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Two best friends, Alyssa and Danielle, introduce themselves in the first episode of their podcast. They discuss their interests, hobbies, and experiences, including their love for alternative healing, their journey through wellness, and their desire to start their own business. They also talk about the challenges of being women in their 30s, navigating relationships and society's expectations. The podcast will cover various topics and aims to build a community of like-minded individuals. Alyssa and Danielle have been friends for 10 years and have grown together through their 20s and into their 30s. Welcome, everyone, to the first episode of our podcast. My name is Alyssa. And I'm Danielle. And we are two besties who love sharing our stories and our experiences. And what better way to do that than with a podcast? So we're really excited to tell you a little bit about ourselves, a little bit about this podcast and what we're hoping to share with everyone, and what you can expect moving forward. So. So do you want to get started? Do you want to introduce yourself first? Why don't you introduce yourself? I just talked about it. Okay. Okay. So I'm Danielle. So a little bit about me. I live in Buffalo, New York. I am actually a licensed creative arts therapist currently working through telehealth online. So I'm able to work from home and kind of change my schedule to fit for, you know, what works for me. I actually just changed jobs in November. So this is a little newer to me. But in my free time, I have a, I have two dogs. I have an eight month old baby and I like to read. Oh God, what are my hobbies now? I try to do art. Art is a big part of my life, but I'm not as big into doing it more so often as I used to. Cause obviously mom life has taken over. But. So it gets so hard when you're like in your thirties to like say what your hobbies are. I know. Now I'm like blanking. I don't know what I do in my free time, but like, I mean, I like to go outside and like go outdoors in the summer more so, obviously the winter, not so much, but we like to hike. Hike is in New York, you know, go outside, play games outside, anything like that. Walk. I walk a lot. That's become more of a big part of my life and yeah, I'm blanking right now. Oh boy. That's what I got so far. My hobbies. I think that's a good intro. So my name is Alyssa. I am a, currently I am an academic advisor at one of the local colleges. I have a master's degree in higher education administration. I love working with students in like any capacity, but I really love like teaching and coaching. I am also a certified health and life coach. I am certified in spiritual hypnotherapy and I am fascinated with like all different types of alternative, you know, quote unquote alternative healing modalities, more ancient practices or past practices. I find it fascinating, which led me to coaching and hypnotherapy. Hypnotherapy is very new. I graduated with that certification in November of this past year, which is really fun. In my spare time, what do I do? I love playing games. My husband and I play video games together. We're very interested in getting into tabletop role play games like Dungeons and Dragons. We love board games, video games. Danielle forgot, but we love like doing game nights with our friends all the time. All different types of games, strategy games, deception games, just like fun, you know, party games. My husband and I also just recently bought a house, so we're learning about all the things that it means to be homeowners and DIY around the house. See, this is why you should have gone first, because now I'm like thinking of all the things I'm going to say. But I don't know if I would have been able to say all these things had you not gone first, so, you know, chicken or egg. I also have one dog and then I have a cat as well, Max and Minerva. No human babies yet, but I am currently four months pregnant, so excited for that journey to unfold this year. Spending time with friends and family, going camping in the summer. As Danielle mentioned, we are from Buffalo, New York, so there's not much we do outside in the winter, but we do enjoy summers in Buffalo. We soak up every last bit of sunshine we can, because we only see it for like three months. Four months, at most. But yeah, so that's a little bit about us. We also have started on a venture of starting our own business. We are hoping, we have a few different concepts, but I think the long form of the business idea is to create a community space that is part hangout event space, part coffee shop slash boutique that is designed for people, but especially women who are interested in health and wellness, but from a more metaphysical alternative angle. So offering a place for those folks to get together and find community around some of the more less populated or less talked about ideas of health and wellness. Yeah, and I think, like that's, Alyssa already mentioned it, but I think that's a big part of both of our lives is just our journey through wellness, our ideas with holistic approaches and different approaches rather than Western medicine. So that's something that we've talked about pretty much, I think more so recently, but pretty much throughout our entire friendship, it's been a theme, but we had this idea of a business about two years ago now, so it's a very slow, slow moving process, but we're slowly taking steps every day towards hopefully that dream of becoming our own bosses, because that's