Speaker 1: Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was your man.
Speaker 1: She's on the inside, she got the scoop on on
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Speaker 1: time Caroline Today, I'm so excited. Sarah Bell is joining me.
Speaker 1: She is a force to be reckoned with, beautiful inside
Speaker 1: and out, incredible influencer, YouTuber, Instagram, fashionista, blogger, she does
Speaker 1: it all. You guys, get excited. Sarah Bell is in
Speaker 1: the house and we talked about how she got started
Speaker 1: in YouTube, how to get started as an influence, certain
Speaker 1: all of her tips in secrets. So get excited. Here
Speaker 1: she is Sarah Belle in the hissy and we have Miller,
Speaker 1: the tiny little teacup. What is this your teacup? Your key?
Speaker 1: He's so cute, high Miller? What? And he has his
Speaker 1: own TP? Does he sleep in his TP? Well, he's
Speaker 1: missing the pad right now because Cody actually took his
Speaker 1: to work when he was like when I was out
Speaker 1: of town, and so he usually sleeps in it though
Speaker 1: he yeh, he's sun bathed. We turn it that way
Speaker 1: so it faces the window and then he just just
Speaker 1: bask in the sun. We are in a swanky apartment
Speaker 1: that you have. Thank you. This is amazing. Oh my gosh. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're a new transplant to Nashville. I am a neobe.
Speaker 1: You're a newbie. So you moved from l A right,
Speaker 1: and you're a YouTube phenomen and an influencer for blogger, Form, Staffs, Stylist, Fashionista,
Speaker 1: all of that and you're only holl four twenty four.
Speaker 1: How do you become a YouTube phenomen and how did
Speaker 1: it get going? You said you're you're from Arkansas, from
Speaker 1: Kentucky's from Arkansas? I don't know. Okay, you're from Kentucky.
Speaker 1: How did how did you get this dream to become
Speaker 1: a YouTuber? And how did you get to l A, Like,
Speaker 1: how did it start? Give me? Give me the background
Speaker 1: of who Sarabelle is growing up and how she got
Speaker 1: into this. So when I started YouTube, it's probably like
Speaker 1: the very same kind of story as Megan and Liz,
Speaker 1: who I know you interviewed. But I started when YouTube
Speaker 1: was like first becoming a huge thing. And how did
Speaker 1: you even know about it? I quit cross country and
Speaker 1: I had so much free time, so bad. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: so much free time. Didn't know what to do with myself,
Speaker 1: and so I started watching these videos on YouTube and
Speaker 1: they were all about like makeup and fashion, and I
Speaker 1: had no idea what bakeup was. Basically I would pretending
Speaker 1: like I did, and so I started One day I
Speaker 1: had like a digital camera that was like blue. I
Speaker 1: remember exactly what it looked like, and I just like
Speaker 1: put it on the top of my desk and I
Speaker 1: just started talking to it in my room by myself.
Speaker 1: When I was like sixteen years old. And it was
Speaker 1: at the time where like YouTubers were like weird, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It wasn't like socially accepted. It
Speaker 1: was like one of those people almost like clicked dragons
Speaker 1: or something. Yeah. Basically I was like so humiliated because
Speaker 1: it was leaked at my high school and we're you
Speaker 1: kind of just trying to do private. Yeah, I didn't
Speaker 1: want anyone to know about it. But then they posted
Speaker 1: about it on Facebook. They were so me It was
Speaker 1: just like such a weird thing, and like a time
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, I like Eichelberger thinks she's famous,
Speaker 1: and I'm like no, I just wanted because at the
Speaker 1: time I had like fifteen thousand followers, but she would
Speaker 1: get fifteen thou followers so fast. No one didn't do it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no one did it, and so it was just like
Speaker 1: luck of the draw, I guess. So really that was
Speaker 1: the thing. That's exactly what megan listened. So there wasn't
Speaker 1: anyone doing it, so people were like, okay, yeah, follow you.
Speaker 1: So that's exactually like what happened. Wow, so kind of
Speaker 1: right away you had fifteen thousand followers and what how
Speaker 1: old are you? I was seventeen and probably yeah, I
Speaker 1: was probably seventeen, so like a senior in high school
Speaker 1: when I got to like that ranking, I guess. But
Speaker 1: I remember like it was so easy to grow back
Speaker 1: then because so like there wasn't anyone doing and everyone
Speaker 1: was getting into that like watching YouTube and everything. So
Speaker 1: that's literally luck. I mean that was amazing. So what
Speaker 1: were you? Started off doing makeup and and then what
Speaker 1: did that morph into? Miller is dying to be a
Speaker 1: part of this? Um. I started doing makeup because that
Speaker 1: was what was popular, and then I've was not good
Speaker 1: at that honestly at all. I'm so bad at makeup,
Speaker 1: Like I pretended to be good at it. I was
Speaker 1: doing all these like extravagant makeup tutorials and it's like
Speaker 1: I don't even wear makeup that much, so like that's
Speaker 1: not really me. And then I started doing fat videos
Speaker 1: and I was very good at that either, but it
Speaker 1: was like I thought it was you had great makeup
Speaker 1: and great fashion, so you've obviously grown into you grown.
