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Hello, my beautiful people, and welcome back to the Moments Podcast. It's still so surreal for me that this podcast even exists and that I get to talk to you guys all the time. And I'm trying to remember, I know that last week I recorded a meditation, and the week before that was an episode with Brian, which you guys loved. That was like one of my most listened to episodes ever, which makes me so happy because there's no one who deserves it more than Brian. But
The week before that was the episode with my therapist. Time has been flying by. Holy crap. That to me feels like two days ago. But anyways, if you haven't listened to that episode, I 110 million thousand percent recommend that you go do so because my therapist is one of my rocks in this lifetime and I'm really grateful for her and she has shared with me so many tips that have just changed my life and I'm
I don't know. I think that we could all benefit from listening to her words of wisdom and just all the tips and tricks that she's shared with me that I think have completely changed my life. And just go give it a listen. But right before I started recording this, there were so many things going through my head that I wanted to make sure I talk about before I start the episode, but they're just not coming to my mind right now. I'm also losing my breath, so I'm going to pause this for a second, take a good yawn, and then I'll be right back.
Okay, I'm just going to slow down for a second. But I also just wanted to say and remind you guys that I'm forever grateful for you and that you have changed my life completely. And I'm so lucky to have you. The other day, I was just on vacation with my family in New York. And the other day while I was there,
Someone hacked into my TikTok. I don't know where they found my password. Not only did they hack into my TikTok, they tried to hack into my Instagram. Well, I have a few Instagrams, but on my FilmDump account, they tried to hack in because it's the same password that's used as my TikTok. And somehow they were able to gain access to that and to my link tree and to a couple of other things. Thank God, though, I was able to get it back. But it was a really scary feeling because not only...
Is social media my job in my whole entire career? But it's also all of the memories from the past three years of my life and there is so much That I hold no, what's the word i'm looking for? Like everything that i've ever posted on tiktok means so much to me and memories that last a lifetime are all on there Anyways, besides the point i'm just lucky that I was able to get it back and I still have you guys but it had everything flashed before my eyes and I just got so nervous that I wouldn't be able to connect with you guys. Um in the way that I always do but
We're good. We're moving on. We're past that. Can't change it. Grateful it all worked out. It always does. Part of God's plan. But that being said, I...
was also thinking someone DM'd me the other day or commented on one of my TikToks and said that they what did they comment exactly something along the lines of oh my gosh you're the girl who has the moments podcast and it was the coolest freaking feeling for me to know that someone found the podcast first versus like my TikTok because I don't know sometimes I get in my head that I only have people listen to this because they follow me on TikTok or whatever it is but it was so cool I don't know I'm just rambling let's get into this week's episode I want to talk about
signs you've matured. Not just like matured growing up wise, but matured emotionally. And the reason I feel called to do this episode right now, it's been in the back of my mind or in my brainstorm list for a really long time. But for some reason, I feel like now is the time for me to do this episode because I don't know, I just think I've crossed this new path of
but not in the way where it's like, oh yeah, I'm better than you or I'm more mature than anyone. It's not like that at all. Mature in the way that I've accepted myself and I think that it's helped me accept others and accept life for what it is on such a deeper level. And I'm just really excited to share with you the things I've noticed that have changed in my life or tips and tricks, I guess, that have helped me do so. And you can do whatever you want with this. These are either some signs that you're maturing in your life emotionally, physically, whatever it is,
And if you feel like you're not at that level, maybe you can take these little bits and tidbits and take them and do what you want with them in your life and apply them to your life however you would like to. And I'll start out with, I made an outline on my phone. So if I'm like kind of all over the place, that's why I haven't had an outline in a while. So I have to remember how to do both.
I'm going to start with the one that I think is the most difficult and the one that we are going to work on for our entire lives. And this one is accepting yourself completely. I think that learning to be able to embrace your flaws and being able to look in the mirror and be confident about the girl looking back at you or the person looking back at you and just know that you don't... Or feel as though you don't have to change anything to please anyone else. You don't have to fix the way you look because...
