1. Introduction for the Glow Getters

In this episode, the host introduces the Glow Getter Guru podcast and its purpose of building a community of women. She shares her personal development journey and highlights the challenges faced by women in juggling various responsibilities and building careers. The host emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive outlook and building skills to navigate through life's challenges. She also provides insights into her background and interests. The episode concludes with an explanation of the podcast's name and a commitment to growth and self-improvement.

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Alexandria (00:01.006)
Hello, hello, hello. Welcome to the very first episode of Glow Getter Guru. And first of all, if you're listening to this right now, thank you for tuning in because this is episode one. There are no episodes before this. So obviously you heard about this somehow. I probably promoted it on Instagram or Facebook and you know, you chose to come here and listen. So first of all, I really highly appreciate you for that. 

In this first episode, I want to talk about what the Glow Getter Guru is all about. Well, at least what it's starting out, what the intentions are for the podcast. And that is that we build a community together of women that have relatable things that we're going through that we're able to talk through and learn from each other and that you know, I can share some of the things I went through. I personally had a really good personal development journey. I mean from being a teenager who used to fight all the time that had to take anger management to becoming a young mother at the age of 18 and kind of growing out of that immaturity and realizing I had to make something of my life because now there's another human in the picture and things things like that, you know So I learned a lot and it's actually helped me evolve in my life and Then you know life happens as a circle. So then more Things happen that were not ideal But on the other side of those things I always come out with something better personally for me. And a lot of people can't look at life like that. A lot of women, especially, you know, I just feel like we have so much to juggle in our lives. You know, you don't, not even just as a parent, because every woman's not a parent. Every woman doesn't even want to be a parent. But I'm just speaking about in women in general. I just feel like we juggle so much like we have to take care of the home we have.

If you have kids, you have the kids responsibility and so many people get lost in that. They lose their identities in that. And then we're over here building careers, but we're at a disadvantage already because just because we have a vagina. So we get paid less or we don't get taken as seriously or we don't get as many opportunities. And. It's just a lot. And then, you know, just trying to figure shit out like for yourself pretty much. It's just a lot. It's a lot. And I want to talk about it. I want to talk about all of it plus more. I want to talk about, you know, some of the bad places that I've been in that some of you may be in right now. And I can give you my perspective on how I got through those types of things that might help you. I'm a very positive person. You know, I don't have that toxic positivity vibe on me.

I'm just naturally a very positive person. So I'm the type of person where if I get mad at something or something happens, I don't really stay mad for long. I mean, of course there are like a few like interactions in my life where I will fucking be mad forever, bitch. I don't care. But 95 % of the things that I deal with, I'm able to move past them or find some type of positive spin or positive outcome. And I want to share that.

Because honestly, I think that's a skill that has to be built. And I really care about other women building that skill and getting to know themselves and doing things that they like to do. Like being able to say, okay, this is my life. I'm very busy because I have these X number of responsibilities and these X number of people depending on me. Maybe it's your parents or your friends. You know, some of us just have like...
very draining friendships in our lives and stuff. I'm just, my point is like, you just get so consumed in other things. And I'm personally, I'm really passionate about women being able to get to know themselves and do things that they enjoy. Like live life and actually be happy living it, no matter what your situation is. And of course, I'm like I said, there's no false positivity over here. 
Some...times in life it's much harder than other times in your life. But yeah those are the type of things I want to talk about here. So I guess I can talk a little bit about who I am as a person. My name is Alexandria Dominique Louise.

That's my name and I am a mixed -race woman grown -ass fine -ass sexy -ass woman Anyways, yeah, I'm mixed race. So I'm half black and half white and Like I said, I had a baby when I was 18, so he's 12 he'll be 13 this year and parenting that's a whole you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna put that in eventually this isn't really just for parents this is just for women in general of all walks but we gonna have to slice some parenting stuff in here like every here and there because yeah there's no manual and like sometimes like this shit just gets crazy just to be honest with you I'm not really used to talking about myself, but I feel like you need to get to know me a little bit to see if you want to be on this journey. I told you I was a bad teenager. I was literally the worst. I was the worst. I mean, I guess not the worst compared to this generation, but I was pretty bad.

What else? Sorry, I'm gonna be making lots of weird noises. What is about me? I'm a very creative person. I like to sing, I like to paint, I like plants. I just took a class yesterday at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. Shout out to the Atlanta Botanical Garden because that class was so good. It was an orchid design.

Design class Orchid that word is spelled so weird. I want to say orchids But I believe it's orchid and yeah, it was just really really nice And I went alone so newsflash ladies, you can do things alone and enjoy them Yeah, which is another thing and I hope this doesn't offend anybody But if it does this isn't the place for you because I feel like I have to be very honest sometimes with myself and I'm going to be very honest with you.

So, you know, I'm just gonna have to give you a real talk sometimes because sometimes I have to also look myself in the mirror and be like, you know that was stupid. That was dumb. Like you were not using your head when you did that. Like sometimes, you know, we go off on our little adventures and our little tangents because we're like emotionally driven sometimes. You know, nobody's perfect, but I'm gonna be honest with you here.

