Aware & Aggravated - 106. How To Actually Be Yourself

Episode Date: December 10, 2023

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Hi friends, this week I'm going to teach you how to be yourself. I'm going to teach you how to find yourself. I'm going to teach you how to go into and start being yourself and everything wrapped up in it. Because there's so much confusion online about how to find yourself and discover who you are. This episode is going to clear up all the confusion you have around it. And be the actual steps you need to find yourself. Feel like you are who you are. You know who you are and start walking into it. And right now, if you feel lost, good.

The only way to find yourself is to lose yourself first. I'm gonna give you everything you need to know about being your damn self and not caring about it. And I'm so hyped about this and so excited because I've had so much clarity recently around all of this and for the past few months, I've felt like I've lost myself. and I'm sure all of you have noticed on my past few podcasts something's just off. It was I was not me and that's one thing I want to warn you about is when

you find who you are and you start discovering it and you start being yourself for you to not be yourself will drain you. You will feel like you are dying inside. So if you notice something seems off and something just don't seem right, literally come back to this video anytime you need it. When you feel like you're depressed, when you feel like you're just drained, tired, this is not a get back on track. So everything that's just become very clear to me, that got me back on track and I know you can already feel it. I'm about to share with you in this episode. But like I said, if you feel lost, there's nothing wrong with it.

You're in the perfect situation right now for everything to get better and change and improve. Your relationship with yourself is about to change. Trust. I do have a little secret I'm gonna tell you about of something I've been working on. So we know how I launched merch, right? Well, I've been working on a rebrand,

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things. Like everything I can't find that I want to buy, I'm just starting to make it. So, if you want early access, I just gave you the password. It's LS2.0, and the link will be in the description where you can go shop. And under that, I will leave the link to my tour for my live podcast I'm gonna be doing on confidence. So, if you wanna start the near off right with me, yell and add shit, flip in your whole mindset around confidence and literally instilling it into you,

get you a ticket. And I'll see you starting January 5th, we're kicking off the new year right. Okay, now let's jump into finding yourself. And the biggest thing that's going to clear up a lot of confusion that people talk about online is what I've found is you cannot define yourself by yourself. So if you're trying to find yourself and discover yourself in isolation, it's not going to work. You're going to run yourself stupid. It's literally going to be a little rat race circle running around the same track. You're never going to get anywhere and you're never going to be able

to define yourself by yourself. You need to go out and be around people and experience contrast. Other people in life are your way of revealing and discovering who you are. You need to be around people and have experiences because it becomes very clear when it's not inside you, when it's a mirror reflected outside of you. What do you like about certain people? What personality traits do you like? What character traits and personality traits do you not like? What do you see that you want? How do you see that you want to be? You get all of this by experiencing other people and it's not that you're faking your personality and like building your personality around certain things What you resonate with will just fit you will just feel it and if you listen to this podcast You're aware enough to know how to reflect and discover what's like a shadow and what's actually one of your

desires and who you truly are. What do you resonate with? What actions, what character traits, what values do you resonate with that you see in other people? What people do you want to pull close to you and what people do you want to push away from you and find out what it is about them. You want to push away or pull close. This is going to give you all the information you need about who you are

And then I'm going to say with a do with it But just remember me saying you cannot discover yourself by yourself If you want to find out who you are get around people and literally treat it like an experiment and you're collecting data You're gathering information. You're seeing what feels like you like when you see it outside of you What do you resonate with what feels like you when you see it outside of you, what do you resonate with? What feels like you? When you see other people dress, talk, act, or just be a certain way? What feels like comfortable, familiar, like you? What do you resonate with?

And keep note of all of this. Also keep note of everything you do not like and things that you do not want around you and things you don't wanna be. So the reason you wanna do all of this is because it's going to reveal your beliefs and your values and a lot of people talk about your beliefs are who you are. I'm going to take it a different avenue because it's true, but it's like the whole you crew your thoughts create your reality shit. No, they don't. Like your actions do.

Your thoughts influence your actions, but people forget to add that point. They just say thoughts, reality. That's what makes it. You, your beliefs, that's not what makes it. Your beliefs and what you value is who you are. So my point here is get very clear on what it is you value, what character traits, what everything do you value about other people, about yourself and about life. Because as soon as you find out what you value about other people about yourself and about life? Because as soon as you find out what you value, that is what you're going to use to base your life around. You're going to become what you value and who you are is going to be constructed by taking actions in line with those values.

