After not making finals the last three competitions I did this year, I was feeling pretty discouraged and thought maybe I should just stop competing. But then after thinking about it and how much I truly do love performing I decided that I was going to put more work into this competition, more than I ever had before, and only then if I still didn’t do well would I allow myself to stop competing 😆 (yes, these are the conversations I have with myself lol) and yall, I ended up making podium for th