Even a bad day is a luxury with Libby Christensen ✨

Once you realize, I don't know, depends what you've been through. I suppose once you realize that every single day, depending on what your mood is, it doesn't really matter regardless, you have been blessed with another day, and even if it's not the best day, you are still able to wake up tomorrow and do more things for yourself or try again or better yourself in different ways. That as

Welcome back to the Rise and Conker Podcast. I'm your host Georgie Stevenson, former lawyer turned entrepreneur, social media personality and personal development junkie. This podcast is for my girl gang who want to feed their mind with positive and expansive thoughts to help them step into their power and live their most authentic life. We chat a variety of

Let's do this.

Hello guys, and welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcast. I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson, and today I am joined by the very inspiring, very motivating Libby Christiansen. So Libby is chatting to us all the way from the US. So the audio isn't one hundred percent, but this episode is worth it, so stick with us. If you don't know Libby, she is a woman of many talents. She's an absolute powerhouse in the gym. I follow a lot

Thank you. I'm happy to be on here. I guess, yeah, on here.

I know it's weird, like gosh, like I'm happy to be you know, on air or like what do I say?

Yeah, It's okay. I'm just excited.

I'm super I'm thanking you were like, I want to meet with Livy and I want to talk. So thank you, No, right back at you.

I'm I'm so excited.

I've been a long time follower and lover of all your content, so I just want to share you with my rn C fam and get into it.

Yay Georgie.

When I tell you I've been watching you since I was a child, since it's been a hot minute, I feel like we've grown up together, so it's all the same same level.

I love that I love that, So let's get straight into it. For those who don't know who you are, could you just give us a little snapshot of who is Lippy?

What does she do?

Sure? Okay, So my name is Libby Christiansen.

I just turned twenty three in January and I'm a current college student. I actually should be finishing up college with my degree in liberal Arts and Sciences. I'm majoring in communications and I'm minoring in psychology. That takes up a lot of my time. But other than that, I am your average little social media gal. I post my workouts, lifestyle content, all kinds of stuff. I just share myself with the internet, you know, as we do. But I live a pretty average life as of right now. A

Oh my god, that's insane.

Yeah, and that's done. College done.

I'll be a full college graduate. I'll be a first generation graduate in my family. So I'm very excited about it.

Congratulations.

That is so epic. Oh my goodness. And what are the plans for after college?

Right now?

I'm thinking I will just kind of let it ride, wait it out, just because so much is up in the air. I want to enjoy my time where I can actually focus on content and social media, doing what I really enjoy, kind of expanding myself online and then you know, seeing what happens afterwards, but definitely trying to travel and use the time that I'm not using towards school right now to kind of just enjoy and relax.

Well, all I can say is, if you know we're not even getting the full Libby and you're like doing all of this with college and content and everything, guys, imagine when she's finished college and we.

Have the whole Libby. I'll just watched out. I'm scared and uproar.

Literally, Libby will be in every corner, I swear.

I just imagine the content you can create.

I can't wait for it. I'm so excited.

I feel like it'll be a huge weight off of my shoulders, a huge stress relief. I've been able to quit like a in person, full time job while also juggling social media as well as full time college, so I've like knocked those out slowly but surely, and eventually I'll get down to just being able to focus on what I really enjoy. So I can't wait for that.

I absolutely love that, and I resonate with that so much. I remember doing my social media and UNI and it's just like when you can't focus on one thing fully, you feel almost like this guilt for even one.

So yeah, I'm torn in too many directions.

Ah, yes, but so bloody exciting. Can you give us just a little snapshot, like, what does the day in the life look like for you? I'm sure it's different, but a typical day in the life right now?

Yeah, absolutely so. Usually I will wake up.

It just depends on the morning, and I'm really a morning workout person, so I like to get to the

I love that I'm the exact same, Like my day is so pretty much the same. And when yeah, so petive and when people are like, oh, like why don't you vlog more, I'm like, cause it's boring, Like I don't do anything interesting.

Yeah.

