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And suddenly there was these like accessible platforms like Podbean is where I started.

And I was like, OK, well, I'll just upload my stuff to Podbean.

My boyfriend was a music producer.

And so I was like, I'll use one of his engineers to help me audio edit this because I also have a corporate job.

And so I just started.

And I remember it was New Year's Day and we were like going around the room at my corporate job.

talking about our New Year's resolutions.

And I was like, I'm going to start a podcast this year.

And I said it out loud to the world.

And I launched it later that year.

It took me all the way till April, but I launched it and I haven't missed an episode for almost eight years.

It was scary because, you know, everybody was kind of like, well, why are you doing this?

I also started posting on LinkedIn at the time.

And I remember a lot of my coworkers were like, what are you doing?

Like, what do you think?

Like, who do you think you are?

You know, posting up.

you know, content or trying to, like, what expertise do you have?

Or, like, why do you think you should be doing it?

And also, I was around 30 years old at the time when I launched my show.