Sept. 7, 2026

Quick Before I Forget: Introducing the Emo Roller Coaster Gal

Show Notes
Transcript

I practiced being brave in the sky so I could learn to be braver on land.

And somewhere along the way, I became the Emo Roller Coaster Gal. But this was never really about roller coasters.

Welcome to Season 2 of Quick Before You Forget and my first-ever solo episode.

After 31 episodes spent asking other people the big questions, I realized it was time to answer some myself.

So this is the beginning of that story: from being told at 35 that I might need a liver transplant, to hearing the words “you are a miracle,” to years of making myself smaller, to finally deciding I’m done dimming my light.

We’re talking fear vs. excitement, music as a tool for changing your mindset, the Yellow Brick Road, human connection, finding your people, the birth of Emo Roller Coaster Gal, and why I believe we can build unreal lives from the ground up.

Because the roller coaster was never the point. The point is what happens when you feel the fear and get on the ride anyway.

Quick before you forget: Remember who you are while you build who you’re meant to be.

And if you’re here with me now? Hi! I'm so grateful you're here. Welcome to the Ground Crew. We’re just getting started.

Meaningful Moments

00:00 — I think I found my purpose
00:58 — Why it's called Quick Before You Forget
02:00 — Being told I needed a liver transplant at 35
03:00 — "Ty, you are a miracle."
05:00 — Why I've documented my life publicly
07:00 — The backstage moment that changed something
10:00 — Why Season 1 needed to end
11:00 — Becoming the Emo Roller Coaster Gal
12:00 — Music, mindset + movement
13:00 — Human connection is the whole point
14:00 — The safe thing I'd been doing
16:00 — I'm done being small
17:00 — Welcome to Season 2 of Quick Before You Forget
18:00 — Why 22 questions feels significant
20:00 — There is no five-year plan
21:00 — It's always a no unless you ask
23:00 — The story is already hiding in plain sight
24:00 — Meet the Ground Crew
26:00 — Practicing bravery in the sky ⭐
27:00 — How did Ty Schmidt become Emo Roller Coaster Gal?
28:00 — It was never about the roller coaster
30:30 — What I hope you believe because of my work
33:00 — Anything is possible
34:00 — Remember who you are
35:00 — Speaking the dream partnerships out loud

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I feel like I found my purpose. I found my calling.

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And the reason that it feels so right is because

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it's like people are saying it's helping them. And honestly, friends,

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that is like the whole point. This feels unreal. I

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am going to talk anyway. And it's going to be great.

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We're going to have a great time. Hello and welcome

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to Quick Before You Forget. Me? Okay, this is weird.

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Because usually I have, like, another human with me. And

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I realize now that, like, lucky you, you're the other

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human today. And I'm so grateful. I'm so excited. I'm

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so happy. I'm so, like, amped. So amped that you're here. Yeah.

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Thank you. So I got this idea. I got this

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idea for a podcast a while back called Quick Before

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I Forget. Because at 35 years old, I had a

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doctor tell me that I needed a liver transplant. That

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same doctor and a whole team of other doctors also

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told me that my brain was operating at a level

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that didn't make sense. They were surprised I could remember things.

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They were surprised that I could talk as eloquently and

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thoughtfully as I could. They kind of implied that my

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memory and all the issues that I have with my

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memory are likely related to the fact that my health

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was in the situation that my health was in. So

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I came up with this idea quick before I forget,

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because I thought maybe I could share my story and

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I thought maybe there'd be people that would want to

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listen to it. And I think that's accurate. Like, I

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think I meant to share this story because a few

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years later, so I was 35 years old when I

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was told that I needed a liver transplant. 35 years old. Like,

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just let that sink in for a second. My MELD score,

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for those of you that don't know, a MELD score

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is a model end stage liver disease score. My MELD

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score was bad enough that they thought I needed a

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liver transplant soon. At 35 years old. And now those

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same doctors at 30, I'm so bad at keeping track. See,

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this is the quick before I forget part of things.