I hope that there's some type of like excitement throughout my day so I can be like, oh my gosh, should I film this? Should I document it?

But I'll put this on my stories?

Yeah exactly.

No.

I love that.

Let's kind of get into your health and fitness journey. So that's definitely what I see you focused on your social media, and you can see you have so much passion and so much like you know, motivation, and to be completely honest, you're so my hype girl. Like when I'm lacking motivation for health and fitness, like fitness, I go to your page because I love like your mini rants and you know, just the yeah, you can see

Yeah, I'm really happy that it all translates really well. That's what you see on Instagram is what you see in person. I am all energy, A million topics are in my head at one time, so I'm glad that it translates the same way. But in terms of my health and fitness journey, I've always been an athlete. I ran track and field when I was in middle school. In high school, I was a sprinter and that's what

They think that you are just everything to them. I don't know.

My coach really made me like mm disliked the track and feel the whole sport of it.

So I kind of fell out of love with it. But I had a lot of like.

D one university scholarships, but I didn't want that coach to receive credit for me, so I actually just stopped running completely my senior year. So when that happened this summer of my senior year, after I had graduated, I really lacked like direction because for so many years I was having somebody tell me, all right, go sprint this, go do this, do long jump, all of this, and I didn't know what to do with myself. So my

M I love that and I resonate with that because I'm much the same where I'm not necessarily well, I'm not I'm not qualified as you know, a pet, but I just really enjoy sharing my workouts, like I don't have to pay for them, and I just.

Really enjoy it.

And obviously, you know, I have some sort of knowledge because I've been training since I was seventeen. But I love your workouts because I always go to them and I do a lot of them when I'm like, I want to know, bullshit workout and I just want to, like, you.

Know, grumblers, try one.

Yeah, Oh your workouts are hard, though, I'm like, holy fuck.

They are a lot. I love it.

I love to feel like I am about my breaking point. That's my favorite thing, Like what else can my body do? I just love to know that I'm capable, honestly, That's why I love working out.

Well, that's a big thing about you too, is I can kind of like I definitely got the vibes that you came from an athletic background, because don't you think there's kind of like, you know a difference in the fitness world is like really training for that you know, aesthetics to look a certain way, doing like the entrend you know, fitness fitness regime compared to when someone like loves to move their body, and like you very much remind me of like you know, Natasha on YouTube, Like

I just I swear ever since I was a child, I've just run around like a crazy person always, and I finally found somewhere where I can actually focus that energy. And it's just through movie my body and having some type of like routine or just trying something new. So it's cool that I get to share that and document it.

Yeah, I love it, And so tell us because you just seem like you have all the energy all the time. You're so motivated, you're so pumped up. Do you ever have like off days or days like you're I'm not.

Really feeling it absolutely literally all the time.

And I think that comes with just having so much on my plate in terms of a lot of things are writing on my shoulders, whether that is like school and being able to finish. I owe it to myself to, you know, finish school. I can't tell you how many times I've been like, all right, I'm dropping out. I'm done with this, I'm over it, just because it's so much to handle, and you know, your priorities are elsewhere

Really, Yeah, you feed off that one hundred percent. And so tell us about like if you aren't feeling motivated, like.

What what will you do? What will you tell yourself?

Like?

What's the pet talk? Give it to us.

So I am a quote girl. I have tattoos of quotes everywhere.

Yeah.

My favorite is like my trademark that I somehow came up with on my stories about day is still a luxury. It's just it resonates so well and it's so true. I don't know how it came out of my mouth, but I believe it every single day, literally have it

That as well as if you're going through hell, keep going.

That's something that resonates with me because my mom, she's been sick a lot of my life, so she has a lot of little like different diseases, ailments, just things like that that she just keeps going. And I'm like, Okay, if my mom can do this, I can make it. I can make it through another day. It'll be all right. But yeah, I think that having those motivational like quotes as reminders or just little things that make you think and reevaluate your day help you to kind of get

Hey, brons, Yeah, no, I love that. And I'm also such a quote queen, Like, I know it's very you know, it's very Oh, of course she's using a.

