WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:05.080
I was good. Boy was good. Everybody. This is what's good this

2
00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:09.240
glove really and you're checking out the
Cruise Show podcast, make sure to subscribe.

3
00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:14.000
Rate sure, Liz go Your Daisy
Marquess is on the Cruise Show.

4
00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:17.079
Let's Get It Real ninety two three, LA's new home for What's going down?

5
00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:20.320
So? Hi, how are you
guys doing? I'm doing good.

6
00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.559
I love you. Oh, I
love that. You know what they actually

7
00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:29.239
call me? They call me dangerous
Daisy. Yeah. And then I had

8
00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:32.320
one of those nights and I got
it tatted on my neck and my mom

9
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:35.640
was so mad and I regret it. This was like years ago. I

10
00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:43.799
regret it behind my neck. Oh
my god, it's so embarrassing. It

11
00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:47.039
looks dope though. Really no.
But you know what's so embarrassing when I

12
00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.520
go to my princess pilates classes and
I'm like in cute little picktails and all

13
00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.759
the girls are looking at me like
what's dangerous about you? And I'm just

14
00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:58.799
like it was a mistake. Nothing. What city did you get that tattoo?

15
00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:04.560
Go? Actually? Yeah? During
COVID that itself was yes, I

16
00:01:04.719 --> 00:01:07.760
was, and I was like,
I want it darker. And then I

17
00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.280
went back and I was like,
oh, dear gosh, like why did

18
00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:11.640
I do that? But I got
it because when you drink a lot,

19
00:01:11.719 --> 00:01:17.000
you become like a troller or no, I just become more bold. It's

20
00:01:17.079 --> 00:01:19.040
just kind of like they call me
like, oh devious, Daisy, Danger's

21
00:01:19.079 --> 00:01:22.760
Daisy crazy days, just like it
was just a nickname. And they were

22
00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:23.400
like, bet you won't get it
tatted, and I was like, bet

23
00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:27.000
I will, but now I will
now looking back and I'm like, I

24
00:01:27.079 --> 00:01:30.599
regret it now, but it's okay. Something I always say I believe in

25
00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:36.840
is all Daisies are down. Honestly, whenever you were like you want some

26
00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:38.000
Tannesasey, I was like, if
you're drinking, I know. She looked

27
00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:42.359
at me like, wait, are
you playing or not? I was,

28
00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.239
you know, Daisy Diaries is the
podcast? Congratulations? Thank you so much?

29
00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:49.799
Right? Yes, why start a
podcast? Why why broadcast for the

30
00:01:49.799 --> 00:01:53.640
world? Honestly, I felt like
I lacked a platform where I could be

31
00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:59.760
myself and be vulnerable and just be
open. And I wanted to also provide

32
00:01:59.760 --> 00:02:01.719
that for my friends and for anyone
honestly that wants to go on there and

33
00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:07.039
share their story or just be vulnerable
and comfortable, a safe place, a

34
00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:10.479
comfortable place, and I feel like
my friends would always tell me like you

35
00:02:10.560 --> 00:02:14.039
make me feel so comfortable, and
everybody usually comes to me when they want

36
00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.199
advice. So I was like,
you know what, I already go on

37
00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.360
lives on my Daisy Diaries Instagram account. So I was like, I definitely

38
00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:24.080
want this to be bigger, more
professional, like just do it the right

39
00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:29.120
way. And so I already love
talking in front of a camera just in

40
00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.800
general, you know what, I
would love to podcasts, and that's where

41
00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.159
the idea came from. So it's
like a diary and each episode is like

42
00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:38.360
a chapter, and so my guests
can go on there and great conversation.

43
00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:43.360
Yes, create conversation. I wanted
to feel very intimate, very comfortable,

44
00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:46.599
just like girl talk, just like
you know, witty banter, just like

45
00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.280
do you have any guys on the
show or no, it's only been females

46
00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:53.280
so far I've seen. I'm like, what's going on? I mean,

47
00:02:54.599 --> 00:03:00.960
oh my god, you know I'm
being honest. So I I just feel

48
00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:04.639
like I wanted to first have like
all my girlfriends come on there, kind

49
00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.240
of set the tone of like what
Daisy Diaries is. And then once I'm

50
00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:12.560
like up more episodes down I catch
the momentum, then I'll like bring a

