Hi everyone, Welcome back to another podcast episode. My name is Alicia Gogin,
the host of the Globe Secrets podcast. Why help you expand your mind
and become more self aware so that you can glow up into the best version
of yourself. Guys, she is here the new podcast art. Hopefully it
is loaded on both Spotify and Apple. I'm pretty sure if I timed it
right at this point, you should be able to see it. If you
are on YouTube, my thumbnail will have it, but you should also just
go check it out if you want. Remember you know what, I'll do
you a favor and I'll just insert it on the actual YouTube video so you
can see. Guys, we are finally rebranded. I have been talking about
this photoshoot and rebranding the podcast art for so long. I'm not gonna lie.
I really did not love my podcast art that I had for the longest
time. I loved the blue esthetic. Blue is always my favorite color,
like I'll write or die for blue. But the photo of me, I
just didn't love it because it just wasn't like a professional photo. I made
that on Canva literally when I first created my podcast. Actually, I had
another photo which is still on Spotify. Hopefully I'm gonna be able to change
that. If not, totally fine, it's just gonna look completely different.
But anyways, I just felt like it was totally not a good representation of
how I look now. Like It's not that I can't look like that,
because when I do that slickback ponytail, it's a vibe. But it was
just like a selfie. But you know what, it did the trick,
and you know what, this is another thing to remind yourself of if you
are somebody who is a creator or wants to do something, even in your
own business, you don't need to have everything perfect to start. Okay,
it's been how long over a year and a half of me having this podcast
and not having a quote unquote professional photo taken of me for the podcast art,
And even then, I still could have rebranded it and made it look
better and actually just took my own photos, but I wanted to do a
whole photo shoot. Anyways, it is here. I am literally so happy
with how this photo came out. Now, I have many other photos that
I like had taken different vibes as well. We did do a blue shoot
where we had like a blue back drop and I was wearing blue, but
I did find that it was really washing me out and I didn't love.
I had a feeling. I had a feeling that my background for the podcast
art was no longer going to be blue. And I love blue, but
I just kind of had a feeling. So when we went and did the
photo shoot, I wanted to try both a blue background, a white one,
and also a pink one. I knew I wanted to do my makeup
like light pink aesthetic, like soft pink vibes, I guess, And so
when I got there, we decided to do the pink back drop to like
see how it would look with my makeup, and it just popped. And
the photo that I have of me sitting down wearing the blue top with the
white jeans, the flare jeans, that was not even my original idea of
how I was going to look, how I was going to be sitting and
the outfit that I was going to be wearing. I literally spent I dropped
one hundred dollars on this really beautiful dress, and I had a feeling that
it wasn't going to be the one that was going to be the photo of
me. Like I just whatever so I know, obviously I brought it back,
but I am obsessed with this photo. I think that it is such
a big representation of who I am. Okay, let me just quickly do
a backstory here, because I did make an Instagram post about this, but
or well maybe depending on when you're listening to this, we'll come up before
the Instagram post. But I really wanted this photoshoot to be such a big
representation of who I am and how all of the content that I have been
creating putting out for you guys, how that content has created me the most
glowed up version of myself. So I really wanted to be a representation of
the glow up. And now we all are going to look different. Obviously,
we all look different. We have different ideas of what a glow up
means, and it's so unique to us. But I just really wanted to
be the best version of me. And it's interesting because when I was thinking
about doing this photoshoot, I actually was thinking, well, when you think
about a photo shoot, what do you think about? You think about your
makeup, your outfit, your hair. And at this point when I decided
that I wanted to do a photoshoot, I didn't. I wasn't really wearing
my hair natural like that. It was a wintertime. I was still doing
slickback ponytails. And like I've talked about it many times that I've had a
journey with accepting my natural hair and I've come such a far away, but
I still wasn't really wearing it out like that much whatever. And so it
was time for my yearly or really I should be doing it every six months
hair cut. And so this was back in when was it January, February,
March maybe March or something March, Yeah, before I moved, and
