In this episode I am hanging out with my friend Roze Teeh. Roze is such a genuine and good, good friend to me and I was so excited to talk to her especially since it’d been a couple of years since we caught each other up.

We began by talking about how we met, reminisced a little bit about high school, how we were casted in our school’s theatre production of Peter Pan ( such fun times), and then we eventually get into what she’s been up to lately. Roze is 27 years old and she has never had sex; I know a lot of you will wonder, “Why has it taken her that long?” And she explains to me the reasons behind her trepidations about sex, how body image in the context of being a woman of a bigger size playing both a positive and negative role.

Roze tells me of the confidence she has built over the last few years in tandem with the things she stills has challenges with. It was so enjoyable for me to hear her story about how she made out with a random stranger at a bar citing that experience as a conscious attempt to step outside of her comfort zone.

This episode is really about what taking intentional steps to becoming confident looks like. It’s baby steps and they are all deserving of celebration! I love this episode with Roze as it reminds me that confidence building is a conscious practice. It takes time and has to be done with a lot grace towards yourself, and that we can’t let other people set timelines for when our confidence grows.

We hope you enjoy the episode and thanks for listening!

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