Elise Hu

And these are not just qualities of muscle, but they are qualities that we strive for in personhood.

And I think that's very moving.

That's very profound.

And so to kind of think about the body as not just this vehicle we occupy for a certain period of time on Earth, but is something that if we think about in a certain way, it elevates who we want to be in the world.

So muscle is something that...

You can only get stronger.

You can only strengthen a muscle by stressing it, by pushing it, by challenging it.

And that's something that I think we all understand.

We can look at life as something that always is stressing us, is always throwing these challenges at us.

I know it's just a really good life lesson.

So when I listened to the episode with Dave Nadelberg and Neil Cather, How to Reclaim Your Cringe, I really felt a lot better about the many cringey things I've done in my life.

I'm a theater kid, so there's many.

But hearing everyone make a huge joke out of their cringey stories helped me kind of spin the narrative on my own cringey moments and look at them with kinder eyes and see them to be a little funnier and more endearing.

Plus, this episode really made me want to journal more just to try and make myself laugh.

So it was a quick perspective shift to keep me from laying awake thinking about something I did 10 years ago that was embarrassing.

When people ask me about personal branding, because I do so much work in branding, that's inevitably a question.

And I've thought about it long and hard.

And

Brands are manufactured.

It's meaning manufactured.