I got my hair trimmed and went back home and got it done professionally by
this like hair Diva, curl hair yeah whatever. I don't know a specialist
that knows how to cut curly hair. And when she did it, and
she always styles my hair, I was just and I've gotten my hair done
before, and it's so different when you go to a hair salon and you
actually style it, especially if you have curly, natural hair and you're not
used to wearing it out that way or even going as far as not really
taking care of it. Once you get it done, you literally look in
the mirror and you're like, I didn't even know my hair could look this
good, And then it inspires you to take better care of your hair and
to like, you know, even maybe show you it's possible for you to
actually love your hair and look how beautiful you look with when your hair's done
correctly. And I think all my life I didn't even know how to do
my hair properly at all. I had no idea. So a big part
of the reason why I didn't even love my hair was because I didn't even
know how to do it and it never looked good. And on top of
that, of course I wanted to fit in and no one had the hair
that I had, so obviously there was that component as well. So but
I've seen how my hair can look when you actually do it properly. But
I kind of just just like left it. And then I was working like
three jobs and I just didn't really care too much to like, I didn't
have a lot of time to my hair whatever excuses excuses. So anyways,
when I did it this time, when I got my hair done, I
was definitely more rooted in a lot of self love as well, like this
year anyways, so I just looked at like, you know when you have
like bo dysmorphia. It's like, my hair looked exactly the way that it
looked before a few years back when she did it, But this time I
look at it and I'm like, I can truly see how beautiful my hair
is. But I wasn't really able to appreciate that like in twenty twenty when
she did it, because I just wasn't there yet with my hair journey.
I just didn't really look at my hair like a like beautiful, like curly
hair like beautiful, or at least mine. So anyways, I was like,
I was actually so obsessed with it, and I was so I was
really like, I surprised myself because I'm like, I can't believe I look
at my hair so differently, even though it's the exact same. It hasn't
grown longer, the curl pattern's not different. It looks the same. But
I love it. And it's just crazy what you putting in the work.
You're like doing the inner work on your self image can do to how you
look at yourself over the years and how you you know, when you stop
hating on yourself so much and you start exposing yourself to people who look like
you, and to really just go on a self acceptance journey and be like,
I'm totally like my I am beautiful, my hair is beautiful, my
skin, everything about you know, all of these things, and how you
really actually look in the mirror and you and you can appreciate who you are
even though you've always been this way. But it's like you're looking it's just
I don't know, so it kind of blew my mind. So anyways,
again, anyways, I'm saying one thousand times I love the way that my
hair looked. And as soon as I got home, drove home, I
looked in the mirror and I was so obsessed with my hair and I was
like, I need to wear my hair like this for the photo shoot,
and it only makes sense. And you know what, there was a huge
part of me that was so scared because I wasn't used to really wearing my
hair out natural like that at all. Like I didn't even have any Instagram
photos of my hair like out like big, natural, curly hair, and
it's not a normal thing for me to wear out in about and all these
things. So you know, in my uncomfort of my own home, will
whatever. But again, I didn't really have that much experience, but I
knew that that fear was really just me keeping small and that it would I'd
be doing myself a disservice if I just acted on that fear and said no,
no, no, let me go get a wig or get fake hair
in or do my ponytail even and those are beautiful things and I would look
amazing doing that, and you know, I will always love the way that
I look with the slick back ponytail, with the fake hairpiece Luxy hairs.
Where I get that ponytail from? By the way, you guys, A
lot of you guys asked me where I got that, or like, I
don't get wigs really in, but I like the way my hair looks like
straight whatever. It's great, I look amazing and I'll always love that.
But it's also like, you can wear your hair natural too, you know,
and you can look just as beautiful. And so I had that feeling,
but I was like, this is it. This is my time to
show the world the apps a lute best version, most gloat up version,
most natural version of me, and I have to wear my hair natural.
So this photo shoot was just became so much bigger than I even really thought
it was in a split second, just literally just based off of my hair.
