TBG University: The Growing Pains of Graduation

Published Mar 28, 2023, 6:03 PM

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Whether you’re packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stoles for graduation, embarking on the next chapter of your life is often exciting, but also a little scary. There can be a lot of unknowns that can leave you feeling uncertain and having the right support can help you to feel confident and grounded. TBG U was designed to help you strengthen your voice, sharpen your knowledge, and affirm who you are and who you’ll become. Our goal is to create relevant and accessible resources, content, and experiences to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond.

In this first episode of the TBG U series,  we're joined by graduating seniors Jayna Ellis from The University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill and Kaliha James of Howard University. During the conversation they shared the lessons they've learned over the last four years and how their perspectives have changed throughout their time on campus.

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Congratulations, you've been accepted into the inaugural class of Therapy for Black Girls University or tBu for short. Whether you're packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stulls for graduation, Embarking on the next chapter of your life is often exciting but also a little scary. There can be a lot of unknowns that can leave you feeling uncertain, and having the right support can help you to feel confident and grounded. TBGU was designed to help you strengthen your voice, sharpen your knowledge, and affirm who you are and who you'll become. Our goal is to create relevant and accessible resources, content and experiences to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond. If something real an eates with you while enjoying our conversation, please share it with us on social media using the hashtag TBG University and be sure to join us over on TikTok and Instagram at TBG University. Our seminar is now in session. Laptops or phones out you'll definitely want to take notes. I'm Jana Ellis. I'm a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduating class of twenty twenty three, and this is TBG University. I'm Kalia James. I'm a student at Howard University, graduating class of twenty twenty three, and this is TBG University. I'm so excited to introduce you to our two guests today, Jana Ellis and Khalia James, two incredible graduating seniors with a wealth of knowledge and lived experience that they're going to share with us today. To kick us off, we're going to hear a little bit from Jana and Kalia about some of the invaluable lessons they've learned over the last four years and how their perspectives have changed and becoming upper class women. Khalia will kick us off. So the first thing is just balancing my life, being on my own schedule because until now, like high school, you're told where to be, when to be and even though we still have classes, now they're way more spread apart and you have more free time to figure out what you want to do certain hobbies. So that was the first thing. And then moving into my own apartment, meal prepping, having to feed yourself betimes a day, like it's a task, it's a task, and also moving your body being active. That was another thing. I felt like, you know, you're young, so you don't always have to worry about that stuff. But I think for the long term, I want to keep my body healthy, so finding time to be active and evaluating the people in my life and making sure that the people that surround myself with have similar lifestyle to me. I think, especially as a teenager, you care about being liked a lot, and that still goes into college. So just having the curves to be disliked or just following your own path and not feeling pressure to do certain things because everyone else is doing them. So my senior year has taught me so much about myself in a way that the past three years just has not, and that has scared me, that has excited me. It has maybe uncomfortable, but I feel like there's no other time in my life that I should be feeling these things. It's a transition period. I've accepted that. I've accepted that with change comes uncomfortableness, and with that it's all about how you talk to yourself, what's your outlook on life, like you decide how you want to think about senior year. So I just have really tried my best and moments of uncertainty and moments of anxiety just to see the positive so to speak about like the year itself and all the accomplishments I've made throughout my time at Carolina, and just accepting the fact that this is a positive transition, This is a normal transition, and there are thousands of other students experiencing the same thing. So like finding community and solace in that has been really important to me. It's impressive that these young women have been able to identify these life skills and put them into practice. It becomes even more exceptional as I'm reminded that a portion of their collegiate experiences were impacted by the COVID nineteen pandemic. So I heard a university view you were virtual for a year and a half and I was very end of my freshman year, and then we didn't get back in person until the second semester of my junior year, and it really affected I guess there's the social aspect of college, which is honestly, especially underground, it's a very important aspect. Like just doing the work in my childhood bedroom had me going insane and I was just like on my phone a lot more because I had to be on my phone for school, and then being on my phone, my laptop has only been connected with my friends, so it just felt like I was constantly in front of a screen. And