So I'm going to list off a couple of my top values and in line with those values. So I'm gonna list off a couple of my top values and you're gonna see how this all kinda plays out and then I'm gonna go a little bit further with it. Like to figure out what you wanna do with life, how you wanna be, how everything is, like what you truly feel. Like all of this is gonna fall in line

as soon as you find your values. So here's a couple of mine and then we're gonna like dive into it. So honesty, being straight up, being genuine, being honest, that is one of my values. So here's a couple of mine and then we're going to like dive into it. So honesty, being straight up, being genuine, being honest, that is one of my values, that is one of my top values. Being reliable to myself and other people is another one of my top values, being physically fit and healthy. That's a value of mine. I like that. Being strong. I think that's my top value is being strong. and that's what I've had to reconnect with recently where I haven't felt like myself I have not been in my strength and tapped into my personal power as much. I've been too fucking nice and I'm sick of it. I'm back to

strength and power and That's what feels like me. It's not me to be weak. When I'm over here trying to be so like sweet and caretaker everybody and understanding, I'm that to a certain extent when it's fostered with the strength. When you just try to be like weak in my opinion, it was draining me. It was sucking the life out of me. Being strong is my number one value. And I don't just mean physically strong. Yes, duh. I like to be strong. Who doesn't? But I'm talking about emotionally strong, mentally strong. Every single aspect of life just being strong and solid. That is my top value. Another one of my top values is my personal peace and my

own sanity. And a couple things that go in line with that are sleep and energy levels. Those are two values of mine where my sleep is something I value so I can have energy. And making sure I'm well rested gives me personal peace. It makes me feel better and makes me feel strong and able to handle everything. So these all kind of like tie into each other, but I'm going to tell you how I structure my life up around all these in a second. Now another thing I really value is knowledge, learning, and growth, even when it's uncomfortable.

That's where the strength kinda plays into that. I value growth and learning and progression and development of myself mentally, emotionally, and physically, like I value growth and knowledge so much. And my last little value I wanna bring up on this, I have so many more. Like I probably have like 50 that are my top values, but being courteous is a very, very big value of mine.

I don't care what the situation is, being courteous and being sweet, kind, considerate, and just a caring human being is a big value for me for many reasons. The reason I wanted to explain some of these top values is because I'm going to tell you how I go about daily life and how I structure my life around this to give myself a sense of self and to give myself a life. And my family is also on that list, but I think that's just a given, you know.

But with honesty, that's one thing I base my life around. So for someone that doesn't know who they are, if you value honesty, you have to go start being honest. You have to be honest about the way that you feel, what you want, what you like, what you don't like. You have to just start being a lot more honest with yourself and with people. And your entire life is gonna change.

Your entire self is going to change. It's not going to be the most comfortable thing when you start living in line with your values, but what it's going to do is bring you into your sense of self so strong, no one can knock you out of it. You're literally going to have like the most peace of mind, happiness, fulfillment, everything in your life

is going to feel better and just good. You're not going to question yourself because you live in line with your values. You're not going to question your life. You're not going to question your decisions and your actions because you're going to run them through this filter, getting clear on all of your values, gives you a filter to run every decision by. So like I said, honesty, if that's one of your values, for this this situation if you're wondering how am I gonna handle this? I don't know who I am. Well you value honesty. So you're gonna handle this situation and this conversation

With honesty you're gonna be straight up you're gonna be direct and you're gonna tell the truth because that's what you value If you value honesty Run your decisions and everything you're gonna say do and how you're gonna act through that filter Are you gonna be honest? Yes or no? your decisions and everything you're going to say do and how you're going to act through that filter. Are you going to be honest, yes or no? Are you going to be yourself, yes or no? Living in line with your value is how you find yourself. That's one thing that's going to help you get a better idea of how to handle things and

what to kind of do. In any given situation, you have this filter now. That's why I'm saying literally list out what your top values are and base your life around it Like commit to living your life in these values that you hold the next value I talked about was being reliable You're gonna have to be reliable to yourself if that's something you value if you don't value it That's okay. It's just one of my values So the way that I structure my life around this is I value being reliable to myself. That comes in many forms, many shapes and sizes. Do you do what you say you're

