WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.240 Hi everyone, and welcome back to another podcast episode. My name is Alicia 2 00:00:03.279 --> 00:00:06.839 Gogan, the host of The Globe Secret Podcast, where I help you expand 3 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.160 your mind and become more self aware so that you can glow up into the 4 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:17.039 best version of yourself. Hello, Happy Monday. Today's episode is going to 5 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:21.600 be an off topic episode because quite frankly, I just need to chat about 6 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:25.640 random things today. Okay, I have not been feeling good. Once again. 7 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.480 There's something I was gonna say, there's something wrong with my immune system, 8 00:00:29.559 --> 00:00:33.439 but there's not really. I think what it is sometimes when I go 9 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:38.479 out and I be social and I do multiple things, especially when the weather 10 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:43.479 is either really coold or it gets really warm, that is when my immune 11 00:00:43.479 --> 00:00:47.000 system is like a girl, no, you're going to feel it during the 12 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:50.840 week. So I haven't been feeling the best, but I'm okay. But 13 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.840 with that said, I feel like an off topic episode will just be perfect. 14 00:00:54.039 --> 00:00:57.159 And if you guys are new here, an off topic episode is essentially 15 00:00:57.200 --> 00:01:00.640 just me talking about a few random topics. So I figured we'd quickly just 16 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:07.040 chat about the fact that it's almost July, like, how are we midyear 17 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:10.560 already? Wild? And then I figured that I would also answer a lot 18 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:12.200 of the questions that you guys had asked me when it comes to being a 19 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:17.920 content creator slash influencer. There's been a lot of questions in regard to that. 20 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:19.840 So I figured I'll just give you guys some advice things like that, 21 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:25.879 and just some updates and maybe potentially talk about some bad days because I feel 22 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:27.840 like I've had a few. I don't want to call them bad days, 23 00:01:27.879 --> 00:01:32.239 but just like emotional days, and I feel like maybe I could give you 24 00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:36.319 guys some advice if you needed, if you've been feeling like you know, 25 00:01:36.879 --> 00:01:40.079 you're just really going through it, because really that is what my podcast is 26 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:42.799 here for. So let's just talk about the fact that, yes, it 27 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:46.879 is almost July when this episode comes out, and I just want you guys 28 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:51.280 maybe just to think about the past six months. What has been going good? 29 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.359 What hasn't? Is there things that we can change evolve? Can we 30 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:59.120 look back and see have we been hitting our goals? What's working? What's 31 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.400 not? And you know, when I first was starting to think, I 32 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:05.879 thought about this last week, I was like, oh my gosh, like 33 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.960 summer, summer is not over, but why is it like slow down? 34 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:14.800 Like I'm kind of it's giving like Doomsday energy. But then I was thinking, 35 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:17.080 you know what, we should be really proud of the things that we 36 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.120 have accomplished this year so far, and I just want you guys to just 37 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:25.199 maybe take a moment to sit and think about the things you've ever either accomplished 38 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:29.319 or the changes that you have made in your life, even if it's not 39 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:35.719 big, Like I am positive that your mindset or your habits are not the 40 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:39.560 exact same as how they were maybe at the beginning of the year. And 41 00:02:39.919 --> 00:02:45.240 this is not to beg on yourself if you haven't done that much more or 42 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:49.159 maybe things have changed, but just to realize, like things change, like 43 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.319 we are always evolving, and I think that we should really send a lot 44 00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:59.319 of gratitude and just a lot of positivity to ourselves to see where we have 45 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:04.719 come and and also just to see why we might have not hit some of 46 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:08.039 the goals that we said that we wanted. Have we changed? Do we 47 00:03:08.120 --> 00:03:14.599 need to think about doing something new and fresh, like inviting new energy into 48 00:03:14.680 --> 00:03:16.719 our lives? Like what do we want the next six months to also be? 49 00:03:17.240 --> 00:03:21.599 Of this year? And bringing it back to the dooms Day energy, 50 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:23.639 I was thinking like, oh my god, like the summer needs to slow 51 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.719 down. But then I was also thinking like, we have six months essentially 52 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:30.719 more of the year. There's really no rush, but we can do so 53 00:03:31.039 --> 00:03:37.319 much, Like we have so much more time, So how do we essentially 54 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.759 for me what I'm thinking about, it's like, how do I change the 55 00:03:39.759 --> 00:03:45.000 course of this current day or my summer right now? We can change this 56 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:46.800 right now. If you're feeling like, oh my god, time has been 57 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.199 flying by, I haven't been hitting my goals, things have not been working 58 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:55.960 whatever, don't worry. You can flip things around right now with a simple 59 00:03:57.120 --> 00:04:00.680 just mindset shift. I think sometimes we we get in our heads about time, 60 00:04:01.360 --> 00:04:04.639 and we get in our heads about the things that we haven't accomplished or 61 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:09.919 whatever it is. But it's simply just reframing and be like, okay, 62 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:14.520 we have been six months into the year. Wow, that's scary. Maybe 63 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:17.879 that's a little bit like, oh my gosh, I haven't accomplished anything. 64 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.560 Or you can look at it and be like, I have six more months 65 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:26.199 to be the best version of myself this year. I can accomplish so many 66 00:04:26.279 --> 00:04:30.199 things. There's so much new energy that I can invite into my life right 67 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.800 now. What is that going to be so just thinking of some goals maybe 68 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.680 that you want to hit for the next six months to come. I definitely 69 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.920 am going to be thinking about some of the things that I want to accomplish. 70 00:04:41.040 --> 00:04:44.399 Also just being a content creator and planning for the future. I feel 71 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.040 like that's some things you have to do when you have your own business or 72 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:50.680 you're working towards something. But I also think like for me, I kind 73 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:56.519 of want to invite new energy to take me out of the mindset that I 74 00:04:56.600 --> 00:04:59.720 have been in, which has been pretty good. But I feel like I 75 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:05.079 want like a switch up in my life and I want to follow some sort 76 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:12.199 of like new hobby or interest that is nothing that I have been doing for 77 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.560 the past six months. I am super into mental health and like mindful practices, 78 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:23.839 and obviously I do a certain type of vlogging for YouTube, but also 79 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.399 podcast episodes, and I'm not really even trying to change any sort of energy 80 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:30.600 when it comes to work, but I want to try something new in terms 81 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:34.079 of a hobby. So for me right now, I'm kind of interested in 82 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:42.000 getting more into fashion, which I don't even know if that will ever translate 83 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.800 into some of the work that I am doing because obviously I am a content 84 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:48.439 creator. But this is why I think that I'm interested in fashion. There's 85 00:05:48.519 --> 00:05:53.240 multiple reasons. One, I think just summer right, I feel like it's 86 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:58.399 just easier and more fun to dress up and wear cute outfits and think more 87 00:05:58.439 --> 00:06:02.000 about your outfits in the summertime when the weather is nice. But I just 88 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.279 want to put my energy and my focus into something that just doesn't have anything 89 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:13.519 to do with self work. And I know you guys can relate when it 90 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:16.879 comes to self improvement. It's like, sometimes it just feels like a never 91 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:24.720 ending cycle of constantly up leveling and constantly working on yourself and your limiting beliefs 92 00:06:24.759 --> 00:06:29.839 and childhood trauma and this thought, and especially being somebody who does this for 93 00:06:29.920 --> 00:06:34.120 a living, I have to be very I don't know what the word is, 94 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:39.399 but I have to be really good with making sure that I'm not falling 95 00:06:39.439 --> 00:06:45.040 too much into one. I don't want to say cycle, but I don't 96 00:06:45.079 --> 00:06:48.160 know one energy of always having to heal or always having to self improve. 97 00:06:48.199 --> 00:06:51.800 And that's why sometimes I even like these off topic episodes or you know, 98 00:06:53.800 --> 00:06:58.519 not pitchingholing myself into one type of topic. When it comes to even my 99 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:03.639 work, because I just think that's a recipe sometimes for disaster and maybe this 100 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:08.720 is the tip for even if you want to be a content creator. It's 101 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.800 great to kind of have a certain niche and talk about something that you're really 102 00:07:12.839 --> 00:07:17.639 good at or you're passionate about. But I have been very strategic in the 103 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:23.319 way that I will post content and share online. I try to make it 104 00:07:23.399 --> 00:07:26.879 open so that I can have different days to be able to talk about different 105 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:30.240 topics if I want to. You guys know me as somebody who talks about 106 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.959 self love and healing and the internal glow up. But yes, I have 107 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:35.879 days where I'm talking about content creation or something like that, because I just 108 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:42.079 know what that does for me personally, my mental health. When I'm only 109 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:47.040 always just focused on one thing, it can get a little bit just also 110 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:51.160 like boring. I don't know. So this summer, I kind of want 111 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:57.000 to step into this fashion era of mine, which I don't even really know 112 00:07:57.040 --> 00:07:59.480 what that looks like, but I feel like I am in the energy of 113 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:03.240 wanting to level and change up some of my looks. And whether that has 114 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:07.360 to do with me bringing that to Instagram or TikTok or even my vlogs. 115 00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:11.639 I don't even know, but I just want my mind off of something. 116 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:15.319 So maybe just thinking in your life, what is something that you can kind 117 00:08:15.319 --> 00:08:18.959 of get your mind off of the thing that you have been either working on 118 00:08:20.519 --> 00:08:24.160 that it's doing really great, but also maybe you're just like bored of it, 119 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:26.439 or maybe you're hyper focusing on it. Is there something that you could 120 00:08:26.480 --> 00:08:30.240 just you know, take up, take up a new skill, a new 121 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.559 hobby, a new something, or you know, even thinking about like your 122 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:37.720 friend groups or where you're moving around when you are socializing. Have you been 123 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:39.440 going to the same places. Have you been having the same conversations, have 124 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:43.080 you been doing the same thing with the same people. It's not to say 125 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:46.960 you have to get rid of these people or never move around the places that 126 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:48.639 you move because a lot of the times, I'm sure you're getting benefit from 127 00:08:48.679 --> 00:08:52.600 these things. But if you're feeling a little stagnant, a little stuck, 128 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:58.080 a little bit like where has the time gone? I would suggest maybe thinking 129 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.919 about the next six months, like where can you see yourself in a new 130 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:07.000 realm in life? Because I don't know, I feel like this is what 131 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.360 we're here to do. We're here to explore what we're interested in, and 132 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:16.480 you know, sometimes we have interests that dwindle out, but sometimes you have 133 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:22.200 that interest that ends up being the like a big piece of your puzzle in 134 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.360 your life, and you won't even really know unless you follow that desire. 135 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:31.519 And I'm super into following what feels good and following your desires and following what 136 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:35.200 you're passionate about, and even just bringing it to something small like fashion. 