August 8, 2025 • 36 mins
A million in-between but I still got me. That’s what it feels like nowadays. The good thing about always having you, you can always find your way back to yourself. In this week’s episode, I’m catching you up on some of those million in-between’s.
From selling my house and living the nomad lifestyle, my whirlwind trip in Greece, navigating my life with dating, there is a LOT to catch up on. I talk about self love and how that’s helped me stay true to myself while I navigate all the change I keep facing. You know how I feel about self love. (Ha!)
It feels good to yap and be back. Cheers to the next chapter of The In-between. We’re really back this time. ;)
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Elizabeth (00:06):
Hey, hey, hey.
Welcome back to another episodeof The In-Between.
I'm your host, Elizabeth Cheney.
I know it's been a hot minutesince we last spoke, and I know
I spoke a big game about guestsand having all these episodes
recorded and we're gonna catchup on all the things that my
life has been, what is my lifefor the past month, month or so.
(00:27):
Um, but I was thinking so muchhas happened.
It felt weird to just get rightinto releasing the episodes with
the guests and they're verygood, don't get me wrong.
They're very good, but really, Ijust wanted a chance to connect
with you all.
Say, Hey, I'm still alive, we'restill here, and we are getting
back on this rollercoaster baby.
And yeah, I have a lot ofcontent coming up, but really
(00:50):
just wanna say thank you forsticking it out with me.
I know I have not been the bestin terms of, I don't know,
releasing content in episodes.
I've been living life, that'sfor sure.
Gone through so much change.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I don't even know.
What I said on the last podcast,other than I'm gonna Greece, not
(01:10):
sure if I updated you guys onthe house front and all that and
if I did, okay.
Whoops.
Sorry.
But we're gonna get into it.
But I just wanna say my life isstill not quite settled.
I am definitely navigating somany in-betweens that but I'm
happy to be back, that's forsure.
I am still me, as cheesy as thatmay sound.
Do I feel different change grownsince I came back from Europe?
(01:33):
Yes, because that's what traveldoes to you, especially
traveling to a different countrywhere there's different culture
outside of what you may know.
So all that said and done.
Let's get into what the hell hasbeen going on in my life.
So if this is new or if I didtalk about it on the last
episode, well, here we go.
(01:54):
Here's a refresher.
I sold the house.
Everyone thought I was crazytrying to do all of this before
I left for Greece, but I waslike, ha, trust me.
I'm gonna make this happen.
I'm gonna manifest this shit.
And guess what it did?
It did literally due diligenceended like the Wednesday before
I left for Greece.
Processed all that.
Once I got back from Greece, weclosed the following Friday, so
(02:16):
I had like a week left.
Nuts.
Crazy.
God bless my mother for all thehelp that she did.
She really came through andhelped me pack up so much stuff
while I was gone, and alsohelped me navigate that last
week, which was crazy because,you know, not only do I come
back to the country and I'm hitwith instant crippling anxiety
of all of my responsibilitiesflooding my brain and what I
(02:37):
have to do.
On top of that, I have to move ahouse.
At least half a house.
I moved half of it already intostorage, hired movers all the
bit, got it done, but it'sgreat.
The house is sold.
That responsibility is no longeron my shoulders.
Oh, very happy about that.
But.
Yeah, now I'm living that nomadlife, so that's in between
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number one.
I'm living as what I like tocall a nomad.
I'm using my mom's address as mypermanent address, which is
great.
Love being 34, and I'm like, Ilive with my mom and bonus
points, my nana lives with hertoo, so we are three generations
under the same roof.
But guess what?
I actually don't hate that.
I mean I do in terms oforganization, in terms of my
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stuff, I basically moved mywhole house into half of my
nana's guest room, so that'scool.
Um, lemme tell you something oldpeople have a lot of shit.
I was like, does, does she needthis vacuum from 19, I don't
know, 79?
It's gotta be from that decade,maybe the eighties.
I'll give you that.
And my mom's like, well, youknow, she doesn't use it, but
(03:40):
she doesn't wanna get rid of it.
And that is everything in mygrandmother's house, uh, because
my mother sold her house'causemy nana broke her back.
Not sure if I've ever talkedabout this.
And my nana is self-sufficient.
For the most part, but my momsold her house thinking I'm
gonna go help her, kind of watchover her.
It's closer to my job, and thenI'll get a house, apartment,
town, home, wherever you putroots in.
(04:02):
And then wop, wop.
We saw what happened with that.
So yes, for all intents andpurposes, we live at my
grandmother's house and as muchas I'm joking about it, as much
as I'm like, huh, there's a lotof shit in that house, let me
tell you, it is clean.
All the shit is organized, and Iknow that this period of my life
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will not be for very long, and Iknow that I am gonna reflect on
this time the fact that it's me,my mother, and my nana.
You know, my mother was a singlemother, so my nana, my pop
helped take care of me.
But having the experience tolive under the same roof as much
as it has challenges, it is alsorewarding and.
(04:46):
I don't know.
I, I think I'm gonna reflect onthis time very fondly.
I not even think, I know I'mgoing to, I've already laughed
so much.
Uh, my nana is so feisty, andI'm very grateful that.
I have the opportunity to kindof get my bearings in a very
safe environment.
But on top of that, I ambebopping with friends.
(05:08):
Um, you can see this beautifulsetup is my friend Talia's.
I am dog sitting for her rightnow.
So things like that.
Going to my girl Ashley, Anna'shouse, going to my friend Jazz's
House, who's gonna be a guesthere soon.
You'll see her episode hereshortly., But just hanging out
with friends Bee bopping aroundhere.
So even though I'm with my momand nana, I'm not there the
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whole week, so my life is alittle hectic.
But you know what?
I can now finally catch up onall the podcasts that I have not
listened to.
So that is very fine.
Very exciting.
So living the nomad life, thatis a major in-between so far.
It hasn't really hurt my datinglife, but also my dating life is
kind of just on hold.
(05:50):
So of course it's not reallyaffecting it, but that's okay.
That's okay.
Plus it's kind of like, oh,well, you know, can we go to
your place?
'cause we can't go to mine.
That's for sure.
but that's okay.
That's okay.
And talking about when am Igonna get a new place?
Where am I gonna move All ofthis.
I toyed with the idea of NewYork.
That's really dependent on myjob.
(06:11):
I think I may still do likeAirbnb in September.
Go there, visit.
Check it out.
I also really wanna do Chicago,so that's got my eyesight on
September.
So if I do that, then I'mprobably not gonna get a place
until.
End of September, maybe evenOctober.
I'm not quite sure I say that,but I also can tell you that
(06:31):
it's been two weeks and thisnomad life has been a little
stressful.
I can feel its effects, let'sjust say that.
Uh, fun fact.
I've gained some weight over thepast two months.
Not that that's a fun fact thatyou really care about, but for
me, I'm like, wait, why do mypants fit tighter?
And apparently.
Being stressed, not working outas much, and drinking wine
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almost every day in Europe.
If not every day, we'll do thatto you.
I know I look great.
I'm not even bitching aboutthat.
I'm just saying, wow, get ittogether, girlfriend.
Maybe it wasn't the best idea toeat all those cookies, but you
know, no regrets.
No regrets.
Do I feel like I'm addicted tosugar?
I have no idea.
Am I solo monologuing right now?
I think so a little bit.
(07:14):
But then I say solo monologuingand monologuing is solo anyways,
so she's still quirky.
She's still weird and she'sstill is all over the place.
But maybe that's just part ofme, part of my personality.
I don't know.
I can handle chaos.
I can handle balls up in theair.
But, I would like somestability, that's for sure.
And that's part of why I am justcoasting right now.
(07:36):
I'm hanging out with a friend\the first week of August.
Then I'm dog sitting for anotherfriend.
The second week of August.
I've got a bunch of thingsplanned, and then I was thinking
about going to New York at theend of August, but now I'm like.
Maybe that's September.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I am literally free falling.
I feel like I have no plan, butat the same time, I have a loose
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plan.
'cause I still have my goals andambitions and dreams and all of
that fun stuff.
That's why I'm recording theepisode.
I'm getting back with thepodcast, getting back into
content creation becauseapparently, fun fact, you do not
grow if you do not produce anycontent.
So, Hmm.
Gotta figure that one out.
But you know, I come back fromGreece feeling very inspired,
(08:19):
very excited for my future'causethe future is mine.
