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There is genuinely no reason to cause yourself stress over a launch, and in fact, when I used to work in theater, one of our, like, favorite phrases was, "There's no such thing as an arts emergency," because let me tell you, the theater industry likes to really pretend that there are big, uh, that there are big arts emergencies.

Like, everything always feels like an emergency.

Um, but actually, you know, it's not an emergency.

You can just change the date of your launch.

[laughs] And I've had, and I've had launches in the past where I was literally running on fumes because I refused myself flexibility, and it's just not a vibe.

So one of my non-negotiables now is that if something needs more time, it just gets more time, and even if I don't...

I'm gonna change non-negotiables to this sentence that I'm gonna say now.

And one of the things I'm really trying to do this year is to stop rushing because it feels like I spend so much time rushing around when actually it's not necessary.

So even if it doesn't feel comfortable changing dates, like...

So even if it doesn't feel comfortable using that flexibility, I a- so even if it doesn't feel comfortable, like, shifting that timeline, it...

So even if it doesn't feel comfortable doing it, like, also shout out to my pals who reminded me of this, [laughs] who reminded me of this, who reminded...

Oh, God's sake.

So if, so even if it doesn't necessarily feel comfortable doing it, like, shout out to my pals this week who reminded me of the flexibility that I have.

[laughs] It is, yeah, sometimes it's just the best thing you can do.