137 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.000 I don't know where that's going to bring me. All I know is I 138 00:09:39.080 --> 00:09:43.879 have this craving to go in that direction, and so that's what I'm doing. 139 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:46.320 I feel like sometimes you just go through seasons, like I said, 140 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.480 But when I'm craving watching fashion content or watching people online talk about things that 141 00:09:50.519 --> 00:09:52.960 I just have nothing to do with what I've been talking about, I'm going 142 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:56.159 that direction. I don't know where that's going to take me, but I'm 143 00:09:56.200 --> 00:09:58.960 going that direction. And I always find this is specific for being in content 144 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.919 creator, at least for me when I feel into a desire for myself. 145 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:07.200 Oh, I'm really into my natural hair right now, and I really want 146 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:09.759 to take care of it more, or something to do with skincare or something 147 00:10:09.759 --> 00:10:13.960 to do with fashion, or something to do with whatever the universe, it 148 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:20.120 just continues to show me that it's listening or really I'm manifesting, because as 149 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.559 soon as I have those desires, it's like a brand will send me something 150 00:10:24.559 --> 00:10:30.240 that is specific to my hair journey or like recently, I've been getting a 151 00:10:30.279 --> 00:10:35.200 few brand deals when it comes to fashion brands. And so sometimes I'm not 152 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:37.240 saying like, oh, just think about whatever you want. You got to 153 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.080 do the work, you got to obviously put yourself in places. But I 154 00:10:41.120 --> 00:10:45.240 think that sometimes it's as simple as just going the direction of what you're really 155 00:10:45.399 --> 00:10:50.679 feeling like you want to do, and you will start to have a lens 156 00:10:50.799 --> 00:10:56.000 that will seek out opportunities or people or places or things or whatever that will 157 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:01.080 be a part or a magnet to whatever it is that you are desiring, 158 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:03.440 and just go in that direction and see where that leads you. So anyways, 159 00:11:03.480 --> 00:11:07.639 that's really it. When it comes to mid year reset, I feel 160 00:11:07.639 --> 00:11:13.320 like a lot of people are talking about mid year goals, and obviously even 161 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.399 like resetting your life. I made a summer reset video actually which I will 162 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:22.320 link in the description from last year, and I just ran through like thinking 163 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.879 about, like I already said, all the goals that you had set for 164 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.000 yourself. Are you hitting them? Why aren't you hitting them? Can you 165 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:31.840 set new goals things like that? But I just think right now in my 166 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.440 life it's not necessarily about goals and you know what I've hit what I haven't. 167 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.519 It's more inviting new energy into my life, Like I want to feel 168 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:48.200 something different than I have been feeling. So maybe you guys have been feeling 169 00:11:48.200 --> 00:11:52.279 the same. Okay, so let's get into the content creation questions that you 170 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:56.080 guys have asked me. I have definitely made different episodes when it comes to 171 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:01.120 tips on how to start and confidence tis. I have a video on my 172 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.799 main channel about how to build your dream life while working nine to five. 173 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:09.879 So I have a lot of content. But I figured I would just do 174 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.240 another one of these because you guys keep asking, and I know there's a 175 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:16.200 lot of new viewers. Even if you don't want to be a content creator 176 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:18.720 influencer, I feel like maybe it'll just be interesting to listen to today. 177 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.799 The first question they asked, how did you find slash figure out what you 178 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:31.639 wanted to post? When it comes to showing up online, I think the 179 00:12:31.679 --> 00:12:37.200 best thing that you could do is speak from experience and share something that you're 180 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:43.000 really good at, or you're passionate about, or you're really skilled on. 181 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:46.960 You can do so many things online, right, so it's like, well, 182 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.720 what do you want to do, what are you passionate about? What 183 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:54.960 are you good at? For me? How did I find what it was? 184 00:12:54.159 --> 00:12:58.440 When I first started on TikTok, I already knew exactly what I wanted 185 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:03.000 to share with the world, because at that point I was talking about health 186 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.159 and fitness. I mean, you guys know my story and I'm not going 187 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:07.279 to get into it completely and if you really want to know my story, 188 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:09.799 especially when it comes to content creation, not I didn't talk about contragation in 189 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:13.279 my book. But what led me up to sharing what I share now it's 190 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.000 in my book, The Ultimate Globe Guide. But I struggled for many years 191 00:13:18.039 --> 00:13:22.679 with an unhealthy relationship with food, but also an unhealthy relationship towards my body 192 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:24.559 and like fitness and everything and chronic illness. I had a lot of things 193 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.279 going on and had to do a lot of healing work when it came to 194 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:33.240 that, and I did that work, and when I was online and I 195 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:39.399 was seeing other women who were struggling with loving themselves, confidence, but also 196 00:13:39.440 --> 00:13:43.360 I even saw it in my immediate life with friends and everyone, including myself. 197 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:46.720 Of course, I feel like it's actually quite normal, unfortunately, especially 198 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.000 for women, but also the health and wellness field of I used to be 199 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.480 a personal trainer and I was a wellness coordinator at a tech company at one 200 00:13:54.480 --> 00:13:58.960 point as well, and I had clients who were always struggling with weight, 201 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.120 always struggling with loving themselves, always struggling with this that, like, why 202 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:05.799 is it so hard to be consistent? And we have all the information right, 203 00:14:05.840 --> 00:14:07.440 we know what to do when it comes to dieting, we know what 204 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.080 to do when it comes to moving our bodies. Why do we continuously fail 205 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:16.360 at doing those things? And so I learned in my own journey, and 206 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:20.320 everyone's journey is unique, but I learned some of the things that were getting 207 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:24.519 in my way when it came to just taking care of myself and eating well 208 00:14:24.600 --> 00:14:26.679 and moving my body, like simple things. But it just was so hard 209 00:14:26.720 --> 00:14:30.240 for me to do it, and that was because I was driven out a 210 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:35.679 place of self hate. I was also doing behaviors like regulating my nervous system 211 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:39.519 with things that weren't healthy for me, like eating a lot of candy when 212 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:43.639 I was younger and I had that addiction to it, and you know, 213 00:14:43.720 --> 00:14:46.600 then I got into all of these types of cycles. So I was just 214 00:14:46.639 --> 00:14:50.559 sharing what I found on my journey that really actually helped me. And then 215 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:56.240 I was talking about the fact that really and truly to get out of those 216 00:14:56.279 --> 00:15:00.480 cycles. And everyone is unique in terms of how you get out of a 217 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:03.039 cycle. So I'm not saying my way is the only way, but for 218 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:05.279 me and for a lot of you guys that you're starting to realize it really 219 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:11.720 is a deep internal healing journey and you definitely most likely are going to be 220 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:16.360 rooting that shit back to childhood. So I talked a lot about childhood trauma 221 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:18.960 and healing and how to really connect to the parts of you that are really 222 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:24.919 young and are stuck and doing self sabotaging behaviors where your inner critic is coming 223 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:26.720 from. The self hate, the negative self talk, all of those things 224 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:31.480 are being stemmed a lot of times from childhood or when you're grown up in 225 00:15:31.600 --> 00:15:37.120 environments where people were bullying you or you overheard people picking on these people, 226 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:41.120 so now you have a negative self talk, social media, all of those 227 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:45.840 things are really impacting how you view yourself and so I was just teaching other 228 00:15:45.919 --> 00:15:48.399 people what I had learned on my own journey and how I really did that. 229 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.200 And so that's how I grew and that's what I talked about. I 230 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:58.519 didn't talk about things that I didn't know. And I think sometimes maybe for 231 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:03.639 people who are trying to go online, they're like looking for, like what 232 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.440 it is, like, what can I bring to people? You? It's 233 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:10.600 you, it's your unique story. What are you passionate about? What have 234 00:16:10.759 --> 00:16:15.440 you been through? Even let's say you're not sharing about like self improvement or 235 00:16:15.759 --> 00:16:18.279 all that kind of stuff because you don't need to. But if you see 236 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:22.840 something in the industry that you feel like you could either do better or you 237 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:26.320 could fix, or you can innovate, or you have a certain take on 238 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.799 that, even like when it comes to like social commentary or a different different 239 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:37.159 viewpoint and anything, it all really comes down to you. And I think 240 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:40.679 that is where a lot of people really struggle when it comes to being an 241 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:45.519 influencer or a content creator, because we're looking at everyone else and we're trying 242 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:48.960 to be like everyone else, which is a normal part of what happens when 243 00:16:48.039 --> 00:16:52.879 you are online and you're getting influenced and you're looking at people. But the 244 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:59.440 real game is you coming to yourself and you knowing what your value is and 245 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:03.119 your unique perspective in your own story, and you cultivate that and you build 246 00:17:03.160 --> 00:17:07.240 confidence around that, and you share that with the world. That's really what 247 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.960 it comes down to. So, yeah, when it came to like how 248 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.559 did I find what? I was like passionate about what I want to share. 249 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:18.920 I'm always sharing out of experience, and even if I haven't necessarily experienced 250 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:25.519 something, I am giving advice from a perspective that is my own that I 251 00:17:25.720 --> 00:17:29.799 back that I think is great. I don't think that I'm right about everything, 252 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:32.920 but I think that I have a really good perspective. Also another thing 253 00:17:33.079 --> 00:17:36.039 is, you know, all of my life, I've been that advice friend. 254 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:40.920 All of my life, I have been the responsible friend, the person 255 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:45.960 who has succeeded a lot, a person who has gone through trials and tribulations. 256 00:17:45.000 --> 00:17:49.519 Another part of my story is, yes, I had all of those 257 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.920 negative self talk and body image and I had to heal from those things. 258 00:17:55.319 --> 00:18:02.079 But I also had a pretty tumultuous childhood and in a very low income family. 259 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:04.200 Like a lot of people, that comes with a lot of struggles and 260 00:18:04.240 --> 00:18:11.079 stressors, and my father we didn't have the best relationship. So I can 261 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.039 speak on issues that a lot of people will have when it comes to feeling 262 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:21.759 very disempowered maybe by a father, or suppressed by a parent, or traumatized 263 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:25.680 by a parent. Also, my mother went through addictions, and if you 264 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:30.319 really look online, there's this test or like childhood trauma, like ACE tests 265 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:33.119 or whatever. I grew up in an environment that was not healthy and it 266 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.759 was very traumatizing, and I had to grow up very quickly, and I 267 00:18:36.759 --> 00:18:41.599 had to get out of my situation from basically nothing the best that I could. 