Well, well, well. WHAT A WEEK. amiright?! I'd love for you to watch my message, but if you're more of a reader and care less about the details, tears, inspirational curse words and humor, you can find the shortened version below.

Throughout TheBlox experience, I had the pleasure of talking to a lot of you, though I know not all of you. To be honest by the last day, there were handful people I saw, and realized I never even saw them. That made my heart really sad but I know we all did the best we could with the prison cell we were given.

If I did get to spend time with you this past week, I'm sure you gathered that I like a good punny or metaphoric conversation. I thought I'd share my “first day of freedom” experience this morning with you all as I think (read:hope) you'll appreciate it.

I even tried to just like write this message so I could jump into the other work thats staring me in the face, but the truth was I needed to come here. I needed to get this off my chest because life is short, and quite frankly I’ll probably forget to come back to this because I’ll see a million other squirrels and shiny objects.

The experience. The feeling of being in that room.

I've got a lot more weeds to pick but this time metaphorically. We spent the last week deep diving into some incredibly important topics about our business and while I wish we could have stayed longer, I’m perfectly happy back in my backyard hammock.

We all have negative thoughts and self doubts, we’re human. But it’s time to pluck that weed. I know y’all heard me talk a lot about the energy of the room and the lack of words to properly describe it to someone else. I think it’s important to note that that energy was pure, and likely NOT MEANT to be put into words for someone else. They wouldn’t get it…AND THAT'S OKAY. We all have rooms we’re in at home that is filled with people who don’t get it.

Pluck yourself right on out of that room that is no longer serving you and find a new one. Or better yet, CREATE ONE.

To those who never made it on stage I hope you still carry an incredible sense of accomplishment because showing up to Tulsa, and continuing to show every single day was hard. Like FUCKING HARD. And there were days that a lot of you might have been really bummed and felt you deserved to be on stage. Hell, I felt this way. Not winning the Pod on Branding day initially felt like a slap in the face. (Tho also a massive sigh of relief to not have to go up there). I had an instant feeling of doubt. Of embarrassment. This is what I do for a living, how could I have not won that pod. But then I quickly remembered that I didn’t come for the game. I didn’t come to win the money. I didn’t come to show off. I came to learn. To grow. To connect. To share. TO INSPIRE.

Thank You Wes.
Thank You Ops Team.
Thank You Production.
Thank You Osage, Tulsa.
Thank You Judges.
Thank You brand new besties.

It was HARD showing up everyday. It was hard diving into the unknown every day. It was HARD to eat the catering for the 6th day in a row, SO SO HARD. But you did it. And I want you to recognize, that:

showing up was a CHOICE.

You could have very well buckled under pressure and hid in the tall skinny closets of your hotel room. But you didn’t. You showed up. And guess what you didn’t even just show up for yourself, you showed up for all of us. And for that I thank you.

I see you. I’m proud of you. I believe in you. And I’m here for you.

Please don’t ever hesitate to reach out, I love you all, I’m out. BYEEEEE!