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Latest / Unsolicited Advice from a Nobody

No! Please don't take it personally.

Two letters. One syllable. Almost fifty years to figure out how to use it.

NO.

For most of my life, I’ve been the person who says yes. Yes, I’ll help. Yes, I’ll take care of it. Yes, of course I have time!

Spoiler alert: I didn’t always have the time.

From childhood expectations and questionable decisions to career ambitions, motherhood, and learning to let go of things I genuinely love, this episode is about my complicated relationship with a word I’ve spent most of my life avoiding.

And somewhere along the way, I discovered something unexpected: sometimes saying no isn’t about disappointing…

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