Literally.
I can do whatever I want.
No responsibility for anybodybut myself.
Of course there's my mother andthen also my grandmother and
helping, making sure she doesn'tget scammed because that's a
whole thing.
Yeah.
I spent my whole day yesterdayafternoon basically dealing with
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her because she got scammed.
She got hacked.
Ugh.
These people who prey out olderpeople.
Oh, it's so shitty.
But also Nana, Microsoft Edge isan internet browser.
So why did you think you had tobuy that?
That's okay.
That is okay.
We live, we learn we love.
That's what we do here.
We live, we learn, we love.
(09:02):
Ooh, that might be a new slogan.
I love that.
so I gotta watch Anne.
I gotta watch my nana.
Her name's Anne.
I don't know why just said that.
Like expecting you all to knowwho Anne is.
But I gotta watch her, make sureshe's not clicking all the
fricking emails.
She gets all the weird thingsthat say, click here, and it's
like blinky letters and it lookslike it's a maiden clip art.
And I'm like, that is not asophisticated email.
Why are you clicking it?
So I'm going to give herphishing training.
(09:25):
Kudos to my company who doeslots of phishing training for
us.
So I can show her, Hey, this iswhat you gotta do.
You gotta hover over the link.
Does that link look sketchy?
Were you expecting this emaileven more important?
And then look at the two from,you know, all that jazz.
So yeah, gotta watch out forthese old folk out here gonna
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get bamboozled and we can't havethat.
But poor thing, how to go to thebank, change her bank account
numbers, all this crazy stuff.
I mean, literally it was myentire afternoon, so.
While I'm in, Casa Dela nana, ifthat's even the right way to say
that, I'm just gonna chill andmonitor her.
But it's been fun and like Isaid, not sure how long I can
(10:06):
manage the nomad life, but atleast the first half of August I
have plans and somewhere tostay.
So that's that.
That is that.
So talking about Europe comingback changed, you know, gosh, I
was there for two weeks.
Started it off in Italy and thenmet up with, I met up with
Ashley there and then met upwith two other girlfriends and I
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could just deep dive into thewhole trip.
But some things that happen inGreece, stay in Greece.
Let's just say that, that canhave so many.
Innuendo, but you don't knowwhat they are.
Maybe it's all of them.
Maybe it's one or two.
Maybe it's none of the above.
Let your imagination go wildwith that one.
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But it was great.
The food was great, the wine wasgreat and you know, if I can be
completely honest, I definitelydrank wine every day while I was
there.
But who, who cares?
It's Europe baby.
It's Europe and you're withthree other girlfriends.
It, I don't know.
It was just amazing.
You know, I was thinking, gosh,like traveling with your
girlfriend, especially whenyou're all single is, is really,
(11:11):
I'm just very, I'm reallyblessed and grateful that I got
that experience.
'cause who knows, this could bemy, you know, only summer that I
get to be single.
I mean, I hope so because like Iam a little bit older and I do
want a family eventually, so theuniverse to get on that.
Uh, but we're not rushing.
We're just having fun.
(11:31):
We're rediscovering ourselves.
That's another in between, we'lltalk about here momentarily.
Back to Europe, back to Europe.
I digress.
There's just like so much talkabout, I'm like.
The ideas are like, like comingthrough, coming out, coming in,
and I'm just like, woo, calmdown.
I might, should have.
I might, should have.
That's a beautiful, beautifulsentence there, Liz.
(11:51):
I might, should have, uh,written down basically what I
wanted to talk about, but I waslike, I wanna talk about
everything.
I got this.
So that's why this episode is alittle over the place.
Uh, plus it's been so long sinceI recorded an episode.
All of the equipment that I use,like the program has been
updated and different, and Ijust like jumped right into this
and I was like, wait, whoa, thisis all different.
(12:13):
So we had some technical issuestoo, so we're a little flushed,
but that's okay because we arehere and that's exciting.
So back to Europe.
having the opportunity to gowith girlfriends, it was so much
fun.
We had quite the adventures andif you know anything about me, I
am one for an adventure.
Uh, I think I list that inalmost every dating profile that
(12:35):
I have.
Not that there's that many.
I mean, it's just two I bumbleand hinge.
If you have any othersuggestions, I'd love to hear
them, but.
adventuring in Europe, gettinginto the silliest situations,
laughing so hard, justexperiencing a whole new culture
with three people that youreally love and care about and
you're all in the same kind ofplace in life.
(12:57):
It, it was just, it was a lot offun.
It was great.
And I was talking to somebodythat I, I work with and I was
like, you know, I think I likegirl trips way more than like a
romantic trip.
And then the, the response was,yeah, maybe, or you just need a
better romantic partner.
And I was like, mm.
Got him.
Uh, just kidding.
We're not gonna talk shit aboutour ex here.
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but they're not wrong.
However, I do think there is athere's something special about
traveling with your friends.
So if you haven't done thatalready, I highly recommend and
if you do have the opportunityto go to Europe, especially with
your friends, I highlyrecommend.
But your lover will do too.
I'm sure it's wonderful, but we,I don't know.
We made friends.
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I mean, I still talk to peoplethat I met in Norway, so of
course I made friends in Greece.
Um, I'd love to go back, butthere's a whole world to see, so
we'll see what happens.
I'm thinking about taking a solotrip to Europe in November, like
around the Thanksgiving time, soI can kind of leverage being off
from work as well.
And it should be slower.
But I'm not sure where yet my,my thoughts are London and
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Edinburgh or Munich and Berlin.
'cause both should haveChristmas markets and that
sounds awesome.
So we'll see where I land, whoknows?
I may not even go.
I may still be living at mygrandmother's house.
I pray to God, not I pray to Godor you know, would be an even
better manifestation.
My podcast takes off and I canjust make content.
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'cause I am on my routine.
I am doing the most, and uh, I'mjust bebopping all over the
world and I don't even need toworry about where I'm living.
Just kidding.
That was such a crazy.
Thing to even project out there,because that would all have to
happen in like two months.
But never say never, never saynever.
So, uh, highlights with Greece.
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Um, Santorini beautiful, butoverrated, not gonna lie.
The sunsets were incredible,absolutely incredible, but a
little overrated and very, verycrowded.
However, we had one wild nightin Vera and, uh, long Live Vera.
That's all I gotta say on that.
Then we went to patos, whichhonestly was my favorite.
Beach vibes.
It had club bar vibes.
The restaurant scene was great.
(15:02):
The downtown was so cute andthere was like lots of locals
there, so it felt, you know,less touristy.
We rented ATVs, rode all aroundthe island.
It was so much fun.
Oh, also, there are a shit tonof cats in Greece.
Like everywhere in Greece, theywere in Athens, they were in
Santorini, Bados.
So much so that even their,their souvenirs have cats like,
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ah, cat grease, I don't know.
But there are so many cats.
Some were nice, some were not.
Some were scary.
Like there is something wrongwith them, like disease wise,
which is very sad, but also getaway from me.
But yeah, lots of cats.
That was like the wildlife.
Uh, but patos it was, it was socool.
It was so beautiful.
Um, really enjoyed myself thereand we definitely left our mark
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there as well.
I ate so much good food.
God, now I think about it.
Just so much good food.
Coming back to the States aftereating delicious European food
for like two weeks was one ofthe, one of the, oh, get you,
you know what I mean?
Like, hmm damn, did not missthis, but we ended our trip in
Athens and I saw a lot of like,hate about Athens on the
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internet before we went.
And, you know, I, I enjoyedmyself.
It was a cool city.
It was vibey.
It's covered in graffiti, sosome people may not like that.
I thought it was cool.
It was kind of artistic,different, but I mean like every
inch of it was almost covered ingraffiti.
But we got to go to theAcropolis, which was hotter than
hell.
Only to be exacerbated becausethe tour tickets that we got,
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the meeting point was in thecompletely wrong direction and
we were running late.
And we had to just jetty to thefreaking, uh, entrance.
Well, guess what?
We don't know where the entranceis.
And this thing is like on ahill.
And all of the sidewalks inAthens are like.
Marble or tile, maybe notmarble, that would be very
expensive, but tile.
So I was slip, slop, sloppingeverywhere.
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I'm very, very, very lucky Ididn't break my ankle because we
all know I'm not the most, um,what's the word?
Balanced.
I'm a little clumsy.
