Tess Green

I would say a lot of my success goes to things that I've always wanted to do when I was younger. I do have two children, and my cousin has one child as well, so a lot of my success gets contributed from the things that I've done and worked hard for, and it goes to my kids and what I see myself building as far as future career. It's about maintaining my happiness and doing things that are influential to other women - that's one of my core things that is important to me. I feel like I've really sat in this for so long, and it's been a dream for so long for me to get to where I'm getting to. So professionalism is really important to me, and just integrity - being true to who I am.

I would say just always be real and raw, but share what has worked for you without feeling the need to give anyone who's been negative in your life any type of light in a way that comes back to you in a negative way. I think the biggest thing with a lot of podcasts is people take what is being shared in a harmful way, and I feel like when you do something like a podcast, it's really important that you take it on when you are kind of almost in the climax of your healing. It's very important to be mindful and to have emotional intelligence when you're sharing certain things. When you share those things, you want to make sure you're sharing it in a way that others can relate, because a lot of the things we go through, other people can relate, however it can be in a different way. Be very real, be very raw - not that I'm saying filter yourself, but just make sure you're positive, not negative, and that you're appropriate with the things that you share. It's not necessarily always giving advice or negative advice or constructive criticism - it's healthy advice, never judgment, and just being honest.

Honestly, I feel like I haven't publicly yet come with any challenges other than things like editing. We did just post our first episode last night, and we did enough content to post over the next week because it was so long and we had to trim and cut things for different topics. But as I've drafted so many things up and created images and things like that, I've personally had some challenges because I know there's things that I'm going to talk about that, yes, I've been healing over and processing over the last couple of years, but I know that it may open up wounds that I felt were already kind of closed up, and it might make it a little bit emotional for me. But what I already do to kind of help me guide through those hard times or emotional moments is therapy, so I feel like that's gonna keep me grounded in a sense where I won't feel like I'm breaking while trying to share my experience.

For the podcast, my values would be things that make me happy - maintaining my happiness and doing things that are influential to other women. That's one of my core things that is important to me. As far as work, being my true self and applying myself is important. I feel like I've really sat in this for so long, and it's been a dream for so long for me to get to where I'm getting to. So professionalism is really important to me, and just integrity - being true to who I am. For the podcast, it's really growth and healing over a lot of things, but not in a sense where I have it all figured out and everything's perfect. Being vulnerable to my audience is important to me, not in a sense where I'm bashing or speaking down on anyone, but just being vulnerable because I know a lot of people can relate to some of the experiences that I've had, whether good or bad. I want people to not feel like I'm being judging or bashing anyone. I want it to be very positive, and that's also something that's important to me while creating this podcast.