And we're back... This time talking about college!! Roll pards am I right? In this episode, I'll go through freshmen year all the way to senior year of college, and touch on post-grad. Feel free to bounce around the episode, click the time stamps below to follow along:(1:09) - Freshmen year(10:40) - My major & my involvement in Her Campus(13:03) - Freshmen summer(15:33) - My recruitment experience / sophomore year(24:39) - Leadership experience through my sorority (sophomore year)(25:57) - Junior year (29:17) - Senior year(33:06) - How college helped me with post-grad(37:39) - Transition from college to now

This week, my boarding school best friend Gabby is on the pod! At Northwestern, Gabby majored in TV/Film, Psych, and English with a minor in Sociology. She’s going to be on the big screen one day, so why not hear her on the pod now? She’s a career queen and has seen it all with living around and working with difficult people. Throughout this episode, we’ll dive into the best strategies and mentalities to get you through those tricky times in both your personal and professional life.(1:13) - Intro to Gabby(5:25) - Spilling the tea on our New England boarding school(11:05) - The importance of having a good mentor(18:39) - Being immune to toxicity and jealousy(23:03) - What are your non-negotiables?(26:37) - Fake people showing fake love (shoutout Drake)(38:06) - Protecting your peace(42:00) - Patience? Never heard of her.(47:13) - Do you really have to "pay your dues?"(49:38) - Chris is beauty, Chris is grace(ful)

Welcome back! This episode is all about me diving into my self-proclaimed “Rachel Berry Era” AKA that time I did theater, and notably starred as Toad in Frog and Toad.(8:06) - Discussing my theater girl phase(33:39) - What we can learn from the diva that is Rachel BerryFirst, I'll go into what theater taught me about myself, then I'll include some hot takes and me pretty much psychoanalyzing Rachel Berry’s character pillar-by-pillar. After this episode, you'll see why everyone maybe needs a little bit of that era in their lives too.

Well hey there! I'm Gretchen C, and welcome to Little Miss Messy. My own personal journal as I'd like to describe it, and also just a fun little space for me to chit chat with friends, spill on crazy "did that really happen to me?" stories, boarding school trauma, my annoying obsession with pop-culture, and SO much more. We'll definitely become subconscious besties regardless of the conversation. Stay tuned for this wild journey, and thanks for your support! Xxx, GDC