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So I'm so bad at keeping track. So the doctors

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only a few years later, so I'm going to say

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I was 38. I think I was 38 when they said, Ty,

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I don't want to cry. Your liver is basically normal. Now, granted,

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I had lost at the time, maybe 60 pounds and

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trimmed probably at the time, like 15 inches off of

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my waist. And I was feeling alive and I was

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feeling so good. And the doctors, the same doctor, the

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same doctor that told me that I was going to

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need a liver transplant said, Ty, you are a miracle.

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You are a miracle. He said that to me and

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it was like a seed was planted in my heart

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because I am a miracle and it has been a

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hell of a bumpy ride since then. So I believe

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that I coped very poorly with my life things. I

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know it. I own it. It is what it is.

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I coped very poorly with my life. I sought refuge.

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At the bottom of a bottle of vodka I hid

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in my closet. For years. For way longer. And for

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way more than I ever possibly. I never should have

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been doing that. I never was diagnosed as an alcoholic.

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for another day. The story for today is that I

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am here. Because I believe that I am meant to

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share my story. I believed that I was meant to

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share my story when I left the hospital that day

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and the doctor had said I was the miracle. I

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was a miracle and I am a miracle because I've

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chosen to feel the light. I have chosen to let

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the light shine from my soul into the world in

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ways that don't make sense. My life on paper doesn't

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make any sense. You have to honestly go see it.

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intentionally and thoughtfully laid out an entire life story on

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the internet. I know friends and people that haven't even

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posted once on Facebook on purpose. I'm fully opposite of that.

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I have been using social media as a very public

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Super private journal for most of my life. And maybe

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that's a symptom of being a millennial. Probably. I do

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have one too many Facebook albums that, you know, are embarrassing.

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that I was meant to be sharing and documenting the

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whole journey. The ups and the downs and the twists

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and the turns and the drops. Guys. That's the emo

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rollercoaster gal. I was meant to share this with you

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because I was meant to be the light that I needed.

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I needed light and I found it. Like I, I

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found it in so much of these things that you

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see behind me in the books, in the music, in

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the lore. Okay. Everything behind me tells part of my story.

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I keep, I'm almost like I, everything behind me tells

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part of my story here and on the internet. So

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I have an idea about that. But first I need

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to pause. Are you still with me? If you're still

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with me, please comment something. Comment the most interesting thing

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that I've said so far. Because I really, I really

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want to know why am I whispering? I don't know

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why I'm whispering. I did this thing this week. It

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happened after I had spent some time with people that

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don't make sense. So without belaboring the huge long story,

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I'm going to tell you the short version, which is

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a week ago, a week ago today, actually, I was

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invited along with a dear friend of mine to go

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on an adventure that involved spending time with Chris Carrabba.

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of Dashboard Confessional, and Joe King from The Fray, Ben

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Wysocki from The Fray, and everybody, everybody from The Fray

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and Dashboard. And it happened at the Huntington Bank Pavilion

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at Northern Island in Chicago. It was like my 18,000th

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time in Chicago this year, which is a whole other

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sidebar story. But it happened in Chicago last week, and

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it felt like a turning point for me And then

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I got home and I was looking at the episodes

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that I had to share, my quick before you forget episodes.

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I was like, I had taped close, a little over

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40 episodes in the course of time. I actually started

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taping quick before you forget in like within a week

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or two of a not so great job transition that

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happened to me earlier this year. It didn't happen to me.

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It happened for me, by the way. I started taping

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quick before you forget. Earlier this year, almost immediately after

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this awful thing happened and my life flipped upside down

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for the second time in less than a year. But

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that's again, another sidebar story. I found myself feeling lost

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and also feeling like I didn't understand God's plan. And

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I like, honestly, can you relate? I feel like you

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could relate. So lost, what in God's good name is

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his plan? I don't know. I will. But you know what?

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I have surrendered it. And since then, if you don't

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know what the year of the fire horse is, go

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look it up. Go look it up. Because since the

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year of the fire horse started, my, what I call

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my yellow brick road has gotten unreal. Like it was

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unreal before granted, but it has gotten more unreal case

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and point. Last week, Saturday, I'm walking around backstage at

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a venue in Chicago with the Chris Carraba and the

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Joe King and also the Ivy Palmer, who deserves more

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than a shout out, but that's all you're getting for today.