268 00:18:41.640 --> 00:18:44.799 So I'm sharing from that experience, and I'm also giving a lot of 269 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:49.319 motivation and inspiration to the ones that might have gone through similar experiences as me. 270 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:56.240 So I'm really just sharing from my life experience. You don't need to 271 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:59.640 have gone through the things that I have gone through to be an influencer or 272 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.000 to be impactful. Maybe you simply are the it girl out of all your 273 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:08.039 friends who always has the best outfits and you know where to find everything, 274 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:12.480 and you just know like you're just on it. That's influential too, And 275 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.559 yes, maybe some people will be like, oh well, that's not as 276 00:19:15.599 --> 00:19:21.400 meaningful as talking about childhood trauma maybe, but who cares, right, Like, 277 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.960 if that's your thing, go do it. I always and I feel 278 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:29.960 like you guys probably know a friend who should have always been an influencer but 279 00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:33.680 just never did. I have so many friends that are just those it girls 280 00:19:33.680 --> 00:19:38.279 that I'm like, can you please just go online and show the girls what 281 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:42.519 it really means to be an it girl? Because you are it and people 282 00:19:42.519 --> 00:19:47.039 will go to them for certain advice or tips or if you're really good with 283 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:52.000 skincare or hair care, or you know your home or even my best friend 284 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:57.519 Joey, I knew that she was somebody who in her life everyone goes to 285 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.440 when it comes to finances, always goes to her. I'm not saying that 286 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:06.240 her value and her worth is only about finances, but everyone goes to her 287 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:10.079 when it comes to finances. So I told her, go on TikTok and 288 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.039 start sharing about that, because you know about this thing, you're good about 289 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:15.160 it, and on top of that, like she's passionate about it. She'd 290 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.160 be sitting there on her days off looking up stocks to buy and looking up 291 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:22.799 how to invest in all those things on her time off and so yes, 292 00:20:22.880 --> 00:20:25.920 girl, go online and share that with your audience. And I have so 293 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:30.000 many friends in the content creator space who they're just so good with marketing or 294 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:33.799 branding or content creator whatever it is, and that's what you should share online. 295 00:20:33.839 --> 00:20:37.839 You don't have to, but that's I think the best way to be 296 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.400 sustainable when it comes to being a content creator. Could I talk about health 297 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:48.319 and fitness when it comes to building out workout plans and health coaching or There's 298 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.279 so many skills that I have, Like I could really talk about everything, 299 00:20:52.319 --> 00:20:55.640 but at the end of the day, it's like what is the most natural 300 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:00.480 to me? What could I talk about for hours? But also what do 301 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:03.319 people come to me the most for is the best way, in my personal 302 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:08.119 opinion, to sustain and build a business realistically, because that's how I look 303 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:12.359 at content creation over the years to come, and you can always pivot and 304 00:21:12.720 --> 00:21:18.160 you will like naturally, I think that when you become a content creator, 305 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:19.599 people want to know a little bit more about this thing that you did over 306 00:21:19.640 --> 00:21:25.480 here or for me, I didn't start online talking about the fact that I 307 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:30.000 hated my natural hair, or I had chronic illness per se and I healed 308 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:33.200 myself, but that's just an extension of the healing work and the journey that 309 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.480 I have done, so I share that with you guys sometimes or like smaller 310 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:44.599 things that maybe are not that important, but that's now an extension of my 311 00:21:44.720 --> 00:21:48.359 content. Okay, next question is tips on how to start your first podcast. 312 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.839 The first tip really is thinking about what is it that you're going to 313 00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:55.079 bring to your audience. What do you want to help people with, what 314 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.160 do you want to inspire people by, What do you want to bring into 315 00:21:59.319 --> 00:22:03.680 this world online that maybe is different or unique. What do you back about 316 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:08.759 yourself and what you're going to bring to people realistically, And when it comes 317 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:15.960 to starting your first podcast, I think you just you have to just start 318 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:21.240 listen. I love you guys for asking and like you have to be somebody 319 00:22:21.279 --> 00:22:23.599 who's always seeking out those questions, like in advice and things like that. 320 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:29.000 But I think I always know when somebody has been asking that question for years 321 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:30.799 and years and years. How do I start a podcast? How do I 322 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.920 start a YouTube channel? You know so much more than you even think, 323 00:22:34.960 --> 00:22:37.599 And at the end of the day, you really can just google how to 324 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:41.839 start on YouTube or how to start a podcast, but really just coming back 325 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.079 to this truth of you just have to start right, You just have to 326 00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:48.680 start talking about the thing that you really want to bring to the world. 327 00:22:48.039 --> 00:22:52.640 And also the reason why you just have to start is because you're gonna learn 328 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:57.200 and change and evolve over time. You're never going to have the most perfect 329 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:00.920 piece of content the first time that you put it out there, so give 330 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:04.880 yourself that time to grow and evolve. Anyways, when it comes to actually 331 00:23:04.920 --> 00:23:08.960 starting a podcast, there's different ways in which you can put your podcast out 332 00:23:08.960 --> 00:23:14.079 there online. So I guess I'll just give you kind of the things that 333 00:23:14.160 --> 00:23:18.440 I do and the processes that I have, but it's different for everyone. 334 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:22.279 Don't get tied up on how one person is creating content, whether it's a 335 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:26.599 podcaster or a YouTuber or a TikTok er. There's many ways that you can 336 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:29.720 host your podcast. There's many ways you can put your videos out online. 337 00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:33.200 There's many ways you can edit, there's many topics you can talk about. 338 00:23:33.240 --> 00:23:37.119 Don't ever feel like you have to do it the way other people do. 339 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:41.680 And it's really also good to diversify who you're looking up to on social media, 340 00:23:41.720 --> 00:23:45.599 just so you don't again kind of feel like you have to do it 341 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:48.200 this one way, because if you do, maybe that's too much or it 342 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.119 just doesn't work for you, and then you feel like you can't do it, 343 00:23:51.160 --> 00:23:55.119 which is so not true. Like you could literally be anyone that you 344 00:23:55.160 --> 00:23:57.640 want in this day and age on social media, it's insane. So actually, 345 00:23:57.680 --> 00:24:02.920 before I give you like the editing and everything that I do, I 346 00:24:02.920 --> 00:24:07.519 would honestly spend some time maybe going on Canva or like a Google doc and 347 00:24:07.640 --> 00:24:11.039 just sitting and dreaming about what your podcast or your YouTube channel or whatever is 348 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:14.519 going to look like, what's it's going to feel like, the topics that 349 00:24:14.559 --> 00:24:17.960 you're going to talk about, everything, like what the vibe is, and 350 00:24:18.200 --> 00:24:21.319 use people as inspiration, like maybe you want a podcast like me, maybe 351 00:24:21.359 --> 00:24:23.599 you want it like somebody else that you've been listening to. But obviously you're 352 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.119 gonna have your own flair, you're gonna have your own aesthetic, you're going 353 00:24:26.200 --> 00:24:30.680 to have your own everything. So I think that's just something fun you can 354 00:24:30.720 --> 00:24:34.720 do. I do that maybe every well. I did that when I first 355 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:38.839 started my podcast, but every probably six months, I sit down and I 356 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:42.920 create a little bit of a slide deck of the pillars of content that I 357 00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:45.960 want to be posting. I think for me though, when it comes to 358 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:52.200 my podcast, I'm very feeling first like energy first type of content creator, 359 00:24:52.400 --> 00:24:56.920 which you will find as you continue to create content that you tend to not 360 00:24:57.720 --> 00:25:03.519 stick to so many scripts or plan so much once you get good at what 361 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.680 it is that you're doing. Now there are many people who are very analytical, 362 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:11.000 who plan out everything, who script everything, no matter if it's their 363 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:15.319 first day or their tenth year of being a content creator depends completely. But 364 00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.599 I think at first, you know, really sitting down and being like, 365 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:22.039 hey, every week, I'm gonna have these topics go out every week. 366 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:26.960 But I think as you get deeper into it and you really know what you're 367 00:25:26.960 --> 00:25:30.200 talking about or how you want to be speaking, you will find you'll you 368 00:25:30.240 --> 00:25:36.680 won't have so many rules and regulations. And I think that energetically and this 369 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:40.440 is more of a spiritual thing, I think it's really good to build a 370 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:48.000 business around that more feminine creative flow versus just the masculine structure, which I 371 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:49.839 don't know, maybe I'll have to have a whole episode on that, because 372 00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:55.799 that's kind of how I operate. Very How am I feeling today, What 373 00:25:56.000 --> 00:26:00.799 is the most potent wisdom I have that I can share to my audio and 374 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:06.680 maybe I had a topic that I thought that that's what I wanted to talk 375 00:26:06.680 --> 00:26:11.440 about on that Monday, but today my energy is feeling this instead. That's 376 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.640 how I'm leading my business really, But at first sometimes it's hard to do 377 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:21.599 that because you don't have that connection with yourself, but also you just don't 378 00:26:21.640 --> 00:26:23.680 know how to operate like that. It is good to always have that structure 379 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:27.279 and the container and the goals and the focus and the what am I doing 380 00:26:27.319 --> 00:26:32.559 this week. I still do that, but I will always at the end 381 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.200 of the day check in with how I'm feeling where my energy is at first, 382 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:40.759 and I'll always choose that over what I've had listed out. So yeah, 383 00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:45.319 when it comes to starting your own podcast, I host my podcast on 384 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:52.519 spreaker and how you spell it is sp r e a k er spreaker, 385 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.920 not speaker. I like that because you can also have ads on that as 386 00:26:55.960 --> 00:26:59.640 well, which is a revenue source obviously, but I also just think that 387 00:26:59.680 --> 00:27:03.839 it's a great place to host your podcast. And I record my podcast on 388 00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:07.839 garage Band. So I have this mic that I have right now and I 389 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:11.160 have it connected to my computer and it's currently recording my audio, and that's 390 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.599 what I did for like a year, and I would upload it to Spreaker, 391 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:21.039 distributes it to all of the main podcasting platforms. So that's what I 392 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:25.640 did for like a year until I started visually recording my podcast episodes. And 393 00:27:25.720 --> 00:27:30.279 so now I just use my Sony camera and I have the visual component. 394 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:33.640 So I have one that's an audio and I upload it to Spreaker, and 395 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.440 then I have one that's audio and visual and then I put it onto YouTube. 396 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.759 I'll have all of my equipment and everything that I use also linked on 397 00:27:41.799 --> 00:27:44.519 my Amazon storefront, like link in the bio if you need. Because I 398 00:27:44.559 --> 00:27:47.839 feel like a lot of people ask me what type of tech that I use, 399 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:51.759 I would say, don't get too caught up in tech. Like for 400 00:27:51.880 --> 00:27:55.599 me, I use garage band because that's what I have on my computer. 