Starting Sunshine with Sash

Hey, y’all, and welcome to my first-ever blog post! I’m so excited to be doing something new and different and a little bit intimidating, so I figured I would start by naming some reasons I started this blog.  

The reasons I started this blog

1. I love writing and I haven’t really written anything since I graduated college. 

2. I have a degree in multimedia studies and would love to use it since I don’t right now.

3. I love all things self-growth and improvement (I have a podcast called Soaking up Sunshine, where I talk about self-growth topics)

Oh, and also, I’ve been looking for new hobbies, and I thought combining two things I love, writing and self-improvement, would be perfect. 

Onto the next question, you may be wondering…

Why the name Sunshine with Sash?

Well, first of all, the name Sash is in the title because that is one of my nicknames. I wanted to include sunshine in the title because it's one of my favorite things ever. Sunshine helps people in many ways it improves mood, health, and overall well-being. I love the benefits of being out in the sunshine. I also love to say that we can create our own sunshine. Even though sometimes it may be difficult, we really do have the ability to bring sunshine into any (or at least most) situations. Also, this is a little bit random, but I love the sunshine so much that I used try getting people to call me sunshine!

Onto my podcast; 

Soaking up Sunshine

I began my podcast in 2021. I started it because I was required to make a podcast in one of my classes, and I grew so inspired that I decided to continue my efforts and begin my own podcast. I started my podcast and Instagram account for the podcast (@SunshinewithSash) simultaneously. I’m honestly not sure which name I came up with first. They both have similar meanings, but I will say that Soaking up Sunshine came about because I was scrolling through social media and noticed a post about how to be happier and one of the tips was to bask in the sun. I wanted to have a bit of an alliteration with my podcast title, so that is where Soaking up Sunshine was born. 

When writing this post (December 2024), I have not uploaded a podcast episode in quite some time…. Almost 5 months, to be exact. Most of this has to do with a lack of inspiration. I also am quite the perfectionist so creating an episode takes far too much time, and I continue to get increasingly more frustrated with myself as the years go by. Since this blog is about self-growth, it's only fair that I share these imperfections about myself that I am working on improving. And I will make it clear that those are not my only imperfections… they’re only the ones I’ll be sharing in the first post. ;)

Xoxo, Sash