51
00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.280
guess that I'm not that I don't
know, or like that I would love

52
00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.319
to interview, or like men,
I don't know. I'm just like a

53
00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:21.879
girl's girls. I'm just like I
don't I don't know if I want to

54
00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:30.879
have men on there yet, but
for sure I don't want to. Well,

55
00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.639
would you say, is like the
difference because like you know, you've

56
00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:37.879
had this career as an influencer.
The difference between like blogging and podcasting,

57
00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:40.680
Like I feel like everyone's so intimate
with when you're vlogging, like they see

58
00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:45.319
where you are, where you go, and podcasting is almost kind of the

59
00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:47.599
same thing. I think it's the
same thing, but I think what what

60
00:03:47.719 --> 00:03:53.240
differentiates it for me is like when
I'm vlogging, I'm very like funny and

61
00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:55.080
goofy, and like I can be
like that on the podcast, but I

62
00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:59.800
feel like I'm wouldn't be taken as
serious if I were to be opening up

63
00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:04.120
at a very serious or intimate topic, versus like on the podcast, It's

64
00:04:04.120 --> 00:04:08.719
like people go on there and they
know, like we're about to enter some

65
00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.879
topics and conversations and like this is
it's you're supposed to be very more open

66
00:04:12.919 --> 00:04:15.439
minded. I feel like for a
podcast versus a vlog, it's like ten

67
00:04:15.480 --> 00:04:18.439
thousand things can be happening on the
blog and then it's just kind of like,

68
00:04:18.920 --> 00:04:23.079
you know, you can miss some
things here and there. But I

69
00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.240
definitely actually feel more comfortable now filming
a podcast episode than like YouTube video.

70
00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:33.040
Surprisingly, I've been on YouTube for
I think seven eight years now, quite

71
00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:35.600
some time. You know. I
started when I was like eighteen nineteen and

72
00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:39.720
I'm twenty six, so I definitely
a little girl I was. I was

73
00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:42.120
in high school. I was a
senior in high school when I first made

74
00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:45.360
my video and then it blew up
and then kind of now I definitely want

75
00:04:45.399 --> 00:04:48.959
to be taken more serious and I
want to get into other adventures and like

76
00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:51.279
projects like hosting and stuff like that. So I'm like, you know,

77
00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:57.399
I feel like podcasting would kind of
lead me to yeh, did thousand person?

78
00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.759
Yes, for sure, Especially interviewing
people. I feel like that can

79
00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:02.439
betle bit nerve wracking, it can
be yeah. Yeah, So it definitely

80
00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:05.720
it's it's like I'm getting the hang
of it and I'm loving it, so

81
00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:10.439
far. When you're interviewing somebody,
you just gotta be curious, curious,

82
00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:13.040
and I like to make them feel
comfortable. I really like to bounce off

83
00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:18.600
of like people's energy and people's conversations
and stuff. So yeah, on the

84
00:05:18.639 --> 00:05:24.360
graund everything looks beautiful and nice anesthetically
amazing, right, yeah, but because

85
00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.439
you can control that, yes,
But there's another side when it comes to

86
00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:29.920
social media that you can't control.
There's a lot of things you can't control

87
00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:31.839
real life. What real life.
Yeah, Like there's a dark side to

88
00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:34.399
it as well, Yes, there
is. Yeah, it's tough. It

89
00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:39.879
is tough, especially like especially like
now with like councel culture. I feel

90
00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:45.360
like every five seconds somebody's getting canceled. Cancel culture is very real now.

91
00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:48.160
I feel like that. I feel
like that's one of the dark sides of

92
00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:51.839
like social media and just the Internet
in general. You know, you can't

93
00:05:51.879 --> 00:05:58.079
control everything, and definitely I feel
like us human beings are not perfect,

94
00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:00.639
and I feel like social media influencers
are put on this pedestal where they're like,

95
00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:02.240
oh, you can't fuck up,
and if you fuck up, you're

96
00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:04.560
gonna get canceled. Oh my god, I just cursed up, So sorry,

97
00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.399
No, you're fine story, but
yeah, I feel like I don't

98
00:06:11.439 --> 00:06:13.480
know. I take everything with a
grain of salt. I try not to

99
00:06:13.519 --> 00:06:15.279
take anything too personal on the internet. And at the end of the day,

100
00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.040
I feel like I'm living my life
for myself and I can't satisfy everyone.