going to do? Do you have your own back? Do you stand up for yourself? Do you make sure you do what you need to do? If this is one of your values and you do not live in it, you're going to feel like you're drained and the life is being sucked out of you. It's going to suck to go and live in this while you go through the change of like being reliable to yourself with the discipline aspect of everything, but it's gonna feel way better. You're not gonna feel drained anymore. And as soon as you like make that break and start going, it's like that momentum,

all of a sudden will like shoot and you're like just be living in your value and you'll be living in who you are and have a clear sense of self. And your actions are gonna be based so differently around that. So if there's something you want in this life, if you value being reliable, are you gonna show yourself, you can trust yourself to put your ass behind it

and make sure you get it. And the other aspect of being reliable is to other people and the people you love and care about. I am someone who I value being reliable and I value reliable people. When I need them, they're there. And they know when they need me, I'm there. I will prioritize what I need to do.

I will move things around to be able to be there for those that I care about. A friend of mine had surgery the other day and I had a whole day planned of all the things I needed to do. But I value being reliable to my friends' health, safety, and well-being over some work shit that I can do later and reschedule.

I moved everything I needed to do to go and be there for my friend and take care of her. I was a nurse for three years, and also I can physically protect people. So taking them to and from a surgery center, when someone is not in the right state of mind or coming off anesthesia, getting them in an Uber is not in the right state of mind, they're coming off anesthesia, getting them in an uber is not safe, they're vulnerable, okay? So me being reliable also comes to being protective, that's another like one of my values. But for me to not do that, I would have felt guilt, I would have felt like shit, I would have not liked how I felt about myself had, I not been there for my friend because of the

thing that I value. This is where I'm saying all your values are going to guide you. So I put everything to do with work aside. That's not life or death. I got to it later and I handled it all. But like when there's a dire situation or something needs to be prioritized, prioritize it. Buy what you value.

I value work and doing everything I need to do. I value being reliable more to the people I care about as well being. It's just over that. It's not that I don't care about this anymore. It just is a priority. My next value of being physically fit and healthy. Going to the gym, exercising. It doesn't have to be going to the gym.

If you value your physical health and being physically fit and you value the way that you look, you're going to have to put effort into these things. If you do not, you're going to feel bad, depressed, sad, drained, like I said. So this is how you can structure your life around what you value. And you know it's the right thing to do because you value it. You can trust that. You can trust your own judgment. So you know to start making some kind of routine for exercising, getting out and doing

whatever you need to do to get that value met of like physical health and exercise. Also with physical health, start eating better, take care of yourself, take a multivitamin, like make sure you're giving your body what it needs. And also if you value like looking a certain way and looking put together and being taken serious, that's something I value a lot. Put the effort in, do your skincare, do your clothes, do your hair,

make sure everything looks good. Put the effort in. And a lot of people think that like when you start putting effort into things, when you're already tired, you're so used to putting effort into things and feeling more drained. When you put effort into the things that you value into being yourself, you get motivated by it.

It's like that's not wasted energy. So don't be sitting here looking at it like, oh, there's no point. It's useless. Oh, it's not. And I'm speaking from experience because the first few days are going to suck. How you feel a week after living in line with your value and who you are, the energy level you're going to have is 10 times different. You're drained because you're not living according to your values. And I'm'm gonna keep saying that because I need everybody to get it. And this is something that hit me in the head so hard recently of like something I've just gone through. And I feel so back on my game. Like I've been drained for the past few months. I've been so

just tired and sluggish. Kicking back into this, girl. Ready to go. Don't give a fuck about shit. I literally am like so back in my strength and so back in myself. You can't sway me. I'm not emotional anymore like I was. I'm not sensitive. I'm not being weak. Like my life is structured around me being me and supporting that. I'm back to being unfucked with a ball. And I'm happy. As hell. Oh this feels good. Now the next value I talked about was strength, right? Like being strong is something I value. How would a strong person handle whatever it is you're facing, whether it's a breakup, someone crossing your boundary, someone messing with you, you being extremely upset or feeling hurt or going through something devastating, or your life just not going right. What action is strong to take?