So I know that some of you guys might look at it and be
like, oh my god, it's it's a great photo, or you might
not really think about it, but like, there's such a big story even
behind this, just the fact that I'm wearing my natural hair and I and
the fact that I love this photo of me. It's literally one of my
favorite photos of myself. Is just it goes to show how far I've come.
Because literally I'm gonna start crying right now, Okay, I think we
can do this. I just look back on the entirety of my life and
I can't believe how big of an issue that I thought that that my hair
was and how big of a role it played in my confidence and how I
lived my life and how I dressed myself and what I did to my hair,
like all the things that I did to my hair because I just didn't
love it and I didn't accept it and I didn't even know how to do
it. And now finally, being twenty seven, twenty seven years old,
finally I'm like wearing my hair and just like being myself the way that I
should have literally always been. It just blows my mind. So girl,
I did not expect to cry on the podcast today, but yeah, it
just became a very big, very important photoshoot for me, and I am
so happy that I did it. And I think that just I just look
at this whole hair journey the same way that I look at like my body
image or just even who I am as a person. And you know,
it takes sometimes so long for you to go through the process of actually loving
yourself. And I do want to share that with you, guys, because
obviously I come on here and I share with you guys all the things that
I've overcome, and you know how I love myself more and I self accept
and whatever. But and sometimes it can feel like such a long journey for
you, and it has for me in so many different ways, especially with
my body. But I feel like I'm sharing this story because only really,
at twenty seven years old, am I ending that chapter of self? Hey?
Really, and another piece of I don't know, maybe inspiration. If
you're going through anything similar, whether it's your hair or your body, your
skin, your whatever, there will be stages, right, So I wasn't
always absolutely hating my hair. Like I've said, the past few years,
I've really really embraced my hair and I've loved it. But it's taken time.
And I think like even when we talk about body image, we just
expect ourselves to just once we realize we don't like ourselves and we want to
fix our body image and we want to love ourselves more, we expect that,
like the next day, we're just going to accept ourselves and be happy.
And it's just it's not really how it works. But it also doesn't
need to be like that. It's so fine that if you're in a stage
in your life where you don't fully accept it yet, Like it took me
so many years to do, like one stage after another another a stage of
being okay with the fact that I was no longer going to straighten my hair
anymore, like purm my hair anymore, and then I, you know,
another phase in my life was like, okay, you know what, I
love myself enough to stop ironing my hair and burning my hair off. And
then you know, another year, it's like, okay, I love myself
more to make sure that I'm getting trims and I'm doing deep conditioners every weekend
now and then finally I'm more this year. I'm more confident with putting my
hair in a bun and having my curls out, not too much, but
just a little bit. Like you know, all of those processes. They
take time and take phases, and I think that's totally okay. And I
think that sometimes when we feel like we're not fully one hundred percent okay with
what we're trying to work on, we think that we've been regressing, or
we're failing, or we're slipping up, or we're messing up. And that's
not how it works. That's not how healing works. That's really not how
anything works in life. So I don't know, maybe that's just like some
motivation for you. I know, I just went on a literal onwenty minute
rant almost. But I say all that to say, I am so happy
that my podcast art represents who I am, which is the best version of
myself, honestly, the most glowed up version of myself. Another thing is
I'm so happy because my photographer ended up calling me, I think a day
or two before the shoot, and he said that the hair and makeup girl
wasn't able to come so we could either move the shoot or we can keep
it on that same day. And it was actually a relief to me that
he told me that, because I had this internal knowing that I could do
my makeup myself, and on top of that, I was gonna be doing
my natural hair, like I knew at that point I had booked the hair
and makeup girl, but then I realized and the hair was more for her
to like fix it and be there on the photo shoot day so that like
my hair could look good whatever. But I knew I was going to be
doing my hair like no one else would be able to do it. So
when he told me that she wasn't coming, I was like, you know
what, this is actually good and I want this because I can do it.