Quote to motivate her.

But I was like, no, that she actually works, Like, I absolutely love that.

So it's a bad day is still a luxury.

Yes, And you don't have to be luxurious with material things. If you realize, like you have a twenty four hours that somebody else possibly doesn't have, you really put things into perspective a lot more and I think you appreciate every single moment a little bit more as well.

Yeah, well that's the big thing.

Like what I see there is like a huge mindset on perspective and gratitude and when you can kind of get back to that and realize, like, you know, the little things don't matter that are in how fucking epic that I do get to do a workout and you know, I even have this opportunity. I even have a gym to go to, you know, to move my body and staff Like getting back to that, it's almost like you want to slap yourself.

Yeah, you're like, why would you do this? Bitch? Like what the hell? No, Mari, why bit? But it really be like that sometimes.

But at the same time, like thankfully, like we do have a mindset where it's like all right, let's snap out of it, let's get go, And there's other people like that are writing on us that we carry throughout the day, and we have to be able to like step into our character for them, even though sometimes we don't feel at ourselves with It's like sometimes if you do it, you believe it.

You know, like this is unlike.

Yeah, yeah, it's just like you know, the whole quote of whether you believe you can do it or not.

You're right, yeah, yes, how true it is. It's almost rude. It's almost as effectful.

And I'm about it. I almost like need you on FaceTime.

So like anytime I'm like having this little wingy moment, I can just like have you there, and then you'll just say that.

To me literally look at you. You know what I'm gonna say, yeah, and I'll be like, yeah.

I'm being a wingy bitch.

No. I love that perspective though as well, like yeah, it's like you can do this, you can do this. Don't let you know, negative thoughts or those intrusive thoughts get to you because you've come so far. Look at this, with every single obstacle that you've had in your life that you were like I can't make it through this. Okay, Well it's tomorrow and you've done it, So I mean, like, what's next? You have another hurdle that come over, get it down?

And what I always say, like, imagine a life where you had no hurdles, nothing bad happened, everything was easy. You would never learn any life lessons. You would never you know, get to that next step and feel accomplished. Like if you think about it, life is literally just like learning shit lessons. And you mean the bad days you need those emotions to realize the good days, to you know, feel those things.

Yes, absolutely, it's like you can't make it through life without any struggles because you wouldn't have learned anything and it would have all been.

It would have been too easy. If only life was easy, you know. Yeah, excuse me, so easy to move.

Libby's dog wants to come online with us Bronx.

If he there's no Bronx, you know, here's something else.

Well, I love that little pep talk. Thank you.

Let's like, let's switch gears and let's chat about social media. So I honestly can't even remember how I came across here. Maybe it was like it was definitely before gym shark, So I don't know. I've just like i've just come across to your page and loved the workouts of everything was happening. And I remember following you when you were like twenty thousand, like.

Oh yeah, my comeback has been very recent. I will say like I definitely was sitting stagnant at some numbers for a long time.

But yeah, I get like three hundred K.

I don't know how to deal with that. I literally don't know. I don't know what's going.

I knew you're a big deal.

And that's the crazy thing, because it's like, you know, when you see numbers, you're like, oh, you must be famous in your town.

Now.

Literally, my neighbors don't know who I am. There's maybe like one or two girls at the gym that are like, are you Libby? And I'm like yeah, and it's like oh hi.

You know, it's like when people like do people just come up to you all the time. I'm like, no, no one knows who the fuck I exactly.

I'm a piece of shit. Like they literally walk past me. I'm the person that they run into with the grocery car. I swear.

I'm like, don't worry about me. My toes are fine, It's okay.

I'm just a doormat. It's fine.

No, so yeah, you've had to come up like things have happened. And don't get don't get me wrong, Like it's huge. I enjoy your content so much. You bring so much to the table, and you're one of those people I'm a big person of I will constantly go through my feed and mute people, unfollow people, and you know, continuously make sure that what I'm consuming is feeding me and fueling me in a really positive way. And you've made all the cuts. Oh so you two says thank goodness.

