Hey SweetSmarties, I’m setting a new record this month and season: publishing 3 interviews with a combined 5 hours of audio during these last few (consecutive) days of the year! I hope you’ve been enjoying my Social Worker series so far, and that you love this Season 2, 2025 finale! There is still one more Social Worker interview to come in March, but this is the end of our December trio. :) This is my 20th interview over all, since I started over a year and a half ago! :D I’m so proud of everything, and have enjoyed these interviews immensely, so I hope you’ve benefited a ton from my work this year! <3

Jill has a background in Social Work, and now has a private therapy practice she founded about 9 months ago, this past March! This is such a thrilling time for her burgeoning business, and I’m so happy I get to help her grow it! It was such a pleasure and a privilege to interact with her, and listening to our conversation, you can get a glimpse into what a fantastic therapist she may be to you, if it seems like you’d fit well together. ✨ We talked about her varied background, and how we both contain multitudes, which I love! Internally diverse people are so intriguing and amazing to connect with, so this experience was incredible for me! Not only has she done so much, but she’s a wealth of resources with a tremendous capacity and dedication to help others. I really appreciate how much she cares and how brilliantly equipped she is to improve people’s lives!

We spoke about her current practice, and the many fascinating approaches she uses! I loved learning about them, and being sort of an example patient to both help me and show you how marvelous she is at her job (and just as a person)! I hope you decide to embark on this beautiful journey with us, and that you get so much out of our discussion! ❤️‍🔥 Talk to you next time; I wish you a fabulous end of 2025 and an extraordinary beginning of 2026, until season 3 premieres in a matter of weeks! 🫧

I interviewed a young, new social worker named Lydia Johnson, who just graduated from the University of San Diego in May 2025! She's only 22, and has already done so much varied, helpful work! I'm very impressed with her, and I imagine you will be too, after listening to our conversation. We spoke about everything she did throughout her schooling, and in the months since she began her current position as a case manager for Libertana, a home health care company. We also talked about some of my jobs, experiences, and philosophies, and had a wonderful time bonding, learning, and growing together during the nearly four hours we connected this night we met for our discussion! We recorded about an hour and a half of that time, and not only did I enjoy experiencing it, I'm excited for you to hear what we said! We had one major tech issue, which I worked really hard to resolve in post production, and I also mention it within the interview. Her microphone was off for the first 27 minutes of our recorded conversation, so I had to isolate the sound of her voice in the background of my microphone, and amplify it to try to match the volume of my voice as well as I could. You can tell it's a little wonky, but I'm very proud of my effort to solve the problem, and the results I was able to achieve with the tools I have. Anyway, I hope you love it, learn and benefit a ton, and I'll speak to you next time, SweetSmarties! <3 :)

SweetSmarties, I'm so excited for you to listen to my conversation with Lyn, the first social worker I interviewed in my series of four! We're kindred spirits in many ways, and it felt amazing to connect so deeply in profound areas of our lives! I enjoyed and appreciated our discussion immensely; I'm so grateful she reached out to me earlier this month. <3 We talked about her background and career trajectory, our shared gifted child experiences, perfectionism, desire to avoid conflict, and need to control, as well as the reasons for all that, and how it manifests in us. We also spoke about how we navigate challenging interactions, how she parents her children, how we were parented, and the specifics of her current job. Lastly, we discussed Hispanic culture, what it's like to feel different, as well as mixed and in between groups, and how her ideas of gender influenced her upbringing, followed by how she chooses to raise her children in light of what's important to her now. I took some risks this episode by sharing things I was a little hesitant to publish, but I'm hoping that my vulnerability helps those listening, because that's why I'm doing this. :) I have a lot to express to you as I end this season and year, so I'll return soon, my darlings! ✨ Bye until then! 🫧