What feels strong for you to do personally? When you live in line with that value, you know how to handle everything. You're gonna have this boost when you rely on yourself and create yourself by living like this. You're gonna know how to handle everything. And strong people do not behave certain ways. And I'm not gonna nitpick and give you examples,

but cut the weak shit. If you value strengths, start acting strong. Start taking actions that strong people would take. Take actions that make you feel strong. Even if it's like something other people wouldn't do, you got your own fucking idea of it. You know what to do. Start taking actions in line with strength.

And if you want to help bring yourself strength, surround yourself with things that make you feel strong, like buy things that and decorate with things that make you feel strong and solid and dress in a way that makes you feel strong. Your environment and how you look and the things that you're around dictate a lot about your mood and if you can help yourself feel more strong by like listening to certain music or watching certain things, do it. Conjure up that feeling and go with it. Take actions in line with that and think thoughts in line with strength.

Over here, beat yourself up, be an insecure scene how you're not good enough. That's not strong. That's emotionally weak. Not being able to handle the way that you feel. Taking actions based solely off of how you feel is weak. Feeling something, being logical about it, seeing it, and deciding your reaction is strong. Weak people just react. Strong people feel things also, but they choose their reaction. But one more piece with the strength thing. If you're trying to express yourself in a certain way or do something or try something, if you value strength, you're

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So the next little example was my personal piece value and sleep and valuing my energy levels. I have to be very selective with what I do. I value my sleep, so I do things to make sure I get good sleep. I dictate my life around making sure I'm well rested. And even if I don't get an opportunity because I'm busy to sleep like a long time,

like eight hours, if I can only sleep like seven or like six and a half, I make sure I get deep sleep. Very deep, very good. No disturbance, phone is not gonna ring, phone is not gonna make a sound. It's muted and on, do not disturb. My lights are gonna be off, there's gonna be no light in my bedroom, I'm gonna be so deep in sleep. The AC is gonna be kicking, it's gonna be cold, shit, I'm gonna be nice and bundled up. I'm not going to have caffeine at least 10 hours before I go to bed. I'm not smoking. I'm not doing any stimulants before like a good while before I go to sleep because I want

to make sure I get good deep sleep if it's not going to be a full amount. But even if I'm going to get a full amount of sleep, I still don't do these things because I want to make sure the quality of sleep is good because I value the energy level. I value the sleep, I value the personal piece, and I value the energy. So doing things that are going to give you energy is next. Don't waste your time on stupid bull shit. That's going to cost you energy.

If something is going to cost you energy and it's not productive, it's not getting you nowhere, it's not getting you anything, cut that shit. You've got to be selective with your energy. Very selective. I have a full podcast episode about that, and that dictates a lot of what I do and don't do, who I will and won't hang out with,

what events I do and don't attend. If something seems like draining to me, or I get there and draining, I'm out. I'm selective with my energy because I value it. I like to have a high level, so I can put it into what I want to put it into. Energy is not just this thing that's like every last thing, go to the gas station and just pump more in yourself.

Nope, it's not like gas. You can't just get it. So when you have it, you got to be selected with where you put it and put it into the things that you value, like I said. And the other thing with personal peace with all of that is like taking care of myself, but also mentally making sure I'm okay. Having relatively a simplistic routine schedule things

like my uniform that I wear, like I wear the same things all the time, I've started to like change it up a little bit, but it's all the same stuff, just like different designs, different accessories, whatever. That gives me peace of mind because it's simple. I like things to be clean. I like nice clean, simple, like that makes me feel

peaceful. It makes me feel comforted. The way I check in with myself, the way I handle my emotions, the way I have time set aside to be there for myself because I need myself and you need you too. You need to have time in like solitude at certain times, not always, but you need to have time to take care of yourself and make sure you're okay and you're attended to so that you can continue forward. Like personal peace, mental clarity, and emotional and mental stability is a value. So you gotta act in line with it, you gotta make time for it.

