Emma Chamberlain

And that's really scary because when something's doing well, when something's working, it is not necessarily intuitive to say, okay, now I'm going to take a break and go back to the drawing board.

You know, it's not intuitive.

It's intuitive to just continue.

However, in my soul, and I wish I could explain it, but I can't.

In my soul, I woke up one day and I knew that I needed to go back to the drawing board because I knew that the way I was doing this podcast, the way that I was not even beyond this podcast, the way that I was structuring my work life was

was not working for me.

And it's up to me to step back, make necessary changes, and then reenter.

And here's the thing.

I'm not like disappearing off of the internet.

The thing is with the podcast is that

The podcast is a scheduled thing, right?

Whereas everything else is not.

So that's why it feels necessary to come here and say, I'm taking a podcast break and I'm not doing that with anything else.

And I've never done that with anything else in the past because it hasn't been on as rigid of a schedule.

But going back to what I was saying, this is a bittersweet episode, in my opinion, because I'm not making this decision from a place of weakness, of sadness.

It's not coming from a place of burnout.

It's coming from a place of excitement, inspiration, and the desire to restructure things in a way that will actually allow me to create more of the things I want to create.

Because I've always been somebody that likes to do everything myself.

I've always been someone that has to have her little grimy hands on every single thing that she does.

And listen, I will continue to be that way.