But newsflash, you can go out and enjoy your life alone. Like without your friends, without your man, just alone sometimes too. But I do think that those other relationships are important as well. But I mostly just care about you as an individual person. If I'm just being like directly honest with you, I mostly just care about you as an individual. Let's see. Oh, this is going to be a journey because I got to keep myself focused.

I was telling you about myself, but I also wanted you to know I'm going to keep it real with you. And you can expect honesty when we come here and accountability. We're going to learn to be accountable, ladies. Because I think most of the community we build, we're going to be grown ass women. OK, this podcast is not for teenage girls. Like there may be some episodes that can help teenage girls, but mostly like we're all grown women here and at this big age We should be able to be honest with each other and we should be able to accept Criticisms and self -improvement, you know, it's when it especially when there's a good intention behind it so just know anything you hear from me that you know, you might resonate too deeply with and You know, sometimes I'll be holding up a mirror of the things I'm saying and you'll feel like I'm talking directly to you and you might like get a little knot in your chest because sometimes I'm listening to podcasts and they're like saying these things that are so real and they they resonate with me and they like they highlight my my flaws and my my weak areas and things like that and I'm like oh my god why why is she calling me out right now like what is going on?

Just know that it always comes from a good place and it's part of the growing process. There is no growth without pain. And in all of the pain, there are lessons. So, yeah. What else can I tell you about me? Oh, I work in IT for a living.

I'm gonna have to go look at one of those books that's like 3000 facts about me. I bought a book like that because I'm like I want to know myself more. Yeah, I'm an extrovert. If you're into the whole Myers -Briggs thing, I'm a I'm an ENTP. So extrovert, intuitive thinking. I can't remember what the P stands for. But yeah, that's me.

If you're one of those people who are really into astrology, I'm an Aries. I know, I know, we're the best sign. I know you were thinking that and I agree. We all have our gifts, but yeah, I'm an Aries. And so I don't know how much or how little that tells you about me. If you're an astrology person, you probably feel like you know me inside out now and you probably do because those horoscopes are.

scarily accurate sometimes. Um, yeah. So I'm super excited to talk about things with you. I have taken a spreadsheet and I have written down like, a million topics to talk about. And I just recently went through something that well, I'm currently going through something that I'm growing through and I cannot wait to share it with you and talk about it with you. It's career related and I was having a really, really, really hard time with it. And I still get triggered by the situation. And you're going to hear about that later on the podcast. I'm still kind of going through it. So I'm trying to get through to the other side so I can really do a reflection on everything and how I responded, how I reacted. And if I responded in a logical way or an emotional way, if I was tripping or if I was like right on target. But yeah, it's it's career related. I'm a career woman, you know, I work in corporate. So that's that's that. So I think that's enough about me for for for for now. Oh, my God, you guys, you're making me so shy. You got me stuttering. But I think maybe that's good for the first episode. I'm super excited to get to know you. I'm super excited to share the things that, um, that I think you're going to love. And of course, any feedback on what you want to talk about, or if you want to send me something and you want me to talk about it, like anonymously, something that you're dealing with or something that your friend's going through. Maybe I already went through it, or maybe I can just give you some perspective on how I think I could handle it. You know, we have those things where like, Oh, if I were, If I were you, I would do this. But sometimes you think you're going to do something, but then you do the opposite. Either way, I got you girl. We're going to work through these things together. I also wanted to talk about the reason I called this podcast Glow Getter Guru. Because one, I feel like as just as humans in general, ee should always looking to be better. So that's where the glow getter comes from. We should always be having a goal that we're working towards. And it doesn't have to be like moving mountains or anything like that. Just any type of self -improvement because I just feel like it's good for the human brain to want to improve and like constantly learn. Our brains are designed to learn. So, you know, I think we feel good when we learn. So glow getter, that means continuous improvement.

That's something that I value personally in my life. I always am trying to learn something. I'm always trying to improve and I'm always working towards some kind of goal, whether it's small or big. And of course, like there are areas where I'm like, I fucking kill my goals. And then there are other areas where like, I feel like I can literally never hit that goal. And so that's where we're going to be leaning on each other because I would love to learn like from you as well on this journey together. And at the end, we'll both glow up.

So we're glow -getters. And then guru, that comes from, it doesn't mean I look at myself as all -knowing or anything like that. It's just that I have reflected a lot on the knowledge that I've learned from the situations that I've been in, and I can share knowledge with you. I feel like I have a lot of knowledge in the area of personal development because I've personally gone through that journey and I've seen my friends go through that journey and I've seen like the people that I work with go through those types of journeys and of course, you know, you can share those things. So a guru is more like someone who is like knowledgeable or wise or reflective. They can share, they can guide, they can give advice and I can do that. I can do that. So...

And of course, I'm still going to be continuing to collect knowledge that we're going to build together. So Glow Getter Guru. I love it. We're like, we're all on a journey in life. And for me, I want all of us to win. And winning looks different for everyone, but just to reiterate, because I'm about to close this first episode out, just a quick like the key takeaways here is that I want to build a community with you. I want you to, you know, become a higher version of yourself. I want to become a higher version of myself. And I think we can help each other do that. And the other thing is...

I don't know, I'm giddy up for the ride. Oh my God, I'm so corny, I don't know, I'm so nervous right now. But I'm looking forward to speaking with you again. And we'll talk soon. Bye.