I guess that was about everyone, but it was exhausting to not have human interaction during such an important part of our young adulthood. And then also when we got back to Howard, most of the time only underclassmen are on campus, so a lot of people are junior year. They had a starting off campus in apartment. It like pushed forward the timeline of like us, having the on campus experience at Howard and commuting to college is a lot different than being on campus. You can miss out on some of the activities and it just prolonged your day because you have to go back and forth and things of that nature. Freshman year great times. That fall semester, I almost had too much fun. I will say that too much fun. Needed to be in a library a little bit more, But I don't have immediate family that at Tendant School, so I'm walking into it being presented just all of this fun, all of this new beginnings, new life, new experienced new people, new food, new cars, chopp oil, is a different socioeconomic status, Like, it's all different from where I'm from. So that was something that I did hold onto when I was comfortable. I was getting familiar with the change of already transitioning into a collegiate space. And then my spring semester, COVID happened, And so you're getting adjusted to studying on your own, You're getting adjusted to not having your family around you as much. So learning how to take care of myself, learning how to advocate for myself and not have my parents to kind of like speak up for me if a teacher is not treating me right. Like all these things I had to learn I was getting familiar with. And so once COVID happened, it kind of not kind of, it did a brute my experience and quite literally change the path of my journey. And I think, now having hindsight, I am grateful for that because in the midst of me enjoying myself and the midst of me having all this fun that I don't regret. I do believe your first semester, have the fun. That's the time to have your fun. I'm an advocate for it, and then you learn how to have fun with balance. I don't think that without COVID I would have ever really found that been flow of party, have fun, social life, and then do your homework. So I think it would have came, but I don't think it would have prompted me as fast to get in that work hard, get some play mindset, and so I am grateful not to COVID nineteen, but I'm grateful for the secludedness and the focus that I did have because while in my sophomore year, I was finally able to learn how I need to learn to succeed in school, I was able to get comfortable in exploring my major without the pressure of everyone around me. It felt like I was on my own journey. What a journey it's been for both of them. Despite COVID nineteen's impact, both Jana and Khalia were able to find their own version of success where it counts the most their academics. Kalia's path began early on in high school, which set her on an extended development plan to achieve her long term goals at Howard. Jana took a more exploratory route, learning what she wanted to do by learning what she did not want to do and ultimately finding the confidence to find out what she's truly passionate about. Both methods are valuable, valid, and common in the collegiate experience. I am a senior elementary education major. I am preparing to be a teacher for grades K kindergarten through fifth grade, and were specified in learning how to teach an urban education to support black and other minority students. So I started volunteering with elementary students. In high school, I tutored kindergartens and math, and that felt like very natural for me. I noticed I had a lot of patients for kids. And then my senior high school, I was in a child development class and my counselor and a teacher for that class brought it up to me like this could be a pass for me and my senior high school or their internship in the fourth grade class, I was actually with my old fourth grade teacher who she made a really big difference in my life, and it just showed me like this could be my future. And then I just started looking at colleges that offered that major, and then I chose Howard because I'm from a small town and I just wanted more excitement, not like New York City. Excitement like New York is a little too much for me. So THECS like a little calmer but still has the city essence. So Howard, which is like it's a perfect place. Thankfully, I changed my major at least three times, and I was determined during the COVID time of me being isolated and focused on myself to find that path for me that I wanted, not what everyone else was wanting for me, or the things that they expected out of me. But I decided that this journey is my own journey, and no one else can write these papers for me but me. No one else can go in that room and take that test. No one else also have to wear If you get to see on your transcript, you have to wear that. And so once I allowed myself to be released from that pressure and that expectation that I've been casted on. Exploring your major is a brave thing that should not be looked down upon. I was finally able to settle in and I got a contact from a lady that worked in the School of Education. It was this new program starting called Human Organization and Leadership and Development, and I was just like this is something that I could learn about, like I would enjoy it. Once I started to think of classes in a way of I want to enjoy it, I want to learn, and not I need this for the resume, or I need this for this, or I need this for that. And I started to sit in enjoying school. That's when I was able to put my walls down and actually enjoy learning. And that's what you should do in college, but oftentimes and not you're taking the classes to get to the next