So that was fun.
There was many times where Ithought I was gonna fall and
break my, break my neck, crackmy head, all the above.
One of those things.
So we're running.
It is so hot.
It is so hot.
Oh my God, it's so hot.
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I just got used to feeling wetthe whole time'cause I was just
sweating nonstop.
But we're running, we'relaughing.
We're also a little hungover.
At least.
I was trying to get to theentrance and I mean, we
literally have like a minuteleft and the thing says like, if
you don't make your time, you'renot gonna get in.
'cause there's so many peoplethat go into this thing and
we're like, oh my God, are wegonna make it?
Ah.
Thankfully they let us in andthen we're just looking at all
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the cool ancient Greek, uh,ruins and structures.
Very cool.
I loved it.
It was really hot though.
I'm gonna keep stressing that.
Don't know if Greece is the movein June, July.
Maybe more like a Septembervibe.
Maybe October, I'm not sure, butSeptember probably a safe bet.
'cause it's probably still gonnabe warm enough that you can
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enjoy being outside and layingout.
But also maybe not so much closeto the eye of hell.
Not quite sure.
But it was, it was a lot.
It was a lot.
Anyways, moving on.
Really cool to see all those,uh, those structures.
We also drove to this area thatwas like an hour plus away from
Athens that we saw the TemplePoseidon.
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That was cool.
And again, dreamy sunsets.
Every place in Greece has dreamysunsets.
Obviously.
It's probably where it's locatedon the globe.
But oh my gosh.
Like those sunsets, they aresomething like, that's the one
thing I would definitely giveSantorini kudos for is their
sunsets.
Those were something.
So if you go to Greece, I highlyrecommend you do some sort of
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sunset boat tour'cause that madethe experience so great.
Loved it.
we also rented a car in Athensand I can now say I've driven in
a different country.
That was exciting.
they don't drive as crazy asthey do in Italy.
Italy, I feel like it is thewild, wild west.
Buckle up and pray.
That is how I felt riding alongin Italy, but that's okay.
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Obviously we survived and Ihaven't even given any like,
love to Italy.
Uh, I got to visit a new area Ihaven't been to yet, the Como
area, like Lake Como, and it is.
Absolutely stunning.
It looks like it's made out of afairytale.
I'm not even kidding.
Like I was just like, I mean, Iwas doing this in Greece anyways
too, but I was like pinchingmyself like, this is real.
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People live here.
I could not imagine livingsomewhere so freaking beautiful.
I mean, I would love to know themental health of people that
live there.
Are they happy?
I mean, there isn't much to do,so maybe that could be the
offset you get the beauty, butalso the boredom.
I, I don't know, but I feel, I'dlike to think.
I would be very content livingsomewhere so beautifully, as
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long as I had a remote job and Iwas making decent money, but you
know, whatever man.
Good times.
I'm already thinking about wherecan the next girls trip be.
You know, I got my solo tripcoming, hopefully manifesting
that clearly, I guess on thepodcast real time.
And, uh, let's see what you gonext year.
I would love to go to the MiddleEast, but.
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There's a lot of thingscontingent on that, a lot of
things outta my control.
So we'll see what happens, wherewe land on that.
Uh, but coming home was not thebest.
Our flight was hella delayed, sowe had to end up staying the
night in New York, and then wegot home the fifth, like the
following Saturday.
But it was fine.
Like I said earlier, Iapproached or I arrived to
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America with crippling anxietyof all my responsibilities
flooding my brain that I hadignored for two weeks.
That was not fun.
Don't recommend, but such aslife, you gotta get through it.
You gotta buckle up, get throughit.
Once the jet lag kind of woreoff, my anxiety kind of evened
out, and then I killed myselfthe following week to get my
house moved out and somehow.
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Throwing in a very, veryspontaneous, experience going to
see the Beyonce in the CowboyCarter tour that was not
planned.
Our friend had extra tickets.
Me and Ashley Annana got to go.
I amazoned one day delivery, avery cute outfit and I gotta see
Beyonce and it was incredible.
She is so stunning.
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Um, I didn't get to see theRenaissance tour, which I do.
I, I wish I could have seenthat, but I did get to see her
at Coachella, so it was mysecond time seeing Beyonce.
A humble brag, but she wasamazing.
Oh my god, co wow.
It was, it was cool.
It was great.
And, uh, I really enjoyedmyself.
So somehow go to Greece, comeback, get my ass handed to me at
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work, from being out two weeks,move my house and see Cowboy
Carter.
Yeah, I don't know.
I need to stop doing the mostbecause I keep proving to myself
I can, but I feel like my mentalload is, is diminishing, is
getting little and littler.
So I need to, I don't know, geta little bit more balanced, a
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little bit more grounded at thesays the girl who's in her nomad
era.
Huh.
I'm gonna get there.
I just wanna, like, I alreadyhave so much peace now that the
house is sold and I don't havethat gaping responsibility on my
shoulders.
Um, so it's baby steps.
I'm hoping to rest a little bitin this in between while I'm
nomad.
(22:02):
Um, something I don't do verywell, but I got some health
stuff that I'm trying to figureout.
Nothing like crazy.
Don't worry, I'm fine.
But it's like now that I havethe time and the.
The mental energy as I just talkshit about my mental energy
being diminished.
Um, I do feel like I can kindaget grounded even though life
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does not feel grounded at themoment, if that makes sense.
I think I mentioned this earlierin the episode, I feel like I'm
free falling., Again, I justwanna shout out to myself years
ago, five, four or five yearsago, there's no way I would be
able to handle.
Not just the amount of changeI've been through, but not
having a solid plan.
(22:44):
I do have a loose plan.
I'm getting back in the podcast,getting back at the content.
I got some work stuff that I'mtrying to maneuver, figure out,
maybe get some certifications tokind of go in a maybe slightly
different direction while I getthis thing going and I have the
whole rest of the year to getthe speaking going, which I do
plan to do that.
I even got business cards.
(23:04):
I finally got business cards.
I'm proud of me, I am proud ofme.
So just trying to get all of my,you know, materials together so
I can start really full.
Sending this podcast and contentcreator journey slash
entrepreneurial journey slash bemy own boss.
Create your own dream jobjourney while somehow not losing
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my mind in the process andsomehow maybe finding love.
'cause we're gonna keep that inthere.
Speaking of that, on the girlstrip, we had some very deep
conversations and we all know Ilive for that.
Deep conversations are my lovelanguage 1000%.
Uh, and we were just talkingabout love'cause we're all
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single and we all have somewhatdifferent feelings about being a
single and what we're lookingfor and what we're willing to
like not settle for, that's thewrong word, but.
You know, could you have a kidwithout a man freezing your
eggs?
Conversations like that, comingfrom different places, like
we're all looking for the samething.
Like, sure, love, love, thatlet's us be ourselves.
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That's equal partnership.
You know, one thing we talkedabout was being so independent
and that's fine and all, butwanting someone that can step in
and you don't have to be asindependent.
It's not like, oh, being takencare of.
But that is part of it.
But it's not the mindset of, nowI don't have to worry about
life.
No.
But just being able to sharethat weight, share the weight of
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life with like that's what Iultimately want.
An equal partner one that I candepend on and vice versa.
And we're talking about myjourney and how I'm very much,
doe-eyed with love and datingand I've definitely learned a
lot.
I've done, I've learned a lot ina, I don't wanna say a short
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period of time, but I mean ithasn't even been a year.
It's been 10 months.
So yeah, I've learned a lot in10 month period of time.
But also I'm the kind of girlthat's gonna gung-ho and jump
in.
Right?
And we were talking and I waslike, you know, I know I didn't
have the best relationship.
I wasn't shown love.
I didn't really get that at all.
I'm not trying to talk smack,but the equal partnership, the.
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The in love feeling, and that'swhat I want.
I know who I am, I know what I'mcapable of.
I know I can do this life bymyself.
I don't want that.
So I'm open to love because Ihave another choice, but to be,
I'm gonna trust that just likethe universe made the house
happen for me, let me sell it.
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I landed on my feet just likeall these other incredible
things that have happened thatI've trusted and prayed and
manifested and, and believed in.
Of course love is gonna be therefor me.
I don't know.
When doesn't mean I'm not gonnaget frustrated, doesn't mean I'm
not gonna have letdowns andsetbacks.
Or maybe not some much setbacks.
Probably more letdown.