401 00:27:56.279 --> 00:28:00.839 When I was editing my podcast episodes, I was using iMovie. I still 402 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.559 use iMovie for my YouTube vlogs. But I actually have an editor, which 403 00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:07.039 shout out to my new editor, which is well, it's a team of 404 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:11.079 editors from Busy Blooming, which I actually want to quickly shout out also my 405 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:17.079 friend Tess Barclay because if you want like real content creation tips and like how 406 00:28:17.119 --> 00:28:19.799 to be a full time business owner, like like the real tea. Go 407 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:23.480 to her YouTube channel, her TikTok, her instagram, her everything. She 408 00:28:23.640 --> 00:28:26.200 has the best tips. And I'm not even just saying that because I'm her 409 00:28:26.200 --> 00:28:32.400 friend, Like there is so there's so much information online when it comes to 410 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:36.839 like those TikTok coaches you should post three times a day, you should only 411 00:28:36.880 --> 00:28:40.000 you should have a niche this that I'm telling you. She has the best 412 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.200 tips, Okay, And we talk about content creation all the time. So 413 00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:45.680 if you like the advice that I am giving you, you will like the 414 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.400 advice that she's giving you. So I would highly suggest I'll have all of 415 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.480 her stuff link down below. But also if you want an editor, if 416 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:53.960 you are a content creator, then I will have their information down below because 417 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.319 they are editing my podcast now along with my short form clips because I'm doing 418 00:28:59.359 --> 00:29:02.240 short form clips now. But I just wanted to throw that in there because 419 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:06.640 I really think that they're doing a great job at helping this industry, because 420 00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:11.480 I think that it's very confusing and definitely like not regulated, and nobody really 421 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:15.920 knows what they're doing other than like asking around. So that's really all I 422 00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:22.720 do is use garage band, use iMovie if I'm editing. And also another 423 00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:27.319 channel that I will suggest is called think Media, and that's a YouTube channel 424 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:34.000 which they have really good content around, like the YouTube algorithm and just tips 425 00:29:34.440 --> 00:29:38.599 becoming a content creator online. But at the end of the day, you 426 00:29:38.640 --> 00:29:41.880 know what you need to do. You just need to start. Whether it's 427 00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:45.039 on your iPhone, whether it's on a camera, whether you need to save 428 00:29:45.160 --> 00:29:48.920 up some money every single month until you can get your camera, whatever it 429 00:29:48.119 --> 00:29:52.519 is, you can do it. Don't make it harder than it needs to 430 00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:55.480 be. And at the end of the day, your first episode, your 431 00:29:55.519 --> 00:29:57.799 first five, your first ten, maybe they'll go viral, but they probably 432 00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:02.079 won't. So I feel like sometimes you just make it this huge thing when 433 00:30:02.119 --> 00:30:03.519 it's really not that deep. Right, get on the camera. Well, 434 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.480 I know that it's deep sometimes because you need to have that confidence, But 435 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:11.640 how you build confidence is trying anyways. And don't be so worked up about 436 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.079 your first video, your first podcast episode, because there's going to be so 437 00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:19.119 much trial and error. You'll have so much time to really curate the perfect 438 00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.200 content for you and your audience. Okay, someone said, what is a 439 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:27.759 realistic timeline in your opinion, to start monetizing on YouTube, Instagram, brand 440 00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:33.759 deals, et cetera. And then she also said, along with backing yourself, 441 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.839 acting as if you are already full time, being consistent, etc. 442 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:42.160 I don't know if you're asking how long it took me or how long it 443 00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:47.599 takes to hit all of those to be basically maybe who I am now? 444 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.319 My advice really is it completely depends. Do not get caught up on timelines, 445 00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.799 please in your life, please, like, outside of content creation, 446 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:03.039 outside of anything, do you not get caught up on timelines. Because you 447 00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.079 could go viral tomorrow, you could hit all your goals tomorrow, you could 448 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:11.000 find the love of your life tomorrow. You don't know. So let's not 449 00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.559 focus on how long it should take, and let's focus on what are we 450 00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:19.119 here to do? And honestly, what I like to look at is, 451 00:31:19.920 --> 00:31:23.920 especially when it comes to content creation, it's a job. I'm in here 452 00:31:23.960 --> 00:31:27.240 for the long run. I'm looking at what I'm doing as a business. 453 00:31:27.440 --> 00:31:33.759 I'm not looking at a quick check or how quickly can I get views? 454 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:37.119 Or how quickly can I retire? I'm personally I'm not doing that. I'm 455 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:41.400 looking at this as a long term career. How can I build out my 456 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:45.920 community? How can I essentially be here for the long run. When I 457 00:31:45.960 --> 00:31:49.319 think about this question, it makes me think of when people say how long 458 00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:55.359 should it take to heal? Or how long will it take to lose weight? 459 00:31:55.480 --> 00:31:57.400 Or something like that. It is so dependent on you, right How 460 00:31:57.400 --> 00:32:00.079 long is it going to take for you to build confidence within yourself and be 461 00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:04.759 able to back yourself. How long will it take for you to build an 462 00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:08.880 audience? Who really knows? I think just coming back to what it is 463 00:32:08.880 --> 00:32:15.200 that you want to do and believing in yourself for sure, backing yourself and 464 00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:17.759 being consistent. That's what I did with my YouTube channel. That's what I 465 00:32:17.759 --> 00:32:22.680 did with my TikTok. That's what I did with all my platforms until it 466 00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:24.759 got to a point where I mean, I didn't really This is the thing. 467 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:31.920 When I started my podcast in my TikTok, it was more just me 468 00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:36.279 starting out of a place of passion and I wanted to help people and I 469 00:32:36.279 --> 00:32:38.440 wanted to share what I knew. I didn't really know where that could lead 470 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:42.759 me. Like, you couldn't make money on TikTok. You could do brand 471 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:45.440 deals here and there, but even the type of content that I was making, 472 00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.079 I wasn't in like lifestyle. I didn't really know what brand deals I 473 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:52.079 could even do. I just wanted to do that, and I was in 474 00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:57.039 the coaching industry, so I figured maybe that's how I would maybe make some 475 00:32:57.119 --> 00:33:00.720 money or build a business that way, which I do. But I didn't 476 00:33:00.759 --> 00:33:02.599 really know where that was going to lead me in terms of like brand deals 477 00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.279 and the type of content creator that I was really going to be until I 478 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:10.960 became bigger and I did share more online and I figured out all the things 479 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:14.240 that I wanted to talk about, and it kind of grew from there, 480 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.119 and when it comes to YouTube, that's when I started to think, Okay, 481 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.440 well I do want to monetize my content. Of course, you should 482 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:28.799 be paid for the things that you're doing in life, and if people have 483 00:33:28.880 --> 00:33:30.519 an issue with that, then I don't know. It's so crazy to me 484 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:35.240 sometimes when people complain about influencers, which I get, like, I understand 485 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.799 that the influencer industry is like kind of crazy sometimes and people are lying about 486 00:33:38.839 --> 00:33:42.640 things or whatever. But the end of the day, it's like, we 487 00:33:42.680 --> 00:33:47.640 consume content for free online. Somebody has to get paid somehow, and I 488 00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:52.599 think even with YouTube, it's definitely a great way to get paid because you 489 00:33:52.640 --> 00:33:54.799 don't have to rely on brand deals, although I will say brand deals are 490 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:58.200 a big part, but I will talk about that because somebody had asked me, 491 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.119 but YouTube was going. I was thinking, Okay, when I build 492 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:07.239 my YouTube and I have a consistent income from my ad sense for me personally, 493 00:34:07.280 --> 00:34:12.760 for me, that's when I'm going to take that leap. But I 494 00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.960 was taking that leap because I knew that was what I wanted to do. 495 00:34:15.119 --> 00:34:20.360 I had built this thing of sharing my story online and I knew that I 496 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:22.320 could help people, and that's what I wanted to do for my actual career. 497 00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.159 This is my life. This is for sure my life. So in 498 00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:31.239 terms of when it comes waiting or timelines, I left my jobs when I 499 00:34:31.280 --> 00:34:37.760 made a certain income on YouTube so that I could obviously support myself. But 500 00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:40.480 at the end of the day, I was doing this for a long time 501 00:34:40.519 --> 00:34:44.960 without even really knowing that. But I left because obviously this is what I 502 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:46.079 wanted to do full time. So I think you just need to know what 503 00:34:46.079 --> 00:34:50.639 it is that you want to do down the line, like five ten years 504 00:34:50.679 --> 00:34:52.880 as well. And when it comes to brand deals and stuff like those are 505 00:34:53.159 --> 00:34:58.039 cool, but that is not the biggest piece of the puzzle, especially if 506 00:34:58.039 --> 00:35:00.519 you want to do this full time. I also think it depends on the 507 00:35:00.599 --> 00:35:05.599 type of industry that you're in. So anyways, to answer your question, 508 00:35:06.199 --> 00:35:08.199 there's no like real timeline. I think you need to just focus on what 509 00:35:08.239 --> 00:35:10.639 it is that you're here to do, which is I would hope to help 510 00:35:10.639 --> 00:35:15.440 people, to inspire people, to motivate people to change something in the industry, 511 00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:17.039 and you know, really build on that. That doesn't mean that you 512 00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.559 can't make money. It doesn't mean that you're not allowed to monetize, of 513 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:24.519 course, like I just said, but focusing on what you are here to 514 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:29.159 actually do versus the money will take you a long way. Someone said, 515 00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.840 how did you balance content creation with UGC at the beginning? And how much 516 00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.039 money did you make from that? So anyone who doesn't know what UGC is, 517 00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:44.000 it's user generated contents. So essentially, some people have careers making content 518 00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:46.440 where you're not. You don't really have a following and people don't really know 519 00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:51.960 you, but you're almost like a model for different brands. So maybe you 520 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:54.960 have really curly hair and you're testing out a bunch of different curly hair products, 521 00:35:54.960 --> 00:36:00.760 and you're making content that is visually very pleasing and you're talking about it 522 00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:05.320 or you're showing it, and brands want to work with you for you basically 523 00:36:05.320 --> 00:36:08.000 to be a model for their brand. Essentially, that's what it is. 524 00:36:08.920 --> 00:36:13.280 I only did a few of these. The person who's asking you're obviously an 525 00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:15.039 og and I love that because when I see comments like this, I'm like, 526 00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:17.159 damn, you've been here from the beginning, because I definitely did mention 527 00:36:17.199 --> 00:36:22.199 that I did UGC, but it was very I only did a few pieces 528 00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:28.239 of UGC content, and I never got into content creation doing that because I 529 00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:30.280 wanted to build my own thing, like I wanted to be the content creator. 