you're fully aware that being you is your own superpower and of course this one is easier said than done there are still so many days in my life where i don't know if you guys could hear those sirens but every time i hear sirens i think it's my grandpa watching over me and i'm that's so crazy because i'm gonna get into talking about that i don't anyways scatterbrain today sorry it's late at night when i'm recording but being able to look at yourself in the mirror and knowing that being you is your own superpower is the craziest feeling and like i was saying
There are so many days where I want to change everything about myself or I am just comparing myself to what other people look like or how thick someone else's hair is or how someone's eyebrows don't grow in the middle as fast as mine do or how someone likes both sides of their face and I wish constantly that I could have that or that I could look like that or that I could be like some other person or I see someone get a boob job and I tell myself, well, if I did that, maybe like more people would like me and
I still face those moments. We're all human. We're all sucked into this environment where we're constantly seeing other people and seeing the highlights of their life and when they look the best and feel the best. And then we're stuck to feel our own, I don't know, emotions and insecurity by ourselves. And no one really talks about the things that they don't love about themselves, if that makes any sense. Like nobody's posting on Instagram pictures of themselves that they hate, right? And you're having to look at pictures of yourself that you hate thinking like, oh, I'm
this is what i look i don't know how to explain it but you guys are picking up what i'm putting down i hope but when i find myself in those moments something i've learned to do is just simply remind myself that being me is my own superpower and i've told you guys this time and time again you come from the most beautiful line of dna and you have ancestors that date back to i don't know however long you want to go like the 1500s or something whenever you want to think about
I have DNA and I have traits from my ancestors, my great, great, great, great, great grandparents. And for some reason, when I think about it that way, it makes me feel really confident in my own skin. And it helps me just understand that if someone doesn't, you know, love me or want me the way that I am, then that's not someone that I need to have in my life kind of thing. And it just, it brings me some peace.
When I simply remind myself that being me is my superpower. There is a one in like four trillion chance or something, some numbers like that, that I even exist. And I'm going to make sure...
that every moment I get to have on this earth, I'm going to spend loving this body, loving this vessel that I have because it is beautiful just the way it is. And it's not, again, it's not in like this, I'm so confident, I look good, I'm hot kind of way. Like it's not in that overbearing, cocky confidence kind of way. It's in a peaceful way. It's in the way that I can't change or I could, but I'm not going to change anything about who I am because I am a gift just the way that I am. And there is someone out there who is going to appreciate me
For exactly as I am. And if someone makes me feel as though I need to change something, I don't need it. You know? And that's such a hard one because we're all human. And yeah, I'm not going to go back into the whole TikTok social media spiral thing because it gets me sometimes. It definitely does. But just know that being you is your superpower. And one of the biggest steps on maturing yourself or just evolving or, I don't know, reaching that new level of
That new best version of yourself is accepting yourself, not changing yourself. Okay. You can always enhance yourself. You can better yourself. You can take care of yourself, but you should never feel the desire to change something completely for others or to be perceived better by others. The way that people perceive you has nothing to do with you. Okay. Moving on. The next one.
I've done a whole episode on this. I talk about this, I think, in every single episode, but I'm going to do it again. Another sign that you're maturing or that you're emotionally maturing or whatever way you want to look at it is that you are okay or you enjoy even being alone.
A lot of times when we're alone, it leads us to loneliness. We feel as though something in our lives is missing or someone in our lives is missing. Like we feel like we need a shoulder to cry on or someone to vent to. And while those are essential things, I think the connection in life is also really important. You have to be able to work through your own emotions on your own.
You have to be okay with spending time alone with your thoughts. And if you want more in detail on alone time, I'm 90% sure that I did an episode on it. If I didn't do it yet, that'll be coming soon because you guys know I have not shut up about how valuable and important alone time is, but enjoy time with yourself. Okay. You are the only one that you're going to have forever. You probably want to push me off a cliff hearing me say that again, but I mean it like from the bottom of my heart.
You have to be your own best friend. You have to be the one who believes in yourself and supports yourself when no one else does. And I don't even just mean this on...
An emotional level. I also mean this in like a codependent way. A lot of people are super codependent on their whether it's their boyfriend their partner their best friend their parents A lot of people rely on other people for things and obviously if you're younger and you can't work right now In high school in school, whatever it is if you are in that setting this doesn't apply to you but if you are someone who is solely relying on someone else to Pay your bills support you when you could have the freedom to go financially support yourself
If that makes sense, go do it, okay? Be able to be an independent, for lack of better words, bad bitch. I hate even saying that. But being independent is a superpower, okay? Being independent in your emotions and physically and financially, whatever it is, you have to be okay with being alone.