But I am gonna find love.
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As long as you're open to it, itwill find you.
And we always kinda reflected onthat and they were saying it's
really.
Cool to hear you, given whatyou've gone through to be so
open.
And I, I like to argue it'sbecause of what I went through
that makes me feel so openbecause I wanna know what it's
like to just be over, over themoon crazy about someone and
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them in return.
For me, I wanna know what it'slike to be best friends and to
go on adventures together andjust get each other and have
deep conversations and giggleand laugh.
Maybe this is me manifestingthis out loud on the podcast,
what I'm looking for, but we'llsee what happens.
We'll see what, we'll see whathappens between now and the end
of the year.
You never know.
They always say you can meetyour person tomorrow, but I'm
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also taking the pressure off ofmyself when it comes to dating,
just.
Because I mean, I, I, like Isaid, I've learned a lot in 10 a
period of time.
Um, and it's not that I'm notlooking for anything serious.
I think I'm open at this pointto a more intentional
connection, whether that's justa few dates or whether it's a
few months or, and it leads tosomething more serious, I don't
know.
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But I'm kind of feeling less ofthe whole hookup thing and more
into the, okay, can we like talkand hang out?
That'd be great.
Uh, but you know.
I have been exploring theRenaissance of Liz, the
rediscovery of Liz.
When it comes to that side of mylife, that part of my life, that
part of me.
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And, uh, lemme tell you, it isbeautiful.
It is beautiful to tap into yoursensuality.
It is beautiful to tap into whatyou deserve and what you want.
Even the ugly parts of it,because eventually you realize,
okay, well I don't wanna do thatagain.
We're gonna change thingsdifferently this time.
Ooh, I will do that again.
'cause that was great.
Whatever.
Um, you know, because I've saidthis before, like.
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Me and my separation and beingsingle now.
I wasn't left with, well, whoare you?
You've lost yourself.
No, I found myself, and that iswhy I think I was able to do
what I did and bounce back soquickly.
However, I've never really beenable to explore my sensuality
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and what that is like, and, andI don't mean like necessarily
sexuality, but exploring,, noteven just like what you want in
the bedroom per se.
But you learn a lot aboutyourself when it comes to
physical intimacy and physicalconnection.
It's not even just about theother person.
The partner I like, feel like, Ifeel like it's opened up my
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inner goddess, my.
Confidence.
My I am that bitch.
Check please.
And I think it, it's all a partof who you are.
Like I don't think just, this isone area of my life is what is
make or breaking and helping mefind out who I am.
It's all these parts.
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It is following your dreams,figuring out what your dreams
are, your ambition, your, yourmotivation.
What do you want outta life?
What do you like to eat?
What's your physical activity?
What do you like to do?
How do you, do you like friends?
Are you more of a loner?
Do you like all of that?
Emotional, mental, physical,sensual?
It is all a part of you and itall ranges, and that's been the
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most, I mean, of course,exciting, but I can reflect on
the past 10 months and what I'velearned about myself when it
comes to that.
It's crazy.
I am a different person.
I'm still me, but I feel moreme.
I, I just think, wow, I can'tbelieve, I didn't think I needed
this.
I didn't need to connect withmyself in this way.
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But man, it is like a full,well-rounded.
I don't know evolvement of Liz,so to speak.
So for anyone going through aseparation or divorce or
anything like that, I promiseyou as long as you're open and
you remember that you areimportant, you matter.
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Life is not over thatrenaissance of rediscovery,
post-separation, post long-termrelationship breakup.
It is beautiful.
It is beautiful.
It is exciting, and not to soundcheesy, but then again it's me,
but I feel so alive.
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It almost makes me think, man, Iwas asleep for a while there
despite how much I love thepodcast and I putting myself out
there and just sharing my lifeexperience.
I've always been a very openperson.
That's something that I am notgonna change.
I don't care if it makes youuncomfortable.
That is who I am.
Go to another podcast, go toanother girl.
I don't give a shit.
It is who I am, but thisRenaissance man, oh man, I love
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it.
I love life and I just feel notjust like the world is my
oyster, but.
I am gonna make everything cometrue that I have manifested and
dreamed about.
So yeah, I think it's important.
It is important to know andrecognize the sensual side of
your life, the physical side ofyour life, to know what you
like, the intimacy, theconnection.
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And like I said, it really, itreally developed my confidence
even more so than I thought.
And just like I said.
I'm that bitch.
So sweet.
I am that bitch.
Oh, so yeah.
So we are in between therenaissance of our life of
ourselves.
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We are in between getting backinto content creation with this
newfound confidence in I'm thatbitch attitude.
We are in the in between of thenomad life, which I don't love,
uh, exponentially.
But you gotta do what you gottado.
Because another big thing, I, Ican't remember if I mentioned
this already, is just resting.
Like, I just wanna chill.
I just wanna not have to worryabout anything.
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Other than just myself rightnow.
Ask me how I feel in a month,and that may change, but.
Until then, I am, I'm okay.
So Life is crazy.
I think about where I was a yearago and just how different, how
different things are, not justin my circumstances, but also
me, but then somehow I'm stillme.
That's like the cool part, youknow, like I'm still me, but
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like just better version of me.
And I feel like if you're on theright path, that's, that's the
outcome you should get.
So things may not be perfect,but such is life.
I'm excited to be back on thepodcast.
Y'all are in for a treat overthe next couple of weeks.
I have so many wonderfulepisodes planned and prerecorded
with special guests.
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So we'll get into those.
but we're, we're gonna get backon this horse'cause it's time.
We've lived some life, we'vedone some healing.
living life and healing is acontinuous journey, as is
self-love.
Actually lemme pause before Ieven continue.
I will say this, I knowself-love is a huge pillar of
this podcast.
When someone asks me, what isyour podcast about?
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I always say it's one partentertainment, one part
empowerment, pillar of selflove.
I live an authentic life.
I like to share those authenticexperiences.
And not that I think you'regoing to relate to every single
one of them.
I do feel like being so openabout.
Yourself and just showcasingthat authenticity can connect
people and make people resonateand tap in and click in with
their own life shit.
So I want you to feel seen, evenif you don't necessarily
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identify with everything I'mtalking about.
Okay.
So self-love is huge andthroughout this whole experience
I've been going through sinceOctober, my self-love is what's
carried me through.
It's what's enabled me to toexplore my inner goddess and
find that fire from within.
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It's what's allowed me to go onadventures and not think twice
about it.
It's allowed me to believe inmyself and believe in my dreams,
even if I'm not necessarily outhere chugging out content.
Self-love is what carries youthrough the hard thing.
Self-love is what carries youthrough the in-between.
No matter what it is.
Self-love is what's gonna helpyou find the right person that
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matches your energy.
Matches your frequency.
'cause if you can't loveyourself, how can you expect
someone else to?
So those are the words I wannaend on today.
And just hang in there.
We're back, baby.
I don't know what in-betweensyou got going on, but I'm going
through a million of them at themoment.
So there is a place for everyonehere.
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But I can handle it and so canyou.
And we're gonna get through ittogether.
So welcome to the InBetween.
She's back.
She's back.
Even if this episode was alittle over the place.
But if you're not doing SoulReady, please check me out on
Instagram at Elizabeth Cheney.
I post everything there,everything going on in my life
and all the fun stuff.
So definitely go there.
(34:43):
The podcast is at end dotbetween pod, which you can catch
up with the podcast clips, allthat fun jazz, but definitely
that personal.
And then on TikTok and YouTube,the in-between podcast, this
episode will be on YouTube butyeah, check me out on the social
medias.
Gimme a follow.
Let's be friends please.
Let's keep up.
And if you're new here, thankyou.
Welcome.
Hello.
Hopefully you are along for theride and you enjoy this episode.
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And if you have been with mefrom the beginning or somewhere
along the line, hey, I'm back.
I'm sorry it's been a minute,but we are, we are here.
So stay tuned for the nextcouple of weeks.
Got lots of good episodesplanned and I'll check in here
or there.
Maybe next time I won't have myInvisalign, which will be great.
I know you can't even tellprobably from watching this, but
(35:25):
I can tell I can feel it.
So I can't wait to be.
It's done with that.
So on that note, I'm gonna gobecause I'm just gonna keep
rambling because it's been solong since I yapped on here and
I will see you on all newin-between next week.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate you.
Love you mean it.
