Do you ever meet someone and think "this is SO ALIGNED with EVERYTHING I want to create in the world?" That's how I felt when Tamar told me about her business, Podcast Impact Studio. I attended my first Off Script session today and I've already had a breakthrough. I told people I'm kind of a bitch, I'm messy, and I'm broke... and I'm only broke because I spend so much money trying to not look broke. Talking about the messy stuff is unbelievably hard, and it's our number 1 superpower. I've been coming to this conclusion for a while now, and something I heard today NAILED it for me. I was producing a podcast for a client, and their guest was sharing the story of how he came out to his parents. His sister was helping his parents come to terms with it, and she said the most powerful sentence I have ever heard: "You have a choice. You can have the edited version of your son, or you can have the authentic version of your son. Because up until a year ago, I never knew who my brother was." Are people getting the edited version of you? For me, the answer is YES. I rarely let people see me be bitchy. When I'm full of hormonal rage, I hide from the world rather than just be where I'm at. And you know what happens? All that bitchiness piles up and ends up being my husband's problem. I realized sitting in that Off Script session today. Every time I hand someone the edited version of me, I'm making the same choice those parents were asked to make. Except I'm making it FOR people. I'm deciding they can't handle the authentic version before they ever get a chance to prove me wrong. And the wild part? The messy stuff is the stuff people actually connect to. Nobody has ever DMed me saying "wow, your polished highlight reel really changed my life." But the crying and thriving moments? The broke-because-I'm-trying-not-to-look-broke confessions? That's where the real conversations start. So this is me, handing you the unedited version. Bitchy sometimes. Messy always. Working on it.