I can do my makeup, I can do my hair. I don't
need somebody to tell me how to look or how to be. And of
course, obviously it's so great to have like makeup artists and like hair silas
and stuff like, especially when you're doing like like photo shoots, which was
not that you need that obviously, but the nature of this shoot, it
made sense for me to not have that. It made sense for me to
just be myself, do my makeup, do my hair, show up as
I am, and be okay with any imperfections. And I also I went
into that shoot just knowing, like not having this high standard of how I
should look or how the photo should turn out, because obviously when I was
talking to my photo my photographer, we had a mood board we really talked
about which was so great Darius, and I'll leave his information in the description
if you're interested in get having a photo shoot in Toronto. I think he
goes to Vancouver and la sometimes maybe I think. I don't know, but
we really talked about how we wanted the audience to feel when they saw this
photo. And some of the things that I actually expressed was I wanted I
wanted you guys to feel very welcomed. I wanted you to feel like you
could see the best version of yourself within me in a way, like you
could be inspired. Like when you look at this photo, it's like,
this is the energy that I want to be in. I want to be
in this healing energy, this maybe even feminine energy. I didn't actually have
that word like feminine energy, but I wanted it to be a very welcoming,
very glowed up space in a way that was natural. I really wanted
to be the most natural version of myself, and I knew being welcoming,
being healing, being your natural, most glowed up version of yourself means being
imperfect and not trying to control every single thing. And like I said,
the mood boards that I had created, I knew creating those mood boards,
the old me would have been so tied up on making sure that I literally
sat the exact same way that I found that that girl was sitting, and
made sure my hair was exactly like that and my clothes looked exactly like hers,
and I didn't want that. So I was very detached from that mood
board because I knew that the magic was going to come on my own,
Like I was going to again, the photos that were going to come out,
We're going to be completely different than what was on the actual mood board,
which it was. The mood board was simply just the mood board.
But sometimes when I used to like make mood boards, like visualizing things as
well, when I like even in manifestation, I would literally try to live
up to the images on my mood board to a t, and then I
would be so critical and hard on myself when I didn't look like that girl.
I didn't have that body or didn't have that hair. So I kind
of like moved away from doing mood boards for a very long time. I
do them now, though, but I look at them in such a different
way. I really really look at them for like the colors, inspiration,
the vibe, the energy, But it has nothing to do with like,
I do not need to look like that girl, because I am inherently worthy
and amazing and I have my own unique beauty that will shine through if I
stop telling myself that I need to look a certain way. And realistically,
the beauty comes from you being imperfect and allowing yourself to be imperfect, because
when you try too hard and you try and like, you know, even
with when we're talking about photos, but really anything in life, when you
just try to have the perfect speech or the perfect line, or to say
the perfect thing to the guy you're talking to, or wear the perfect outfit,
it's just so much pressure to the point where it's like it's not you,
Like, let's just be the real you. And that's what this photo
is, it's the real me. So I didn't expect to be even sitting
down on the ground. I didn't expect to be wearing that outfit. I
didn't expect to be doing the pose where I was looking up, and I
just thought, that's such honestly, that is such a reflection of me,
me sitting down and looking up to my left with my right. I don't
know where I'm looking because I am always wondering. I am always pondering.
I'm always thinking. So it's like, what better photo than for me to
be looking up to the side and like wondering, you know, because I
want you guys to think. I want you guys to wonder. I want
you guys to expand your mind. So I am very happy. Also,
So the photo then, like the actual photo was taken by Darius and maybe
I'm I should probably show some you guys, like some of the other photos
will see like where I post them. I'm not sure I might use one
of them for my book on the back for the author photo, I don't
know yet. But the editing, though other than the actual photo, was
done by me, Moa and Camva. So I made the glow up secrets.
I did a little glitter. I really love the fact that I'm wearing
a little bit of blue because I really wanted that, and I made sure
to have the butterflies a little bit of blue in there. I love butterflies.
I just think that's such a good representation of us, all of us
in this community, just like this little baby cocoon and it needs to like
it's trying to find its way, and then you just like fly open and
it's like that was your core. I don't know, I just I love
it. So I think that it's it makes sense to be on that photo.