Oh gosh, I'm sorry to do the same thing though, I'm like, are you feeding my mental are you helping me grow? Like? Am I learning anything from you? If not, I'm so sorry. It's nothing personal, but like that's not necessarily on my feed. What do I need to consume this for?

No?

Not interested?

And also I find that if I have like too much going on, like I even like just having a small kind of group that I'm you know, feeling off and looking at so it doesn't feel almost too flinting. But yeah, so you know you've definitely you bring it to the table, which is huge. So firstly, your big congratulations because that's all your girlfriend tell us about, you know, your relationship with social media. Like you said, this wasn't something you know you planned or thought was a thing.

I love social media.

And when I tell you, Georgie, when I tell you that I've literally watched you since I was a child, I'm not joking. So do you remember when Instagram came out? It was like twenty twelve. You know what tumblr girls were? Yeah, it's helpless girl.

Okay, I was a tumbler girl. I had an.

Instagram and I was thirteen, thirteen years old in middle school, about to be in high school.

So I'm like very aware of social media.

And what's crazy is like I was doing sponsored posts before they were sponsored posts, before it was hashtag gifted.

Like I was.

Literally just receiving like little diy hairbows from these all businesses at thirteen years old. So it's crazy because I feel like I grew up with social media in such a huge way. But eventually I did this iPhone case collection okay on YouTube, my first ever YouTube video.

It was for an iPhone four.

Okay, So I had all these squishy, crazy cases that were sent to me, and I put that a video on YouTube and I swear I had the bullies in middle school and they were just making fun of me, and I was like, oh, I can't take it anymore. So basically, they started playing that video in middle school, which I feel like happens to a lot of people.

I don't know.

They played it on the projector so I literally like wept. I was like, I can't do this anymore, Like this isn't for me. So at thirteen, I deleted my account. I had like fifty thousand followers then, how crazy, Like that's how I know, Like, ah, it must be my personality. It just might be me as a person that people flocked to, which is really nice and reassuring.

But at that time, I was like I can't handle it, can't do it.

So basically I remade an Instagram A couple of years later and went through a breakup. My ex knew my passwords to everything, and this was when I had like an okay following where I had carryover from my thirteen year old self. I had like three thousand followers that just like followed me for like lifestyle and stuff. Right

Was I win, Georgie. I cannot make this shit up.

This is I know you're like, I didn't.

Ask that question.

I know, I love it. I love it.

So basically I was like, I'm not bitch, okay, and I didn't even know it yet, but I was like, I'm not letting you get to me, stupid hater. So then as time went on, I literally like went through college, met my boyfriend, and then that's when the little random workouts started. But I feel like I've just really grown up with social media and OG's will know it too. But it's just crazy because I just feel like social media has a huge place in my heart.

I used to watch YouTube forever ago.

I've just been around it so much, and it's just really cool to kind of come to a place where I consumed so much content and I was so invested in other people and now other people are like.

Libby, what's up?

What are you eating? Like what are you doing today? What's your workout? And it's crazy that it's come full circle that way. But I'm so thankful that all that stuff had happened that I deleted my first little Instagram everything, because it put me where I'm at now and I've learned so much and i feel like I've just like accumulated so much knowledge and experience from it.

Although I'm like still young.

It's I'm glad that it's been slow growth though, because it has cool as it is to blow up overnight for people. I've been doing this for like almost five years, just on the account that I have now, and it's so cool to hit little milestones to be able to reflect and not everything happened too quick where I won't forget special things. It's been a gradual growth, and I'm just very, very thankful for it because if you told me where I would be six months ago, wouldn't have

You know, it just you can look at it in.

A shallow perspective, but if you actually do a deep dive and think about, oh my gosh, like this has really changed my life and made me a better person, opened me up to new experiences and new people, why not be thankful?

You know, I love it.

I love it.

Yeah, it's been It's so it's so true. Like you said, like, you know, the slow growth and being so thankful Instagram growing with you, and I feel like you're definitely, you know, a quote unquote influencer who is so authentic.

