Enthusiastic Encouragement & Dubious Advice: Vol 4, Iss 23: Everything is Real Weird Right Now, Right?
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Hi friends! We released another podcast episode this week. You can check it out here and wherever else you get your podcasts. Nicole’s birthday is this weekend and we both are looking forward to deliberately stepping away from “productivity” for a bit. I don’t have much of a preamble in me this week and we can jump right into things after I share this photo of myself. I had to be maybe three years old here? I remember being obsessed with sticking the bows on my head and telling people I was a gift without actually realizing how hilarious and on-brand that is until adulthood.
I’m just gonna come out and say it as I know I’m not the only one feeling this: shit is real weird and hard right now. It has been for a while, on the global level, on the national level, and for many folks, on the personal level. It feels absolutely wild that we are still expected to do our jobs every day while there are multiple active genocides happening, LGBTQIA+ rights are being ripped away, reproductive rights are increasingly scarce, etc. We are also supposed to celebrate holidays? At a time like this?