And I put a little bit of glitter. I don't know if you
could tell, but I put a little bit of glitter under where I was
sitting because it's like you're glowing up into the best version of yourself. So
yeah, I hope you guys love it. Let me know. And also
with me posting the new cover art, I have decided to make a podcast
Instagram. Now some of you guys have already found it and it's been locked.
It's been I made it private because I wasn't posting on it. And
it was actually a second account that I had from a very long time ago,
but I just wasn't posting on it. And I've gone back and forth
with making an Instagram for podcasts. You don't need to, like, if
we're talking about like a business standpoint and or just being a content creator,
you don't need an Instagram for your podcast to grow it. You don't need
a second chance, like you don't need all of these things. But I've
been very inspired to just actually finally have a second page for my Instagram because
yeah, I'm sure I want to build it, and I want to build
my audience, and I want to build a community, but I just want
to like have a space for me to like update you guys, make sure
you guys are always getting updates regarding when the podcast is going live. And
I also want to make it kind of like a kind of like a Pinterest
board in a way to inspire you guys, because I love Pinterest, and
I know not everyone has Pinterest and or we don't really look at the same
thing. So I would love to be able to translate some of the things
that I'm seeing on Pinterest and putting it on the podcast and hope it will
not hope, but kind of have it connect or translate with the episodes that
are going to be live that week. Also make sure to follow it because
I'm going to be starting to ask you guys all of the q and as
on the podcast Instagram. So the podcast Instagram is the Glow Up Secrets Podcast.
I'll make sure to have all of the links of course in the description
moving forward. But yeah, I'm just really excited for this new rebrand and
to continue to build this community on YouTube. If you guys are watching on
YouTube, of course, still going to be a thing Instagram. If you
guys want some inspiration, you want to keep up with the podcast, then
definitely go follow. I think it's gonna be so fun in this summer,
just to keep us all motivated. You know, there's gonna be so many
top us we're gonna be talking about this summer, romanticizing your life, which
we're going to talk about next week. I was going to talk about it
today, but I'll tell you why we're not. And I don't know,
just like hot girl things like it's the summer of loving ourselves and being hot,
so like what the heck? Like, what the heck? We all
need to be on the same page, thank you. Okay, So last
week, and I mentioned this on last week's podcast episode, which I ended
up posting on like the weekend or I don't even know. I think it
was like Monday or Tuesday yesterday maybe that I posted. I don't even know.
I was locked out of my Spreaker account, which hosts my podcasts and
distributes them, and all I can chop it up to is Mercury retrograde.
There's no other There is no other explanation. There was like this weird bug
that happened, and I was trying to contact Spreaker and I couldn't get a
hold of them because it was the weekend, and like nobody was like available
for me to get in contact, which with which was kind of annoying because
I'm like, what if I was Joe Rogan and I had this podcast and
I just like it was just not available on Apple, Like, would you
guys just be saying wait till Monday. I don't know. Whatever. It's
fine, I get it, it's back now. But I just wanted to
touch on that because I always hear that when Mercury is in retrograde, there's
always technical issues happening, and that was such a weird technical issue that is
just like it just doesn't happen. So anyways, I don't know. Maybe
just also another reminder, like if anything is going weird in your life right
now, just laming on the planets. Blame it on the planet because sometimes
ignorance is absolutely bliss. And that is something that I have been coming to
a realization these days, is I've just decided sometimes to just choose ignorance is
bliss over like spiraling and listening to everyone else's opinions and advice and everything that
everyone else has going on to that, like, I'm staying my own lane,
respectfully and making sure that I'm very responsible with it. But I'm staying
in my own line, thank you. Okay. So today I have been
a little bit overwhelmed. I think it's and it's actually a good overwhelm.
