[00:00:00] Welcome to the average nineties gal podcast. Join me as I share my own journeys through life, how I got and continue to get through them, as well as real stories from real people in this crazy world. Let's get through it together.
Hello, this is Meredith here and welcome to the average nineties gal podcast. I am so happy you are here, and thank you so much for being here and listening. This is the pilot episode, episode number one, and I just wanted to come in and introduce myself so you know, you're wondering who the heck is this person and why is she joining 5 million people starting a podcast?
And just to start things off, so I am [00:01:00] a divorced single mom. I am almost 50 years old. I was born and raised in California. Lived in New York City in Brooklyn, love Brooklyn for 15 years, and came back to California in September of 2020. And I have been through a lot. I will get into more of my story in specifics of everything I've been through and everything I have come out of.
I have had many. Different journeys, many different iterations of those journeys. And of course, like all of us, I am still going through it and I have been thinking about starting a podcast and wanting to do this. It has been in my heart and my soul and my brain for a very long time now. So I thought. Why the hell not, let's just do this.
There is no reason why I shouldn't be doing this. [00:02:00] So I really want to utilize this platform as a way I. To share my story, to help others, and in addition to solo episodes, I will also be speaking with my own friends, my own family members, and then eventually experts and people who know the answers to certain things.
That we go through in our lives, but I really want this to be about real people with real stories in this bonkers world we are living in to help each other out, to just get through it. And I really, once again, just want to help other people. And I know that I am a woman. I identify as a woman, but if this will help anyone out there, you do not have to be a woman to listen to this and [00:03:00] hopefully get something out of this and to help others.
So once again, I am a Gen X, uh, child of the eighties, teen into adulthood of the nineties. And Gen X everyone says is the forgotten generation. And I do feel that it seems to go straight from boomers to millennials, and there is this entire generation in between. And let's just say we have experienced a lot of changes in our lives because we started in a world that was all analog, you know, riding our bikes.
No phones. Uh, doing all the things without technology, and then we became teens in, into adulthood, into college and into careers, learning, tech, teaching ourselves, tech, [00:04:00] figuring it all out as the internet came in, as flip phones came in and all of the above, and we will talk about all of this later, but I do love our generation.
I love everything. That anyone who is a Gen X will understand when they hear this. To be in high school in the nineties was amazing. The music was amazing. The movies were amazing. Everything was fantastic. Not to say that life and the world was perfect because there's no such thing as perfect. But I of course, am biased, but I really do love the time that I grew up in.
So we will also be speaking to people who are not part of Gen X and talking about that as well. Talking to Gen Zs, millennials, boomers. I want to talk to everyone just to see. What it is that everyone has done to get through difficult times of their lives, [00:05:00] as well as how they're getting through everything now, how they grew up has informed who they have become as an adult, as a parent, as a single person, as someone who doesn't wanna get married, as someone who doesn't wanna have children, we are going to cover it all.
So all of that to say. I hope you'll join me on this journey of being, um, a podcaster, as being someone who is sharing out into the world as well as helping at the same time. So thank you again for being here. I can't wait for you to join me on future episodes, so stay tuned and I hope you have a fabulous day.