Have the best day, week,whatever month ever.
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And just remember you matter.
You love ya.
See you next time.
Bye.
Hey, hey, hey.
Welcome back to another episodeof The In-Between.
I'm your host, Elizabeth Cheney.
I know it's been a hot minutesince we last spoke, and I know
I spoke a big game about guestsand having all these episodes
recorded and we're gonna catchup on all the things that my
life has been, what is my lifefor the past month, month or so.
(00:27):
Um, but I was thinking so muchhas happened.
It felt weird to just get rightinto releasing the episodes with
the guests and they're verygood, don't get me wrong.
They're very good, but really, Ijust wanted a chance to connect
with you all.
Say, Hey, I'm still alive, we'restill here, and we are getting
back on this rollercoaster baby.
And yeah, I have a lot ofcontent coming up, but really
(00:50):
just wanna say thank you forsticking it out with me.
I know I have not been the bestin terms of, I don't know,
releasing content in episodes.
I've been living life, that'sfor sure.
Gone through so much change.
Yeah, it's crazy.
I don't even know.
What I said on the last podcast,other than I'm gonna Greece, not
(01:10):
sure if I updated you guys onthe house front and all that and
if I did, okay.
Whoops.
Sorry.
But we're gonna get into it.
But I just wanna say my life isstill not quite settled.
I am definitely navigating somany in-betweens that but I'm
happy to be back, that's forsure.
I am still me, as cheesy as thatmay sound.
Do I feel different change grownsince I came back from Europe?
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Yes, because that's what traveldoes to you, especially
traveling to a different countrywhere there's different culture
outside of what you may know.
So all that said and done.
Let's get into what the hell hasbeen going on in my life.
So if this is new or if I didtalk about it on the last
episode, well, here we go.
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Here's a refresher.
I sold the house.
Everyone thought I was crazytrying to do all of this before
I left for Greece, but I waslike, ha, trust me.
I'm gonna make this happen.
I'm gonna manifest this shit.
And guess what it did?
It did literally due diligenceended like the Wednesday before
I left for Greece.
Processed all that.
Once I got back from Greece, weclosed the following Friday, so
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I had like a week left.
Nuts.
Crazy.
God bless my mother for all thehelp that she did.
She really came through andhelped me pack up so much stuff
while I was gone, and alsohelped me navigate that last
week, which was crazy because,you know, not only do I come
back to the country and I'm hitwith instant crippling anxiety
of all of my responsibilitiesflooding my brain and what I
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have to do.
On top of that, I have to move ahouse.
At least half a house.
I moved half of it already intostorage, hired movers all the
bit, got it done, but it'sgreat.
The house is sold.
That responsibility is no longeron my shoulders.
Oh, very happy about that.
But.
Yeah, now I'm living that nomadlife, so that's in between
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number one.
I'm living as what I like tocall a nomad.
I'm using my mom's address as mypermanent address, which is
great.
Love being 34, and I'm like, Ilive with my mom and bonus
points, my nana lives with hertoo, so we are three generations
under the same roof.
But guess what?
I actually don't hate that.
I mean I do in terms oforganization, in terms of my
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stuff, I basically moved mywhole house into half of my
nana's guest room, so that'scool.
Um, lemme tell you something oldpeople have a lot of shit.
I was like, does, does she needthis vacuum from 19, I don't
know, 79?
It's gotta be from that decade,maybe the eighties.
I'll give you that.
And my mom's like, well, youknow, she doesn't use it, but
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she doesn't wanna get rid of it.
And that is everything in mygrandmother's house, uh, because
my mother sold her house'causemy nana broke her back.
Not sure if I've ever talkedabout this.
And my nana is self-sufficient.
For the most part, but my momsold her house thinking I'm
gonna go help her, kind of watchover her.
It's closer to my job, and thenI'll get a house, apartment,
town, home, wherever you putroots in.
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And then wop, wop.
We saw what happened with that.
So yes, for all intents andpurposes, we live at my
grandmother's house and as muchas I'm joking about it, as much
as I'm like, huh, there's a lotof shit in that house, let me
tell you, it is clean.
All the shit is organized, and Iknow that this period of my life
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will not be for very long, and Iknow that I am gonna reflect on
this time the fact that it's me,my mother, and my nana.
You know, my mother was a singlemother, so my nana, my pop
helped take care of me.
But having the experience tolive under the same roof as much
as it has challenges, it is alsorewarding and.
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I don't know.
I, I think I'm gonna reflect onthis time very fondly.
I not even think, I know I'mgoing to, I've already laughed
so much.
Uh, my nana is so feisty, andI'm very grateful that.
I have the opportunity to kindof get my bearings in a very
safe environment.
But on top of that, I ambebopping with friends.
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Um, you can see this beautifulsetup is my friend Talia's.
I am dog sitting for her rightnow.
So things like that.
Going to my girl Ashley, Anna'shouse, going to my friend Jazz's
House, who's gonna be a guesthere soon.
You'll see her episode hereshortly., But just hanging out
with friends Bee bopping aroundhere.
So even though I'm with my momand nana, I'm not there the
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whole week, so my life is alittle hectic.
But you know what?
I can now finally catch up onall the podcasts that I have not
listened to.
So that is very fine.
Very exciting.
So living the nomad life, thatis a major in-between so far.
It hasn't really hurt my datinglife, but also my dating life is
kind of just on hold.
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So of course it's not reallyaffecting it, but that's okay.
That's okay.
Plus it's kind of like, oh,well, you know, can we go to
your place?
'cause we can't go to mine.
That's for sure.
but that's okay.
That's okay.
And talking about when am Igonna get a new place?
Where am I gonna move All ofthis.
I toyed with the idea of NewYork.
That's really dependent on myjob.
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I think I may still do likeAirbnb in September.
Go there, visit.
Check it out.
I also really wanna do Chicago,so that's got my eyesight on
September.
So if I do that, then I'mprobably not gonna get a place
until.
End of September, maybe evenOctober.
I'm not quite sure I say that,but I also can tell you that
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it's been two weeks and thisnomad life has been a little
stressful.
I can feel its effects, let'sjust say that.
Uh, fun fact.
I've gained some weight over thepast two months.
Not that that's a fun fact thatyou really care about, but for
me, I'm like, wait, why do mypants fit tighter?
And apparently.
Being stressed, not working outas much, and drinking wine
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almost every day in Europe.
If not every day, we'll do thatto you.
I know I look great.
I'm not even bitching aboutthat.
I'm just saying, wow, get ittogether, girlfriend.
Maybe it wasn't the best idea toeat all those cookies, but you
know, no regrets.
No regrets.
Do I feel like I'm addicted tosugar?
I have no idea.
Am I solo monologuing right now?
I think so a little bit.
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But then I say solo monologuingand monologuing is solo anyways,
so she's still quirky.
She's still weird and she'sstill is all over the place.
But maybe that's just part ofme, part of my personality.
I don't know.
I can handle chaos.
I can handle balls up in theair.
But, I would like somestability, that's for sure.
And that's part of why I am justcoasting right now.
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I'm hanging out with a friend\the first week of August.
Then I'm dog sitting for anotherfriend.
The second week of August.
I've got a bunch of thingsplanned, and then I was thinking
about going to New York at theend of August, but now I'm like.
Maybe that's September.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I am literally free falling.
I feel like I have no plan, butat the same time, I have a loose
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plan.
'cause I still have my goals andambitions and dreams and all of
that fun stuff.
That's why I'm recording theepisode.
I'm getting back with thepodcast, getting back into
content creation becauseapparently, fun fact, you do not
grow if you do not produce anycontent.
So, Hmm.
Gotta figure that one out.
But you know, I come back fromGreece feeling very inspired,
(08:19):
very excited for my future'causethe future is mine.
Literally.
I can do whatever I want.
No responsibility for anybodybut myself.
Of course there's my mother andthen also my grandmother and
helping, making sure she doesn'tget scammed because that's a
whole thing.
Yeah.
I spent my whole day yesterdayafternoon basically dealing with
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her because she got scammed.
She got hacked.
Ugh.
These people who prey out olderpeople.
Oh, it's so shitty.
But also Nana, Microsoft Edge isan internet browser.
So why did you think you had tobuy that?
That's okay.
That is okay.
We live, we learn we love.
That's what we do here.
We live, we learn, we love.
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Ooh, that might be a new slogan.