It's like good stress. There's been a lot of things coming my way in
terms of opportunities with brands and brand work, and also I just had a
literal death and rebirth and came alive again, so I have been having to
get back into creating content and stuff, so and obviously living my life seeing
my friends doing things. But with that, I feel like everything hit me
at once, and I've been very overwhelmed with different content like I'm doing all
these different scripts, these brand deals, these these video concepts. I have
a million things going on, and I feel like there's so much going on.
So I when I get in those situations, sometimes I end up like
getting frozen, Like I get frozen in time and I'm not able to decide
and make a decision. And so what I tend to do. I see
myself constantly procrastinating and putting things off and like making excuses as to why I
still haven't picked up the camera and filmed when I should have filmed like two
hours ago. So anyways, that was today, and so I decided finally
it's literally like almost five o'clock, that we were just going to make this
episode be updates and chit Chattie, and then next week we will talk about
what I already actually have written out for romanticizing your life and why I think
it's so important to do that, but I just couldn't get myself to get
there. I couldn't get myself to do it. So we're not doing it.
And this is your sign that, you know what, if you find
yourself procrastinating, sometimes just release the freaking resistance and do something completely different and
like stop having such a huge attachment on the fact that it needs to be
down right the second. I guess sometimes we do have deadlines, but like
sometimes you just get in our own ways and it's actually insane as to watch,
Like there's no need to stress. Okay, so that's that. So
if you're stressing right now, stop literally stop right now. Thank you.
Whatever you're thinking about wherever your mind just went, if you're thinking about a
guy, you're thinking about your job, you're thinking about your health, your
body, your summer plans or whatever in a negative way, not in a
positive way. With the summer plans, stop, thank you. Stop.
Also, like I just mentioned with the brand deals, I'm going to be
doing a few more upcoming on my main channel. So if you guys do
watch the main channel, I really appreciate the support. Like my last video,
I just did a Buff Buddy collection which was so aligned because I love
them. I literally love their workout sets and if you want them. By
the way, I do have a code Alicia ten el Cia ten for money
off a little plug there. But yeah, I did a collab with them
and you guys were so happy for me. Also, we hit two hundred
thousand subscribers on YouTube, which is insane. So also thank you for that.
Totally forgot about that. I think I forgot about that because I just
knew it was like already in my existence, because that's how I think about
things. When it comes to things that I want in my life, I
just have a belief that it's happening, and that's that I decide how I
want things to go in my life, and you should too. You should
really just start deciding what gets to happen, because if you don't, then
other people get to decide for you. And I'm not in the business of
letting other people decide what gets to happen to my life. So sometimes it's
like anti climactic a little bit for me when I hit milestones because I'm just
like, already knew what was going to happen. But anyways, thank you
for walking with me. I cannot wait to hit one million subscribers on the
YouTube. What was I saying? The brand deals? I very much so
appreciate you guys watching and supporting, especially on videos where I'm doing a brand
deal. I get that not every brand deal that every influencer does or creator
does will be aligned to you and you'll be interested in it, which is
totally fine. I'm not. I'm definitely not. There's many creators where I
watch their content and I just for me, I think it's it's part of
my job. So I understand it because like we're in the same field.
But even way before I was a content creator, I just understood that that
was just like a part of their job. Like brand deals are something that
help support creators, So I watch them. If I'm interested in the product,
then sure great. If I don't love it, it's not a big
deal. So I really do respect and appreciate you guys when you do watch
any of my content and I do have a brand deal, and you guys
are still rocking with me and supporting even if you if you don't buy anything
or if you're not like actually interested in it. I appreciate that because you
know, I get it, like we don't always want to see a bunch
of brand deals and things like that and stuff. But again, I really
have grown my channel to a point where I'm only doing brand deals that makes
sense for my audience. And again, not every single person is going to
be interested in listening and wanting anything to do with that. But that's totally
fine or something that and or I should say that I really love and I
think that is so cool, and like, why not work with this brand
and share it to more people and maybe you guys would be interested in,
you know, the workout sets that I'm wearing and you know, I think
it's a cool brand or other ones that I'm coming up that I'm not gonna
mention too much right now, but anyways, so thank you guys so much
for all the support and all the love. Another thing is just like you
guys on my comments and my dms, you just so incredibly nice. Like
you guys are all just so freaking nice to me, and I really really
appreciate it, and I see your comments and I try my best to get
back to you guys. It's very hard, but I do spend a lot
of time getting back to you guys, and I I just yeah, I
love you guys. You guys are great and I can't wait to just conquer
this summer. Summer is gonna be so incredibly fun. Another thing that I
did recently, I don't know if a lot of you guys know what like
to know it is, but it's essentially I kind of think about it as
like an Instagram in a way, where you could post your outfits, products
that you're really loving, and you can link them so that you know,
if somebody really likes your outfit, then they can go and find it.
