic. I as soon as I came back from
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Australia at the beginning of this year in January, I started
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going on these decluttering projects, right?
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Go one room at a time, 1 section at a time, one drawer at a time.
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And quite frankly, I'm still not done.
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There is most notably the laundry room I have to do.
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I've never done that. And then this room needs a redo.
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And then I want to go on a crazy minimalist journey next year
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where I just want to get rid of half of my belongings.
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Just like however it is, I'm just going to get rid of it.
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I don't want to get too precious with it and get too stuck in it.
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Just fucking get rid of shit. That's my plan anyway.
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So I started going on these decluttering and reorganizing
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projects, but also this year I started cleaning a lot more.
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Like I started coming up with new systems.
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Like for example, I got a one of those over the sink drying racks
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that are foldable. So we don't use a dishwasher.
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We have one, but a lot of the dishes that we own, the vast
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majority really aren't dishwasher safe.
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They're kind of OK, but you really shouldn't put them in the
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dishwasher. And then most everything else we
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use also isn't dishwasher safe. So it just very few things would
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go into the dishwasher. So we just hand wash dishes.
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But what I used to do is either wait till the morning and then
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wash the dishes in the morning, or I would then when I started
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to get a little bit better or really Ozzy started doing them,
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he would watch them at night and then we'd leave them out to dry
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and then put them away in the morning.
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But something I started doing this year as I got one of those
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over the sink drying rocks and a fan.
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And so I do the dishes in the evening.
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I put the fan on. That helps them get 90% dry, if
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not 100% dry depending on how long the fan is on.
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And then I towel dry the rest. I put them away, I wipe down the
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counters and I walk out to a kitchen that is pristine,
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nothing on the counter. Everything's, you know, in its
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place, everything's beautiful and bright and whatever.
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Same thing. I just am keeping things cleaner
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and tidier and just staying on top of things better.
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Again, am I being perfect with it?
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No, but it has such a tremendous effect on my mental health.
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And again, I'm going to go so fucking hard.
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Like I really, because the part of the reason why it's so hard
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to keep things organized, to keep things, to maintain the
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decluttering and reorganization projects is because there's just
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too much stuff. And so that becomes an issue.
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But if I get rid of more stuff, I think it'll become so much
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more manageable. OK #3 OK, this is a big one and
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I know I've talked about it before, but it's really
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important to me. The wherever Walnut lip pencil
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by makeup forever, I think it's called makeup forever is the
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brand. If you just look up wherever
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walnut lip pencil, you'll find it.
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I like the regular one, not the long stay one.
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The regular one is you can sharpen it like with a pencil
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sharpener. Where is the long stay one is
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one of those where you have to twist out and I find that you it
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only twists out for like 2 minutes and then it stops.
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And so you just you, you get a lot more lip pencil out of the
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pencil one. Listen, I am someone who really
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doesn't wear a lot of makeup and I like I said, I just have not
23:44
been a very put together person at all throughout my life.
23:48
A lot of that is depression. A lot of that also is because I
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think in my 20s I, I really, I guess when I was 22 or so, I
24:02
started, I developed a crush on this guy and I changed a lot of
24:08
my personality and who I am to try to be this like cooler
24:12
chiller version. I started going to jam bands and
24:17
I started, you know, I became really into fish.
24:21
Not not the seafood, I mean the band pH fish and I don't know, I
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I started pretending I was super into sports and pretending I
24:31
didn't watch bravo like I hated my I only watched 2B shows to be
24:36
clear. So it's not like right now where
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I watch everything they put out pretty much.
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But back then I only watched 2B shows.
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But the way I hated the fact that I watched those 2B shows
24:49
like it was a fucking state secret.
24:51
I used to save I used to DVR them.
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This was back when people had cable.
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How nuts is that? I used to DVR it in my bedroom
24:59
and literally hide it like there was a hidden folder so that no
25:03
one would see. I wouldn't even record it on the
25:05
living room TV because I was scared someone would go through
25:08
my DVR and see because it went against this image that I was
25:14
trying to portray of myself. Is this like cool ass chick
25:17
who's just one of the guys and everything about her is
25:21
effortless. And I don't know why I thought
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putting in effort like negated things.
