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May 2022
26m 37s

29: Minimalism and Self-Expression

LANA BLAKELY
About this episode

It's easy to go from one extreme to another. In today's episode, I talk about how I went from being a shopaholic in my teens, to being a stingy minimalist who completely stopped caring about herself physically, to... who I am today. 

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