On The Grow

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 110th episode into the Truth About Series. "Maybe what you’re experiencing isn’t what you signed up for, but by growing through what you’re going through, you realize that these unexpected situations all have a purpose.  Maybe it was strengthening you mentally. Physically. Building patience. Having faith. Trusting God. Letting go.  N...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 109th episode into the Truth About Series. "The hardest parts of grieving are the little moments that become so routine to you that you don’t realize until they’re gone. Luna would always be the first one to greet me when I came back from my run. Her little paws would scurry to the door or she’d be peeking from her favorite blue pill...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 108th episode into the Truth About Series. "What’s so fascinating about this progress is that a week or two leading up to the race, I was hitting my tempo runs a little faster than the 7:19 pace that I was aiming for. I remember praying about this over and over and God was telling me: “You will run this race faster than what you’ve b...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 107th episode into the Truth About Series. "There’s something to be said about repetition. You know why Netflix is successful? It can retain customers for a long time with the right series. It hooks the viewer with bingeable episodes to watch any time, anywhere. If I think about the Vampire Diaries, the episodes after the first one i...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 106th episode into the Truth About Series. "In a world where conformity often seems like the safest route, being a creative has its perks. There’s endless paths to choose from. The question is no longer, ‘where?’ But instead, ‘which ONE?’ A creative’s way of thinking is simply this — when one path isn’t an option, how can we create a...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 105th one-off episode to wrap up 2023. "In the waiting, I learned not to let outside noises distract me. In the waiting, I learned to be still in the chaos. In the waiting, I learned how to respond and not react. In the waiting, I learned that you are not meant for everyone. In the waiting, I learned how strong we are when we put our...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 104th episode into the Marathon Season Series. "There’s this unspoken communication that happens at races that only us runners participating in the given race understand. We have this indirect eye contact thing sympathizing with one another because we’re all suffering internally but know that others are going through it with us, so i...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 103rd episode into the Marathon Season Series. "It's New York's biggest block party." In Episode 103 on On The Grow, my guest Tatum and I go through everything you need to know about running the NYC Marathon - from how to enter, what to expect at Staten Island and when to get there, what we eat morning of the marathon, our race strategy for t...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 102nd episode into the Marathon Season Series. "There is nothing more beautiful than when you prove to yourself just how strong you are. That’s exactly how I felt in this moment. I could finally see the finish line up ahead. My legs were cramping HARD. Every bone in my body was telling me to stop running. “You’re not tired, keep push...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the 101th episode into the Walk and Talk Series. "People don’t realize that when you get robbed, in that instant moment, your brain… it just kind of doesn’t function properly. At least not right away. Your body is just numb trying to process what just happened but at the same time, your mind is telling you you need to make decisions… fas...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the one hundredth episode into the Walk and Talk Series. "It’s true when they say in the moment… things feel like a blur, almost like you black out. I could feel my heart beating so fast — hyperventilating and getting teary-eyed at the same time. Was I really crying? How does one feel in this moment? My hands were shaking, I didn’t know...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety ninth episode into the Walk and Talk Series. “Didn’t you always want to help people, Grace?” I thought. And that made me realize just how powerful it is to tell your story. To truly open up and be vulnerable and raw with some of the deepest and darkest parts of you. The ones that you were able to overcome because you are worth figh...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety eighth episode into the Dear Diary Series. "Sometimes, I’ll have these thoughts through moments of burnout, and also just out of curiosity. When I used to feel burnout — and man, were they bad back when I was getting started with my agency — I used to question why I didn’t choose the other career options I had shown interest i...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety seventh episode into the Dear Diary Series. "I look back and I’ve noticed a recurring pattern of the meaning and value behind my homes. I’m a firm believer that your HOME is a reflection of who you are as a person. The way you decorate and shape it. The way you take care of it. The way you decide who can come inside it."...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety sixth episode into the Dear Diary Series. "How do URL conversations cut off IRL conversations? In the span of a decade, I’ve witnessed and seen so many friendships fizzle out because of Instagram alone. And I realized — social media makes it possible to maintain more friendships, but at a more shallow level. Social media makes...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety fifth episode into the Dear Diary Series. "I still very much love fashion. I do. It excites me to work with fashion brands, attend NYFW shows, and do anything fashion-related, but now… I have other loves. And that’s just it — I always thought that there could only be ONE love. That whatever love consumed me in that season of l...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety fourth episode into the binge-able Dear Diary Series. "As we get older, we start to see age for what it really is — just a number. It has meaning every year, as we celebrate reaching another number, but over time, the value of it just simply becomes another numerical symbol rather than it defining who we are." In Episode 94 on On The G...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety third episode into the binge-able Dear Diary Series. "You recognize there’s power in fearing something and that you can choose to control whether fear wins or you win. I know it’s not easy — in fact, every time I do this, I find days where I can’t sit still because of how scared I am for that specific date. But there’s also something s...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety second episode into the binge-able Falling in Love Series. “I owe it to myself to try something different. And if I’m going to try something different, I’m going to really lean into what my gut is telling me to do in health and fitness.” In Episode 92 on On The Grow, I have one of my clients, Tom McGee join me to talk about building a...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninety first episode into the binge-able Falling in Love Series. "I was taken back by that, but that’s the kind of person Andy is — he’s always looking for us to be our best selves and he’s not afraid to ask for help.” In Episode 91 on On The Grow, I have one of my really good friends Shenae join me to share her beautiful, and not your typica...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the ninetieth episode into the binge-able Falling in Love Series. "That’s one of the cool things about running a marathon. Because no matter how fast you finish — no matter if you’re running the whole time — if you finish, you have that forever, knowing what you’re capable of. I’m capable of doing this — I’m a marathoner, no matter how fast it is...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the eighty-ninth episode into the binge-able Falling in Love Series. "There’s a lot of things that interest me about New York City, but there is one particular thing that interests me more than the others — and that is how New York City can be seen as a paradox. It’s both empty and fulfilling. It can end dreams, just as quickly as it can start th...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the eighty-eighth episode into the binge-able Conflict Resolution Series. “A lot of people in relationships are dishonest with themselves. They think they want something and maybe they do, maybe they do like that partner, but deep inside, they’re not being honest with themselves. They actually just like the comfort. They’re comfortable with where...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the eighty-seventh episode into the binge-able Conflict Resolution Series. "And you know what they don’t tell us about friendships in our adulthood? It’s that it’s not a falling out more than it is just the natural progression of things. Time moves on, so do we. As adults, our friendships are slightly more strategic, created based on deeper thing...

Welcome back to On The Grow, I'm Grace Lee. This is the eighty-sixth episode into the binge-able Conflict Resolution Series. "Maybe we avoid conflict because we fear the confrontation. We fear how the other person may respond. Or where the situation could go. Maybe we fear conflict because it’s uncomfortable. We can’t control how the ending to the situation may go and it’s a scary thought. But it’...