You bring so much to the table. You're such a positive.

Influence and it's like we need more of that. So yeah, I yeah, I think I think that's so important.

I think, And yeah, I think part of it is also as much as we hear the term influencer, that's cool and whatnot. I can influence you to pi a pair of Jim Shark, that's so cool. I love that for me, But I want to be more than Jim Shark, and I want to be myself and I don't want these other things to be my identity.

I'd rather have impact rather than influence.

So I hopefully, hopefully I impact people in a positive way, not just influence them to you know, spin their coins or like X, Y and Z. But I hope that I do make a positive difference in people's lives and urge them to be confident in themselves and unapologetically themselves and authentic as well.

But yeah, oh absolutely, And I think you definitely hit the nail on the head there because there's almost like this new era of influencers that are coming through that it is impact over influence, and people like you know, consumers and I hate calling them you know, followers, but it's like they want to see the real shit that yeah, they be to have a look at your sponsored posts and whatnot. But unless you are giving value like uh, you know, and adding to their lives, people are smart.

It was there.

It's very kind of like surface of all fitness. And then I kind of remember this pivotal moment where I kind of saw what was happening in the industry and I was like, I don't want to be that person, and I know there's so much more that I can bring to the table. I almost felt like not enough, Like who am I to speak about you know, female

Honestly, I would love to say that I've had a similar thing, but like it's really take me as I am, relieve me, Like, bye, Yeah, I have always been off the walls, like energetic, one hundred percent myself. I say things how it is, and I need to like sometimes stop myself and check myself because I don't need to hurt people's feelings. Sometimes I'm just brutally honest and I state my opinion and it's not a well liked opinion,

They flock to me.

I'm convinced because you know, you see people and you're like Oh.

My gosh, she's so quirky and weird.

But deep down that person has that little part of them that they're like, I just wish I could express it the way that somebody else does. And they flock to what they relate to. And that's how I know I have an audience that I do, because they're freaking hilarious.

Okay.

They send me the funniest dms and they have the exact same humor as me, And I'm like, you guys, my people. And that's what's crazy, is like, if you're not my people, there's a reason you haven't found my page. And what's meant to be yes, Like what's meant for you will not pass you by? Okay, yes, So it's like everything happens for a reason type thing, you know, yeah,

But this is so this is a huge thing that be because I feel the exact same way of when you do show up authentically. When you are you know, you're quirky, and everyone's quirky, everyone's weird if you truly express yourself. But when you are that person, you attract the exact yes people, and anyone who you know says otherwise or talk shit, you're like, well, thank god, because they're not my people.

Yeah, you're not spearing. You must have sometimes too far. I'm sorry. I don't know how I got recommended to you said yeah bye. But that's what's.

True, is people flock to what they relate to, whether that's fitness or if it's me being mixed race, me

Be like, oh my gosh, you're my best friend. Nor'm like, hey, besties, what's up.

We love being in the Libby hole.

We love it.

We love being in that Libby hole. All right, Libby, Well, let's buddy swap. Oh wait before we swap gears, Sorry, before we change topics. Do you just want to give some advice for someone who maybe does want to start social media or you know, something on the side and they are not feeling confident enough to express themselves. What would you say to that person.

Yeah, I feel like there's always this hesitation when you're pursuing something that you aren't sure of what the outcome might be. And I think it's important to kind of allow yourself to try new things, whether that is getting into social media, or posting your workouts or even filming yourself in the gym for the first time. The more you do something, the more comfortable you get with it. And it kind of goes hand in hand with what we just talked about. If you're wanting an audience, you

You never know. You could be like me and be like, Okay, I was not expecting any of this, but you'll be grateful that you did it at first.

Oh, we love a motivational talk by you would be.

I guess it.

No, I couldn't agree more and yeah, no, we love that. And I think it's also super special what you said about, you know, not being too worried, because if you're feeling a certain way, like there are other people feeling a certain way.

There are other people were interested. You just need to find your people.

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Also it was global.