I love that.
so I gotta watch Anne.
I gotta watch my nana.
Her name's Anne.
I don't know why just said that.
Like expecting you all to knowwho Anne is.
But I gotta watch her, make sureshe's not clicking all the
fricking emails.
She gets all the weird thingsthat say, click here, and it's
like blinky letters and it lookslike it's a maiden clip art.
And I'm like, that is not asophisticated email.
Why are you clicking it?
So I'm going to give herphishing training.
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Kudos to my company who doeslots of phishing training for
us.
So I can show her, Hey, this iswhat you gotta do.
You gotta hover over the link.
Does that link look sketchy?
Were you expecting this emaileven more important?
And then look at the two from,you know, all that jazz.
So yeah, gotta watch out forthese old folk out here gonna
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get bamboozled and we can't havethat.
But poor thing, how to go to thebank, change her bank account
numbers, all this crazy stuff.
I mean, literally it was myentire afternoon, so.
While I'm in, Casa Dela nana, ifthat's even the right way to say
that, I'm just gonna chill andmonitor her.
But it's been fun and like Isaid, not sure how long I can
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manage the nomad life, but atleast the first half of August I
have plans and somewhere tostay.
So that's that.
That is that.
So talking about Europe comingback changed, you know, gosh, I
was there for two weeks.
Started it off in Italy and thenmet up with, I met up with
Ashley there and then met upwith two other girlfriends and I
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could just deep dive into thewhole trip.
But some things that happen inGreece, stay in Greece.
Let's just say that, that canhave so many.
Innuendo, but you don't knowwhat they are.
Maybe it's all of them.
Maybe it's one or two.
Maybe it's none of the above.
Let your imagination go wildwith that one.
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But it was great.
The food was great, the wine wasgreat and you know, if I can be
completely honest, I definitelydrank wine every day while I was
there.
But who, who cares?
It's Europe baby.
It's Europe and you're withthree other girlfriends.
It, I don't know.
It was just amazing.
You know, I was thinking, gosh,like traveling with your
girlfriend, especially whenyou're all single is, is really,
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I'm just very, I'm reallyblessed and grateful that I got
that experience.
'cause who knows, this could bemy, you know, only summer that I
get to be single.
I mean, I hope so because like Iam a little bit older and I do
want a family eventually, so theuniverse to get on that.
Uh, but we're not rushing.
We're just having fun.
(11:31):
We're rediscovering ourselves.
That's another in between, we'lltalk about here momentarily.
Back to Europe, back to Europe.
I digress.
There's just like so much talkabout, I'm like.
The ideas are like, like comingthrough, coming out, coming in,
and I'm just like, woo, calmdown.
I might, should have.
I might, should have.
That's a beautiful, beautifulsentence there, Liz.
(11:51):
I might, should have, uh,written down basically what I
wanted to talk about, but I waslike, I wanna talk about
everything.
I got this.
So that's why this episode is alittle over the place.
Uh, plus it's been so long sinceI recorded an episode.
All of the equipment that I use,like the program has been
updated and different, and Ijust like jumped right into this
and I was like, wait, whoa, thisis all different.
(12:13):
So we had some technical issuestoo, so we're a little flushed,
but that's okay because we arehere and that's exciting.
So back to Europe.
having the opportunity to gowith girlfriends, it was so much
fun.
We had quite the adventures andif you know anything about me, I
am one for an adventure.
Uh, I think I list that inalmost every dating profile that
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I have.
Not that there's that many.
I mean, it's just two I bumbleand hinge.
If you have any othersuggestions, I'd love to hear
them, but.
adventuring in Europe, gettinginto the silliest situations,
laughing so hard, justexperiencing a whole new culture
with three people that youreally love and care about and
you're all in the same kind ofplace in life.
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It, it was just, it was a lot offun.
It was great.
And I was talking to somebodythat I, I work with and I was
like, you know, I think I likegirl trips way more than like a
romantic trip.
And then the, the response was,yeah, maybe, or you just need a
better romantic partner.
And I was like, mm.
Got him.
Uh, just kidding.
We're not gonna talk shit aboutour ex here.
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but they're not wrong.
However, I do think there is athere's something special about
traveling with your friends.
So if you haven't done thatalready, I highly recommend and
if you do have the opportunityto go to Europe, especially with
your friends, I highlyrecommend.
But your lover will do too.
I'm sure it's wonderful, but we,I don't know.
We made friends.
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I mean, I still talk to peoplethat I met in Norway, so of
course I made friends in Greece.
Um, I'd love to go back, butthere's a whole world to see, so
we'll see what happens.
I'm thinking about taking a solotrip to Europe in November, like
around the Thanksgiving time, soI can kind of leverage being off
from work as well.
And it should be slower.
But I'm not sure where yet my,my thoughts are London and
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Edinburgh or Munich and Berlin.
'cause both should haveChristmas markets and that
sounds awesome.
So we'll see where I land, whoknows?
I may not even go.
I may still be living at mygrandmother's house.
I pray to God, not I pray to Godor you know, would be an even
better manifestation.
My podcast takes off and I canjust make content.
(14:20):
'cause I am on my routine.
I am doing the most, and uh, I'mjust bebopping all over the
world and I don't even need toworry about where I'm living.
Just kidding.
That was such a crazy.
Thing to even project out there,because that would all have to
happen in like two months.
But never say never, never saynever.
So, uh, highlights with Greece.
(14:41):
Um, Santorini beautiful, butoverrated, not gonna lie.
The sunsets were incredible,absolutely incredible, but a
little overrated and very, verycrowded.
However, we had one wild nightin Vera and, uh, long Live Vera.
That's all I gotta say on that.
Then we went to patos, whichhonestly was my favorite.
Beach vibes.
It had club bar vibes.
The restaurant scene was great.
(15:02):
The downtown was so cute andthere was like lots of locals
there, so it felt, you know,less touristy.
We rented ATVs, rode all aroundthe island.
It was so much fun.
Oh, also, there are a shit tonof cats in Greece.
Like everywhere in Greece, theywere in Athens, they were in
Santorini, Bados.
So much so that even their,their souvenirs have cats like,
(15:23):
ah, cat grease, I don't know.
But there are so many cats.
Some were nice, some were not.
Some were scary.
Like there is something wrongwith them, like disease wise,
which is very sad, but also getaway from me.
But yeah, lots of cats.
That was like the wildlife.
Uh, but patos it was, it was socool.
It was so beautiful.
Um, really enjoyed myself thereand we definitely left our mark
(15:45):
there as well.
I ate so much good food.
God, now I think about it.
Just so much good food.
Coming back to the States aftereating delicious European food
for like two weeks was one ofthe, one of the, oh, get you,
you know what I mean?
Like, hmm damn, did not missthis, but we ended our trip in
Athens and I saw a lot of like,hate about Athens on the
(16:08):
internet before we went.
And, you know, I, I enjoyedmyself.
It was a cool city.
It was vibey.
It's covered in graffiti, sosome people may not like that.
I thought it was cool.
It was kind of artistic,different, but I mean like every
inch of it was almost covered ingraffiti.
But we got to go to theAcropolis, which was hotter than
hell.
Only to be exacerbated becausethe tour tickets that we got,
(16:30):
the meeting point was in thecompletely wrong direction and
we were running late.
And we had to just jetty to thefreaking, uh, entrance.
Well, guess what?
We don't know where the entranceis.
And this thing is like on ahill.
And all of the sidewalks inAthens are like.
Marble or tile, maybe notmarble, that would be very
expensive, but tile.
So I was slip, slop, sloppingeverywhere.
(16:52):
I'm very, very, very lucky Ididn't break my ankle because we
all know I'm not the most, um,what's the word?
Balanced.
I'm a little clumsy.
So that was fun.
There was many times where Ithought I was gonna fall and
break my, break my neck, crackmy head, all the above.
One of those things.
So we're running.
It is so hot.
It is so hot.
Oh my God, it's so hot.
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I just got used to feeling wetthe whole time'cause I was just
sweating nonstop.
But we're running, we'relaughing.
We're also a little hungover.
At least.
I was trying to get to theentrance and I mean, we
literally have like a minuteleft and the thing says like, if
you don't make your time, you'renot gonna get in.
'cause there's so many peoplethat go into this thing and
we're like, oh my God, are wegonna make it?
Ah.