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I mean, this is a big theme in my life, which I could unpack in
25:31
a different episode. But anyway, I definitely wasn't
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wearing a lot of makeup. I certainly wasn't on top of
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makeup trends. And just really, I actually call
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my 20s my last year is because I had a really bad eating
25:45
disorder. I basically pretended I only
25:48
cared about fish and football and I was just deeply into this
25:55
pick me girl phase of my life where I wanted to be one of the
25:58
guys and I was so disconnected from everything going on in the
26:03
world. I call it my lost years because
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if you bring up something that happened during that decade of
26:08
my life, I probably won't know about it.
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Just like anything in pop culture, I probably don't know
26:14
about it. And I almost kind of prided
26:16
myself on being like, Oh yeah, I don't know what the not almost.
26:19
I literally prided myself on being like, Oh yeah, I'm so out
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of touch with pop culture. And now I'm like, what a fucking
26:27
loser. You know what I mean?
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Not that I'm saying everyone has to be in touch with pop culture,
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but what I am saying is just be yourself.
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Like it's it. There's nothing.
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It's OK to be basic. It's OK to like mainstream
26:42
things. It's OK to like things that are
26:44
popular. I was always such a contrarian
26:46
and I just wanted to go against what was popular because I
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thought that would make me more elevated.
26:53
Like I thought that made me special in a way, but it just
26:56
made me a big fat loser. That's all it did anyway.
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So the wherever walnut lip pencil is not like this isn't,
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you know, sleeper pick like this isn't something you haven't
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heard of. Everyone fucking uses it and for
27:12
good reason. I don't know why, but it's the
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perfect fucking lip pencil. The shade.
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I'm yet to find someone who it doesn't look good on and has a
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really sharp tip and it makes it really easy to get like a nice
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line. Now there are other lip pencils
27:28
that I like notably. I actually really like the road
27:31
ones, and those are almost like a crayon.
27:34
So what I really like to do if I'm properly doing my lips,
27:38
which I don't do most days, but you know, if I were to properly
27:41
do my lips is I'll do a little over lining on my Cupid's bow
27:48
area just like the very center part of the my top lip and also
27:52
a little over lining on the bottom using the wherever
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walnut. But I do not over line these
27:59
outside bits and I'll connect and then I'll put a little bit
28:03
of a Rode lip pencil on the inside, but I shade in with the
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wherever walnut a little bit. It's so fucking good.
28:12
And while we're on lip products, another one that's really hyped
28:15
and so fucking worth the hype is the Summer Friday's Lip Balm.
28:19
That shit is so fucking good. I haven't tried all the colors.
28:22
I'm really partial to, I think it's called vanilla beige or
28:28
something like that. I really like that one.
28:30
It's kind of a perfect nude color.
28:32
I actually used to shy away from nude lips in general.
28:36
OK, this is actually going to be a really good illustration of
28:39
this story. So I used to love a nude lip and
28:42
then I used to watch the show called The League.
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I don't know if you've heard of it.
28:46
It's it was on FX and it was about a group of guys and the
28:51
wife of one of the guys who were in a fantasy Football League
28:55
together. It's actually a really funny
28:58
show, although I did kind of stop watching it towards the end
29:01
because the humor got too bathroom humor for me.
29:04
And this is someone who talks about poo a lot.
29:06
So you know, I, I don't love toilet humor, though I'd like
29:10
I'll talk about how I can't poo all the time, but I don't love
29:15
toilet humor anyway. So in one, just one episode of
29:23
the league, the guys were talking about how some girls
29:26
wear lipsticks that look like it could be their butt holes and
29:30
how that's really gross. And ever since then I'm like,
29:33
oh, if I'm ever doing a lip product, it's got to be like
29:35
fucking red. Like it's got to have a lot of
29:37
red in it. So I can't be confused with my
29:40
butt hole like what the fuck? And this is because one guy in
29:45
one episode of 1 show made a comment about it and I decide to
29:52
change all of my interests and personality and now I do nude
29:55
lips again and I fucking love it.
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I fucking love it. OK, let's move on to #4 OK, aloe
30:05
juice for skin. This is actually one I
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discovered kind of by accident this year.
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And not even that long ago, like I feel like it was just a few
30:15
months ago. So I was having a day where I
30:17
was really bloated or something and I happened to have some aloe
30:20
juice. And I was just, I kind of poured
30:22
a little into a cup and I really enjoyed the taste.
30:25
And then I kept pouring more and drinking more and pouring more
30:28
and drinking more. And then I looked in the mirror
30:31
and I was like, holy shit, what the fuck is going on with my
30:35
skin? Like it was like nothing I've
30:37
ever seen before. It was like I, it was like I
30:40
swallowed a light bulb, but that was on.
30:43
Like it was, I was glowing in a way I've never seen before.