530 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:32.559 I wanted to be the influencer. I wanted people to know me, 531 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.079 and I wanted to share my whole entire story. So UGC for me is 532 00:36:37.119 --> 00:36:40.719 not really a thing. If I'm doing anything with brands, it's just a 533 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:44.719 brand deale, meaning I am backing your product that I really like that I 534 00:36:44.719 --> 00:36:47.039 have been using and I'm sharing to my audience. If you're interested in UGC, 535 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:51.519 there's definitely a lot of content creators out there who teach you how to 536 00:36:51.519 --> 00:36:55.480 do that I think sometimes people get caught up on that though when it comes 537 00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:00.639 to UGC, because I feel like I don't know you GC can be good. 538 00:37:01.079 --> 00:37:05.239 But I also think that it's smarter, in my personal opinion, to 539 00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:08.400 own your own stuff. Like you don't want to be at the mercy always 540 00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:13.639 of brands or other people's products or things. And it's not to mean that 541 00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.840 you can't use that to help you on your journey or that always be a 542 00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:22.000 part. It's a part of my journey, but if you can have something 543 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:25.760 that you own meaning eventually, like for me, I have my book, 544 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.039 I have my digital services, I do one on one coaching. I have 545 00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:34.159 a lot of extensions of me that I don't need to rely on a brand 546 00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:37.199 in order to like pay my bills per se. I mean, I'm still 547 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:40.960 at a pretty early stage in my career. Brand deals are a huge part 548 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.920 of what's sustaining me for sure, But over the years, I think, 549 00:37:45.960 --> 00:37:49.519 if you're being smart, you want to have something of your own, but 550 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.239 you don't even have to be who I am. I know a lot of 551 00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.719 really smart influencers who they're fashion influencers and now they have their own line or 552 00:37:55.719 --> 00:38:00.360 they have different pieces of jewelry or they have something that's the extension of them. 553 00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:04.360 So just diversifying your income streams that way is good. So when I 554 00:38:04.400 --> 00:38:12.159 bring it back to UGC, sometimes I feel like you could pigeonhole yourself because 555 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:15.679 you're only making money based off of whether our brand is willing to work with 556 00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:20.800 you or not. So I think a smarter way, honestly, would just 557 00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:23.199 be to be a content creator or be an influencer and then be able to 558 00:38:23.239 --> 00:38:25.519 work with brands if you want. But I know that not everyone wants to 559 00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:30.639 do that, and there's so many ways that you can start a business online 560 00:38:30.679 --> 00:38:34.800 where you are not the center of that business. There's many people, but 561 00:38:35.119 --> 00:38:38.079 I'm just speaking from experience, and I am the center of my business essentially, 562 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:42.519 so that's what I'm speaking off of. Someone said, how long did 563 00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.679 it take you to make enough money to leave your job? I started my 564 00:38:45.719 --> 00:38:50.800 TikTok at the end of twenty twenty one, around November December. From November 565 00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:58.639 twenty twenty one to I think it was February ish of twenty twenty two, 566 00:38:58.880 --> 00:39:05.159 so not that long. I blew up on TikTok and I was making some 567 00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:07.920 brand deals here and there, but that was all I was making. I 568 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:12.159 didn't look at myself like, oh, I'm even a part time content creator. 569 00:39:12.519 --> 00:39:15.039 It would just kind of came to me with a few brands. But 570 00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:19.559 I ended up deciding that I wanted to leave my nine to five around that 571 00:39:19.599 --> 00:39:22.199 time because I was making more money being a bartender and it was really killing 572 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:24.280 me to work at the nine to five that wasn't paying me enough. And 573 00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.599 I also knew I wanted to leave that job anyways, Like I knew my 574 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:31.360 career and where I wanted it to go, which was essentially where it is 575 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:34.679 now. But I didn't even know that I was going to be a full 576 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:37.960 time YouTuber or a podcaster. I just knew I wanted out of that field. 577 00:39:37.400 --> 00:39:42.599 So I was okay and willing to let that job go because I was 578 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.880 making more money bartending and serving and I just knew that that's not where I 579 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.239 wanted to be. And I'm also somebody who's always had to take risks in 580 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.119 her life. So some people always talk about, oh, don't leave your 581 00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:54.480 nine to five, and you know whatever, I don't know. Maybe I'm 582 00:39:54.519 --> 00:39:59.239 not the best person to give advice, but I'm giving you real advice. 583 00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:04.000 I go where I know I need to. I have never had any help 584 00:40:04.239 --> 00:40:07.239 really or anyone really supporting me in that way, so I need to make 585 00:40:07.280 --> 00:40:13.199 decisions for myself that I know is best. And in that situation, money 586 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:16.760 was best, and so I needed to conserve my energy and I needed to 587 00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:20.280 go for what I wanted in my life, which was, for one, 588 00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:22.159 making more money in less time, which was at the job that I had, 589 00:40:22.239 --> 00:40:27.000 which was bartending and serving and I had a really good schedule and like 590 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:29.079 the managers really liked me, and I was making a lot of money and 591 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.480 I was really hustling, but that also freed up time for me to continue 592 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:36.599 to build out my TikTok and one on one coaching and all that kind of 593 00:40:36.599 --> 00:40:39.239 stuff. So that was just the best decision that I could make for myself. 594 00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:44.599 And so when I left there from I would say April, because I 595 00:40:44.679 --> 00:40:47.960 ended up moving from Markham to North York, so around April twenty twenty two 596 00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.800 to I would say around November to the end of the year of twenty twenty 597 00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:57.480 two. That's when I was still building my TikTok, I was making some 598 00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.599 money here and there from brand deals, I was doing coaching, I was 599 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.800 making still a lot of money doing bartending, like I was bartending this whole 600 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.760 entire time, like I was just working on my finances and this that, 601 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.239 and I was getting good at what I wanted to talk about and to do 602 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:14.760 online. And that's when I started my YouTube channel because I was like, 603 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:16.000 you know what, let me go to long form because I had started my 604 00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:19.280 podcast as well, but I wasn't making any money off my podcast. It 605 00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.719 was just something that I wanted to do because I needed an outlet to talk 606 00:41:22.760 --> 00:41:25.840 for longer periods of time. And I started to realize TikTok wasn't going to 607 00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:30.920 be my end all, be all app because I'm speaking about deep topics and 608 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:32.840 real shit. I'm not saying you can't talk about real shit on TikTok, 609 00:41:32.880 --> 00:41:39.280 but I personally think also being somebody who has really changed her life through long 610 00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:43.519 form content, like I've really learned a lot through long form, I just 611 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:47.039 personally think that's where it vibes for me, Like that's my fucking place obviously, 612 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.400 and so I continue to build my podcast, but I was also like, 613 00:41:52.519 --> 00:41:55.199 let me do long versions of what I'm doing on my TikTok short videos 614 00:41:55.719 --> 00:41:59.719 on YouTube, and let me just be consistent with it. So I was 615 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:01.599 detached from YouTube. I wasn't like, oh my god, I have to 616 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:04.920 start a YouTube channel and I need to make all this money. I knew 617 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.559 it was possible to make money, but at the end of the day, 618 00:42:07.639 --> 00:42:08.719 I was like, I'm going to go on YouTube and talk about what I 619 00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:12.960 want to for longer periods of time, and what I have to say is 620 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:15.199 amazing, Like I think people need to hear this. And so I did 621 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.599 one video a week. That's it. That's all I could do. Managing 622 00:42:19.639 --> 00:42:22.199 my TikTok and managing working full time. I did what I could, and 623 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.679 I did it consistently, and I backed myself and I knew eventually it was 624 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:29.920 going to happen. I don't know exactly how it's going to happen. I 625 00:42:29.960 --> 00:42:32.280 don't know how much money I'm going to make. I don't know what platform 626 00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:36.480 is going to do it. But I just knew if I just continue to 627 00:42:36.519 --> 00:42:39.920 follow in my desires and I backed myself, something would happen. I was 628 00:42:40.079 --> 00:42:45.159 very aligned. I was very spiritually connected through that entire summer. Did I 629 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:47.559 have moments where I was like, I really wanted to leave my job this 630 00:42:47.599 --> 00:42:50.519 that, but I changed my mindset when I came to my job, I 631 00:42:50.559 --> 00:42:52.960 was like, this is not gonna be forever. I'm doing exactly what I 632 00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.079 want. One thing about me is I'm going to go for my dreams. 633 00:42:54.079 --> 00:42:58.039 I don't care how long it's going to take. And I just did that 634 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:00.639 until around November. It was so funny because I was going through a breakup 635 00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:04.440 at that time and that's when my channel blew up. I tend to find 636 00:43:04.480 --> 00:43:08.159 when I have really deep hard lows and I come out and I use the 637 00:43:08.199 --> 00:43:13.239 wisdom and knowledge and I heal and I up level that tends to be reflected 638 00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:16.360 in the money that I'm making, but also success and opportunities and things in 639 00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:20.360 my life that just seems to be what happens, which would make sense because 640 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:23.760 energetically I'm in a magnetic place. Not to say that you can't manifest at 641 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:30.000 your lowest times. Anyways, that is when my channel blew up on YouTube, 642 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:32.199 and so that's when I started getting monetized. I only got monetized at 643 00:43:32.199 --> 00:43:36.840 the end of that year, and so I was making a ton of money 644 00:43:36.840 --> 00:43:39.320 and I was continuously posting. I still was on my schedule, and that's 645 00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:42.960 when I was starting to think, Okay, this is a good time for 646 00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:45.039 me to consider leaving my job. The reason why I'm saying this when people 647 00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:47.679 might think it's insane because it's like, you weren't making money for that long. 648 00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:52.599 I believed in myself and I knew what I wanted to do at that 649 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:59.199 point. So it was a full solid year of me knowing what I wanted 650 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.760 to do. So even though it was like a short amount of time, 651 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:08.599 I wasn't like taking this huge leap without thinking, because I feel like a 652 00:44:08.599 --> 00:44:10.400 lot of people are like, oh, don't leave your job just because you're 653 00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:13.760 making a little bit of like, but I was. I had been thinking 654 00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.079 about this for a long time. And so another thing was energetically, and 655 00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:22.239 this is everyone does things differently, but spiritually for me, and energetically, 656 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:27.719 it was a potent time. And at this point it was like I either 657 00:44:27.800 --> 00:44:30.519 go for it and I do it one hundred percent, or I wait and 658 00:44:30.559 --> 00:44:36.199 I get in my head and I second guess things, and I let this 659 00:44:36.360 --> 00:44:39.360 time where it's really potent go away, and I stay in a job that 660 00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:43.599 I don't want and I stay doing the same thing over and over and over, 661 00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:45.880 and I wait for the perfect moment, which won't happen. And so 662 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.440 at that point, yeah, I was making some brand deals here and there, 663 00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:52.559 but I still wasn't like super consistent. But at that point I was 664 00:44:52.599 --> 00:44:58.400 making consistent ad sense. And then eventually I ended up leaving my job around 665 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.559 like a few months later, really because I was making enough ad sense, 666 00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.360 but also like financially, like I had my finances to the point where I 667 00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:07.440 was set. But also I was like, dude, I could just go 668 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:09.480 back to my job if it really fails, which wasn't going to happen. 669 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:14.559 There's just no way. And I was in a really good space and I 670 00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:16.239 was very motivated, and I was putting in a lot of content, and 671 00:45:16.280 --> 00:45:20.599 so I went for it. So I left my freaking job, and I 672 00:45:20.679 --> 00:45:23.199 was making consistent money, and then obviously I made more brand deals, and 673 00:45:23.199 --> 00:45:27.360 that was moving into twenty twenty three. So that was all of last year, 674 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.840 and I just continued to hustle and I made money from brand deals, 675 00:45:30.880 --> 00:45:34.920 and I made a sense ad sense fluctuate depending on your views. But I 676 00:45:35.199 --> 00:45:39.360 had built a lot of confidence of not getting so tied up with views and 677 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:44.039 money all the time and stressing about everything and working at a scarcity, like 678 00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:50.199 I really worked on a lot of those deep core beliefs and wounds and energetics. 679 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:55.079 Essentially that I had a lot of faith in myself to be able to 680 00:45:55.840 --> 00:46:00.000 continue to ride this wave and even on the lows, I have a really 681 00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:09.280 stable mental mindset, I guess of how I navigate these times, and so 682 00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:13.719 I just had confidence, I guess, is what I'm saying. So that 683 00:46:13.840 --> 00:46:16.599 was kind of my story or like my path. When it comes to money, 684 00:46:16.679 --> 00:46:21.599 I make six figures. If anyone was interested, somebody had asked, 685 00:46:21.639 --> 00:46:24.760 but I guess I'll just say that I think like most content creators who are 686 00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:28.960 doing it full time, I mean, everyone makes different amounts of money, 687 00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.679 like seriously, like you can't even There's so many people making so much more 688 00:46:32.679 --> 00:46:36.519 money than I am. And it depends on what you are doing and what 689 00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:40.000 industry you're in and where you're making money on. But all of my income 690 00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:46.360 sources together six figures, and I hope to continue to make more. Honestly, 691 00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:50.480 if I'm being honest, somebody asked, what are your income streams? 