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So I'm walking around at this venue and it was

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reflecting on that day, the following day, looking at my

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episodes of the podcast that led me here. Because I

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was looking at the episodes that I had already taped

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and I taped a bunch of them. Like I taped

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like over 40 and it was all done by like mid-May.

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So I taped like 40 episodes in a relatively short

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period of time with a bunch of abundant, kind, amazing humans.

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If you haven't looked at those episodes, this, this is

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your reminder, please quick before you forget, go look at

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all those other episodes because they're amazing. And they feature

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these humans that have these stories that lit my soul

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on fire. All right. So I was at the bottom

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of the barrel. I had like five or six episodes

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left to air and the perfect one. I stumbled on

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the perfect one for the last episode of what I

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decided in real time, because I can. was going to

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be the last episode of season one of Quick Before

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You Forget. Welcome to season two. I'm so pumped. So

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this is season two because I decided that last episode,

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there's a couple others that I'm going to need to

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re-tape because of sound issues or quality issues, but that

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was the last episode. And then I realized that like

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some of the best advice I've gotten has been to

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just do what's working. Figure out what works and And

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do more of that. So I realized that what's working

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for me in real time is the emo rollercoaster gal. Now,

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if you're new here, buckle up literally, because the emo

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rollercoaster gal is my moniker. It's if you Google it,

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it will Google emo rollercoaster gal. You'll find everything that

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I've posted in the last six months or so that

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has my rollercoaster content, which I created. synced so perfectly,

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poetically and cinematically perfectly to Taylor Swift bridges mostly. And

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it's been so fun. And I felt like, I feel

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like I found my purpose. I found my calling. And

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the reason that it feels so right is because it's

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like people are saying it's helping them. And honestly, friends,

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that is like the whole point. Like the whole dang

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point of Quick Before You Forget, which by the way,

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the description has meaning. Every single word, this is so

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cool because this is like the first time that I'm

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really diving into this. So Quick Before You Forget is

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a personal growth and development podcast aimed at helping you

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build your unreal life from the ground up using tools

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like music, mindset, and movement to remember who you are

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while you build who you're meant to be. Y'all, that's

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what I'm doing in real time. That's what I've been

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documenting this whole dang time. And you're here and you

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get to see it and you get to be with me.

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And that is the whole point of my story of

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the yellow brick road is that it's not meant to

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be experienced by yourself. It's not meant to be experienced

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by by yourself or alone or in the darkness. Nay,

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oh boy, oh no, I got carried away and hit

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the microphone. Nay, it is supposed to be experienced together.

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The people, the connection. Y'all, I have been talking about

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connection on the internet for years, for literally years. I

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have been talking about the importance of human connection and

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the role it plays in literally saving our lives in

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real time for years. And it's happening in these rollercoaster videos.

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I get DMs now every single day from people saying,

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thank you. This makes me feel seen. Thank you. Your

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videos are helping me process grief. Thank you. Your videos

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are such, I look forward to them every day. What?

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I get emotional because that is the point. So I

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realized something. When I was working on what became my

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last episode of season one of quick before you forget.

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And that was that I had been doing the safe thing.

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I had been doing the comfy cozy thing that I

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love to do, which is connecting with people and hearing

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their stories and honestly offering a place for them to

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share it. I have gotten so many compliments on how

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I can ask the real questions that A dear new

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friend of mine, Dr. Nikki Tobias, actually paid me the

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kindest compliment this week. She said, Ty sees souls. I mean,

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put that on my tombstone. But also, this part is,

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this is hard for me. It might not seem like

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it to you, but like this part, this like just

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talking to you part is scary for me. And that

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has a lot to do with a lot of different

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things that, I mean, honestly, some things that I can't

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even say out loud. But I had this era of

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my life that I shrank down to nothing. Literally. I

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shrank down to nothing. Because I was told to. Because

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I felt I wasn't enough. Like, why else do you

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drink so much on a daily basis if you, like...

