You are now listening to season three of the TRC podcast. You ever had that friend where it's like, yeah, I don't talk every day, but as soon as you catch up or talk, it's like no time has passed. I feel like this is, this is low key, how it feels like the real confessions podcast is back. I am your host, ada Ozuna, and honestly, it feels so amazing saying that my last episode was actually in 2021. So it's been years since I last uploaded. But one thing that still surprises me. I'm not going to lie. Yesterday I went to look into these stats and I seen that I still have listeners from all over the world and we reached 18,000 downloads. And for you it's like, girl, all right stats. But that means a lot to me because the fact that I haven't posted in years or uploaded a podcast episode in years and my story still impacts someone. I couldn't give this up. I had to come back, y'all. So it's like, yeah, three years, a lot happened, a lot changed, but one thing that did not change is the fact that I'm here to showcase my story. I'm here to showcase my voice and be authentic, despite not having it together. Me starting this podcast in 2020, I didn't have everything together, I didn't have the tools, I didn't have the knowledge, but I was still able to show up and showcase my journey and connect with you. So if you're returning, I just want to give you literally like a virtual tight hug, because it's like thank you for holding space for me, thank you being here and if you're new, welcome, you're gonna love it here. 

I'm going to create an audio experience. This is not going to be a podcast. That's like I was debating, like I wanted it for it to be like a video podcast. Maybe we could do that in the future, but I want to keep the essence of you know how I started again. We're going to refine, we're going to change. We have new tools, a new mindset. I feel like I've grown and matured and evolved, but, at the end of the day, what's going to stay true to me is the fact that this podcast is for me to show up really authentically. I'm going to show up as myself. 

This podcast is a podcast to grow, to learn, to reflect, to slow down and I don't know, I feel like I've always had this urge or this obligation to help others. I don't know if it's the inner child in me or that teenager that felt lost and didn't really know who to speak to about certain things that was happening. But, yeah, this is literally why I started the podcast, as a form of self-expression, as a form of, yeah, just showing up for not only myself, but making sure that others that may be going through the same thing feel seen and feel heard. But the next episode is going to be Dear Past Self, which is literally my comeback off of socials. Just a little recap I was off of social media for almost three years, I know. 

When I first launched the podcast, I was actually an entrepreneur full time. So now I'm navigating corporate worlds, so I actually closed my business and started working on 9 to 5 again, so we'll talk about that. I'm also a single mom, so I've been a single mom since pretty much when Josiah was born, my son. I going back to school, so I'm a student, and then, yeah, once again like navigating content creation, podcasts, all of those things. So I feel like since 2020, so much has changed and a lot more is on my plate, but it's crazy that with time, with experience, I was able to mature. I was listening to my old episodes too. I'm like I don't know how I literally didn't care. I showed up as my authentic self, and that's something that, yeah, we're going to keep the essence of that. I don't care we're going to be goofy, we're going to keep it real, keep it authentic. 

One thing that I'm super excited to share is a lot of archive voice memos. So during my time away, I may have not been posting or anything like that, but I was still documenting my journey because I knew I was going to come back eventually. I didn't know when, I didn't know how, but I knew that I was gonna come back. So expect um archive episodes. Um, a lot of those archive episodes are moments of reflection. You're gonna experience me crying. You're gonna experience me laughing. You're gonna experience moments of joy. You're gonna experience me having conversations with other people. Um, you're going to experience also new content. We're literally going to travel Once again. This is why I call this like an audio experience, because the Real Confessions podcast is literally the world's in my lens. We're going to get into all of it. 

But the one thing I do want for you to take away from this reintroduction is the fact that never be afraid to start over. Let my journey, let my experience me stepping away. If I could step away from social media for three years, come back and still have people that care for me, still have people that are rooting for me, you can do the same. I started from zero. That's one thing about it. I literally started with zero subscribers, zero downloads, zero followers. We all start from scratch. 

My first episode was in 2020. Mind you, 2020 was a year where it was a pandemic. I became a new mom at the age of 19. So many things were happening and I was able to still show up authentically. You know, I stepped away and I feel like it was all intentional. At the end of the day, I stepped away to learn, to grow. We're gonna get into. You know what happened in the midst of these three years, but a lot of growth occurred. A lot of maturity had to occur, definitely a lot of unlearning, a lot of different behaviors, a lot of different things, habits and stuff that did not align with me. 

But I'm super grateful to be here. My heart is literally so full. I can't believe I'm back. We're going to travel back in time. We're going to travel to the future. We're going to be in the present, but at the end of the day, I want to take you on this journey and I want to be able to connect with you. I want to be able to grow and learn together, because I know that I'm not alone in my journey, although it may feel that way. 

There's this obligation that I have to show up in a way that's authentic to me, because I know that that's not only helping me, because I just believe it does help me, allows me to step out of my comfort zone and allows me to expose myself to things that are pretty uncomfortable, y'all and scary. But if I can do it, you can do it too. So I want to close this out with intention. Once again, if you stayed or you just joined, I want to say thank you. You're now part of the journey, you're locked in and I'm grateful for you. You let's continue to grow together, one audio file at a time, because that's that's what I'm gonna call them like. 

hese are audio files. Some of them are archived, some of them are new, um, so it's literally like a digital library. This is something that's scary and vulnerable, but something that I do enjoy, because it helps me, it helps you and I feel like it's just a win-win. So I'm grateful for you. Stay tuned for episode one. A lot of new things coming, so just check out the links in the description. And yeah, we'll catch in the next episode, Aida out.