really what we're both looking for. We really want to get out of the corporate nine to five grind that society pushes. So we would love to be our own bosses and do our own thing. But it's expensive to try to start your own business, so right now we're doing what we can to try to build and foster that community aspect in a more virtual space, since we don't have the resources right now to have our own building and cafe space. Which leads us to why we started this podcast. Exactly. Danielle and I love having conversations around all different things, right? We talked about how we're both very interested in alternative healing, her being an art therapist and me being a hypnotherapist, and so we have these really great discussions about those types of topics. We also have really great discussions about just things about being a woman in your 30s and what that's like. The navigating friendships and relationships and boundaries, navigating changing dynamics with your friends and family as you go through different life stages, and navigating trying to be healthy in a world that's ridiculously expensive, and also everyone's telling you you're doing it wrong. I would just say, and overwhelming, because I feel like everyone tells you a million different things and you have no idea what you should take, what you shouldn't take, what's true, what's not true. So navigating the overwhelmingness of social media and what's out there in the internet and what you should actually listen to, I guess, is a good way to put it. Yeah, because there's just so much information, and we want to do the best for us and our families, right? But we just sometimes have these discussions of, we tried this out, it didn't work for me, but maybe it worked for someone else we know. And so we just wanted to bring those conversations to other people and share our perspectives and our experiences and our interests with others in the hopes that maybe we share some interests and experiences, and we can start to build that community a little bit more. So this podcast is going to be a little bit of a mixed bag of topics. Probably won't ever just be one avenue, because that's not what being a woman in your 30s is. You're so many things when you're a woman in your 30s. You're a friend, a daughter, a mother, an employee, a house nut, a personal shopper, a housekeeper, a cook. There's so many things that you have to do, and it would be silly of us to just only ever talk about one part of our lives. And we're just going to wing it, because that's what we're doing in life. You have this idea when you get to 30 that you have everything all together, and that your idea of what a 30-year-old looks like. And then you get there, and you're like, wow, I'm not anything like I thought I was going to be. We're just continuing to wing it every single day. Yeah. I don't know when you start to feel like an adult, but I really thought it would be by now. I mean, I feel like an adult. I just feel like an adult that has no idea what I'm doing. I feel like I am 22 years old pretending to be 31. Oh, I guess. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. I guess I kind of feel that way a little bit, too. It's just so... Because I don't know, when I was even 10 or 11, I feel like people who were 30 were like adults. They had their life together, at least perceptively. I literally have this image that women in their 30s always wore stilettos and pencil skirts and blouses. And I'm like, oh my god, I'm not that... I would never... I'm never going to be that person. I blame 13 going on 30, honestly, because that's like, I want to be 30, flirty, and thriving. No one is 30, flirty, and thriving. You can be two of the three. Never all three. Never all three. And yeah, so I think it's always nice to share these experiences with people around you. And a little bit more background on Danielle and I. Danielle and I have been friends for 10 years now, almost. We actually met working at Red Lobster, and we have a really great group of friends that all met working through Red Lobster. And so we've all been friends for going on 10 years, most of us. And so we've grown with each other through our 20s and now going into our 30s. And so it's a really fun experience to keep going on this life journey with people who you knew and have grown with since you were 21 years old. Yeah. And we obviously weren't childhood friends, but I think we still grew up together. Yeah, absolutely. Because when you're in your early 20s... So me and Alyssa actually started living together. Oh my god. Like a year after that? I don't even know if it was a year. It was very quickly after we first met. And so navigating our first... That was our first big girl apartment. Our first time really, besides college, living on our own and having to pay bills and navigate working and holding... We were both in grad school at the time. And so we were going to school, doing assignments, classes, and working, both of us, two jobs. Because we had to do our school job slash internship type thing. But then we also had to do our make money to live job. And yeah, both of our husbands are our best friends with each other. Yeah, we all met up for lunch. All of us. And so it's been really fun. It's a running joke in our friend group. And I like what you said about we did grow up together. We maybe didn't know each other when we were in kindergarten, but we've been through some huge life transitions as a group and as even just the two of us. And it's been really fun to watch that