thing. And I didn't want to continue struggling. I was done struggling in school, Like I'm smart, I'm capable, but these classes are just not for me. This major is not for me. So once I got that contact from the School of Education, everything was written after that, and I decided to pick up communication studies because I like learning about how people communicate in a personal, organizational skills and just life skills that can take you a long way. And yeah, like, once I just stopped having a thought process based on others and I allowed myself to make mistakes, to fail to experience things, I was able to open myself up to more opportunities here as important as academics are. We can't understate that the social aspect of college is one of the defining factors for many students. One important aspect of collegiate socialization is the ability to involve yourself with on campus organizations, groups, or simply just find your people, the folks on campus that brighten your day, enlighten your perspective, and remind you exactly why you made the choice to go through this school instead of another. Kalia and Jana both belong to on campus organizations, both which have drastically impacted their college experience for the better. So I am a part of Capital M the PROD Chapter of syndens or incorporated in that experience has been unlike anything that I could imagine. I have family members of adultas that aunto their adultaods. But I knew that I wanted to be a part of something that was bigger than me. I knew that I wanted to give back to UNC in a very specific and very niche way. And I fell in love with capa Omicron. I fell in love with the women and doing the work and showing up in spaces and you know, just being themselves and being authentic and being driven. I had some mentors that were capa omicron and they just guided me. They guided me in the way of unc in the big world that this school can feel like at times. But I feel like sisterhood as an only child. On top of that, sisterhood has been something that has meant a lot to me. Sisterhood allows me to feel grounded, It allows me to feel motivated, It allows me to grow. Like being around black women at my school that are like mind is a very different in experience and we all approach things in a different way. It allows you to learn in just a way that you've never learned before about yourself, about others, how to treat others, how to talk to other people. Being in a sorority just has shown me so much about myself and how I like to lead and how I like to get the work done and be in an organization. But I can't imagine my life like without my sisters, and like what the impact that they've had on me. I just it's something that's so vast to me. It shaped my college experience to a point where I couldn't imagine anything without my sisters, or my chapter or sotore wars around the region or the nation that I've met, So I'm definitely grateful for the opportunity. By a freshman year, I was part of NAACP, but I'm not gonna lie. I've never been an extracurricular gal. My commitment to it it was always on and off, and I would get like socially anxious to be in those type of spaces. So my freshman year I found friends through the people on my dorm. I was in a like the community bathroom dorm, so we just got close fast. And some people didn't like my dorm, but I met a lot of good people. It's called quad, so I meant a lot of my friends who there, and then I wouldn't make friends who their friends. And then I met people through my education majors or my classes. We all have the same class as every semester because a small cohort, so I found community within teachers. My community now at Howard is on ex Mental Health Family. ONYX stands for our Nirvana yearning existence and we focus on bringing awareness to the Howard community on how to cope with stress. We are in our first decade of a do hoods, so that can be really hard for people. And even though we are the generation that's most aware of mental health. There still is stigma, especially in the black community, about needing help, and sometimes the Howard Mental Health Department isn't always reliable, not gonna lie, So we are another source for people. I've noticed that a lot of times we use substances to deal with our stress, and I do that too. It's definitely normalized to go to alcohol and weed, so I think that it helps show other avenues to deal with stress. As Kalia mentioned, the time period between eighteen to twenty eight is your first decade of adulting and transitioning through It can take a toll on your mental health that's completely normal, in something no one needs to feel ashamed about. On top of balancing your newly found independence plus your additional responsibilities, taking care of yourself is something you have to set the intention behind. Sometimes it involves reaching out their friends, family, a trusted adviser or educator, or, in the case of Khalia and so many other young people, a licensed mental health professional. So I actually finished therapy, I wasn't in for a year and a half and I tried to go to therapist when I was fifteen, and I did not like it. Like we only had one session and I was just like giving her background information and I told my mom, like, I'm not going back. I feel like partially she was a white lady, so I didn't want to talk to her. I'm not gonna lie. And also I just wasn't ready. I would guys like myself like I don't have problems, but I have depression and anxiety that I've gotten over and like still worked through. And then I also have ADHD. I'm on the spectrum. My mom passed away my seeing year of high school, and yes, she rest in peace. I went to college still grieving her, and it caused me to look for love in all the wrong places. And I wasn't coping