I'm gonna level with you here—the last couple days I've been in a weird headspace. I've been struggling with vulnerability and a bit of overwhelm, which sounds ridiculous to say, but that's the nature of getting stuck in your head, right? It becomes so much bigger than it actually is.

Here's what's happening: I posted a video on TikTok about cold approaching a woman at the beach, and for the first time in this whole journey, I edited it. I chopped bits out. I overthought how it would land. And then I made it private again because I got scared. That's such a different headspace from where I've been with pretty much everything else I've posted, where I just turn on the camera and go for it without a second take.

This whole experiment—the TikTok, the podcast, all of it—has really been about trying to find a safe space to just be me without putting on a mask. And honestly? If you've listened to all the podcast episodes up until now, you probably know me better than most people who've been in my life to date. That's both terrifying and weirdly comforting. I'm trying to figure out what balance looks like between showing up authentically and not getting so in my head about how it'll be interpreted.