You have to prioritize making alone time. And if it's something that's super hard for you, it is a sure sign that that is something you need to be doing more of. Because once you get to a point where you enjoy your company and yourself, you will feel so much different. You will feel a weight lifted off your shoulders that you don't even know exists right now. Trust me.
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You choose to see the good in others. And this is going to kind of go in a bunch of different ways. We're almost all conditioned to immediately have our guard up. We want to see the negative before we see the positive. We want to blame other people for what is happening in our lives. Let me say that again. We want to blame other people for what's going on in our own lives.
Because that's almost what we're conditioned to do. Like we live as these victims and we blame other people for hurting us or for messing up our schedule, whatever it may be. We blame the world instead of blaming ourselves. And it's not that you need to blame yourself, okay? But playing victim...
Of your own life is never going to get you anywhere. You're never going to feel good. You are never going to feel fulfilled or happy if you're constantly just blaming other people or blaming the world. Take responsibility for yourself. And I'll get into that in another little point that I have. But the point of this one here is that.
I need you to understand in friendships and in relationships or for all of us to understand because, again, I'm still working on every single one of these things. These are just things that I've become aware of and I'm beginning to notice in my life and have made such a big difference in the way that I feel. But in your friendships, in your relationships, if someone hurts you and if someone does you wrong,
It's so quick and it's so easy and I did this for so long in my life. Someone would do me dirty and I would just blame them. I would be so mad at them and I would blame the fact that I was so depressed and sad on this person treating me wrong instead of understanding and having sympathy for this person and noticing that this is just projection, right? This is someone who is struggling on their own, who is taking it out on someone else. And while they might not be aware of that,
You can be aware of it. And when you have sympathy for other people doing you wrong, it almost makes it feel better and it makes it easier and it makes it all a bit lighter because you're not taking things so personally. This isn't even about that, but with anything in life, you can't take it personally. And I think I've mentioned that a million thousand times too. Don't take anything personal. Okay. Understand that when people are doing you wrong, that's on them. It's not on you. So instead of seeing their bad and their negative stuff,
I don't know what I'm saying, but instead of seeing negative in them, allow yourself to send them good energy and allow yourself to see the good in them and have understanding and compassion. Those are two really, really, really huge things. And this isn't to say let people walk all over you. Set up boundaries, okay? When someone is doing you wrong, you don't just let them keep doing it even if you know that it's coming from a dark place for them. You set boundaries. You distance yourself. You can step away.
But you don't need to just sit there and dwell on it because dwelling on it isn't going to change anything. And letting them continue to do it also isn't going to change anything. Okay, next. You have no problem talking about your feelings.
If Brene Brown has taught me anything, Brene Brown, if you guys don't know, she has the first time I ever found her was through her TED talk on vulnerability. And she also has a bunch of books. She has a I think it's called Call to Courage. I want to say it's a documentary on Netflix. I watched it. Don't really remember what I took away from it. But from the one TED talk I watched and the few pages of or the first few chapters of her book that I'm reading right now, The Gift of Imperfection.
I have learned that vulnerability is one of the most beautiful things. It is one of the most powerful tools that you can ever access in your whole entire life, right? Being able to be honest with people about what is going on in your heart and what is going on in your mind is going to take you so much further in life than trying to fake a smile. And again, I'll get into that later on a different one. But
You have to be honest with people. Okay, if you've been ignoring someone because your mental health has not been okay Tell them honestly why you've been ignoring them. Don't just say sorry I'm busy with this or with that be like hey, I have a lot going on in my mind right now I really want to give this a hundred percent of my effort and attention But it's not something that i'm capable of doing right now Can we please follow up a week from now or whenever it is you have to be honest with people? Okay, we are all humans. We are all struggling with
So many different things and this is something so crazy. I was thinking about I don't remember when it was I think it was on my flight I was looking down, you know all the cars where you have like one of those moments where like wow We're so small and there's so many people but we're taking off I'm looking down at all the cars and all the people in the houses and I'm just sitting there thinking to myself Each and every one of us have different stories in our lives. We have different childhoods. We have different issues We have different dilemmas
But we're all struggling with something and none of us want to talk about it because again, we're conditioned to only talk about the highlights in our life and what's going great and what's going good and how successful we are and how much money we're making and how good of a boyfriend we have or how many dates we get asked on, things like that.