change, but still have the integrity of our friendship and still want to be around each other. Yeah. So far. Yeah. That might change. It's crazy when you think about it, though, how much time we've spent together over the past 10 years. And all of us still want to keep spending time with each other. Especially during COVID. Obviously, everyone's keeping their distance for an extent. But then you branched off into your small circle of your bubble or whatever. And so we spent pretty much like, I feel like we saw each other three times a week during COVID. Yeah. For like a year straight. Yeah. It was like all the time. Because we were the only people we could see. Yeah. And so it was like... We spent almost every single weekend together, I'm pretty sure. And there's some people that would have been like, this is too much now. We're going to take a step back. But honestly, I think for our group of friends, it really became like a foundation for a stronger friendship. Yeah. And obviously, now with the two of us trying to venture off into a business relationship too, hopefully that goes on well and good for us. So far, we're still friends. So we're hoping we can keep it that way. Danielle and I are both pretty honest people. And we have enough of a relationship where we've been able to be honest with each other as we move through this new phase. Okay. So I don't know. Is there anything else that we should include in our intro episode? Yeah, I don't know. I think I'm excited to see where this goes. I'm excited to just like... I love talking about and learning about new things. And so I'm just really excited to have an avenue. And I love long form content. TikTok, Instagram Reels, all that stuff is great. But I love a good podcast. And I love a good video essay on YouTube. I love long form content. So I'm just excited. I don't know if this is going to be 20 minute episodes or hour long episodes. I'm sure it'll depend on the topic and as we get more comfortable with recording. But I'm just really excited to be able to share our thoughts and opinions and perspectives on these different topics in a way that feels more like flushed out. Yeah. Because on Instagram, which is like our other main way of like building community, follow us at the at Sirona Society 716. I'll put in the show notes. That's what I hear people say on podcast. But you know, you can only really get like a snippet, right? Because it's either like a text post that no one's going to read, or it's like a 30 second real video that you have to like try to get as much information as you can. But like in a short form video. And so I'm just excited to like have the opportunity to like talk through more of these ideas with you in a way that we can actually get into like the nitty gritty of these conversations. Yeah, for sure. I mean, this was Alyssa's idea. So she did have to talk me into it a little bit. But I think that I was more so concerned. I'm just uncomfortable. Like putting myself out there in general has been uncomfortable for me. So doing it in this way, like obviously in social media and snippets, it's like easier than like putting your life out there in a podcast. So I think that was more so where my reservations were. But now that we're like starting to do it and getting into it, it definitely is something that I think is gonna be really fun for us. And I agree with Alyssa. This is gonna be a good way for us to share more of our lives and hopefully like connect with more people in a way that we wouldn't be able to otherwise. So, yeah. And I'm excited. I hope we get to, you know, I envision us having like guests come on about like different topics. You know, we have friends and family and just people we are connected with in like the local area that are like specialists in their field or have a lot of experience within a certain type of, you know, wellness factor. We have some, you know, people that we know that have started their own businesses. We have some people that we know that have been, you know, mothers for as long as we've been alive and, you know, have had their own experiences and things. But then also maybe other people that we can connect with through this podcast that can teach us about, you know, astrology or, you know, human design or toxic free living, like things that we are interested in, but maybe don't know as much about. And we can learn alongside everyone listening. Yeah, for sure. That's what I was going to say is topics that like we want to learn more about and things that like obviously like throughout, even just our lives and throughout the new year, we're both like kind of instilling more, you know, things that we want to bring into our lives this year, intentions that we want to kind of live by. So the more that we can like learn about it and bring it into our own lives, hopefully we can kind of share that with you and hopefully connect with other people that are kind of doing the same. Yeah, it's crazy how turning 30 and being a mother really just shifts everything in your brain. Oh, yeah. And all your priorities are totally different than they were before. But yeah, so we're excited to take you along with the journey. You can follow along with our business on Instagram at soronasociety716. You can follow and like this podcast if you want to come back and listen again. Share it with your friends. We're excited to bring you more this year and see where this journey takes us. Yeah, so thanks for tuning in and hopefully we'll touch base with you guys soon. Bye, everyone. Bye.