Thankfully they let us in andthen we're just looking at all
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the cool ancient Greek, uh,ruins and structures.
Very cool.
I loved it.
It was really hot though.
I'm gonna keep stressing that.
Don't know if Greece is the movein June, July.
Maybe more like a Septembervibe.
Maybe October, I'm not sure, butSeptember probably a safe bet.
'cause it's probably still gonnabe warm enough that you can
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enjoy being outside and layingout.
But also maybe not so much closeto the eye of hell.
Not quite sure.
But it was, it was a lot.
It was a lot.
Anyways, moving on.
Really cool to see all those,uh, those structures.
We also drove to this area thatwas like an hour plus away from
Athens that we saw the TemplePoseidon.
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That was cool.
And again, dreamy sunsets.
Every place in Greece has dreamysunsets.
Obviously.
It's probably where it's locatedon the globe.
But oh my gosh.
Like those sunsets, they aresomething like, that's the one
thing I would definitely giveSantorini kudos for is their
sunsets.
Those were something.
So if you go to Greece, I highlyrecommend you do some sort of
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sunset boat tour'cause that madethe experience so great.
Loved it.
we also rented a car in Athensand I can now say I've driven in
a different country.
That was exciting.
they don't drive as crazy asthey do in Italy.
Italy, I feel like it is thewild, wild west.
Buckle up and pray.
That is how I felt riding alongin Italy, but that's okay.
(18:56):
Obviously we survived and Ihaven't even given any like,
love to Italy.
Uh, I got to visit a new area Ihaven't been to yet, the Como
area, like Lake Como, and it is.
Absolutely stunning.
It looks like it's made out of afairytale.
I'm not even kidding.
Like I was just like, I mean, Iwas doing this in Greece anyways
too, but I was like pinchingmyself like, this is real.
(19:18):
People live here.
I could not imagine livingsomewhere so freaking beautiful.
I mean, I would love to know themental health of people that
live there.
Are they happy?
I mean, there isn't much to do,so maybe that could be the
offset you get the beauty, butalso the boredom.
I, I don't know, but I feel, I'dlike to think.
I would be very content livingsomewhere so beautifully, as
(19:39):
long as I had a remote job and Iwas making decent money, but you
know, whatever man.
Good times.
I'm already thinking about wherecan the next girls trip be.
You know, I got my solo tripcoming, hopefully manifesting
that clearly, I guess on thepodcast real time.
And, uh, let's see what you gonext year.
I would love to go to the MiddleEast, but.
(19:59):
There's a lot of thingscontingent on that, a lot of
things outta my control.
So we'll see what happens, wherewe land on that.
Uh, but coming home was not thebest.
Our flight was hella delayed, sowe had to end up staying the
night in New York, and then wegot home the fifth, like the
following Saturday.
But it was fine.
Like I said earlier, Iapproached or I arrived to
(20:19):
America with crippling anxietyof all my responsibilities
flooding my brain that I hadignored for two weeks.
That was not fun.
Don't recommend, but such aslife, you gotta get through it.
You gotta buckle up, get throughit.
Once the jet lag kind of woreoff, my anxiety kind of evened
out, and then I killed myselfthe following week to get my
house moved out and somehow.
(20:40):
Throwing in a very, veryspontaneous, experience going to
see the Beyonce in the CowboyCarter tour that was not
planned.
Our friend had extra tickets.
Me and Ashley Annana got to go.
I amazoned one day delivery, avery cute outfit and I gotta see
Beyonce and it was incredible.
She is so stunning.
(21:00):
Um, I didn't get to see theRenaissance tour, which I do.
I, I wish I could have seenthat, but I did get to see her
at Coachella, so it was mysecond time seeing Beyonce.
A humble brag, but she wasamazing.
Oh my god, co wow.
It was, it was cool.
It was great.
And, uh, I really enjoyedmyself.
So somehow go to Greece, comeback, get my ass handed to me at
(21:22):
work, from being out two weeks,move my house and see Cowboy
Carter.
Yeah, I don't know.
I need to stop doing the mostbecause I keep proving to myself
I can, but I feel like my mentalload is, is diminishing, is
getting little and littler.
So I need to, I don't know, geta little bit more balanced, a
(21:42):
little bit more grounded at thesays the girl who's in her nomad
era.
Huh.
I'm gonna get there.
I just wanna, like, I alreadyhave so much peace now that the
house is sold and I don't havethat gaping responsibility on my
shoulders.
Um, so it's baby steps.
I'm hoping to rest a little bitin this in between while I'm
nomad.
(22:02):
Um, something I don't do verywell, but I got some health
stuff that I'm trying to figureout.
Nothing like crazy.
Don't worry, I'm fine.
But it's like now that I havethe time and the.
The mental energy as I just talkshit about my mental energy
being diminished.
Um, I do feel like I can kindaget grounded even though life
(22:24):
does not feel grounded at themoment, if that makes sense.
I think I mentioned this earlierin the episode, I feel like I'm
free falling., Again, I justwanna shout out to myself years
ago, five, four or five yearsago, there's no way I would be
able to handle.
Not just the amount of changeI've been through, but not
having a solid plan.
(22:44):
I do have a loose plan.
I'm getting back in the podcast,getting back at the content.
I got some work stuff that I'mtrying to maneuver, figure out,
maybe get some certifications tokind of go in a maybe slightly
different direction while I getthis thing going and I have the
whole rest of the year to getthe speaking going, which I do
plan to do that.
I even got business cards.
(23:04):
I finally got business cards.
I'm proud of me, I am proud ofme.
So just trying to get all of my,you know, materials together so
I can start really full.
Sending this podcast and contentcreator journey slash
entrepreneurial journey slash bemy own boss.
Create your own dream jobjourney while somehow not losing
(23:26):
my mind in the process andsomehow maybe finding love.
'cause we're gonna keep that inthere.
Speaking of that, on the girlstrip, we had some very deep
conversations and we all know Ilive for that.
Deep conversations are my lovelanguage 1000%.
Uh, and we were just talkingabout love'cause we're all
(23:46):
single and we all have somewhatdifferent feelings about being a
single and what we're lookingfor and what we're willing to
like not settle for, that's thewrong word, but.
You know, could you have a kidwithout a man freezing your
eggs?
Conversations like that, comingfrom different places, like
we're all looking for the samething.
Like, sure, love, love, thatlet's us be ourselves.
(24:09):
That's equal partnership.
You know, one thing we talkedabout was being so independent
and that's fine and all, butwanting someone that can step in
and you don't have to be asindependent.
It's not like, oh, being takencare of.
But that is part of it.
But it's not the mindset of, nowI don't have to worry about
life.
No.
But just being able to sharethat weight, share the weight of
(24:29):
life with like that's what Iultimately want.
An equal partner one that I candepend on and vice versa.
And we're talking about myjourney and how I'm very much,
doe-eyed with love and datingand I've definitely learned a
lot.
I've done, I've learned a lot ina, I don't wanna say a short
(24:50):
period of time, but I mean ithasn't even been a year.
It's been 10 months.
So yeah, I've learned a lot in10 month period of time.
But also I'm the kind of girlthat's gonna gung-ho and jump
in.
Right?
And we were talking and I waslike, you know, I know I didn't
have the best relationship.
I wasn't shown love.
I didn't really get that at all.
I'm not trying to talk smack,but the equal partnership, the.
(25:13):
The in love feeling, and that'swhat I want.
I know who I am, I know what I'mcapable of.
I know I can do this life bymyself.
I don't want that.
So I'm open to love because Ihave another choice, but to be,
I'm gonna trust that just likethe universe made the house
happen for me, let me sell it.
(25:34):
I landed on my feet just likeall these other incredible
things that have happened thatI've trusted and prayed and
manifested and, and believed in.
Of course love is gonna be therefor me.
I don't know.
When doesn't mean I'm not gonnaget frustrated, doesn't mean I'm
not gonna have letdowns andsetbacks.
Or maybe not some much setbacks.
Probably more letdown.
But I am gonna find love.
(25:57):
As long as you're open to it, itwill find you.
And we always kinda reflected onthat and they were saying it's
really.
Cool to hear you, given whatyou've gone through to be so
open.
And I, I like to argue it'sbecause of what I went through
that makes me feel so openbecause I wanna know what it's
like to just be over, over themoon crazy about someone and
(26:22):
them in return.