30:47
Like my skin was so plump and firm and bright.
30:52
It was crazy. Ever since then, I kind of swear
30:56
by it. I don't do it all the time.
30:57
And here's the thing, I don't think you're supposed to do it.
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The aloe juice bottle literally says that you should only have
31:04
like 2 ounces of it or something.
31:06
But I do buy one that has the inner leaf removed so it doesn't
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have the habit forming laxative part of it.
31:14
And here's the thing, it's never made me poo at all.
31:16
Like it's literally never helped me poo at all.
31:19
So I just have a hard time imagining how it could possibly
31:22
give someone diarrhea. I fucking swear by it.
31:26
But I do think the bigger thing is just staying insanely
31:31
hydrated does so much for your skin.
31:35
Like it'll make you glow so fucking hard.
31:39
OK #5 OK, something I developed, invented, whatever this year are
31:49
my little soy milk cloud coconut water drinks, whether I do a
31:56
coffee version of it or a matcha version of it.
31:59
You know, I, it took a it, it was, it took AI was going to say
32:05
it took a while for me to develop this recipe.
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No, I, I think there were a few iterations of it until I got
32:11
there, but it's so good. It always helps me poo, largely
32:15
because of the coconut water. And then the soy milk is so
32:18
creamy and yummy, but it also has a bunch of protein.
32:22
So that's great. But more broadly, this year I
32:26
really got into caffeine and coffee culture and I haven't in
32:30
the past. It's just one of the many ways
32:32
where I feel like this year is the first year I'm kind of
32:34
alive. Like there were so many ways in
32:37
which I kind of was, I always felt different from other
32:42
people. But now that I look back on it,
32:44
I'm the one who was emphasizing and wedging these differences.
32:48
And one of them was by not consuming caffeine.
32:51
And it was kind of a point of pride for me.
32:53
Like, Oh my God, like I work out and I do all this stuff and I
32:56
don't even drink coffee. Like, you know, you drink
32:58
coffee. Oh, that's great for you.
33:00
I mean, that's great for you. I hear coffee so yummy, but I
33:02
just like, I don't need it. Like I just have so much natural
33:05
abundant energy. And then I started drinking
33:08
caffeine this year and I was like this, this is what life's
33:11
all about. I get why people have been doing
33:13
it. Like it's so fucking fun and
33:15
it's so nice to treat yourself to like a good drink in the
33:19
mornings. And what I love about making
33:21
this is again, I get a good amount of protein, I get a crazy
33:26
amount of electrolytes and potassium and stuff.
33:28
I mean potassium is an electrolyte from the coconut
33:32
water like and it's kind of almost like a balanced meal if
33:35
you will. I mean it's not a literal meal
33:37
because I'm not chewing and stuff, but it is almost like a
33:41
meal replacement drink because it is heavy ish enough depending
33:45
on how much you have of it. And it tastes so fucking good.
33:49
And I just, I feel like I'm a part of things again.
33:53
Like I feel like I'm a part of society.
33:55
Like when people talk about coffee, I can chime in on that
33:58
conversation and I'm not like I'm not perpetuating this
34:02
bullshit holier than thou. Oh, I don't even need caffeine,
34:07
loser. I was a fucking loser before.
34:10
OK, again, I'm not saying everyone has to drink caffeine,
34:13
but the reason I'm coming down on it so much is because I was
34:17
just constantly finding these ways to create a wedge between
34:22
myself and other people and to just not be a part of things.
34:27
But there is a reason why things are popular.
34:30
It's usually because they're good.
34:32
I was going to say that brings me to the last one, but no, I
34:37
don't think this is the last one.
34:39
This is the second to last one, which is glycolic acid.
34:43
So I actually learned this from a TikTok.
34:46
I I bought a glycolic acid toner.
34:49
I have the one by The ordinary. I know I've talked about it
34:52
before on the podcast, but it's worth repeating because it
34:55
really is one of the best things I started doing this year.
34:58
So I use it after I shower, actually don't use it on my face
35:02
at all. I do have another toner or
35:06
something that has glycolic acid in it for the face, but this I
35:09
just put it on a cotton pad and I don't do this every day.
35:12
In the beginning I did it every day, and now I only need to do
35:16
it once or twice twice a week. I'll wipe down my armpits with
35:19
it, and then sometimes I'll wipe down other places, like behind
35:23
my ears and my heels. Sometimes, just once in a while,
35:28
I'll do the butthole a little bit, you know?