You have to do that thing. And that's why I write a lot. Like I will have a notebook and I just write what I'm feeling out and I'll go in my notes that I'm in I'm in public and I'll like sit with myself for a minute and like get out What I'm feeling get clear on the decision that I'm making get the emotion out of the way so I can see clearly and do I need to do and take the action that is in line with my value not just what I feel at the time the personal piece thing is gonna Take many different like views and it's gonna look a lot different for a lot of people. Like you have to figure out what makes you feel peaceful

and good and calm if that's something that you value. Some people can just run around in chaos and be perfectly fine. I don't like how it makes me feel clouded and like weird and like I need mental and emotional stability. So I do what I can to give myself that when it's not like that. Cause like I said, I wanna take actions

that go through this filter of what I value to remain and stay in line with myself, my higher self, whatever you wanna call it. Be in your damn self. This is how to do it. But also with personal peace, you might have to cut off some people and stop going to certain things

and stop doing certain activities that take away your piece. And I'm not saying you need to isolate yourself. Don't be a sensitive little bitch and just go like isolate yourself like everybody else does. This whole healing era. I'm going to do a whole episode about your healing era is fucking over. But I'm not saying isolate yourself. I'm just saying if there's a thing you need to go to and you're like, Oh, I'm anxious. I don't want to go. Go to the God damn thing, you know, you need to do it. If it's in line with your values, do it. But if there's certain things you see no good outcome and it's like, it's not even worth trying,

just stop doing it. Like, if you know what something's like, if you know what an experience is like or a certain person, get away from it, get over it. Like, literally let it go and protect your peace and protect in your peace does not look like not doing a certain thing so you can go home and cry in the bed. You're gonna go protect your peace and your energy and put it into what you need to do. So that maybe

that's the time to reflect like maybe like if you're not gonna do something but you're gonna go home and cry something's actually upsetting you. That's the time you need to be honest about how you're feeling with whatever's going on and Communicate some shit. That's another value of minus communication We're not gonna go down that road. I'll be here for three hours But my next example for my value was knowledge and growth so If that's something I value that's something I need to be fostering That's where people ask like hobbies and what do I do with my time?

I don't know what I like. If you know you value knowledge, go learn shit. Figure out what you like to learn about and do it. Spend your time doing it. Read about it, go to events about it, watch movies about it, meet people who also share that interest. It's gonna give you something to base

what you do with your time around. And I always feel such a drag and like, I feel down or like not that great when I'm not expanding my mind and learning things. And I'm not even saying like learning, you have to go read a book. Maybe you just learn about yourself and you reflect on yourself.

Why do I do these certain things? Do shadow work. Do what you gotta do to get a better understanding of anything. And when I do that, I feel like I'm gaining knowledge. Gaining awareness feels like gaining knowledge and it's expansive. I like that feeling when I'm not doing things

that are letting me access that feeling and developing my mindset and like my knowledge base, I feel drained, I feel like shit. So that's something that I personally do every single day is something to learn something or get a new perspective or just reflect on something, understand something better, that's something that I have to do to feel good because it's such a big value of mine. So that's another example of like something that you value, how it can take place and take up time

in your life to actually be doing it. Because when people see you and look at you from the outside, you have a sense of self, you know that you value this thing and you do these activities around this. So you're not gonna feel like you don't have a life. Like you're gonna be in what you're doing and like people are gonna see you as a very like contained and like busy person. And I think that's where a lot of people think

that they have no life and no sense of self because they don't know what to do. You know what to do. Well, I'm teaching you what to do. Now you really know what to do. Find your values and go do it. I did mention a big value of mine is my family. So recently, since I've been like knocked in the head with all of this about being yourself, I've been talking to my family a lot more. I've been going to see them a lot more. I have

another trip plan to go see them at the end of this month. I'm taking the steps to live in the thing I value and foster these relationships and spend time with these people and I'm not drained by it. I'm excited by it. I'm happy again with so many things and that's another one where if it's something you value, you got to put your ass behind it. You got to do it and make time for it. It's totally fine to do that. And if there is something that you value, that a lot of people think is a waste of time, like me sitting down and reflecting and like going into my brain, a lot of people see it as a waste of time. They're a dumb shit because this is what I do for a living, is explain

emotions and human psychology on a level people can't access. I have to sit out and discover it to be able to talk about it. So that's what I mean. Like don't worry about other people what they think about what you're doing with your time. And if there are certain things that you enjoy doing that to be able to talk about it. So that's what I mean. Don't worry about other people what they think of it, what you're doing with your time. And if there are certain things that you enjoyed doing that are actually like a waste of time, time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time. Who gives a fuck if people think what you're doing is a waste?