For me, I wanna know what it'slike to be best friends and to
go on adventures together andjust get each other and have
deep conversations and giggleand laugh.
Maybe this is me manifestingthis out loud on the podcast,
what I'm looking for, but we'llsee what happens.
We'll see what, we'll see whathappens between now and the end
of the year.
You never know.
They always say you can meetyour person tomorrow, but I'm
(26:44):
also taking the pressure off ofmyself when it comes to dating,
just.
Because I mean, I, I, like Isaid, I've learned a lot in 10 a
period of time.
Um, and it's not that I'm notlooking for anything serious.
I think I'm open at this pointto a more intentional
connection, whether that's justa few dates or whether it's a
few months or, and it leads tosomething more serious, I don't
know.
(27:04):
But I'm kind of feeling less ofthe whole hookup thing and more
into the, okay, can we like talkand hang out?
That'd be great.
Uh, but you know.
I have been exploring theRenaissance of Liz, the
rediscovery of Liz.
When it comes to that side of mylife, that part of my life, that
part of me.
(27:24):
And, uh, lemme tell you, it isbeautiful.
It is beautiful to tap into yoursensuality.
It is beautiful to tap into whatyou deserve and what you want.
Even the ugly parts of it,because eventually you realize,
okay, well I don't wanna do thatagain.
We're gonna change thingsdifferently this time.
Ooh, I will do that again.
'cause that was great.
Whatever.
Um, you know, because I've saidthis before, like.
(27:45):
Me and my separation and beingsingle now.
I wasn't left with, well, whoare you?
You've lost yourself.
No, I found myself, and that iswhy I think I was able to do
what I did and bounce back soquickly.
However, I've never really beenable to explore my sensuality
(28:05):
and what that is like, and, andI don't mean like necessarily
sexuality, but exploring,, noteven just like what you want in
the bedroom per se.
But you learn a lot aboutyourself when it comes to
physical intimacy and physicalconnection.
It's not even just about theother person.
The partner I like, feel like, Ifeel like it's opened up my
(28:26):
inner goddess, my.
Confidence.
My I am that bitch.
Check please.
And I think it, it's all a partof who you are.
Like I don't think just, this isone area of my life is what is
make or breaking and helping mefind out who I am.
It's all these parts.
(28:47):
It is following your dreams,figuring out what your dreams
are, your ambition, your, yourmotivation.
What do you want outta life?
What do you like to eat?
What's your physical activity?
What do you like to do?
How do you, do you like friends?
Are you more of a loner?
Do you like all of that?
Emotional, mental, physical,sensual?
It is all a part of you and itall ranges, and that's been the
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most, I mean, of course,exciting, but I can reflect on
the past 10 months and what I'velearned about myself when it
comes to that.
It's crazy.
I am a different person.
I'm still me, but I feel moreme.
I, I just think, wow, I can'tbelieve, I didn't think I needed
this.
I didn't need to connect withmyself in this way.
(29:32):
But man, it is like a full,well-rounded.
I don't know evolvement of Liz,so to speak.
So for anyone going through aseparation or divorce or
anything like that, I promiseyou as long as you're open and
you remember that you areimportant, you matter.
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Life is not over thatrenaissance of rediscovery,
post-separation, post long-termrelationship breakup.
It is beautiful.
It is beautiful.
It is exciting, and not to soundcheesy, but then again it's me,
but I feel so alive.
(30:14):
It almost makes me think, man, Iwas asleep for a while there
despite how much I love thepodcast and I putting myself out
there and just sharing my lifeexperience.
I've always been a very openperson.
That's something that I am notgonna change.
I don't care if it makes youuncomfortable.
That is who I am.
Go to another podcast, go toanother girl.
I don't give a shit.
It is who I am, but thisRenaissance man, oh man, I love
(30:42):
it.
I love life and I just feel notjust like the world is my
oyster, but.
I am gonna make everything cometrue that I have manifested and
dreamed about.
So yeah, I think it's important.
It is important to know andrecognize the sensual side of
your life, the physical side ofyour life, to know what you
like, the intimacy, theconnection.
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And like I said, it really, itreally developed my confidence
even more so than I thought.
And just like I said.
I'm that bitch.
So sweet.
I am that bitch.
Oh, so yeah.
So we are in between therenaissance of our life of
ourselves.
(31:26):
We are in between getting backinto content creation with this
newfound confidence in I'm thatbitch attitude.
We are in the in between of thenomad life, which I don't love,
uh, exponentially.
But you gotta do what you gottado.
Because another big thing, I, Ican't remember if I mentioned
this already, is just resting.
Like, I just wanna chill.
I just wanna not have to worryabout anything.
(31:48):
Other than just myself rightnow.
Ask me how I feel in a month,and that may change, but.
Until then, I am, I'm okay.
So Life is crazy.
I think about where I was a yearago and just how different, how
different things are, not justin my circumstances, but also
me, but then somehow I'm stillme.
That's like the cool part, youknow, like I'm still me, but
(32:09):
like just better version of me.
And I feel like if you're on theright path, that's, that's the
outcome you should get.
So things may not be perfect,but such is life.
I'm excited to be back on thepodcast.
Y'all are in for a treat overthe next couple of weeks.
I have so many wonderfulepisodes planned and prerecorded
with special guests.
(32:29):
So we'll get into those.
but we're, we're gonna get backon this horse'cause it's time.
We've lived some life, we'vedone some healing.
living life and healing is acontinuous journey, as is
self-love.
Actually lemme pause before Ieven continue.
I will say this, I knowself-love is a huge pillar of
this podcast.
When someone asks me, what isyour podcast about?
(32:50):
I always say it's one partentertainment, one part
empowerment, pillar of selflove.
I live an authentic life.
I like to share those authenticexperiences.
And not that I think you'regoing to relate to every single
one of them.
I do feel like being so openabout.
Yourself and just showcasingthat authenticity can connect
people and make people resonateand tap in and click in with
their own life shit.
So I want you to feel seen, evenif you don't necessarily
(33:13):
identify with everything I'mtalking about.
Okay.
So self-love is huge andthroughout this whole experience
I've been going through sinceOctober, my self-love is what's
carried me through.
It's what's enabled me to toexplore my inner goddess and
find that fire from within.
(33:34):
It's what's allowed me to go onadventures and not think twice
about it.
It's allowed me to believe inmyself and believe in my dreams,
even if I'm not necessarily outhere chugging out content.
Self-love is what carries youthrough the hard thing.
Self-love is what carries youthrough the in-between.
No matter what it is.
Self-love is what's gonna helpyou find the right person that
(33:58):
matches your energy.
Matches your frequency.
'cause if you can't loveyourself, how can you expect
someone else to?
So those are the words I wannaend on today.
And just hang in there.
We're back, baby.
I don't know what in-betweensyou got going on, but I'm going
through a million of them at themoment.
So there is a place for everyonehere.
(34:22):
But I can handle it and so canyou.
And we're gonna get through ittogether.
So welcome to the InBetween.
She's back.
She's back.
Even if this episode was alittle over the place.
But if you're not doing SoulReady, please check me out on
Instagram at Elizabeth Cheney.
I post everything there,everything going on in my life
and all the fun stuff.
So definitely go there.
(34:43):
The podcast is at end dotbetween pod, which you can catch
up with the podcast clips, allthat fun jazz, but definitely
that personal.
And then on TikTok and YouTube,the in-between podcast, this
episode will be on YouTube butyeah, check me out on the social
medias.
Gimme a follow.
Let's be friends please.
Let's keep up.
And if you're new here, thankyou.
Welcome.
Hello.
Hopefully you are along for theride and you enjoy this episode.
(35:04):
And if you have been with mefrom the beginning or somewhere
along the line, hey, I'm back.
I'm sorry it's been a minute,but we are, we are here.
So stay tuned for the nextcouple of weeks.
Got lots of good episodesplanned and I'll check in here
or there.
Maybe next time I won't have myInvisalign, which will be great.
I know you can't even tellprobably from watching this, but
(35:25):
I can tell I can feel it.
So I can't wait to be.
It's done with that.
So on that note, I'm gonna gobecause I'm just gonna keep
rambling because it's been solong since I yapped on here and
I will see you on all newin-between next week.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate you.
Love you mean it.
Have the best day, week,whatever month ever.
(35:48):
And just remember you matter.
You love ya.
See you next time.
Bye.
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