It was clearly a global issue, and yeah, you were definitely an account that I loved watching. I loved, you know,

Yeah?

So I feel like I have never been so passionate or heavily involved in anything in terms of social media until the Black Lives Matter movement came up. And it's always been a movement. It just hit social media and

Because you don't know something as much as you know it unless you've lived it.

You know, you can do as much research as you want, but a lived experience is I think a little bit more valuable than just learning from reading a textbook, because as we know, textbooks have been altered and whatnot, and history is just a mess. But when you're living in

You know, yeah, one hundred percent. And I think also what you said about you know, there is so much information and there's articles and those books and there's textbooks, but going to someone and listening to their real life experience and even just the huge thing that I saw in the movement was just people.

Being more aware of.

Oh, on their Instagram feed, they do just follow you know, white blonde people who look like that.

And because I think.

Almost a lot of it, Like I remember kind of having a discussion with my friends who kind of explained that whether like I think, for me, the biggest thing was awareness because before it's like it wasn't evin and a thought, but for the first time, it was thought provoking and it was out putting that awareness in which is huge. But also why I did love going to your account too, was you know, from listening to someone who does have that personal experience too, which I think is so important.

And I absolutely have completely different experiences from other people, and I talked about this a lot, is that I am biracial, I'm light skinned, and oftentimes people of darker complexion are quote targeted for absolutely no reason at all other than racism. And I, even as a young mixed female, experience racism differently than my boyfriend, who is six ' three. He was a lineman in college football, but he's a black man in America, and he experiences, you know, life

Yeah, so important. And I did love that too that you brought your boyfriend's experience into that as well. I wanted to know from your perspective. And please, don't get me wrong, I know you know we need to be taking these steps ourselves and being more aware and taking you know, our own action to find this out. But what would your kind of recommendations be for people who maybe they have fear and I to be completely transparent, have kind of felt this with saying the wrong thing,

I feel like no matter where you're at, there are always going to be those people that will say you're not doing enough, or you're doing too much, or this is performative. But if you actually care to learn, I think that educating yourself by learning about other people's experiences. Oh my gosh, there's so many different people that you can follow or scroll back on their page or look at their highlights to see what they were talking about

I love that.

I love that you touched on we're not always going to get it right the first time, and as long as you can acknowledge that and keep moving forward and keep learning and keep being open minded.

Yeah, like that's huge.

Absolutely, I think that's the most important part. Sorry, I'm moving things, but I do think that's the most important part, is actually knowing and coming to terms with the fact that you're not going to know it all.

You might not ever live.

The same experience as someone else, but that does not disqualify you from being an ally or being an advocate for someone.

One hundred percent. Oh I love that.

Well, thank you for chatting to us about that and everyone I Libby, do you still have all your highlights from Black Lives Matter?

Yes?

I do. They are a little bit back, but I mean they're there, and I mean I literally looked at those the other day because I have not visited them since I posted them, honestly, and it's just wild because I think I reference for people to go check it out, and I had replies to my highlights, so I was like, what are people replying to I went back and looked at it, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm I'm so proud of myself because I feel like for so long I've just been the type of person I

And I think that that.

Was a really pivotal moment for me, at least in my own life too as well as social media, because I really found myself not only like in the in the world of fitness, but this is another part of me, and I think that opened up a lot of the conversation.

One hundred percent. And those highlights, they are They're unbelievable. I remember obviously watching them in real time, but I did see that you had saved them. So guys, please go back to all the way back to Libby's highlights, because they are really good and really informative, and you can, you know, you can see how much you showed up and you were, like, you know, so there in the moment doing the thing, which is amazing to see.

I mean, there's like four of them right now, but I just remember how exhausting it was. Georgie.

I literally don't think I've ever been so mentally fatigued in my entire life, but it was obviously it was so worth it. But I remember talking to my friend a Jazzi, and we were both like hitting it on Instagram. We had hundreds of stories every single day of resources and then talking about what's going on in our own experiences, and it.

Was like a mod arvory that was a whole thing.