You know why you're doing it. Maybe you're getting enjoyment out of it. Maybe you feel good. Maybe it's just to take care of yourself. Who cares if people don't understand it? Do it for you and stop fucking carrying. Give it up. Stop trying to be nice and consider it to people and Carrying about how they feel when they don't care about how you feel They don't give a shit how you feel when they're over here criticizing what you're doing

They're not trying to understand why you're doing it and what you're getting out of it They just want to make funny you for it. They can eat shit and die. How about that? Because I really will be damned if anyone's gonna come into my life and tell me what I'm doing for my own you're getting out of it, they just want to make fun of you for it. They can eat shit and die. How about that? Cause I really will be damned if anyone's going to come into my life and tell me what I'm doing for my own sanity and peace is dumb or stupid. You're dumb and stupid. Go talk to someone else. Cause I will swing. And my last value I talked about with being courteous.

That's a big one. And if you ever wonder how to go into a certain situation, if being courteous is something you value, do it. If you're having a bad day, you will lose yourself if you don't act in line with the thing that you value. If you're having a bad day and you're looking for an excuse

to not be considerate and polite to people, and you just lash out and act a certain way because you're just emotional. That's weak, remember? But that's not living in accordance with your values. So even if you're having a bad day, I'm still courteous. I'm still nice. Even if something is inconvenient, I'm still polite about it. Like when things go wrong and I handle situations, I'm very polite and courteous. but this gives me peace of mind to act how I want to act after you piss me off. Like I always start out courteous. I always start out sweet and kind when it's taken for granted. And when I see someone is discarding the way that I feel, when I'm showing nothing but

consideration for how they feel and what they're going through. I'm a match that shit and I'm gonna walk away with no guilt because I started out as me. I lived in the courtrooms with my values, but I also value reciprocity. So if you're not gonna reciprocate my consideration for your feelings, I'm not gonna consider yours, but people don't like that. People don't like when you treat them how they treat you. When you're gonna be an asshole to me, it's fine, it's dandy. When I'm an asshole back, you're over here, you don't care how I feel. But as soon as I don't care how you feel, then it's a problem.

Well, let's have a problem then. But always starting out, courteous, is gonna give you that peace of mind. When you do tell someone to go fuck themselves or you do lash out or you are kind of like rude, you started by considering their feelings You didn't get that back So you're free to do what you want and that's how I genuinely don't question myself when I do Stand up for myself because I know I gave it a fair genuine shot to handle this politely

courteously and nice How that goes up to them. It takes two to think of. Like, if you're nice to me, I'm nice to you. If you're nice to me, I'm nice to you. And I think that's one thing that baffles people the most about me is because I am so incredibly strong and cutthroat, but I am very courteous and sweet.

And it's weird. And people never know what side they're gonna get of me, but it's always nice. Like I'm always courteous and sweet and it's weird and people never know what side they're gonna get of me but it's always nice like I'm always courteous and sweet until I feel discarded or I feel like someone's meaning considerate like If you meet that side of me you met it for a reason bitch. I always start out courteous like I said I think I've given you guys enough examples to make this very clear and give you a better sense of self and how to be yourself because you get clear on what your values are and you run every action and thought and behavior through this filter of is this in line with these values. If it's not, it doesn't pass.

You don't do it that way. You find something that goes in line with your values. And this is not an easy thing. This is not just the, oh, like go be an asshole, go be self. Like everybody makes it seem like, oh, you just wake up one day and you're just yourself. Nope. This is a discovery process. This is very uncomfortable because you're not used to living in line with this if you

don't know who you are. But as soon as you discover your values, get ready for your entire life to change and everyone around you to change And how they treat you to change and how they look at you to change. It's all gonna be for the best But your current reality is gonna break Everything you know everything you do. It's gonna break not everything most things Because you're already living in line with your values somewhat But as soon as you really commit to living in line with your values And like really commit to being yourself is not an easy task But as soon as you do you're living in line with your values and like really commit to be in yourself

It's not an easy task, but as soon as you do you're good you're set you are going to be More than fine and I want you to come back to this video if you actually Implement this in a few months The version of you commenting now is not gonna be the version of you that comes back in comments later But please do it so I can see it if you you're interested in the first shop of my clothing, like I said, I will leave the link in the description for the early access code. And if you're watching this after December 12th,

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But that is all I've got for this week's episode. Go be yourself. Okay, start with that. But also be safe and take care of yourself. And I'll talk to you guys next Sunday. But that is all I've got for this week's episode. Go be yourself. Okay, start with that.

But also be safe and take care of yourself. And I'll talk to you guys next Sunday.