It's like all affiliate links, so like we'll be transparent with that. But
I revamped my like to know it, so I'm going to start posting.
Well I already have. I have a lot of outfits on there, but
I'm gonna continue to keep posting. So anytime I can find a link for
anything, just know that I have everything in one spot now. So if
you go to my link in my bio or description whatever, and you go
onto my candor the Globe Secrets thing that I have, you'll see a link
for you to go on that. So that way, like if you ever
wanted to know you, Guys always ask me, like where I get my
shirts from. I get a lot of them from garage, I always say
that, and whatever else my makeup products when I do get ready with me
and stuff, I have all of those links. So if you are interested
in anything ever, it will be linked. As much as I can.
I try to find things. There's obviously things that I wear from like last
season. I'm not somebody who goes through a million things, but it's all
on there and I'm really proud of that page. Okay, I came up
with a really cool idea for a YouTube video which should be up on Saturday.
So yeah, yeah, should be up on Saturday. And it's basically,
I don't want to give too much away, but it's like, I
don't really know what it's going to be exactly titled, but it's basically a
summer ki kickoff video, and essentially it's just going to be a video to
motivate you and inspire you to have the best summer of your freaking life and
to change up your vibe and to create a mood board, like I made
a whole mood board. I've talked about certain things that you can do to
change your literal day to day life because I have recently just done the same
thing. Like I'm very much so in the energy of the summer. I've
wrote out my goals, things that are going on. I'm thinking about all
the things that are happening, and I'm creating an identity and I'm creating a
vibe and I'm curating that and I'm living that out and I'm doing that because
I want to have the best freaking summer of my life and I want you
guys to have the same. And the prompt or the inspiration that I actually
had to make this video came from the other day, or actually when I
was sick. I was going through my archives on my Instagram stories and I
was looking back at last summer and I just had the best freaking summer,
despite literally not having the life that I have now, because at that point
I just believed it was going to happen and I was eventually going to live
the life that I am right now, full time content creator, not working
a job that I didn't love. But we know that story. Whatever,
I still enjoyed the hell out of my summer. I had a spiritual girl
summer. I was like morning routines, going on my balcony, doing my
journals, pulling freaking goddess cards. I had my crystals going my incense.
I had certain songs that just hit and I started playing them again even this
like just recently, and I was like, oh my gosh, this reminds
me of summer, and I just want to curate a vibe for this summer
so that I can look back and be like that was like the best summer
ever. So anyways, I got inspired and I was like, we need
to do this again, and everyone needs to be on board with me.
You guys are gonna make your own like mood boards though, and you're gonna
do certain things that will allow you to feel like you're the best version of
you and get excited for summer and whatever capacity that looks like or feels like.