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I didn't think I was enough. I didn't think I

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was worthy of sharing what I know now is a

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story that people can feel seen in, a story that

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people can hold onto and be part of. And like,

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that is the point that we can do it together,

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that we're meant to connect through these stories, through my

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guests' stories. but also and terrifyingly through my own. I

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am so grateful for the opportunity to share. And ironically,

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the last person that I had a conversation quite this

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deep with was indeed Chris Karaba. I talk about my

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unreal life. That's the kind of thing I mean. That

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and Dr. Tobias saying, Ty sees souls. Because I do.

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And it's a gift. And it's a blessing. And it's easy.

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And I realized that as I was preparing to film this,

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and I had like, I was like, who's going to

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want to listen to me? Who cares? Highest value, fewest words. No. No.

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I'm done with that shit. Sorry to cuss. Sorry to cuss.

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I do cuss sometimes. And I'm done being quiet. I'm

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done being small. I am done littling my light so

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that others feel better. No, no, no, no. We are

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done with that. Because I've learned this really cool thing

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that happens when I share is the light gets brighter sometimes.

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because it's catching in other people. Like literally I can,

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I can, I've seen it happen enough times now where

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I can see it catches my, my light is like

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lighting people's hearts from the inside out. And what a

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gift that is and what a blessing that is. And

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darn it, darn it, darn it. I need to share that.

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I need to share that. So welcome to season two

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of quick before you forget, which I'm going to call

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quick before I forget, which was, my original thought in

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the first place, which is kind of funny that how

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life works that way. But quick before I forget, thank you.

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First of all, thank you for being here, for listening,

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for sharing what I hope is your stories with me.

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I really want this to feel like a conversation. And

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when I had this idea to do this first solo episode,

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I got this, I made this post and I was like,

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ask me anything. Give me your questions. And I actually

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kind of thought I'd get 13 questions. Like if I had,

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I probably should have said it to somebody so that

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it don't sound cuckoo. I thought I'd get 13 questions

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because that's one of my numbers. We all have our numbers, right?

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And I am a Swifty. So yes, 13 is one

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of my numbers. So is 22. And would you believe,

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would you believe? I've asked every guest of Quick Before

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You Forget, what would you tell your 22-year-old self? And

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you know what? 22 questions is where we landed. And

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I am cutting it off a day early. I planned

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on taping this on a Sunday. I'm taping this on

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a Saturday. I'm taping this when like the Lord spoke

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to my heart. The Lord spoke to my heart. I'm

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taping this when the Lord spoke to my heart to

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tape it. Because that's what's happening through him, for him,

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with him. All of it is happening in real time.

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And those 22 questions, you guys, I was blown away

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because the 22 questions We're magical. And you know what

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my word is, right? My word for my values, my

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personal and professional values, which I do believe are aligned

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and are the same to me. They are not two

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separate things. Your personal values and your professional values should

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not be the same. They're two parts of your heart.

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And mine is magic. Magic. I got to unpack a

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lot of this in another episode. Holy crap, this is

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how people can talk this long because there's so much

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to unpack. The questions I got were so good. And

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I'm so grateful. And I realized that there's no way

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in heck I could go on and answer every single

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22 questions in this episode. Instead, I thought I'd lay

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us a foundation. I thought I'd say, hey, thank you

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for being here. Thank you for wanting to be part

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of this enough that you asked me 22 thoughtful and

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like impressively deep, emotionally charged questions. And I've actually, I

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don't know, I'm hoping and assuming that some of y'all

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that asked the questions are here watching with me right now.

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If you are, please say hi. I am hoping that

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because I've kind of tried to answer some of them indirectly.

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But I realized very quickly that I could not answer

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all 22 questions because that would be a lot of me.

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So I thought instead of that, I will lay the

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foundation and set us up for what I hope is

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a really fun journey that y'all are excited and amped

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to be with me on. I have none of it

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figured out. There is no plan. There is no five-year plan.