well with academics and also my love life. So the pandemic hit and I went home and I was just sitting in silence, and I was just like rehashing all of my decisions that I made freshman year, and it just made me depressed, and I was like, I don't want to be this person anymore. And a lot of my family was telling me, like, you have to choose happiness, and it's got to a point where it's like I don't want to feel like this anymore, and I want to make better choices. I want to learn how to cope with these feelings. And I was able to find a therapist. It was a great experience. But no one told me. After you you start healing, everything around you just falls apart and comes back together and comes back together. Everyone in your life is a reflection of you, who you are, your philosophy and life. So when you change your perspective, when you change your habits, you no longer align with certain people that you used to be around. And as to mean that you're better than them, it's just you're no longer on the same path, and it could really hurt. Because we are humans. We are attached to things, and I know one of the questions, you know, the steps it self discovery and openness to change. You have to let go of old things to make room for better stuff. So that's why it feels like, oh my god, I'm losing everything, and you want to hold on the old habits. You want to hold on the old people. But when you become a new person, when you're growing, you realize that you know God has timing and people are lessons, situations are lessens. You need to grow and learn from them and then let them go. If this is a kind of wisdom and self realization that the next generation has in their back pocket, I can't help but have faith in the future of our world. Khalia was speaking facts. This college age period you're in is going to cause a lot of growth, shedding and transformation. It's expected. What will be critical for you at this time is to proclaim who you are, what you want, and what you're not tolerating. Stand in your power and be true to yourself. Arm yourself with those that support and encourage you to be your best self every day. In the case of Jana, it was one of her line sisters that encourage her to take care of herself and explore new paths to mental and physical well being. A couple of ways that I have supported my mental health in school, because that is a thing that is very imperative that you learn at these formative years of taking care of yourself without the guidance of your parents and again self advocating for your needs. My line sister, she invited me to this hot yoga session, and I remember talking with like my friend and I'm like, I just don't know. I don't know if I want to go to hot yoga. I don't think I'll be good at it. And my friend was just like, but when will you ever have a chance to like go to hot yoga? Like just go? The class changed my life. It changed how I felt about myself. It changed how I viewed my day to day like it allowed me to have an hour for myself. In college, it can be fast paced. Every day you wake up, you do this, you go to sleep, wake up, do this, you go to sleep. Before you know what, you spent three weeks, it's mid point of the semester. You've never done anything for yourself. And with me practicing yoga, I was able to be more mindful and intentional about Just as often as I put in this assignment is due in my calendar, I can also put in this is a block of an hour for myself to go to hot yoga, get my sweat, come back, shower, eat dinner, and then go back to the work. The work is never going to leave, but it's how are you able to show up for yourself in the midst of everything that's happening. Because it's never going to be given to you have to do it yourself. And so I'm just grateful for my line sister for planning that seat in me. And I'm always just very shocked that that moment I realize, like, no, I can't keep doing this back and forth and back and forth, Like I'm busy and I feel drained, and i feel tired, I feel bad. What can I do to make myself feel better? So I think finding a hobby, finding something you're passion in, finding that one thing that you can do every day that can make your day a little lighter. Because again, classes will be there, the paper will be there, the mid term will be there, but how will you be there for you? So once I started to think in that way, it was chef's kiss. Additionally, I have a therapist, So therapy very very important in school. Without therapy, there's just a lot of self talk that can happen in school. There's a lot of negative things that happened in school, where relationship changes, financial situations, life crisis is that you don't know will pop up, like life is just so unprecedented. During college, it should be its own book. And so having that person that I know. Again, the schedule, I think I just love scheduling and I'm secure in knowing let me just get through this day. On Wednesday, I'm logging on to my hour session to talk about this paper that I don't want to write, or just my insecurities being a student Like that is a real and that's an okay thing to have insecurities as you move throughout the four years so huge. Advocate for a therapist if you're looking for a black woman therapist or know a young woman that is. Therapy for Black Girls has a vast digital directory that allows you to search for in office and virtual license mental health professionals. You can search at Therapy for Blackgirls dot com slash directory. As Jana mentioned, this college age period has so many new situations that may arise. Feelings of pride, connectivity, and hope are as common as feelings of inadequacy, imposter syndrome, and grief during this time in your life. Don't invalidate your feelings and experiences, no matter how