Erica Franz-Fey

I prayed for God to just strip my ego from all of that stuff, all of that world, all of the plastic hat crown stuff with the banner.

It was me from the standpoint of a philanthropic side, but the hometown hero thing was just weird and it was unhealthy and it was just ego fueling.

So I locked myself in my room, basically turned into a hermit for about a good eight months

The only person I would see outside of my family was my pastor's wife.

And we would go to the church and she would just pour into me every single day.

And I just was reading scripture and read the Bible cover to cover multiple times.

Well, yeah.

So it just depends on where you're looking.

You know?

If you're on the apps.

I don't know if you're on the apps.

I don't know if...

I'm not going to ask your personal journey.

But what I will say is when I lived out here was here for 5 years.

I never dated here because I saw vicariously through my roommate how terrible it was.

Somehow getting drinks was the replacement of having coffee and breakfast.

I personally would rather have coffee or brunch with someone than go, I just, I don't drink.

I find it unproductive, not because I'm holier than whatever.

That's not, I just don't operate that way.

But I always thought it was very strange how she would go to drinks with one guy and then go to dinner with another.