101
00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:23.720
So as long as my family my
friends love me and I'm doing what

102
00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:25.959
I love, I feel like,
you know, I'll be fine. But

103
00:06:26.240 --> 00:06:29.279
there, I feel like you can
get lost in it. I definitely did

104
00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.680
get lost in it at some point, but I feel like having a true

105
00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.000
support system is what really helps you
kind of get out of it. Every

106
00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:41.519
Why do you think you're getting lost
because I'm I didn't. I basically transition

107
00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:45.720
from my teens to my twenties in
La. So I graduated high school,

108
00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:49.120
I moved to LA and I got
thrown into this world, and so I

109
00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:55.439
didn't have any family over here,
so I got to experience everything like when

110
00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.839
I wanted to, and I didn't
really have anyone being like you shouldn't do

111
00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.600
this, you shouldn't do that.
So I got very low the sauce.

112
00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.480
I guess you could say, I'm
grown, yeah, and exactly, And

113
00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:08.120
I was like at the clubs at
a very young age, and I'm just

114
00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:11.040
like, but I'm very glad that
I went through that at an early stage

115
00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.480
because now I'm like over that.
You know, family back in Dallas.

116
00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:16.399
Yes, all, my family's in
Texasan and Mexico, so that's right.

117
00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.879
Yeah, yeah, are you here? I'm Mexican. Yeah. Where are

118
00:07:20.920 --> 00:07:24.519
you from? I'm from I'm from
Los Angeles. I was born here in

119
00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:28.240
the valley here. I know,
I look like, where's your family?

120
00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.879
Fronts from Mexico, you know,
from the capitol. Nice? Nice,

121
00:07:31.959 --> 00:07:36.519
I want dark like this. I
was born in somebody. It's beautiful.

122
00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:42.279
I was able to visit for my
first time in years two years ago,

123
00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:46.240
so that was beautiful experience. That's
awesome. Yeah. Man, yeah,

124
00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:50.720
yo, Daisy Marquez is here the
Daisy Diaries, the podcast wherever you find

125
00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:56.040
your podcast you feel me, the
Daisy Daca Foundations. Well congratulations you came

126
00:07:56.120 --> 00:07:59.800
here undocumented, right, Yes,
So I actually crossed the border at nine

127
00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.639
yearsyears old? Remember that moment.
Yes, And I actually went on a

128
00:08:03.720 --> 00:08:05.680
date last night and I was having
to tell the guy about it and I

129
00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.399
got kind of tearried. I thought
like I kind of healed from it,

130
00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:11.680
but I feel like when I have
to like relive the moment, it definitely

131
00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:16.680
like takes me back to how traumatizing
it was. Because like during the summer,

132
00:08:16.720 --> 00:08:18.319
my all my cousins would go to
Mexico. So I begged my mom.

133
00:08:18.399 --> 00:08:20.600
I was like, can I please
go. She's like, well,

134
00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:22.519
if you go, you're gonna have
to cross the border. And I didn't

135
00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.439
comprehend that at nine years old.
So I was like, okay, cool,

136
00:08:24.480 --> 00:08:28.279
whatever the day comes. And they
dropped me off at the stranger's house.

137
00:08:28.360 --> 00:08:30.800
Let's go yat this house and they're
like, these are the guys that

138
00:08:30.800 --> 00:08:33.440
are going to cross you. They're
like, my grandma just handed me off,

139
00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:35.120
and I was like, oh my
god, like what am I getting

140
00:08:35.120 --> 00:08:39.440
myself into? Long story short,
it was like six hours of walking and

141
00:08:39.559 --> 00:08:43.600
you have to cross the river on
a little floaty. It was a big

142
00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.440
group of us, and then unfortunately, like the immigration came like on a

143
00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:50.480
helicopter and like the four wheelers and
stuff, and so they basically were just

144
00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:54.039
like everybody on their own and they
threw me in a bush and I just

145
00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:58.039
remember that he was like, stay
quiet and I'm so sorry if nobody comes

146
00:08:58.039 --> 00:09:01.200
for you. And at that point
I was like I'm gonna die. I

147
00:09:01.240 --> 00:09:03.240
was like, I'm not, like
I'm never gonna see my family again.

