Hello. Thank you for listening to. I'm speaking with Elizabeth West. I am your host, and this episode will be about. Will probably be titled, I am not supposed to be here. I'm not supposed to be here. And I will talk more in more context so you can understand what I mean. So many times in my life, I've had this nudge that I'm not supposed to be here.

I'm not supposed to be somewhere. And right now, I am going through that once again, and I am speaking about my day job. So, yeah, it can actually count for a few things that are going on in my life right now, which I am not supposed to be here. And so I'll start talking. I've heard this quote, and I don't have the name of the woman offhand. I heard it on a podcast episode recently, and she says something to the effect of, my energy here is done. My energy here is done. So that's how I feel right now.

And it's really when I start to feel like I'm being kept small, there's a lot of things that are included in that. It's being kept small. It's a combination of being kept small. It's a combination of people that are not grateful for you. They're ungrateful, they're unappreciative, and it's, you know, you. You're. So I'm just gonna speak about, you know, so. So how I am and who I am.

You know, I'm a hard worker. I always have been, always will be. I was raised to never do things half ass. So I have to put the explicit, the e explicit for this, because I'm going to be cussing a little bit or some quote unquote curse words will be in this episode. So, yeah, I was raised to never do things half ass. My mom was widowed, so she raised me. And that's the way I was raised. And my family, that's just the way we are.

We don't do things half ass. We don't do things. You know, we do. We. There's no such thing as being bored. That's another way I was raised. There's no such thing as boredom. Like, there's always something to do.

That's what the way my mom said, and it's true. And I've always had that. So all these things together, I've always been since my first job. Since my first job. But just with everything that I do, that's just the way that I was raised, and that's just the way that I grew up that I was taught and raised that you don't do things half ass. Now, another thing is that being a woman, and I'm going to say it because it's real, I'm going to keep it real. I always try to keep it real with you all being a woman and being a woman of color, you have to do extra. Just because when you're a woman, you have to do extra.

When you're a person of color, you have to do extra. If you're a woman of color, you really are doing extra. Even more. So you have to do extra. You're working your arse off, right? So I didn't say the actual word. I'll say arse. You're working your arse off. And then you have other people around you that are not doing shit.

They're not doing. Let me change it. They're not doing ish. I should have said ish. I still have this thing, like, I don't want to be looked down on because I'm using curse words. It just came out. But I'll change it to ish. But this will be an explicit episode because I have a feeling I'm going to be saying certain terms.