I left my full-time job and posted a TikTok a day for a month. Here's what happened...

This was a hard 180 from what I thought my life would look like in November.

Last month, I filled you in on a big career shift. More on that below, ICYMI.

I also told you that I was taking on a new project— cooking an Ina Garten recipe every day for 30 days, after I fell madly in love with the audiobook of her memoir, which managed to find me exactly when I needed it most.

Oh, and that I’d be filming all of it and posting it on TikTok, an app I didn’t even have downloaded on my phone when I decided to take this “challenge” on.

I don’t even have Instagram on my phone. Not having or using social media on my iPhone is a cornerstone of my mental hygiene. I’m militant and rigid with my phone discipline. I think we all should be. I turned up my nose, frankly, at friends who spent time on TikTok in the evening, the way I used to in Covid when tech hygiene or not having apps on your phone was a ridiculous and laughable idea.

So here’s what happened when I did something wildly different and exposed myself to TikTok’s unforgiving masses at one of the most vulnerable points in my life.

All this time I’d been pretty strict with myself about not having TikTok on my phone so that I could be out in the world, living a real life. Oddly enough, it’s TikTok that that created a very real shift in my life.