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My name is Rachel April Phillips. Inspiring, motivating, and helping business owners do business in the most holistic, balanced, and and meaningful way.

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What's up? Lovely. Is Rachel here? Hope you've had a wonderful, productive weekend and a exciting week ahead. So I wanted to come up on here. As I promised, I was going to do another live for you guys.

I'm going to be bare and open. I'm going to be raw. I'm going to be real. I am going to share with you a journey that I personally went on myself. And as you can see from the title, Ten Lessons I Learned From Battling With Depression at the Age of 30.

And the reason why I decided to do this live was because yesterday I was honored to be a speaker at a webinar event hosted by Fresh Books and hosted by I Make a Living, which are the same company, but they own different brands. And they invited a couple of guest speakers on there to talk about their journey of being a palatable entrepreneur.

Have they gone through anything where they had to change and be someone else and had to conform and fit into a click or group or a company or change their whole outlook on life just to fit in while growing and building their business? It was a great time. I really enjoyed myself.

Thank you to Yvonne.

Thank you to Irene, part of the Fresh book team,who allowed me to come and share my story.

And in the webinar that we did yesterday, they asked me the question, how come am I open to talk about and why am I open to talk about my journey with depression and why I decided to be very real and very open about my experience.And we were communicating, talking about it. And I thought I didn't really explain really well the reasons why I'm open about talking and free to talk about my journey going through depression.

So you know what I thought? You know, while I'm doing this today? I want to touch on that. If you watched any of my videos or audios online and heard me talk about the journey of depression and maybe if I haven't articulated it clear enough, I thought today would be the day because I'm really, truly from the bottom of my heart, the reason why I want to talk about it, the reason why I feel it's important to talk about it, the reason why I am talking about it, because I want to hopefully help someone out there who might be on that journey of going through depression, who may have been through depression before or that they're stuck at a place where they feel overwhelmed.

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