148
00:09:03.840 --> 00:09:07.440
Yes, and so I just stayed
quiet, and I remember seeing the guy

149
00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:09.320
like running away and like from a
distance, I just see like him very

150
00:09:09.360 --> 00:09:11.639
very tiny, and I see the
four wheelers come and they beat him up

151
00:09:11.639 --> 00:09:15.559
and they take him, and I
was just literally I just remember I was

152
00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:18.519
like trying to soothe myself, like
rocking myself back and forth. And then

153
00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:20.679
finally the other coyote came. He's
like, let's go, let's go,

154
00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.279
and by that time, I think
it was just three of us. And

155
00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:28.159
then finally I made it safely back
home. But I was so mad at

156
00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:31.240
my mom because she made me go
through that. But if I never experienced

157
00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:35.039
that, I would not be the
strong, independent woman that I am today.

158
00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.639
So I'm thankful for the experience.
It was very traumatizing, but it

159
00:09:37.679 --> 00:09:41.919
made me who I am today.
And so because I experienced that, and

160
00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:45.200
I'm under DKA, I'm very thankful
to be a part of the program.

161
00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.519
Unfortunately, it did close, but
I reached a point in my life where

162
00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.480
I was like, would I be
happy with my life and with my platform

163
00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:54.879
and what I did if I were
to die tomorrow, and when I said

164
00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.440
no, I was like, something
has to change. I have to get

165
00:09:58.480 --> 00:10:01.879
back to my community, because the
end of the day, my community put

166
00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:05.240
me on this pedestal, you know, and gave me my platform. So

167
00:10:05.480 --> 00:10:09.720
that is where the Daisy Daka Foundation
came about. Financial support. Yes,

168
00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.360
and so I was like, the
permit, you have to renew it every

169
00:10:13.399 --> 00:10:16.799
two years. And let's say this
month you have bills to pay, you

170
00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:20.559
have college, you have kids.
It's five hundred dollars. So it's either

171
00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.440
you pay your permit or you feed
your kids or like, you know,

172
00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.279
bills. It could be a lot. It's so expensive to live nowadays,

173
00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.320
you know. So I would hate
to be in that position where I have

174
00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.080
to choose whether I can keep my
Social Security number or I get to feed

175
00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:37.480
my kids. So I wanted to
provide that financial support for DACA recipients.

176
00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:41.600
And so each month, I select
a handful of DEKER recipients and I'm doing

177
00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:46.559
this all on my own. I
don't have investors, so it's just pocket,

178
00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:48.840
yes, out of my pocket,
just for the kindness of my heart,

179
00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:54.200
and thank you. I hope.
So I'm going but yeah, no,

180
00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:56.600
I hope, like In the future
it can become like a bigger thing

181
00:10:56.600 --> 00:10:58.799
and I have investors, but for
now, I wanted to do it on

182
00:10:58.799 --> 00:11:03.320
my own. And yeah, no, I simply, I genuinely just did

183
00:11:03.320 --> 00:11:07.039
it to give back to my community
and I know that and how can people

184
00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:11.480
receive that financial So you go to
you can find the instagram Daisy Daka Foundation

185
00:11:13.320 --> 00:11:16.320
and then there's a website and all
you have to do is submit pictures of

186
00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:22.120
your work permit and you you give
just a statement as to why you you

187
00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:26.279
feel like you should receive the financial
support. I have came across such beautiful

188
00:11:26.279 --> 00:11:31.480
stories and I personally call them I
should probably give them a heads up because

189
00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:33.480
then when I'm like, hi,
it's Daisy, they like freak out and

190
00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:39.320
I'm like, oh shit, Like
sorry, yeah, I just like call

191
00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:43.080
him out of nowhere. But yeah, it's it's very beautiful and I love

192
00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:50.759
what I do. That's amazing.
I can die happy out watching he is.

193
00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:56.120
And I say all these and I've
kept it very real on my podcast,

194
00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:58.159
like I have made mistakes along the
way and I'm not perfect, and

195
00:11:58.200 --> 00:12:03.600
I've told myself accountable and i have
apologized and I've grown and I feel like

196
00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:05.039
my audience has been able to see
that. You know, I'm not the

197
00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:09.480
same person that has made those mistakes, and you know I can only try

198
00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:13.720
my best and so the only person
that could judge me is God. So

199
00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.440
I'm trying to you know, sometimes
people have to see a fuck up.

