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== The role of therapy in Aziza's personal and professional life ==

* I have a really easy answer to this and what it is, is therapy. Yeah. Um, so I actually do go to therapy and it has completely changed my life in that it has made me a much better person, not just for myself, but for everybody who has to interact with me. I am calmer. I am kinder. Um, I'm more patient. And what I have really walked away from therapy with is the ability to stop and think about things. So somebody cuts me off and gives me the finger. You know what? I think now, like previously I would be raging and I'd be like, okay, I'm going to have like a rage heart attack. Now I think, wow, they must be having a really bad day and I hope they could find some drops of joy. And so drops of joy came about because I was just throwing ink on the page and somebody else said, wow, that's a lot of drops of joy. And, um, that's kind of what my thing is now. Like that's my motto is make drops of joy and share it with people and help people find even a tiny bit of happiness just to make their days a little bit better. So it's keeping me going because it allows me to enjoy something for myself. It allows me to refill my cup by sharing with others and seeing them walk away with some peace and happiness and people just smile. It's so cheesy, but it's just, it's just so happy. I know I'm choking up over here. I'm never going to ask this question again because no one's going to ever have a better answer than this. It's just, I'm just so proud of you. And just, it's just a lovely, beautiful answer. And, you know, I, uh, I think it's fantastic. I think it's fantastic. This is my purpose in life. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Helping people. All right. So we're going to help, uh, maybe spend some people's money now, uh, which is also something that we enjoy doing. Yeah. Like, oh yeah. I do enjoy that. Yes. It's true. So since I'm going to be having a lot of guests here going forward, I'm curious to, you know, we, we do like what we've done on this show. We talk about things and we talk about you. I want to talk about your stuff. Oh yeah. This is a, this is a stuff podcast to a degree. Totally. And I want to know your personal favorite. So I picked out a few broad topics and we're going to see where we go from here. And the first one, I just said, give me three of your favorite fountain pens that you personally own. You could, you could do it. Shock. I can do it. I could do it. Okay. So hit me. Okay. Top three. So I have a Mont Blanc 146 and it has a bespoke signature music nib on it. So it's the really fat three time two slit nib. Okay. So bespoke, is that a special series that they did? Yeah. So you have to send in for it. I did not send in, I did not purchase this through a boutique. I got it at a pen show, which is another reason you need to go to pen shows. Yeah. So it was insane that I was able. Yeah. Go to your bank first and then go to the pen show. Go to your bank. But see, when you get it at a pen show, it's a much more reasonable price.
* So just saying. You're not wrong. You're technically not wrong. Technically not wrong. Um, I've got the shown design Ultem with a Monarch, the stub Monarch, because it's a chonk. Yep. Um, and then last, I have my Hardy Pens hot pink lemonade, which was my shop exclusive. And it has a stylo suite 1.5 millimeter flex nib on it. Oh my gosh. That sounds amazing. Those are my all, I mean, amongst others, those are my always inks, but these are really special to me. Yeah. I love it. Um, speaking of your shop, I did want to drop that in here real quick. We'll obviously link it, but you make some really fun pens. How many of those pens that you create for the shop or inks that you create for the shop are just because you want to use them personally? That is exactly why. 90. I would say 98%. Yeah.
* I know. It's amazing. And then there's occasionally friends who are like, can you make something a little less pink and sparkly? I'm like, I'll try. Yeah.
* Literally. I'll consider it. All right. So what, I don't have this pulled up. What are the two Bennu unicorn pens names? So the first one was what? The first one was the true unicorn, which is literally cotton candy, pink and blue. And it has gigantic holographic glitter flakes in it. Yeah. So then you answered this person's question by doing what specifically? By making it a dark unicorn version. So it's, I mean, you know. It all makes sense now. It's the same thing, just dark. But there's also the raven, which is very mysterious and beautiful. So that might be a more appropriate choice for people who don't like pink and sparkly because it's black with deep, deep blue shimmer in it, just like a raven's wings. So it's very elegant. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. And you have a bunch of inks in there. How do you decide on ink colors? That's a challenge I'm having right now. I literally have one ink. I want to do more ink, but I'm a little bit hesitant. Well, you just do multiples. You don't decide on one. That's insane. Golly. You know, that's great advice. Yeah, do a set. Who cares? Do them all, right? Do them all. Make it a complimentary set. I promise you people will buy your full set of ink, including myself.