692 00:46:50.519 --> 00:46:57.400 So I'll list the three main ones that would take up the biggest portion of 693 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:02.760 my salary. I guess for the year. One brand deals. Brand deals, 694 00:47:02.760 --> 00:47:07.320 because you can have a five figure brand deal. You could have a 695 00:47:07.320 --> 00:47:10.400 four figure brand deal. You could have a six figure brand deal. Like, 696 00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.079 it completely depends on who you're working with, the budget but also of 697 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:19.760 course your audience, your everything. Right, So let's say you have three 698 00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.599 brand deals in a month, but every brand deal is four figures or every 699 00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.199 brand deals five figures, Like, that's making up a big chunk of your 700 00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:30.079 money, but of course that depends. You can't rely on just brand deals. 701 00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:32.440 I wouldn't have left my job if I was only making brand deals just 702 00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:37.320 personally for me, but some people will do everyone's different, right. Second 703 00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:40.519 would be ad sense, so it's the ads that run on my videos and 704 00:47:40.760 --> 00:47:45.920 also the ads that run from my podcast as well, But that's not like 705 00:47:45.960 --> 00:47:51.800 a huge income stream, but that is a second big chunk. And then 706 00:47:51.840 --> 00:47:54.559 my third would be my digital products and my one on one coaching. Other 707 00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:00.639 income sources would be like affiliate links, which I do not can because I 708 00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:07.360 really don't make anything on that because I'm just not somebody that pushes affiliate links 709 00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:09.159 a lot of the times. But I know that there are definitely content creators, 710 00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:13.480 depending on the niche that they're in, where that is a big part 711 00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:15.400 of their income. So there's so many different ways that you can make money 712 00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:20.199 online and even when it comes to like my own services or digital products and 713 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:22.280 things like that, like I have journal guides, I have my book, 714 00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:25.519 which I have not even made anything well, okay, that's a lie. 715 00:48:25.880 --> 00:48:30.519 I haven't been paid for any book sales. But that is not why I 716 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:32.880 wrote a book. And I think most people know writing a book like that's 717 00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:38.639 not where you're going to be this multimillion dollar person. It's just an extension 718 00:48:39.079 --> 00:48:44.400 of you. So there's definitely things that I will continue to build out and 719 00:48:44.440 --> 00:48:51.159 have extensions of me to help my audience that are supportive. And I think 720 00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:53.320 that there's so many things that you can do being a content creator, which 721 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.920 is great, other than just relying on brand deals or even AdSense. And 722 00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.039 like I said, I don't think that that's something that you want to continue 723 00:49:00.039 --> 00:49:04.400 to focus on forever, because yeah, it depends. I'm also with a 724 00:49:04.440 --> 00:49:08.039 talent agency. I wasn't with a talent agency for the first part of my 725 00:49:08.119 --> 00:49:10.679 career when it came to brand deals, so I was just doing everything myself. 726 00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:15.559 I really am just with them because there's so many brands out reach out 727 00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:19.880 to me There's so many things that I have to do outside of negotiating and 728 00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:22.840 working with brands and signing contracts and things like that that I do not want 729 00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:24.480 to do. I think that that is a smart thing to do once you 730 00:49:24.519 --> 00:49:28.079 get to a certain level, but I don't think that that should be your 731 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:30.199 main focus. And I honestly think that if you're wanting to be a content 732 00:49:30.199 --> 00:49:35.480 creator an influencer, I would say, like, stop hyper focusing on when 733 00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.519 you're going to get brand deals or when you're going to get pr or when 734 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:42.159 you're get invited to events, because all of those things will come. When 735 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:46.719 you create a beautiful community online, all of those things will come. It's 736 00:49:46.840 --> 00:49:51.320 like, you know, really enjoying the process and learning to love yourself or 737 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:53.519 learning to you know, be in that present moment, and then you become 738 00:49:53.559 --> 00:49:57.440 that magnet to everything else. And I feel like at the beginning, a 739 00:49:57.480 --> 00:49:59.519 lot of people are like, how do you make money? Or like how 740 00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:01.719 do I get or how do I whatever? And that's fine to be asking 741 00:50:01.719 --> 00:50:05.679 those questions because everyone needs to know how it is that you're going to sustain 742 00:50:05.719 --> 00:50:07.079 what you're gonna do. But at the end of the day, bringing it 743 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:12.840 back to the beginning of my journey, I didn't start with how am I 744 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:15.840 gonna make money or how am I going to create like this thing online so 745 00:50:15.880 --> 00:50:19.559 that I can get brand deals. It wasn't that I knew that there was 746 00:50:19.639 --> 00:50:22.800 possibilities, but I trusted that that was all going to come. Somebody asked 747 00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:25.320 how to prepare for having your own business when you've never had experience. I 748 00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:28.599 would just say, through your research. I think there's a lot of people 749 00:50:28.679 --> 00:50:36.639 who don't. There was this one TikToker on TikTok and he was talking about 750 00:50:37.519 --> 00:50:40.440 sometimes I go into the comment sections of people's videos and people are asking questions 751 00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:45.760 that could literally simply just be googled, like google it, Google it, 752 00:50:45.840 --> 00:50:47.639 google it, google it, Google It was so funny, And this is 753 00:50:47.679 --> 00:50:51.400 to throw no shade, because of course you're gonna ask a content creator. 754 00:50:51.400 --> 00:50:53.719 You're gonna like, I get questions all the time. But everything that I 755 00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.880 learned, I just googled and if I couldn't find it, which you can 756 00:50:58.960 --> 00:51:04.440 find so many people. They have whole businesses to educate and help people who 757 00:51:04.519 --> 00:51:07.920 are trying to build a business in any niche. It's wild. But another 758 00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.760 thing is networking, right, Having those conversations with people maybe in your city. 759 00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.239 I have a lot of friends who are content creators in different niches, 760 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.639 and if I ever have a question, I can ask them. So it's 761 00:51:17.639 --> 00:51:21.280 not to say you can't ask people outside of Google, but you can find 762 00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:24.000 a lot of your answers on there. So that's really it. Do your 763 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:29.199 research, go online. You can find all of your answers really online without 764 00:51:29.239 --> 00:51:31.480 even spending a lot of money or no money at all. Really like you 765 00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:37.079 could buy a course from somebody who is reputable, but you can also find 766 00:51:37.079 --> 00:51:42.199 things that are free. Someone said how to develop a business entrepreneurial mindset. 767 00:51:42.840 --> 00:51:45.039 I feel like you just need to have a drive, and you really need 768 00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.480 to have something you feel a desire for or passion for, or something that 769 00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:52.199 you're just so interested in. I feel like if not, then you're just 770 00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:53.599 not going to be really motivated. There's so many things that you can do 771 00:51:53.639 --> 00:51:58.880 in this life. But I think that the drive and the passion for me. 772 00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:02.800 It's not that I had no other option, but I was living a 773 00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:07.280 life where nobody was supporting me, nobody was handing things to me. I 774 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:12.679 had to figure it out, and being an entrepreneur just made sense for the 775 00:52:12.719 --> 00:52:15.119 life that I was candid. It doesn't mean that I can't work out a 776 00:52:15.199 --> 00:52:17.800 nine to five or this that, but it just wasn't in my cards, 777 00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.840 at least not where I'm at right now in my life. Someone said, 778 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:29.679 thoughts on starting a podcast with a bestie. I guess if you feel like 779 00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:32.920 the nature of your podcast would do better with having a best friend or somebody 780 00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:37.239 else, then who's to say that's not the right thing to do. But 781 00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:43.280 I would just really consider who you're going into business with. Is that person 782 00:52:43.360 --> 00:52:46.239 your best the outside of the conversations that you have. Is that person on 783 00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:49.920 your same level? Do they have the same drive as you do, they 784 00:52:49.920 --> 00:52:52.119 have the same business mindset as you? Are they going to put in the 785 00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.719 same amount of work as you? Because if not, then you will. 786 00:52:57.280 --> 00:53:00.440 I don't know. I just don't think that that's the best decision. But 787 00:53:00.639 --> 00:53:02.239 obviously you totally can. There's people who do it and it's great. But 788 00:53:02.280 --> 00:53:06.000 I just think that you guys need to be on that same level and both 789 00:53:06.719 --> 00:53:09.440 be really interested in what you guys want to start together. Someone said, 790 00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:15.280 would you recommend starting a visual YouTube podcast right away? I would say yes, 791 00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:19.000 if you don't have an audience because I feel like it's hard and I 792 00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:21.719 don't want to put a limiting belief because you could really grow on anything at 793 00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:22.760 any time. The same thing with YouTube. Everyone says, oh, you 794 00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.320 can't grow on YouTube. Yes you can twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, 795 00:53:27.360 --> 00:53:29.960 twenty twenty six. I don't care. You're gonna be able to grow. 796 00:53:30.039 --> 00:53:32.159 So don't ever like take on those limiting beliefs. You have to consider 797 00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:36.360 the different apps that you're growing on and how it works and this that, 798 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:39.559 And I think with podcasting is a little bit different because you're really not like 799 00:53:39.599 --> 00:53:45.639 you're not seeing these visual components. There's no real algorithm, there's no home 800 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:49.719 feed. Really it's changed a lot throughout the years, but it's a little 801 00:53:49.760 --> 00:53:54.079 bit different than any other platforms. So if you don't have an audience, 802 00:53:54.480 --> 00:53:59.480 I think the best bet would be to just record yourself visually as well and 803 00:53:59.480 --> 00:54:01.880 put it on YouTube because you have more of a chance to have exposure. 804 00:54:02.159 --> 00:54:05.920 And also you could cut the clips and put it on short form as well. 805 00:54:05.920 --> 00:54:07.960 If that's what you wanted to do, you don't have to do it. 806 00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:09.719 And the reason why I'm saying that also is let's say you did have 807 00:54:09.760 --> 00:54:15.320 a really big audience on Instagram or you're a big YouTuber, but you already 808 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.679 have a community that is probably gonna go and migrate over to a podcast on 809 00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.800 audio only, so you already have those eyes, so you don't necessarily need 810 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:29.000 to record. But I do think that's where podcasting is going, is the 811 00:54:29.079 --> 00:54:32.159 visual component. So I think you might as well start there anyways, because 812 00:54:32.239 --> 00:54:37.480 what you'll find usually is you'll just develop having to have that visual component down 813 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:40.119 the line. But if all you can do is audio and it works for 814 00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:44.159 you, then you can do It. Doesn't mean that you cannot grow without 815 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:49.800 having a visual component. Someone said tips for editing tiktoks and reels, and 816 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.119 also there was somebody in my community. I think that you're gonna remember that 817 00:54:53.199 --> 00:54:57.079 it's you because I said, oh, I'll give you a tip because she 818 00:54:57.079 --> 00:55:00.440 had sent me a TikTok that she posted. She was like really proud of 819 00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:04.000 herself, being like I finally posted it this that, and I told her 820 00:55:04.079 --> 00:55:06.119 I was going to give her a tip. So, I mean I already 821 00:55:06.159 --> 00:55:08.559 talked about like editing and stuff like that. I edit all of my short 822 00:55:08.639 --> 00:55:13.079 form clips on cap cut. I think that's just the best app you can 823 00:55:13.199 --> 00:55:15.679 edit your TikTok's in app. You can do it outside of the app. 824 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:17.639 You can do whatever, like, there's millions of ways that you can do 825 00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:22.119 it. I think the first thing is just doing it, not knowing what 826 00:55:22.719 --> 00:55:27.360 like what app to use, and not making you not actually post. I 827 00:55:27.360 --> 00:55:30.920 think just try anything, honestly, but cap cut is for sure it. 828 00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:34.480 I would say the main two things that I'm going to give and listen. 