small you may think they are, they matter. Gina knows from personal experience. Classic Tale of unc is our basketball team. This has been a conversation that I've heard about before college. When I was talking about Carolina, people would be like, oh, like Duke, Like, oh, that's the rival, and I just got that the culture of the school before even seeing the school or really doing research about the school. So having the opportunity to get accepted to Carolina and now I'm a first year and I'm hearing all of the wisdom from class of twenty nineteen and class of twenty twenty about their experiences rushing Franklin Street and the thrill of being a student here and just the memories that they hold from winning a national championship, and just the excitement, like it's a literal feeling that all students have when we are able to be successful as a basketball team. It's amazing and it's silly, but it's something that we do take pride in. And I took pride in that. I took pride in being we are the twenty seventeen University of National champions Like all these things I took pride in. So for three years, I was under the impression I was going to be able to rush a Franklin Street, go to a Duke game, do the chance see everything on Franklin Street has an unfold. COVID happened my freshman year, so that kind of took its own toll. So I wasn't able to, and then my sophomore year we ended up beating Duke. But because I was so disconnected to the university following COVID, I didn't feel the need to go support like I was just trying to survive remote work and being at home. And then my junior year schedule, I was busy. I was focused on making sure that my grades were okay. I was trying to maintain my future, putting things in place. In senior year, I finally get the opportunity I get a Duke ticket after the university changed the policy in the beginning of this year saying that if you're a senior, you will not get a guaranteed ticket. It was an up war on campus. All in class of twenty twenty three was shocked because you've told us for four years that we will have a Duke ticket again. The ingraining and the instilling of how important this game is, you've done that. I was able to get a Phase two ticket. That's a really good ticket. You're in the stadium or the stands. People spend thousands of dollars on these tickets, and I was able just to be there. And we ended up losing the game, and genuinely that hurt my feelings because that was something that I expected, That was something that I was told that was going to happen, and so I believed and I trusted in that, and it disappointed me because that's a tradition that I'll never get to experience as a student and as a person who is first generation. I want to be able to speak on my collegiate experiences to people. And I went to a duke game and we won, and I got to have joy in my school, enjoy in being a student, enjoy in all the trials and tribulations that I've experienced in college, like this one moment I didn't get to have. And while that was a recent experience, I think it did show me to allow things not to happen, and in the midst of disappointment, learning how to continue your life and reframe how you want to move again. Senior years has been a lot of reframing for me, and so I had to reframe how I thought about it. After we lost, I went to sleep super sad. Campus was super quiet. It was a sad time. People were crying, upset, all these emotions that they're able to feel. I decided just to be grateful that again, I'm graduating this year and that's something that freshman year me would be ecstatic for. So that's something that I can be proud of and that's something that I can look forward to. And I did get to go to a due game. So there are positives to everything that I have done. But it's how you're able to work through your grief and work through your disappointment in college that I think is the bigger picture. Well, Jane worked through her feelings of grief, Khalia had to reckon with her feelings of imposter syndrome and pushing through the feedba of others who can't quite yet see her dynamic vision for her life. I feel imposterion syndrome because one, for the longest time, grades have defined who I am and my value. So especially when I wasn't getting good grades, at some points, it would just be like, oh, this is equivalent to who I am, So trying to separate that academics isn't end all be y'all. I am considering taking a gap year, so that is also really hard because everyone's telling you. You know, if you don't go now, you're never gonna do it, and it's kind of like the same thing as high school, Like you see everyone else around you making moves and you're wondering, like it's what I'm doing right, But you really have to hone in like this is my path and no one else's, and comparison is a deef of joy. So I just tell myself that when I feel like imposterion syndrome. And I also do art on the side. So even though I do want to be a teacher, I feel like a lot of people in my age, they don't have one career they want to stay in. So that's how I'm trying to see my future, like I could do multiple avenues. I want to eventually connect education and art. So just realizing I can be whoever I want. I don't have to fit one label. I'm sure Jena and Khaliah's families are both so incredibly proud of them. I know I am. College is such a WorldWind of life lessons and personal development. It's a time in your life that can easily define your twenties and set you on a path of self discovery you could have never imagined. Here's some closing words from the graduating class of twenty twenty three. Experience is what you make of it, for sure, and I have no regrets for what I've done. I think I've met a lot of great people that I've networked. I've grown into myself. I