35:30
Anyway, ever since I started doing this, no body odor.
35:34
I never wear deodorant anymore. No body odor.
35:38
I don't know what the fuck it is.
35:39
I have no idea, But when I tell you I smell better doing this
35:45
and not wearing deodorant than I ever did wearing deodorant,
35:50
whether that was a clean deodorant or like a full
35:53
chemically loaded like will give you cancer kind of deodorant.
35:57
And also, I'm joking, like I don't think deodorant is going
35:59
to give you cancer, but I do think it's one that's probably a
36:02
better product to buy clean anyway, That issue's gone
36:06
because I don't fucking need deodorant anymore because of the
36:08
fucking glycolic acid. That shit is magic.
36:10
I don't know what it does. I think it just, I think, I
36:13
mean, I'd heard this before that sweat shouldn't smell bad.
36:17
It's the bacteria on the skin that makes sweat smell bad, but
36:20
no amount of me washing would ever fix that.
36:25
Whereas I think the glycolic acid just gets you cleaner in a
36:29
way I'm not entirely sure. I don't, I don't, I don't get
36:31
the science of it, but whatever. And that brings us to the last
36:36
one. Oh, OK, fun.
36:39
So the last one is a short 1 and that's A and D cream or A and D
36:45
ointment for lip issues. Now I feel like I've told you
36:49
all about the various types of lip issues I kept getting.
36:53
The only thing that's truly, truly cured it is A&D cream.
36:57
I I swear, I think everyone should have at least one tube of
37:02
A&D cream at home and use it as a lip mask.
37:05
Your lips will be so much plumper and if you ever get
37:08
irritation around your lips gone, you'll never have a
37:12
fucking chapped lip again in your fucking life.
37:15
It is so fucking good. OK, now that I set the seven, I
37:21
do want to kind of touch on something deeper, which I've
37:25
been talking about all episode, but I want to emphasize it
37:28
again. Let me see how I wrote this
37:30
because maybe, OK, I wrote. But the biggest lesson, you are
37:34
worthy of taking time for yourself.
37:36
You deserve the best version of things.
37:38
It's not a vain or frivolous to take time for yourself.
37:43
Like I, like I said in these various iterations of my life,
37:51
even a few years ago, right when I first started to get more into
37:55
new age spirituality and Wellness and things like that, I
38:02
really tried to be like, oh, I don't even care about clothes.
38:05
Like I don't wear makeup, like I'm too crunchy for that.
38:08
I'm too this, I'm too that. Like, oh, skin care over makeup
38:11
and blah, blah. And again, I still don't do a
38:13
lot of these things, but if I'm really unpacking it, it's a lot
38:19
of my own internalized misogyny that was going on there.
38:23
It's like I didn't, I thought it was frivolous and vain and girly
38:27
and stupid. And I say girly because in my
38:31
mind, girly was a negative thing back then.
38:34
To care about your skin care and to have a multiple step skin
38:38
care routine and to put on makeup and to care about your
38:42
clothes and to just be uppity about things.
38:45
Like I, I always wanted to be that cool effortless girl.
38:49
And this year I just started to embrace the basic bitch that I
38:53
actually AM. And it feels so good.
38:56
And it just, it makes me feel like I'm like I'm a person,
39:03
which is a weird thing to say. But I think if I'm being really
39:06
honest with myself, before I didn't really feel like I was a
39:10
person. Like I felt like I was a visitor
39:13
on this planet observing everyone else live.
39:16
But I wasn't a part of that world.
39:18
I wasn't a part of that life. I was just, it was like I was
39:21
watching it on TV. But this year I feel like I'm a
39:26
part of things. And I think taking care of
39:29
myself has been this signal to my brain that I'm worthy of
39:35
being here. I'm worthy of taking care of
39:38
myself. I'm worthy of the things that I
39:41
want in my life. I'm worthy of having friends.
39:43
I'm worthy of having good relationships.
39:45
I'm worthy of having a good career.
39:47
I'm worthy of living in a home that I actually enjoy.
39:50
I'm worthy of feeling good about myself.
39:55
And it's. It sounds stupid to say, oh,
39:58
Gwah eyeing my face got me there.
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But I really think Gwah eyeing my face got me there like I
40:07
actually do. Is that crazy?
40:09
I really do. I think that.
40:11
Yeah. OK, that's it.
40:12
That's it. I don't.
40:13
I don't think it can get better than this.
40:15
So let's just end it here. We'll chat next week.
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Yeah, Love ya. If you loved that episode as
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