829 00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:36.880 You can go to my friend test, you can go to many other people. 830 00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:43.079 For one is letting people know why they're going to be watching that piece 831 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:46.000 of content, especially when it comes to short form, so like if you're 832 00:55:46.039 --> 00:55:49.320 doing a vlog or if that's what you want to do, or you want 833 00:55:49.320 --> 00:55:52.360 to do like fashion content or you want to have you want to talk about 834 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:55.800 something, let people know at the beginning of the video what they're going to 835 00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:59.719 get from this piece of content, because if not, then people are not 836 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:02.880 going to watch your video, Like I'm not gonna watch a vlog of your 837 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.159 day, like your random day if I don't know why you're showing me this, 838 00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:09.440 and I'm not saying like you need to explain why you're worthy of showing 839 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:12.800 me your life. It's not even that but it's a day in a life 840 00:56:12.840 --> 00:56:15.239 of a twenty four year old that's living downtown Toronto who is working nine to 841 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:20.000 five and becoming a contact creator, or is a plate's instructor, or is 842 00:56:20.199 --> 00:56:22.760 healing from X, Y and Z, and I'm taking you through a journey, 843 00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:24.440 or I'm starting seventy five hard, or I'm doing some sort of thing 844 00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:30.800 like why would that person want to watch your content? And there's a lot 845 00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.320 of people doing a lot of things, So I think that's important to kind 846 00:56:34.320 --> 00:56:37.840 of either that's your title or you're verbally saying that at the beginning of your 847 00:56:37.920 --> 00:56:43.119 videos. And it is a little bit different for those who people know, 848 00:56:43.480 --> 00:56:46.519 right like Alex Earl. Honestly, even Alex Earl, she tells you basically, 849 00:56:46.840 --> 00:56:51.079 come get ready with me as I go to my boyfriend's football game. 850 00:56:51.159 --> 00:56:53.679 Like there's things, there's context to this video. But if you're just like 851 00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:57.880 vlogging clip by clip and people don't really know you, especially people don't know 852 00:56:57.960 --> 00:57:01.039 you, it's gonna be hard for you to build out audience or people like 853 00:57:01.239 --> 00:57:06.559 have the capacity to even sit there and watch your thing. Another thing is 854 00:57:06.760 --> 00:57:12.519 quality. I'm not saying you have to have quality like Monet does or some 855 00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:16.000 fancy editing. But this kind of comes back to the girl who sent me 856 00:57:16.039 --> 00:57:21.320 her video. I noticed that the lighting wasn't that good, and like, 857 00:57:21.519 --> 00:57:24.039 I love you, and please don't get insecure about your content because it was 858 00:57:24.079 --> 00:57:28.519 so cute and amazing and I'm so proud of you and anyone who actually takes 859 00:57:28.519 --> 00:57:30.960 that lead to even be able to get up on camera and post anything. 860 00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:35.679 Even that in itself is just I know the feeling of doing that at the 861 00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:38.920 beginning. But I'm saying this because if you're gonna spend time doing this, 862 00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:44.000 then I want you to grow as quickly as you possibly can. You need 863 00:57:44.039 --> 00:57:47.039 to have good lighting because if you're putting a vlog out there and it's like 864 00:57:47.199 --> 00:57:51.800 not the best lighting or it's not clear, and it's also not clear what 865 00:57:51.840 --> 00:57:54.559 you're even showing me, people are gonna scroll, no one's gonna care. 866 00:57:54.960 --> 00:57:58.239 And this is not a youth thing. It's just it is what it is. 867 00:57:58.280 --> 00:58:00.760 You don't have to be the most beautiful, you don't have to have 868 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:02.639 the most esthetic place. You do not. I promise you you do not, 869 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:07.920 but have good lighting. So for me, I'm always making sure that 870 00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:10.559 I'm filming in front of natural light. I never really use ring lights or 871 00:58:10.559 --> 00:58:14.199 anything like that. You can if you want, but you don't need that. 872 00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:16.159 You just need simply natural light. If you don't know how to film 873 00:58:16.159 --> 00:58:21.199 a natural light YouTube, how do you film your tiktoks and natural light? 874 00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:23.159 How do I get the best lighting to film? It's not that hard, 875 00:58:23.159 --> 00:58:27.559 I promise you. So just making sure that everything is clear, making sure 876 00:58:27.599 --> 00:58:30.519 you have a clear shot and people are like knowing what it is that you're 877 00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:36.239 even doing and you want to show to the world. Is I think the 878 00:58:36.280 --> 00:58:37.960 best two tips that I could give you to start The last two things that 879 00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:42.440 I'll say because there was so many questions, but someone said, I'm scared 880 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:45.599 of being judged by other people in my hometown. And then also someone said, 881 00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:50.280 I don't know if they're making vlogs, but I'll just say I'm making 882 00:58:50.360 --> 00:58:53.320 vlogs, but how to edit when I hate my body? Having confidence is 883 00:58:53.400 --> 00:59:00.800 such an important thing to have showing up on social media, and it's important 884 00:59:00.880 --> 00:59:08.400 because that will dictate your longevity online really, and so I think if you 885 00:59:08.400 --> 00:59:14.239 can really do that deep healing work when it comes to being seen or your 886 00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:19.760 insecurities as you're growing, like behind the scenes or whatever is going to take 887 00:59:19.760 --> 00:59:21.519 you a long way. It's going to take you a long way when it 888 00:59:21.559 --> 00:59:23.239 comes to in real life, of course, but also when it comes to 889 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:29.119 your job. And I think that people don't realize how much insecurity they have 890 00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:32.440 until they actually start going online. And just understand that's a normal process. 891 00:59:32.480 --> 00:59:38.079 Everyone has insecurities about things. But if you are wanting that longevity being a 892 00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:43.000 content creator, you're gonna need to address the fact that you hate your body 893 00:59:43.400 --> 00:59:46.800 and listen, you can create content where you don't show your body. And 894 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:50.920 that's honestly a tip that I would say. If you're not secure about certain 895 00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:53.000 things and you need to wear makeup, or you need to do your hair 896 00:59:53.039 --> 00:59:55.920 a certain way, or you need to not show your body whatever, for 897 00:59:57.000 --> 01:00:00.320 sure you can do that. But what I will say is, think about 898 01:00:00.760 --> 01:00:04.840 the next five to ten years. If your career is going to evolve, 899 01:00:05.280 --> 01:00:10.519 it might require you to maybe show your body sometimes maybe not, but maybe 900 01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:15.519 you'll want to, or maybe you'll find it's so difficult to continuously grow when 901 01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.079 you are hiding parts of yourself. So can you start to do that deep 902 01:00:19.199 --> 01:00:22.360 inner work? And I honestly would say, grab my book because I talk 903 01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:24.760 about the shadow self and why we put parts of us in our shadows and 904 01:00:24.760 --> 01:00:29.119 where that comes from and how to heal from that? Is there ways that 905 01:00:29.159 --> 01:00:31.400 you can learn to love yourself? Why do you have to have Like I 906 01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:35.639 don't know what your mindset is when it comes to your body image, but 907 01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:38.199 like, who's to say you have to have a certain type of body type 908 01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:43.920 to be showing up online? Who are you watching that maybe doesn't resemble your 909 01:00:43.960 --> 01:00:46.320 body type? Like, there's many things that you haven't grained in your mind 910 01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:50.599 that I would suggest doing that deep healing work around, because again, it's 911 01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:53.079 just going to be hard, right, You're not going to want to record, 912 01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:55.119 or you're not going to want to go for your dreams if you have 913 01:00:55.159 --> 01:01:00.800 all these insecurities, So really working on that and also the being afraid that 914 01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:07.119 people from your hometown are gonna see your stuff? Please please please please please 915 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.599 please please enough with this, please, this cannot be the reason why you 916 01:01:09.639 --> 01:01:15.559 start something in your life. Like as much as I understand that, I 917 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.400 promise you, I get it. The fear of somebody seeing you from your 918 01:01:19.400 --> 01:01:22.199 hometown and maybe they're cringing at your stuff or they're making fun of your thing. 919 01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:25.239 But listen, if somebody is making fun of you. If somebody is 920 01:01:25.280 --> 01:01:29.679 making fun of you and somebody is picking out a flaw, if somebody is 921 01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.360 sending your shit or cringing about your stuff, it does not matter. It's 922 01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:37.320 a them thing. You are not going to let somebody from your hometown dictate 923 01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.159 your future, are you? Like? Really? Really? If I cared 924 01:01:40.159 --> 01:01:43.480 about what people thought about me from my hometown, I wouldn't be here talking 925 01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:47.119 to you guys. It's wild behavior and that cannot be Other people's opinions on 926 01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:52.719 your life are so irrelevant, so irrelevant? Why because your life and if 927 01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:54.639 people are not gonna support you or people don't like you, then they're not 928 01:01:54.679 --> 01:01:58.400 for you. So why would you live life for people who don't even like 929 01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.280 you? Let alone of life for people who like you you're going to live 930 01:02:01.320 --> 01:02:06.519 life or somebody who doesn't even like you and who doesn't have the confidence the 931 01:02:06.559 --> 01:02:08.760 way you do to go out there and help people or change the world or 932 01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.880 do something, you need to not let that be a thing. And also 933 01:02:14.000 --> 01:02:17.000 I would say try to stop hyper focusing on it because you don't even know 934 01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:22.079 how many people are really looking at your stuff or what they're thinking about your 935 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:24.960 stuff, Because how I look at it, or how I think about it, 936 01:02:25.000 --> 01:02:30.519 is if I were to think about my old friends or people from my 937 01:02:30.559 --> 01:02:32.639 hometown or people who know me in real life. When I think about them 938 01:02:32.719 --> 01:02:37.000 thinking about me, I think that they think that I'm amazing. I don't 939 01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:40.760 go straight to oh my god. They probably think I'm so cringe and I'm 940 01:02:40.800 --> 01:02:44.760 so different, or why am I talking about this or that. I don't 941 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:47.239 think that. So think in your favor if you're going to think about these 942 01:02:47.239 --> 01:02:51.880 people thinking about you and do what you need to do. Also, actually, 943 01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:55.159 one more thing when it comes to body image and feeling insecure online, 944 01:02:55.199 --> 01:03:00.800 I totally get it. I really do understand that people are dying for content 945 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:07.679 creators to be more authentic. Okay, and I know we have been influenced 946 01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:15.599 from the perfect girls online to maybe look like them or have a better body 947 01:03:15.760 --> 01:03:22.239 or better skin, or have all the outfits. But people really want to 948 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.320 relate to people who are real. And so if you can be that influencer 949 01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:30.280 who is a little bit more real and shows a little bit more realness about 950 01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:32.599 yourself, whether it's your body or your skin not being perfect all the time, 951 01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:36.800 or you not always wearing makeup, or you sharing that you had a 952 01:03:36.800 --> 01:03:39.960 bad day. Please do it because I know it helps so many people. 953 01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:44.440 And I get it. It's you, right, it's your like, it's 954 01:03:44.920 --> 01:03:47.239 the deepest parts of you, and you're going to share that to the world, 955 01:03:47.639 --> 01:03:50.719 and I know you have to be careful with doing that, Like, 956 01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.360 for sure, be careful. I get that I don't share everything I'm going 957 01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.159 through, but I do know the impact that makes and for me the line 958 01:03:58.159 --> 01:04:00.039 of work that I'm in, that's what I want. And bringing it to 959 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:03.760 what I wanted to talk about, which was hard days, I've been having 960 01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:09.840 a few really hard days, and do I want to talk about that and 961 01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:13.960 let people know that I have hard days or I struggle and i'm emotionally. 