200
00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.279
It's all good. Yeah, and
that's that's what makes us humans. And

201
00:12:20.360 --> 00:12:24.120
it's okay, and not everyone's gonna
like me, and I have. I

202
00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:26.759
have made amends with that because I
feel like I used to want everyone to

203
00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:30.080
like me and I wanted to have
the best reputation. But it's like that's

204
00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:31.919
inevitable. So yeah, one person
doesn't like you, your world is crushed.

205
00:12:33.039 --> 00:12:37.399
I know you know who you are
exactly right. Yeah, so I

206
00:12:37.399 --> 00:12:39.399
don't take it personally. You can't. You just can't. What's up?

207
00:12:39.480 --> 00:12:41.080
Let you without saying too much?
Right now? You bring up finances?

208
00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.600
You know, you say you find
and the Daisy Docer Foundation. Yes,

209
00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:50.159
that's saying numbers. What brand has
paid you the most for a campaign?

210
00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:52.919
No, I'm not saying I revealed
the number, so I don't want the

211
00:12:52.919 --> 00:12:58.559
iris watching Just what brand? You
know what brand? Oh? Wait no,

212
00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:05.639
yeah, actually Shean has a very
big budget. I definitely made very

213
00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:16.080
high numbers with Yeah brand, you
got some Jackie's money. I'm like,

214
00:13:16.159 --> 00:13:24.799
I know you got the budget sponsor, right, No, I actually you

215
00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.120
got any active campaigns going on right
now? Right now, I'm doing like

216
00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.639
sponsorships here and there. But I'm
not on like a long contract. I

217
00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:35.600
was on a I was on a
very long contract with Savage Expentee, but

218
00:13:35.679 --> 00:13:39.559
that ended. I feel like nowadays
with like TikTok and just how everything is

219
00:13:39.600 --> 00:13:43.360
so fast paced and like attention span, I feel like things are moving quicker.

220
00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:45.840
Back then, it was like you're
on a contract for four months,

221
00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:50.879
six months, but now everything is
very like short term of yeah, yeah,

222
00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:52.759
yeah. Are you worried about the
TikTok band? Honestly, no,

223
00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.519
I'm honestly not as active on TikTok
as I should be. I just feel

224
00:13:56.519 --> 00:14:01.360
like I I like longer content versus
short content. I'm just such a like

225
00:14:01.480 --> 00:14:05.919
youtubeer. I don't even YouTube as
much anymore. But no, yeah,

226
00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.919
I'm actually not that worried. Do
you think there's a difference now between influencers,

227
00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.720
cause, like you said, along
with like TikTok, everything's so like

228
00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:18.759
fast now. Do you think there's
a difference between influencers now and influencers when

229
00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:22.279
you started, Yes, for sure, because I feel like back then,

230
00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:26.679
especially like twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, like it's I think even up to

231
00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:28.759
this day, it's still so hard
to grow on YouTube. But if you're

232
00:14:28.840 --> 00:14:33.679
able to grow an audience on YouTube, you like have created a stamp for

233
00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:37.320
yourself in the social media world because
TikTok, anybody can become an influencer.

234
00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:41.279
Anybody can get a bunch of followers. So I think it's I think once

235
00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.759
you make it on YouTube, it
like you have just like really created something

236
00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:50.200
for you. You've created a solid
like fad, a solid foundation. Then

237
00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.120
you can kind of build up versus
TikTok. Like if it gets banned,

238
00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:54.919
it's like crap, Like what is
everybody gonna go on YouTube? It's like

239
00:14:56.000 --> 00:14:58.200
so hard to stand out there and
create. So I'm very thankful that I

240
00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:01.840
started YouTube better a young age.
I still love it. I'm just not

241
00:15:01.919 --> 00:15:05.799
as passionate as I was because I'm
a little bit older now and I wanted

242
00:15:05.840 --> 00:15:09.519
to do philanthropy or I wanted to
invest or, do real estate or stuff

243
00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.519
like that. So I'm definitely just
trying not to limit myself to just one

244
00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:18.840
thing. For sure. I edit
all my content. I even edit my

245
00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.000
podcast. My podcast episodes, I
still edit them. I get some help,

246
00:15:22.039 --> 00:15:26.240
but I'm just such a perfectionist when
it comes to my editing. Because

247
00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:30.000
yes, that's why I'm like,
I see the camera here and I'm like,

248
00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:35.200
Okay, this is it tough for
you to pay people because it's like

249
00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:37.279
you work so hard for your money. No, because you know what I've

250
00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:46.720
learned is not even that. No, I've learned that as as money comes

251
00:15:46.759 --> 00:15:58.879
in, it has to come I'm
actually I'm the most I am. No.

