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Miami Living: Can you tell us about the inception of the Moments Podcast? What inspired its creation? What are your main goals and target audience? Lexi Hidalgo: The Moments Podcast was born in October 2021. It was a place for me to get real, deep, and vulnerable. And it continues to be exactly that, but now it’s a place for us all to get real, deep, and vulnerable. It’s a podcast that touches on things like mental health, life lessons, and essentially what it feels like to go through life at 23 years old. That being said, I think anybody, at any age can learn something from The Moments Podcast. The goal of this podcast is to give you a place to feel less alone in anything that you go through. We tend to feel isolated in our struggles, and sometimes isolated in our successes, but I hope that you come here and feel all of the love that you deserve. And I hope you can take something valuable away from it as well. Miami Living: You recently published The Moments Journal. What can readers expect from the journal, and who would benefit most from it? Lexi Hidalgo: The Moments Journal was born a few years after The Moments Podcast. That being said, I first spoke of the Moments Journal when I first released The Moments Podcast. Creating a guided journal has been a dream of mine for the past few years. So being able to see it come to life this year was even more than a dream come true. It is a guided journal full of prompts for anybody who wants to get to know themselves a little bit deeper. I find it so important to know yourself from the inside out. And it’s hard to know yourself completely if you don’t spend the time to get to know yourself completely. In the same sense that you build a friendship through quality time together, you only know yourself by spending time with yourself so I encourage everybody to buy the Moments Journal and spend some time getting to know you. Miami Living: You have collaborated with brands like Kulani Kinis and Dizzy With Excitement, creating swimsuit lines and a wallpaper collection. What influenced your decision to work with these brands, and how do your designs reflect your creative vision? Lexi Hidalgo: When it comes to deciding which brands I want to work with, there’s so many factors. I first like to get to know a brand and build a relationship with them before committing to a collaboration together. Each brand that I accept an opportunity to work with is a brand that I know and love from the inside out. Working with both Kulani Kinis and dizzy with excitement has been absolutely incredible. These companies and I have gone from start to finish in collaborating and designing each piece that we put up for sale. I have been wearing Kulani Kinis for the past five years now and working on a collection with them was so full circle for me. In creating both collections with these companies, making sure there was something for everybody was my biggest goal in mind. I believe we are all meant to have different styles and tastes and patterns. So in anything I create, I believe in having options for all of us. Being able to collaborate with brands that I look up to has been one of the coolest things about social media. Miami Living: Can you tell us about your journey with yoga? When did you begin practicing? What do you find most rewarding about being a yoga instructor, and how do you integrate this practice into your daily life? Lexi Hidalgo: I strongly believe yoga was the first step of the path that has led me to this moment. I was 13 when I did my first yoga class and at the time was the youngest yoga teacher in the country. I began doing and teaching yoga because I was struggling so deeply with depression and anxiety and yoga was what healed me. I taught yoga to those struggling in hopes to help them feel less alone and happier