That's what people seem to care about. But when you can open up on a deeper level, you are not only going to make yourself feel more peace, but you are going to help so many people understand that they are human and that what they feel is normal and it's okay. And I just think it makes the world a little bit of a better place. And one way that I've realized this and really felt it applied in my life is every time I get super, super depressed,
open or vulnerable on the podcast like especially in the episodes where I'm kind of going through it and I'm in a dark place I will talk openly about what's going on in my mind why I feel the way that I feel and the response that I get from other people about how it's made them feel understood or less alone or just normal is overwhelmingly good I don't know how to make that make sense but we all just want to feel less alone that is the
Point here, be open with people, okay? Be vulnerable. Don't be afraid to be vulnerable. It's a superpower. It's going to go a much, much further way, much further way. It's going to go a long way if you are real with people, okay? Don't be afraid to be honest. Even with friendships and relationships, like I have had to learn how to be confrontational because of this because I've had friendships that...
I've just kind of, this goes back, I don't want to get super into detail here, but like anytime I've been in a friendship that's not super healthy or it's kind of toxic, I've just kind of let it continue to go on that way and I've let myself get walked over. I've been a doormat in many different situations in my life, but learning about the power of vulnerability has taught me to be confrontational, but in a kind way, not in a, you make me feel like this, you're a piece of crap, da-da-da-da-da, and these all connect to each other. They're all tied together in some way or another.
But learning to be confrontational and be honest about how someone makes you feel is likely what's going to change things and make things healthier. And again, you can't get through to everyone. This might not change in a lot of cases. A lot of people are just bitter to be bitter because they're so unaware and out of touch with what's going on inside of them that you just have to let it go and take your distance. But a lot of people just don't.
Have no idea. People are clueless. They're dumb. They don't know why they're making you feel the way that they're making you feel. So if you can honestly and vulnerably tell them what's going on, it might make a difference. Okay. I got a little off topic on that one.
The next one I have is you are confident in what you want. And you guys have known me long enough to know that I have the brain of a squirrel. I'm an Enneagram 7. I have seriously, seriously bad ADHD. And I always want to be doing something different. I'm running around. I say all these ideas and I only make about 50% of them happen. If that.
I have a brain that runs so, so, so fast that I thought I would never be able to say I'm confident in what I want. But what I've learned is that being confident in what I want doesn't necessarily just mean I know exactly what my future is going to look like. I know exactly who's going to be in it. And I know all the little details because I don't and I never will, especially with the way that I am. And I'm sure that there's some people that do, but that's okay if that's not you because here's what I learned. I know...
that I'm confident in who I want to surround myself with in this lifetime. I want to surround myself with people who fill me with light and laughter and joy and people who inspire me and friends that I can support and I can cheer for and friends who will do the same for me and...
When it comes to a relationship, I am confident that I want someone who is going to make me feel good and loved unconditionally. And I am aware that I will never, ever, ever settle for someone who makes me feel like I need to change who I am for someone else.
I also am confident in the things that I love and enjoy in my life and I will never settle for something that doesn't give me the room to do those things and for those for me that might be making sure I have the ocean or the sunshine or Being able to go to yoga Those will always be priorities in my life and the rest of the pieces can fill themselves in but I am confident in those things and for me that brings me enough peace I have peace and
because I know that no matter what happens in this lifetime, I will always keep the right things close to me. Next one I have is you can actually be honest. So
I kind of talked on this already, but this is a more surface level way. A lot of times when we find ourselves in a dark place, and I say this because I've done it time and time again, whenever I'm hurting the most is probably when I come across like the happiest because I will white lie after white lie just to fake it till I make it, but not necessarily like in a healthy way. In the way where it's like I know that I'm hurting, but people will ask me how I'm doing and I say that I'm fine or I'm good or I'm great even.
just because I think that that's like what's going to make me feel better. But what I learned from that experience multiple times, it took me a lot of times to learn these things and I'm still learning these things. Like I can say these all at this point in my life because I do feel very peaceful and I do feel very okay with everything going on around me. But I can pinky promise you that there is going to be another point in my life where I'm
I'm not at that point at all where I'm going to be sinking again or I'm going to be under the surface and I'm going to have to relearn all of these lessons. That's the beauty of life. We're always relearning lessons and we're always, always, always learning. It's never going to change. It's cool. We get to constantly evolve. But what I'm saying is that when I'm in a dark place...