252
00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.360
My friend the other day she's like, you're such a make a wish

253
00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.080
and I was like, what do
you mean And she's like, because you

254
00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.960
just give so much to everybody,
And I was like, well, I

255
00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:07.840
love that. I love that.
I don't think that's a bad I think

256
00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.519
it's a bad exactly. I was
like, okay, I was like,

257
00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:18.080
don't tell anyone, no, but
yeah, no, I I I've learned

258
00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:19.559
that as money comes in, it
it has to go out, and you

259
00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:23.759
can't really just hold on to that. Especially during COVID, I was like,

260
00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.759
my mom's like, so what are
you going to do? And I

261
00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:27.639
was like, what do you mean, And she's like, well, she's

262
00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.679
like, what if the world never
goes back to normal. She's like,

263
00:16:30.720 --> 00:16:32.679
what are you going to do with
the money that you've made on social media?

264
00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.600
And I was like nothing, And
she's like, you need to invest

265
00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:37.519
that money. She's like, because
what if the Internet's gone tomorrow? And

266
00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:41.679
I was like, crap, You're
right. So my parents are definitely my

267
00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:45.440
mentors, and they they taught me
to invest my money into properties in Texas.

268
00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.279
So that's why I'm based in Texas. Now, that's right, that's

269
00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:53.000
right. Yeah, it's cheaper out
there too, It's so much cheaper.

270
00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:59.279
Yeah, no, I say,
everybody's moving there. No, Honestly,

271
00:16:59.360 --> 00:17:02.480
you guys like, yeah, wait
wait Walker, you got to live around

272
00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.519
some wild people out there. Oh
no, yeah, no over there.

273
00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:10.279
No. Oh that is so true. It's so sad, but it's so

274
00:17:10.319 --> 00:17:11.519
true. No. But yeah,
my life in Texas is so different than

275
00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:15.160
here because I drive to Target and
I see cows and horses on my way

276
00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:17.599
over there. You know, I
drive to Target over here and icy a

277
00:17:17.599 --> 00:17:22.960
bunch of yeah man naked on the
way. I know, the same drive.

278
00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:30.319
Yeah, I know about my city. I love La though, I

279
00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.680
love the balance of like going to
Texas and being with my family and it's

280
00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:37.720
so simple and then coming here and
it's like hectic and work. But I

281
00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.400
love it. I love the life
and I'm very very very thankful. It's

282
00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:47.119
like text mex food. Honestly me
either, I feel like, but I

283
00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.799
feel there's a lot of text mex
food here. No, I mean not

284
00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:53.000
really out here. It's different,
different, Bro, We're close to Mexico.

285
00:17:53.039 --> 00:18:04.599
Bro, you feel me your right, very like I did. True,

286
00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.759
I'm like, well, I didn't
go to college. I couldn't go

287
00:18:07.799 --> 00:18:11.319
to college, but beat Yeah.
They basically were just like, we're going

288
00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:15.119
to charge as an international student,
and I was like wow, like I

289
00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.079
was so broke that I was so
depressed. And then that's how I got

290
00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:25.240
into YouTube and stuff, yeah,
or YouTuber literally nobody, you know,

291
00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:30.079
watch nobody's videos and seid no oh
no. I honestly never like I would

292
00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:33.799
watch like Bethanimota and stuff like growing
up, but I never was like I

293
00:18:33.839 --> 00:18:37.680
want to be a social media influencer. I think how I got into it

294
00:18:37.720 --> 00:18:41.160
was I was depressed because I worked
my ass off to go to college,

295
00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:44.240
and when I found out that I
couldn't because I was so broke. I

296
00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:45.720
was like, what am I going
to do now? And so I was

297
00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:48.920
just doing makeup for fun on Snapchat
and so people were like, we want

298
00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.160
longer videos. So then that's why
I got into YouTube, and I was

299
00:18:52.200 --> 00:18:55.759
like, I was like, Okay, what's the worst that can happen?