And I remember going on the run on his birthday and I was like, okay, like I feel like I've done my part, but I want to do more. And then a couple of days later, we have George Floyd and I'm like, Okay, mentally, I can't handle this. And I felt like I was so engulfed in social media and I felt like it was my job to educate people, which obviously it's not, but it felt like I want to share this and I want to put as much information out there as I can.

But I cannot even.

Tell you how tired I was. Like mentally, I was like, what else am I supposed to do? I feel like I'm doing everything I can. And that's the thing is like you feel like you're doing so so much, but racism still exists. And there has to be fights that are fought and you have to be part of it.

And that's kind of the thing. I feel like I kind of compromise. I did.

I compromise my own mental health, but I felt like it came at a greater cost and I felt like it was worth it. But now when these things happen and when there is a large conversation, I feel like I can take a step back, take a breath, analyze what's going on instead of just you know, it's like when somebody comes out with an apology video, they're like, oh my gosh, I have to hop in here at the moment and I have to correct my wrongs or whatever.

No, I've learned now.

That I don't have to throw my entire body and everything into something. I can take a step back because I know that a lot of the work or some of the work has been done, but I don't have to do it all myself, and I won't be the person that doesn't all myself.

I can only do my part, and it's important not to fatigue myself with trying to do that.

Oh no, one hundred percent. And like I actually remember thinking that during the time, like you could just see how on you are, how on you were.

And.

Yeah, like how much heart was involved in everything you did. So I could imagine you feeling so fatigued and so drained. But it's just, yeah, so amazing to see. And like I said, guys, those highlights of there, make sure you check them out. It was it was honestly so pivotal and it was just even your content for me was such a pivotal moment in my awareness and my understanding, and so yeah, I couldn't imagine everyone else to Oh my gosh.

I'm happy that it somehow made an impact on you.

No huge part, honestly, and that's why I really wanted to chat about it today.

But Libby, thank you so much. You are literally such a legend.

That was a very ausy slang word to say, but mate, you're a legend.

I love it.

As So this season of the Rising Concord podcast we are chatting bold moves and bold action, and I wanted to ask you what's next for you and how will you be taking bold action in twenty twenty one.

Oh my gosh, bold moves and bold action. Well, first of all, we're getting this degree literally next week, Like I need.

In the mail right now. Old, I'm excited.

I'm just really proud of myself because I mean, I'm sure you can relate when you're in school, You're like, oh, I could just give up. I could just be done with it all and move forwardit. I'm just really proud of myself for sticking it out. Because I was supposed to graduate in twenty twenty in May, and then I was supposed to graduate in December of twenty twenty. That didn't happen. Things got pushed, and here we are now March. What a random time, but March of twenty twenty one,

Gosh, statistics mean nothing.

But I can't wait to build myself up, grow a little bit more, learn about myself. Hopefully I get to meet some people, and you know, hopefully twenty twenty one provides what we want. But other than that, I mean, I don't know. I just want to live life for a little bit, make some bold moves randomly. I'm sure, I don't know. You know how these opportunities come up.

Sometimes you got to have sactly No, Liby, you are honestly such an inspiration. We bloody love you, and I like, I'm just telling you right now, like you don't like. Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm sorry. Happy to have some coach and calls anytime you want. But anything you do, I know it's going to be so epic because you put your heart into everything and like you said, you show up so authentically you and it's going to make sense and it's going to be, you know, on purpose,

Thank you. I'm so excited.

Thank you, thank you, and Libby, can you let everyone know where they can find you, where they can join the Libby Hole.

Yes, of course, you guys can find me on Instagram. I'm at Libby Christiansen. Also on YouTube Libby Christensen, and I think that's it. I guess I have a TikTok as well. I'm not a huge TikToker. I'm no Charlie Demilio.

I'm really just me, but I believe it's literally the same username. Thank goodness. But yeah, I love it.

I love it all three and I'll put that in the show notes. Guys. Ah, thank you so much. Libby, Yes, of course, thank you. Thank you for.

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