I'll just keep lying. I'll just keep telling people I'm fine, telling people I'm okay. But the thing is, that is only pushing you further and further under the surface. The only way you're ever going to heal and find that good place again is if you're open and honest about what it is that you're going through. And it shouldn't have to take you getting to a breaking point to do so. If you do it from the start and you're open and honest about how you feel from the start, you're going to be able to avoid those dark, dark, dark holes.
In a lot of cases, but again, we're all in different situations. We all have different lives. Like this might not necessarily apply to every single person at this point in your life, because again, we're all on different paths. But when it does apply to your life, I want you to remember it. This episode is brought to you by Shopify. Whether you're selling a little or a lot.
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Next, you have to know that you make mistakes, okay?
This goes back to the playing victim thing where we blame everything on the outside world or on other people instead of, you know, taking the fault for ourselves and understanding that you can make mistakes. You're going to make mistakes, right? You're going to F up, okay? You're going to get in trouble. You're going to fail a test. You are going to have times where you are the one at fault. And there's nothing wrong with that. There is no learning in this lifetime if you don't make mistakes. And one thing that my therapist taught me that I'm always going to remember is that
She said, if you make a mistake and you learn from it, you don't get to call it a mistake. We call it a mistaki. And I just love it because every time I F something up, I learn from the, I learn the lesson and I take it and I apply it to my future. Okay. So we're constantly learning. We're always going to make mistakes, but you have to be aware that sometimes it is your fault. And sometimes you can improve and start working on yourself and make things better for me.
One this applies to constantly and I'm still working on and I still make this mistake all the time is I really bad time blindness. So I'll think that I have more time than I actually do and I'll be late to things for my whole entire life. My family calls it Hidalgo style because we say it's because we're Hispanic and my dad's always been the exact same way.
But it's still something I'm working on because sometimes being late doesn't just affect me. It affects the people around me. It affects my job. So I'm working on that. And I'm aware that that's my fault. Instead of blaming things like, oh, I'm late. Sorry, there was traffic. First of all, Lexi, there was no traffic. You just left late. You don't have to like pretend that there was. You take the blame and you learn from it and you're ready to evolve. And this goes so much deeper too than surface level things like that. Like friendships that have fallen apart where you're so quick to blame the other person.
You have to be able to take a step back and evaluate if maybe you had some doing in that. Like maybe it wasn't all the other person. Maybe you were part of it too. And this was a hard pill for me to swallow looking back at friendships that have like failed in my life or relationships that have failed and just understanding that, yeah, you know, I could have done better.
And now I know that for the future and I'm going to better myself and I'm going to communicate more openly and I'm going to be more aware of other people's feelings and I'm going to make sure I put the work in and water the plants that I want to grow, you know? Nothing can bloom if you don't water it. So just take that however you want with a grain of salt. Like I'm not saying you're a terrible person and you make so many problems and mistakes. Like I'm just saying evaluate everything in every situation before you're quick to blame other people.
The next one is you are okay with letting people walk out of your life. We all get attached. We get attached to people, to connections, even when they're doing nothing but like strangling us or holding us back. I've had countless friendships and relationships that have been, and this is kind of seems to be a repeating conversation in this episode, but going back to friendships and relationships that have hurt me for so long, I would say,
Just let people hurt me and I would be the one doing everything in my power to make sure that that relationship or that friendship stayed strong and stayed healthy when it was so not good for my mental health or good for me in general and was simply just holding me back and I would change who I was just to please other people just to make other people happy instead of just letting this person walk out of my life. The reason that we don't let people walk out of our life is because we build these relationships
We build these perfect scenarios in our head and we think that if I change something or if this person changes something, eventually it'll work out or whatever it may be. But we create these idealizations that don't actually exist and they will never exist to be completely honest with you.
If you're the one who's changing something about yourself to make something work, it's going to fall apart. Because ultimately, like I say time and time again, you're the one you got forever. And at some point in your life, you're finally going to do the things that you love and be the person that you are no matter what. Which is going to make that relationship fall apart if the person isn't in love with you. They're just in love with whatever it is you changed about you. You know? Next one. Okay, actually no, not next one. I want to say one more thing about that.
The only people that should be in your life are the people who are adding to your life. The people who make you happy 24/7. The people who inspire you. The friends that you can look up to. The family that you love unconditionally. Those are the people who need to be in your life. If someone is taking anything away from you, you don't need it. And also just a reminder, like I know that some situations are harder than others and this is easier said than done.