962 01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:16.599 I wouldn't say a wreck. I definitely wouldn't say a wrec but I just 963 01:04:16.639 --> 01:04:20.159 don't have those perfect days. I don't love the idea of letting people know 964 01:04:20.280 --> 01:04:24.599 that, but I know that that's so important, and honestly, I don't 965 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.400 want people to look at me like I am perfect because I'm not, because 966 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:30.280 that also puts a lot of pressure on you to show up in a certain 967 01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:34.559 way. And yeah, I don't know, that's just like, that's what 968 01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.239 I think about when it comes to being a content creator. But I also 969 01:04:38.360 --> 01:04:42.199 just know the impact that it makes on other people when you do share that 970 01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:45.880 you don't have the best day. So just being real, if you are 971 01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:47.880 going to be a content creators, I don't know. I think it's personally 972 01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:53.000 the best, but also it just allows you to have long jevity, right 973 01:04:53.039 --> 01:04:56.360 because if I have a bad day, maybe I can't talk about the thing 974 01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:00.119 that I really wanted to talk about because I am struggling over here. So 975 01:05:00.199 --> 01:05:01.599 how am I going to make money and how am I going to continue to 976 01:05:01.639 --> 01:05:06.000 run my business When I'm a real person, I have real bad days if 977 01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:09.800 I can't share that with my audience. Again, I'm not saying you have 978 01:05:09.840 --> 01:05:13.039 to unveil everything that you've been going through, but for me, that's how 979 01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:18.239 I've wanted to run my business is leaving room for those days so that I 980 01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:21.039 can sustain, yes, my business, but of course so that I can 981 01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:25.480 help you guys. So anyways, yeah, I've been having a few bad 982 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:28.079 days for sure. I went to yoga the other day. Okay, two 983 01:05:28.280 --> 01:05:31.000 days this well, yeah, I guess this month. I had to sit 984 01:05:31.079 --> 01:05:34.960 down in my yoga class, which might seem like nothing, but for somebody 985 01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:43.800 who has a high pain tolerance, somebody who pushes herself, somebody who gets 986 01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:46.840 the job done. To have to sit down in my yoga class was not 987 01:05:47.000 --> 01:05:50.679 something I wanted to do. I was like I was fighting, okay, 988 01:05:50.840 --> 01:05:53.960 okay. So the first time that I had to sit down on my yoga 989 01:05:53.960 --> 01:05:57.519 class. And by the way, I do bickroom yoga, bickroom hot yoga. 990 01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:01.199 The room is one hundred and four degreeaze fahrenheit. That shit is hot 991 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:06.639 plus humidity, which is about usually forty percent higher than what it is so 992 01:06:08.000 --> 01:06:12.800 hot hot bodies. You feel disgusting after I'm not gonna lie, but then 993 01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:16.400 you feel so good. Anyways, I went on my first day of my 994 01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:20.280 period, which I had never done a class on my period, and I 995 01:06:20.320 --> 01:06:24.239 started to feel cramps. But I was like, I'm sure this is gonna 996 01:06:24.239 --> 01:06:29.440 be fine. It wasn't fine. It was not fine. I could only 997 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:33.159 do a few movements before I felt like I was going to fall on the 998 01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:36.119 ground. And I had to tell myself, like, just sit down, 999 01:06:36.199 --> 01:06:39.559 and you have to put your pride aside and your ego aside, and you 1000 01:06:39.599 --> 01:06:43.320 have to sit because if you don't, you're probably gonna embarrass yourself more, 1001 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:46.159 if I'm being honest, but it is okay to not have that perfect day. 1002 01:06:46.960 --> 01:06:49.480 And so anyways, I sat down, I laid down, and I 1003 01:06:49.519 --> 01:06:54.960 realized that I couldn't continue to go. So as they transitioned from standing to 1004 01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:59.159 laying down series, I was like, I gotta go, which usually they 1005 01:06:59.199 --> 01:07:00.599 tell you to stay in the class the whole time. So I was like, 1006 01:07:01.119 --> 01:07:03.920 really kind of stressed about that. But I picked up my mat and 1007 01:07:03.960 --> 01:07:08.079 I said, I gotta go, and that was tough for me. But 1008 01:07:08.199 --> 01:07:12.239 then I had another day. The other day, I went to yoga and 1009 01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:15.360 I wasn't on my period, but it was extremely hot. It was like 1010 01:07:15.480 --> 01:07:18.719 thirty degrees here in uh Toronto, so it was like one of the hottest 1011 01:07:19.039 --> 01:07:23.360 humid days and I didn't really think about the fact that hot yoga was going 1012 01:07:23.440 --> 01:07:26.480 to be really hot. But I had to lay down and I had to 1013 01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:30.360 take the l once again. And honestly, that day, I was really 1014 01:07:30.400 --> 01:07:34.760 emotionally exhausted. I've been emotionally exhausted for the past few days. I went 1015 01:07:34.800 --> 01:07:40.480 to my women's circle and it brought up a lot of trauma things and such 1016 01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:43.639 that I ended up having to process. So I just wasn't having a good 1017 01:07:43.679 --> 01:07:45.920 week, and I wasn't having a good day, and I had to stop, 1018 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.000 and I had to like change my entire course of my week. And 1019 01:07:49.400 --> 01:07:54.880 I'm just saying that because when you are on a journey of up leveling your 1020 01:07:54.880 --> 01:07:59.159 life and changing your life and shedding old versions of you and really transforming your 1021 01:07:59.199 --> 01:08:04.519 life, You're gonna have these days, okay, like growth. Really it's 1022 01:08:04.519 --> 01:08:09.639 not that it requires you to have growing pains and bad days, but there's 1023 01:08:09.719 --> 01:08:13.119 gonna be days where there's growing pains. Okay, It's not gonna be all 1024 01:08:13.119 --> 01:08:15.399 peaches and roses. And so I just the reason why I'm saying that is 1025 01:08:15.439 --> 01:08:19.840 because if you are currently which I feel like all you guys are in different 1026 01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:24.479 aspects when you listen to my podcast, if you are trying to hit goals, 1027 01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:27.239 you're trying to do something in your life, and you're having those hard 1028 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:30.279 days, understand as a part of the process, and do not use this 1029 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:34.319 as evidence as you're not gonna get what you want or you're not on the 1030 01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:40.039 right track. It's just simply a day or a phase or a week or 1031 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:44.199 however long that you need. That is just a part of the journey, 1032 01:08:44.199 --> 01:08:46.199 and you just need a break or you just need to emotionally release. It 1033 01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:51.399 doesn't mean that you have ruined anything. The mindset of you thinking you've ruined 1034 01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:57.239 something because you had a day where it didn't go flawless will be why you 1035 01:08:57.279 --> 01:09:02.000 continue to not have good days. Really, So it's you judging the fact 1036 01:09:02.039 --> 01:09:05.800 that you had that day that really messes things up. And I actually recently 1037 01:09:05.880 --> 01:09:12.159 just posted a video on my YouTube channel talking about this, so it's just 1038 01:09:12.159 --> 01:09:16.720 go watch that. I talk about shedding old versions of you and how days 1039 01:09:16.760 --> 01:09:19.520 are not going to be perfect and those are the days that you're actually going 1040 01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:23.920 to build the most confidence and resilience within yourself. What I mean, don't 1041 01:09:23.920 --> 01:09:30.840 break on the days that are hard. You can break, but don't look 1042 01:09:30.920 --> 01:09:34.640 at your trajectory of your whole entire life and where you're going and be like, 1043 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:39.520 I'm broken, I'm not doing it right and I'm not going to get 1044 01:09:39.520 --> 01:09:44.119 what I want. It's simply just a day that you are feeling not the 1045 01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:47.199 best. Surrender to that day if you need. Okay, anyways, this 1046 01:09:47.239 --> 01:09:50.079 episode's getting really long. There's a few updates that I wanted to give you. 1047 01:09:50.159 --> 01:09:55.680 I might be getting braces instead of in visiline, I ended up going 1048 01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:00.680 to a second dentist to get an opinion. Definitely go and do your research 1049 01:10:00.720 --> 01:10:03.960 and get multiple opinions sometimes because I was about to spend eight K on invisil 1050 01:10:03.960 --> 01:10:09.119 line from my one dental place just because that's where I go usually get cleanings, 1051 01:10:09.159 --> 01:10:11.279 and they gave me a quote of eight K, and my friend, 1052 01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:14.720 who's a dental hygienas, she's like, we do in visil line, and 1053 01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:17.359 we do it for about three K, so you're coming to my place. 1054 01:10:17.359 --> 01:10:20.279 And then when I went to her place, her dentist actually suggested that I 1055 01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:27.319 do braces because the way the spacing is within my teeth, it makes way 1056 01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:30.319 more sense to actually do the real braces than to do in visil line, 1057 01:10:30.520 --> 01:10:34.239 because she was saying, how in visil line will not be strong enough to 1058 01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:40.800 have the movement or whatever I need to place my teeth the way that I 1059 01:10:40.840 --> 01:10:44.279 need to have them, because I actually have a crossbite in all this stuff, 1060 01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:47.239 and mainly it was to close my gap, but there's other actual structural 1061 01:10:47.279 --> 01:10:51.079 issues when it comes to my teeth. So anyways, I don't know fully 1062 01:10:51.079 --> 01:10:54.800 if I'm going to do it yet, but I'll keep you guys updated, 1063 01:10:54.840 --> 01:10:57.840 but just in case anyone was wondering, that's where I'm at right now. 1064 01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:01.520 Which whatever it is, what it is. I went to John Summit the 1065 01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:05.880 other day, and if you guys have him coming close to wherever you live, 1066 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:11.560 please go and see him. That was the best house music concert that 1067 01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:14.720 I've ever been to, and I would honestly say it was the best time, 1068 01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:18.159 better than any festival that I've gone to. So I don't know how 1069 01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:21.960 Veld is going to even top that, but that was the best freaking concert 1070 01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:26.960 ever went right to the front stage. I posted a video of him on 1071 01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:29.399 my TikTok, but I also have a few videos, I think on my 1072 01:11:29.439 --> 01:11:31.920 Instagram. But I am just so here for concerts. I went to Bryson 1073 01:11:32.000 --> 01:11:34.800 Tiller. I'm going to a few more of this summer. I'm going to 1074 01:11:34.840 --> 01:11:39.800 a lot. I am so stoked to go to Tate. I can't even 1075 01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:42.840 talk about it because I will go into an entire rant, but I will 1076 01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:45.880 have an entire vlog. I'm sure going to see her. But I am 1077 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:51.760 so here for any day things, concerts, festivals as well. But there's 1078 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:56.000 just something about a concert and a festival that makes me so excited. I 1079 01:11:56.039 --> 01:12:00.960 need to be at an actual concert with music and friends, music and friends, 1080 01:12:00.680 --> 01:12:03.720 a few drinks flowing. Is this the best time? I freaking love 1081 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:09.840 it. If you guys didn't watch my Summer Diaries video where I talked about 1082 01:12:09.840 --> 01:12:13.399 manifesting the summer of my dreams on my YouTube, I went on my first 1083 01:12:13.399 --> 01:12:16.159 brand trip, which is wild to say, but I went on my first 1084 01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.479 brand trip to Muskoka, and I was talking about how I had been wanting 1085 01:12:19.520 --> 01:12:23.319 to go to Muskoka, and of course, like I had said even this 1086 01:12:23.399 --> 01:12:26.439 episode, as soon as I want a desire, I have a desire, 1087 01:12:26.439 --> 01:12:29.399 and I just like think about it. It really just kind of comes to 1088 01:12:29.439 --> 01:12:31.159 me. Like I try not to get into the way of like how or 1089 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:35.079 when or put limitations or timelines on things, but I have been saying I 1090 01:12:35.079 --> 01:12:38.199 want to go to Muskoka. I want to go to Muskoka, but honestly, 1091 01:12:38.239 --> 01:12:41.399 it is expensive to go and it's hard to get friends to go with, 1092 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.439 and I would love to go again. But I just said I'm gonna 1093 01:12:45.439 --> 01:12:48.359 go to Muskoka this summer, and lo and Behold, Hey You, which 1094 01:12:48.399 --> 01:12:51.680 is a brand that I love working with, ended up reaching out and being 1095 01:12:51.720 --> 01:12:55.039 like, hey, let's work together. On a new campaign, which is 1096 01:12:55.079 --> 01:12:57.560 great. I've already worked with them on a campaign before, but they're like, 1097 01:12:57.840 --> 01:13:00.119 by the way, we're gonna be doing a brand trip with this campaign, 1098 01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:03.960 and guess where we're going. We're going to Muskoka. So that was 1099 01:13:04.000 --> 01:13:09.000 another manifestation which I freaking loved. The last thing is I need to start 1100 01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:12.119 watching Love Island. Please let me know in the comments if you guys have 1101 01:13:12.199 --> 01:13:16.920 started watching Love Island season is it eleven or ten? I don't even know, 1102 01:13:16.960 --> 01:13:20.760 but it's the UK one I believe. I'm obsessed with Love Island and 1103 01:13:20.800 --> 01:13:24.960 I used to watch it all the time, but UK is the best. 1104 01:13:25.039 --> 01:13:28.119 But I need to get into it, and then maybe on the next off 1105 01:13:28.119 --> 01:13:31.359 topic episode, I'll give you my thoughts because I'm very much so ready to 1106 01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:35.239 binge watch a dating show. I feel like sometimes I'm not in the mood 1107 01:13:35.279 --> 01:13:40.319 to watch people do dating shows and stuff. Maybe if I'm like sad or 1108 01:13:40.800 --> 01:13:43.520 I don't know, you know those ones. But anyways, I'm going to 1109 01:13:43.600 --> 01:13:46.199 start watching that. So that's gonna be it for today's episode. It was 1110 01:13:46.239 --> 01:13:49.880 so long. I hope you guys enjoyed. I have a lot of episodes 1111 01:13:49.920 --> 01:13:57.279 coming that I'm really excited about being magnetic and changing your energy when it comes 1112 01:13:57.319 --> 01:14:01.199 to manifesting but not really but whatever, being an energetic magnet. I also 1113 01:14:01.279 --> 01:14:05.000 want to talk about how to be more emotionally mature, which will be a 1114 01:14:05.039 --> 01:14:09.920 full guide. So let me know which one you want to see. But 1115 01:14:09.960 --> 01:14:12.439 either way, they're both gonna come out. So I hope you guys enjoyed 1116 01:14:12.399 --> 01:14:14.199 it and I'll see you in the next one. Bye.