300
00:18:56.160 --> 00:18:57.720
So then that's whenever I started.
And then I just I was like,

301
00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:02.279
oh crap, Like now I'm in
the space like yeah, I'm like,

302
00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:06.240
should I keep doing it? And
so I literally grudge it and everything.

303
00:19:06.319 --> 00:19:08.920
Yeah, I feel like that era
of when you started and like the social

304
00:19:08.960 --> 00:19:12.599
media influencers and beauty bloggers and everything
like that, I feel like there was

305
00:19:12.680 --> 00:19:18.319
no blueprint other than like Michelle,
which kind of just happened. Like organically,

306
00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:26.759
what's the worst twenty sixteen makeup trend? Would you say? Oh my

307
00:19:26.880 --> 00:19:30.720
god, my eyebrows, the block
eyebrows? My god, I had upside

308
00:19:30.759 --> 00:19:36.319
down Nike checks I'm talking about.
No, it was so bad, and

309
00:19:36.359 --> 00:19:37.839
I literally look back at it,
I'm like, why would y'all tell me

310
00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:41.359
that I look good when I had
blocks my eyes? I know, I

311
00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:44.759
was like, oh my god,
y'all had me out here thinking I was

312
00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:47.599
at ten and I was over here
like a five with those eyebrows. We

313
00:19:47.599 --> 00:19:52.279
were concealing our eyebrows like like crazy, No, y'all were figuring out the

314
00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:55.119
eyebrown situation. The eyebrow situation.
Yeah no, no, for sure,

315
00:19:55.160 --> 00:20:00.200
would you take block brows or fluffy
brows? I definitely like the fluffy brother.

316
00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.799
I just I can't, man,
you bring up Snapchat. It seems

317
00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:07.359
like Snapchat is like re launching right
there. Have they reached out to get

318
00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:11.079
back on it. Snapchat is where
it's at right now, right literally,

319
00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.960
Like for example, like David Dobrick, you know, he was creating blogs

320
00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:18.680
on YouTube, but now he completely
moved over Snapchat because it's so yeah,

321
00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.440
I think, I think, and
like the finances Snapchat is on top and

322
00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.559
then it's like honestly though, but
like on YouTube, you will only make

323
00:20:26.599 --> 00:20:32.519
real money on YouTube if you're making
over a million views. But on Snapchat,

324
00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:36.880
they the way you have to be
posting at least like fifty to one

325
00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:41.720
hundred stories to be making Like there's
this influencer that recently talked about that he

326
00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:45.480
makes fifty k a month just from
posting Snapchat stories, but he posts like

327
00:20:45.519 --> 00:20:48.839
fifty to one hundred like constantly.
Yeah, a day, I think we

328
00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:55.720
need it's a day, like a
day because it's like every I think it's

329
00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:57.519
like every six or twelve stories,
there's an ad, so imagine, yeah,

330
00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:02.319
post one hundred. But it's like
it's kind of like they literally take

331
00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:06.559
pictures of like your yeah, and
it's just like people just like tapping.

332
00:21:06.680 --> 00:21:08.359
But they just tapped through like thirty
ads and that's a bunch of money.

333
00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:15.160
So Snapchat, let's go. That's
interesting. I'm like, you guy,

334
00:21:15.160 --> 00:21:19.079
shouldet back up. I will tap
through all of you. I think the

335
00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:22.640
reason why people still held on to
Snapchat for a long time was the filters.

336
00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:38.200
They filters, the filters also because
messages are just gone. You know,

337
00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:44.039
there's an event that you're hosting on
the twenty third, right, making

338
00:21:44.039 --> 00:21:47.400
stuff up? Wait when when don't
you have an event coming up? What's

339
00:21:47.400 --> 00:21:51.400
today? What March thirty? Does
that ring a bell? Don't cut this

340
00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:56.400
out, don't worry about it.
Okay, wait, oh we changed the

341
00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.480
date. Sorry, that's no worries. Yeah. So I'm seen in a

342
00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.920
dinner for Women's History Month, and
I'm going to have a lot of my

343
00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:07.279
friends and just have it really be
about women. Empowerment. Like I said,

344
00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:10.720
I'm just I'm a girls girls and
I wanted to. I haven't been

345
00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.640
able to celebrate the launch of the
Daisy Zaca Foundation. It just kind of

346
00:22:12.680 --> 00:22:15.519
like happened, and I'm like the
ball has been rolling and I'm like wait,

347
00:22:15.640 --> 00:22:19.359
I'm like, let's actually celebrate this
beautiful thing that has been created.

