Suleika Jaouad

a traumatic story publicly, is there's a way in which it, yeah, it can kind of flatten you into a one-dimensional...

Yeah.

Person who's considered strong or inspiring or graceful.

And that doesn't allow, of course, the other aspects of yourself to come through.

And so I think one thing...

that doesn't come through for me as my inner hell raiser, my inner rascal.

Totally.

And feeling a real sense of responsibility, too, when you have a public platform to, you know, and it comes back to that desire to be good.

Yeah.

I love to cuss.

Oh, me too.

Me too.

And a friend of mine said, you never cuss.

cuss in writing.

And I'm like, yeah, because I'm scared that I'm going to upset someone or offend someone or the few times I have, you know, someone has written to me to say how disappointed they are and that their child or teenage daughter reads my sub stack.

Exactly.

Exactly.

And so I, you know, I think another thing I'm trying to reclaim is the permission to

To be free, and more than that, the permission to be disappointing.

Yeah.