This is a short transcript excerpt from Vanessa Marin's YouTube video "Ask Us Anything!" (July 1, 2024). Vanessa describes posting a very short, bare-bones Instagram story after a podcast episode, receiving supportive responses from followers, and feeling both encouraged and vulnerable about sharing more of her personal story publicly due to fear of judgment.
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After that first episode came out, we did a very Xander did a very short story on Instagram, just, like, sharing the most bare bones part of it. And we didn't even say, like, I don't think we did say that was the, the reason from the podcast episode. We just kind of wanted to, like, dip our toe in and see what it was like. And fortunately, the responses that we got were so supportive. Like, people were just really kind and shared, like, thank you for your vulnerability and your honesty and sharing that. So it gave us the courage and the confidence to continue moving forward and, like, sharing more parts of the story. But it's still really fucking vulnerable. Yeah, really fucking hard. Like, I know that there are people who are going to judge you and judge us for it, and that's scary and sad and really hard. It's really hard.