definitely was insecure about I guess being black, being who I am, and I feel that how we are people like just came with me open arms. I went natural my freshman year at college, and all my roommates and stuff, they helped me with my hair. Shout out to them. And I've learned some small things about black history. Everyone's required to take an Afro history class, so I learned a lot about our people, and that's something that's very valuable that a whole dear to me. Howard, it just gives you opportunities that you might not find anywhere else. And it just shows that black excellence is alive and well and that I have faith in the future generations. I think that we're definitely setting the tone for what's to come in the future. I honestly think that at this point of senior year, I'm looking towards making intentional memories and allowing myself to have acceptance towards my past three years. I have the advice of just making sure that like now we're transitioning postgrad accepting and getting closer to the acceptance piece of what the three years has looked like as we move forward, because again with my experience COVID, that's something that I will probably still have to like feel through and like accept that I lost a year of college, which is still wild to say, but with accepting that that's happened, with me accepting that I didn't get to experience all the Carolina traditions and being a tar heel and all these things. However, there's so many more memories to be made, like right now that no one else will get to experience but a senior, or but someone that's about to matriculate out of school. So making sure that there's acceptance but also like optimism about what's to come, because I'm personally just very excited as the weather gets warmer and it's as you know, we're outside more, just accepting that optimism is an okay thing, Like you can be optimistic, you can be naive about what this next step looks like, these are all positive, okay and natural things. So I just say to all my graduating seniors, I feel like just relish in the fact that this page is about to be completed. The entire book is about to be completed in this one moment, and that is beautiful within itself. So it's being proud and moving with intention as you wrap up your collegiate experience. Congratulations to the graduating class of twenty twenty three. To Jana and Kalia, thank you both so much for joining me on the Therapy for Black Girls podcast and sharing your experiences with us. We're rooting for you as you walk across that stage later this year. We can't wrap this episode up without having a little senior fund, so we played a little game of this or that with Kalia and Jana. Check it out. Let's play a little game of this or that. College Senior Edition Number one, Study alone or study in groups. Study alone taught me you need to study alone. Study alone, study alone if you don't know the content, because your friends will distract you. But if you have a dcent like concepts of what's going on, you're studying a group because y'all gonna help each other and feelanced like spaces. You don't know. My whole college experience was divided conquered, so we work SMA or not harder, So I say it's a Mexic book. Number two handwritten or type notes. Type type it's faster, faster handwritten notes if you don't want a contract, because when you write it, it definitely stores in your memory. But especially because we went virtual, everything was digital because I was able to like quit search certain things that I forgot, So I've definitely more to type two notes. Number three spring break or fall break. I only say fall break because by the time you get to fall break and that fall semester, I need the fall break. Spring break. It's like it's a trip time, like I didn't really need it, but fall break by that point, midterms have already hit me, I'm tired, it's now dark, or like it's just you need a break. So I'm a huge advocate for a good fall break. I would say fall went to break because spring break it's still code unless you go somewhere like you travel. I usually go away from my fall with your break, but I think it is a relaxing time, so I'm grateful. But fall break for Christmas is a month, so obviously that's longer. Number four paper writer or test taker paper Definitely test taker test taker. I'm not taking an in person paper tester so long. It's so long, I don't know how I ever did it. I don't know how number five football season or basketball season. Football season and tailgating is a big it's a big thing. So I enjoy single lumps and just tailgating. Good food, just good. Just go basketball season one. I think football is boring. I just see like this gets tackled all the time, and I can't see no one's face. Everything so far away. Basketball you're like up in the mix. And I just like bosketball. I always like watching basketball better. And then we have, like our cheerleaders dance, and then we have a dance team, so we have two dance teams. So it's a lot. It's a lot going on at basketball games. And it's not cold. We'll let the college students battle it out on Twitter. Based on Khalia and Jina's responses, I want to thank Khalia and Jina for joining us for this episode. Of course, we'd love for you to support these women and stay connected to them. And here's how you can stay connected to me on my Instagram at Jena j A y n A dot ls E L L I S you can find me. My personal Instagram is Khalia dot j k A l i h A dot j so. Also find me on my art page Khalia Creations, its Ka l i h a dot Creations and the creations Felts with the k SO. To learn more about the work we're doing with TBG University, please make sure to follow us on both Instagram and TikTok at TBG University

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