But we're all going to be doing that. So that video is gonna
come. So I'm really excited for you guys to see that. I'm very
much so in my Okay, I said this before I'm going to Calgary,
Guys. I I need to explore Canada way more like I don't know what
I've been doing. Anyways, I'm going to Calgary in July and I there
listen. I've been saying that my soul is somewhere residing still in the South
in America though from a past life. But I am so inspired and motivated
to be this like coastal Cowgirl this summer. I know, I know,
how did I go from Central c to saying that I want to be like
at the Calgary Stampede. I don't know, but we are here and we're
doing it, and that is a vibe. Like I made a Pinterest board
for Calgary Stampede and you can follow it if you want, but whatever,
it doesn't matter. And I am so like I want to be wearing cowboy
boots. I like the brown esthetic. I want the cowboy hat. And
I was also thinking of my girl, how are you going to fit the
cowboy hat on your hair? Because your hair is naturally big. It's totally
fine, we'll figure it out out. I found really cute outfits, Like
I'm just really here for the coastal cowgirl. I really am. Also like
the suburban housewife vibe. I'm really into. Like I talk about this a
lot, like I really all I want in my life is to live in
the suburbs and have a beautiful home, beautiful family, be happy as hell,
living my best life, having my wine nights with my girls. Like
that's a vibe. But that's the thing. I want that for my future.
But I'm gonna live like I have it now. So that's like that's
what I'll be talking about in the video. Like go, we don't need
to wait. You are going to pull little things that make you feel the
best and that your soul is calling that you really really want, but you're
gonna start doing it now. So you're gonna get the music, You're gonna
get the mood boards, you're gonna get the literal habits that are gonna make
you feel like you're already living that reality now, because realistic, if we're
talking about manifestation, that's what you're supposed to do. Okay, We're not
waiting for anything. There's nothing to wait for, there's nothing to wait for.
You decide now. We are done looking at the reality that we have
and being like I don't have it. I don't have the suburban life,
I don't have the husband, I don't have this that, and the third
no, be the version of you that has that. Thank you. So
that's what we're doing. I'm really really excited, as you can obviously tell.
Okay, and another thing that I'll talk about in the video, but
also that's really been helping me is to make playlists. So I've been sharing
my Spotify playlist. I told you guys, I was going to do it
in the wintertime, and I did it, and I'm so proud of myself.
So I've made a bunch of summer playlists, so you can definitely search
up my name Alicia Gogan on Spotify and you can find it. I'll have
it linked as well. A lot of you guys have been liking it and
following me. I love that, like not me being a DJ. My
dad used to be a DJ. I feel like low Kia could be a
really good DJ. I'm not gonna lie. Maybe that could be a hobby
this summer. We'll see. I have very good music taste and I like
a lot of different genres of music. So anyways, I made a lot
of playlists, so if you haven't been following, there's so many, like
summer, house music, rap music, of course, there's just so many.
But I recently just made another one and it's called a Spanish Summer.
So if you are into Spanish music, then that playlist will absolutely be for
you. And I think that that's gonna be a big player in my vibe
that I'm curating for the summer, and I'm here for it. There's just
something about Spanish music because I was getting kind of sick and tired of listening
to the same music, whether it be my house music or my rap music
and stuff, especially because I go to the gym a lot, so I'm
always playing them. But I was like, Okay, what kind of music
can I play right now? That's gonna get me into a happy vibe in
like the vibe of summer, but I'm not like listening to the same songs
over and over again. And then a Spanish song came on from my liked
songs from a while ago, and I was like, not, this is
it. I'm back. I'm back in the vibe. So anyways, I
made a playlist. It's really good. I know nothing about what they're saying
at all, and I think that that's the beauty of this whole thing,
Like this whole playlist, I think that that's what it. That's what makes
me like it more. It's like, I'm not I don't know what they're
saying, and I don't want to know. So anyways, that's going to
be all the updates. I really hope that you like the podcast art.
I really hope that you follow the Instagram. I really hope that you continue
to rock with me this summer. I'm really excited to have you guys by
my side listening. You guys are always just sharing, listening and being here
with me, and I love it. And it's gonna be a very beautiful,
amazing summer and we're going to come to so many realizations. We are
going to grow so much, We're going to manifest so many things. We
are going to step so much more into our self worth, which in turn
will create the life that we really really are aspiring to have. But we're
going to do that by becoming the change. So that starts now if you
haven't already started. So yeah, I love you guys so much, and
I will see you or you will hear me in next week's episode. Bye