Some things are just healthier from a distance and that's okay. You can have friends that are long distance friends and it's better that way. And you can have friends that you can spend 24 hours a day with. You're going to have a little bit of everything. Okay. That's kind of the beauty of it, but just know you have to let people walk out of your life and you have to be okay with it. And you should never chase something. Let things come to you because everything that is meant for you is simply going to find you.
The next one I have is you're able to let things go. And like I said before, life is going to happen. You're not going to be able to stop that. You're going to get stuck in traffic. You're going to lose people you love. You're going to fail tests. You're going to get fired at some point, maybe. I don't know. Life is going to happen and some things are out of your control.
Another thing my therapist always says to me, and I always share with you guys, that 90% of life is how you make meaning of it. The other 10% is what actually happens. But what I mean by that is that you have to just be able to let the past be the past. We are all so hyper fixated on making the past the present in some way, shape, or form. Like we're always thinking about something that already happened or something that's going to happen. But the reality is the only moment you have is right now.
Okay, there is nothing that you could possibly do right now to change the future or to change the past. The past has already happened. Let it stay there. Okay, you can take what you've learned and apply it to your current self or your future self, but you can't change it. Okay, you failed the test.
Now, next time, what you're going to do is study more. Okay. You're not going to sit there and dwell on how this test that you failed is going to ruin your future because it's not because everything happens for a reason and something is going to work out from this and you are the one in control of making meaning of it. Right? So you can either let it go or take it as a lesson and learn from it, but you cannot dwell on it. And that's all I got. That is how you let the past be the past. And you just have to keep reminding yourself and faking it till you make it. You can't change it. Okay. Now is now.
This is where you are. This is where you're meant to be. And that's how I got on that. Last one I have written down is that you understand your path is going to look different from others. And this one is a really hard one for me. All of these are really hard ones for me. That's why they stand out so much to me that I'm finally being able to notice them in my life. But this one especially.
At age 22, I'm kind of at that point where a lot of my friends are moving away to go work their big girl jobs. A lot of my friends are still in college. Some of my friends are even getting married. And I'm here doing what I meant to be doing and what I love to be doing. But it's such a hard pill to swallow because this is the point in my life where everything starts to look a little bit different. I start to notice that my parents are getting older. I start to notice that my brothers are about to graduate high school and go away to college. And...
this one's emotional for me and it's really hard to think about but one thing that life has taught me lately is that everything well forever is that everything that is meant for me is always going to find its way back to me and understanding that we're all on a different schedule is so helpful when you start getting in your head and thinking like oh my god what if I never see this person again this was my best friend in high school and now she's moving away to go be a nurse in North Carolina what if we never get to see each other well first of all
You are, especially if this is a person that you know and love and means the world to you, you're going to see each other again. And the friendship is always going to last because the right ones always stay and everything works itself out the way that it's supposed to. But it's also taught me to be aware of what friendships am I watering? Like what plants am I watering? Am I watering the friendships I know won't last a lifetime or am I watering the friendships that I know are going to be there in the long run?
This is the age where you do have to put the effort into friendships to some extent, like making sure you check in with each other and you call each other and you keep each other a priority in life and just also understand that you're going to go different ways at some point or another. We're all going to go different ways and it's sad to think about, but it's refreshing to just find peace with it and find peace with everything going on. And I'm getting a little bit repetitive, but really I just kind of wanted to do this episode to talk about
It's not even maturity. It's just signs that you're growing up or that you're evolving or that you're aware. Like, I don't know. You can think of it however you want. These are just like things that I wanted to share with you and things that have been heavy on my mind lately. So that's what I did. I shared them with you. And my brain's all over the place. I'm so excited because tomorrow's Blackie Wednesday and I get to go to Sunrise and I get to go work out and I get to see Lissette, who I haven't seen in a while because...
I didn't see her before. Well, I saw her before Mexico and then Meredith was here. So I saw her with Mare, but I haven't had some one-on-one Lexi and Lissette time in a while. So we have a lot to catch up on. But yeah, I just love you guys. And I'm so grateful for you. And this podcast means the world to me. And I really don't know what I would do without you because you guys are my peace. You really are. And I think that that's just been my word lately, which is super cool because I have a peace sign tattooed on my wrist. So it's very fitting. But...
I love you. And I can't wait to talk to you next Monday. Okay. Goodbye, my friends.