348
00:22:19.759 --> 00:22:25.200
Bring a lot of my you know, girlfriends, and just celebrate women and

349
00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:33.960
Women's History Month, and yeah,
just bring out I wish I love her,

350
00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:38.079
come on over your down So I
would love to bring bringing Jenny six

351
00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:44.160
nine is that's fine her thing.
She invited me to think that, ye

352
00:22:44.920 --> 00:22:48.680
are you? I got the ins
just go in for sure. I'm like

353
00:22:48.759 --> 00:22:52.599
a f class influencer. No,
I got the petty invite, but I

354
00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:59.759
got them. I might, I
might peoples, yea, I will pull

355
00:22:59.799 --> 00:23:02.920
up a cameras though. It's like
sometimes you go to the influencer parties and

356
00:23:02.920 --> 00:23:06.279
everybody's blogging. I just started and
everybody's working. No, you know what,

357
00:23:06.359 --> 00:23:08.599
I think back then it was so
different because now it's like you see

358
00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:14.519
influencers like on live at the party. So I was like so and I'm

359
00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:18.000
just like, oh my god,
times really have changed because I never that's

360
00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:21.400
all that scary too, though,
it is like I'm not trying to be

361
00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.200
at one point. Listen at one
point, dude, Like, I don't

362
00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:26.279
know if you were that type of
influencier where you go to a party and

363
00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.839
you're blogging everything, right, because
obviously it's like a job, But at

364
00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:30.480
what point you were like, like, man, I got to start living

365
00:23:30.519 --> 00:23:34.079
life a little bit more and being
present. I think like two three years

366
00:23:34.119 --> 00:23:37.480
ago, I would take my camera
everywhere, and I mean I had to

367
00:23:38.400 --> 00:23:41.200
YouTube channels. Back then. I
actually had a couple's channel and then that

368
00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.359
didn't work out, so then I
turned it into did you sell the channel?

369
00:23:45.519 --> 00:23:51.240
No, that's actually my podcast channel, so I was like, you

370
00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:55.799
know what for one so I still
had a following on there, and I

371
00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:59.400
was like, perfect, I'm going
to delete all these old blogs, let

372
00:23:59.519 --> 00:24:02.759
go of that, and yeah,
I I'm very glad that I kept it

373
00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:04.680
still because I was going to delete
the whole channel. But yeah, no,

374
00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:07.720
I used to always bring on my
camera for everything. But I think

375
00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.720
moving back to Texas and made me
really appreciate the little things and living in

376
00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.000
the moment and my family and so
even when I go to concerts now,

377
00:24:15.039 --> 00:24:19.240
I always try to stay as present
I think I think being present really has

378
00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.759
helped me stay grounded. Yeah,
that's what always threw me off, like

379
00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:27.160
lean in attendance to those kind of
events like did you people just recording everything

380
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:33.680
is about recording, and it's it's
it's very competitive. I would say,

381
00:24:33.880 --> 00:24:37.359
I definitely am so glad that I'm
not as in it as I was.

382
00:24:37.720 --> 00:24:41.400
I still like to, you know, come in and whenever, yeah,

383
00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:48.400
pop up, but yeah, I
definitely just try to to focus on myself

384
00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:52.279
and be myself. That's great,
that's great. Yeah, absolutely, thank

385
00:24:52.319 --> 00:24:53.640
you very much for stopping by.
Thank you so much for having me.

386
00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:57.880
This was my highlight of my days. Not thank you, appreciate it.

387
00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:02.359
Come through any time for real,
yay, but on time, on time.

388
00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:06.000
Yes, you're right, you're right, crucial we learn to pay check

389
00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.680
your rich from The Crui Show.
Thanks for listening to The Cruise Show podcast

390
00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:11.920
to make sure to subscribe and hey
auto download so you don't miss an episode.

391
00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:12.240
So so so so so