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There's no 10-year plan. There is the Lord's plan. And

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it's happening. It's happening in real time. If you go

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back and look, and I'm like, this is actually legitimately

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like an ask. I struggle to make the ask, but

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also it's always a no unless you ask. That is

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one of many of my mantras. It's always a no

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unless you ask. It's also a mantra that has unlocked

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more magic in my life than I could possibly even,

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I can't even go into, honestly. It's a lot. It's

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always a no unless you ask. So I'm going to ask.

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Go look. Go find things. I have an Instagram that

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has 7,500 followers right now. Thanks mostly to the emo

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rollercoaster gal content. Thank you. I have 14 plus thousand

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followers on TikTok and that my friends who doggy, that

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is where I practiced how to speak to people. That's

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where I practice how to be brave on camera. That's

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where I practiced how to tell a story in a

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way that people actually want to listen to it. That's

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where I practiced how to Write my life out loud.

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I have manifested so many incredible things that if you

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go back, like if you see like this last year,

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like the last eight months, and then you go back,

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you can see that it wasn't just, it's nothing that

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happened overnight. It's something that I had been speaking into

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the world. I have been literally, well, correction, God has

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been writing my book out loud through my words out

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loud on the internet for like five years. So my homework,

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my homework, sorry to give you homework, but I think

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it's fun. I think it's fun. And if you don't,

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that's cool. You're not my people. I believe this will

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help me find my people. My homework is go look,

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go digging, go, just go to Instagram, go to TikTok.

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I'm also on Facebook. I'm on LinkedIn. And There's so

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much of the story. There's so much of the answers.

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This is like a full circle thing because the questions

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that you all asked me, a lot of those answers

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exist already in plain sight. They're there. And that's honestly

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unreal to me to even think about. But I will

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answer your questions. I will answer your questions. And today

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I'm going to answer one or two because I can't.

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put that out and say, I'll answer all your questions

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and then just not answer questions. I will be answering

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questions to be clear, but let's keep it going. Go,

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go find a photo, go find a video, go find

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like a, like a, oh my gosh, the playlists on TikTok.

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There's playlists on TikTok. If any of this sounds interesting

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to you, go check them out. We have like punk

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rock princess. Okay. That is a Andrew McMahon heavy playlist.

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Andrew McMahon is this guy up here and the literal thread,

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a literal thread in this entire story. So if you

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love Andrew McMahon, you're going to want to be on

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this ride with me, okay? Also, Swifties and Healing. Swifties

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and Healing is a thing that I created because I

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believe that maybe it could be the name of the

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Taylor Swift theme park someday. Just a thought. I'm speaking

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these things out loud because some of the things that

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I say out loud happen sometimes. Taylor Swift theme park

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named Swifties and Healing. I think that would be a

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beautiful thing. But there's a playlist called Swifties and Healing

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on TikTok, as well as Just Keep Swifting, which is

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another Taylor Swift, basically a Taylor Swift love playlist on TikTok.

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But there's so much. There's joy from the ground up. Again,

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the words from the ground up, which reminds me of

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a very important thing. You are my ground crew. If

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you're seeing this, if you've been watching this, can you

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please in the comments say, I am your ground crew.

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We are together in this and I am grateful. So

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if you're hearing this, please stop and say it because

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I want to say hi. I want to say thank you.

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So if you don't mind, I would love it if

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you say, I am team ground crew or something, because

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this is just the beginning. This is just the beginning.

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And I just got so excited. I was so nervous.

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I was feeling like I felt before, like when you

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wait in a line for a roller coaster. Oh, I

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just felt it. Like I felt it with my whole

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being and it made me swallow harder. When you're waiting

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in a line for a roller coaster or you're waiting

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in a line for a concert, okay? Waiting in lines

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is kind of a thing in my world. I have,

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I've been first in line for more things than the

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average human. I would, I don't, I mean, I have

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to do like a study to be sure, but I

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have been, I'm a first in line girly. All right.

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And the most magical conversations and connections have happened in

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those lines. And I can't wait to share all of

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it with you. And there was a point. The point

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was I was feeling that energy, the like butterflies in

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your stomach and heart racing. And I mean, the heart

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racing might have a little bit to do with the

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