Speaker 1: You don't want to see that the evidence from this
Speaker 1: eighteen year old Sarah eighteen year old Sarah YouTube still up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, you can creep on it um.
Speaker 1: And then I went to college and then that's really
Speaker 1: like where my following kind of take took off, because
Speaker 1: I was like the only YouTuber in college because most
Speaker 1: people don't go to college when they are using YouTube stardom,
Speaker 1: you know, so did you how did people? How did
Speaker 1: it take off in college? Like just because people in
Speaker 1: your college and you're a YouTuber? It was just because
Speaker 1: I was posting videos like content about college, so like
Speaker 1: what to bring with you to college and all this stuff,
Speaker 1: and so people working on to college because my age
Speaker 1: demographic kind of grew with me, so like I was eighteen,
Speaker 1: everyone else was eighteen, so and I guess that's just
Speaker 1: how more people found me and like how to pack
Speaker 1: for spring break and like what to bring with you?
Speaker 1: And I don't know, just luck, When did you realize
Speaker 1: that this could be a job and you could get
Speaker 1: paid for it? And how do you get paid for youtubing? Crazy? Um?
Speaker 1: I started getting paid when I was in high school
Speaker 1: and basically at the age of sixteen, my brother I
Speaker 1: had to be either in extra curricular activities or we
Speaker 1: had to get a job. And so I was running
Speaker 1: across country and stuff. And then when I quit that,
Speaker 1: my I was doing YouTube obviously, and I remember my
Speaker 1: first paycheck was like eighty dollars and I remember, like
Speaker 1: I mean for high school. That is like it was
Speaker 1: for like per thousand view. Yeah, so like ad cents
Speaker 1: on your video, so like the ads they put next
Speaker 1: to your video you get paid for if you were
Speaker 1: like part of their partner program. And so I got
Speaker 1: my first paycheck and I was like, holy crap, I'm
Speaker 1: rolling in the door, like I'm so rich. My parents
Speaker 1: were like, Okay, well you don't have to get a job,
Speaker 1: and I was like, awesome, be myself. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: from then I just kind of like took off from there.
Speaker 1: But I also had like the luxury of not having
Speaker 1: to pay for my college. My parents did yes, so
Speaker 1: thank god, or else I would have been paying out
Speaker 1: of pocket for YouTube. But I was able to save
Speaker 1: money and then that eventually that money led me to
Speaker 1: l A. Okay, so how did you decide? Las where
Speaker 1: you gotta go? That's where ever YouTuber goes and Israel?
Speaker 1: Do you all meet up? How do you all get together?
Speaker 1: Or is it just like why why l A? Because
Speaker 1: it's just I guess the entertainment industry. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of like YouTube people out there and it's sunny. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be out there. And so I decided because
Speaker 1: it was like every YouTuber I knew was moving out
Speaker 1: there that I wanted to do the same. And so
Speaker 1: I moved out there just for summer to try it out.
Speaker 1: Um with my best friend who's also a YouTuber. Who's
Speaker 1: that Caitlin B the the letter V. Well, it's b
Speaker 1: e A. It's cute. Yeah, she uh. We've known each
Speaker 1: other since we were in high school, so we grew
Speaker 1: up with each other. It's super cute, but it Yeah,
Speaker 1: we decided to move out and so it was just
Speaker 1: when I turned twenty one, and so I was like
Speaker 1: living the l A dream? Was it? So fun, so
Speaker 1: much fun. What was life like for you, l A
Speaker 1: when you got out there? Oh my god, it's your
Speaker 1: twenty one, your best friend in l A, your YouTube famous,
Speaker 1: and so what is life looking like for you? Um?
Speaker 1: It was a lot of honestly, drinking in hot tubs,
Speaker 1: a lot of making out. No, no, any like gay
Speaker 1: guys out there. But that's kind of fun that to
Speaker 1: have a lot of gay best That was so much fun.
Speaker 1: I never had so much fun dancing on a dance
Speaker 1: floor then I did at this party And it was
Speaker 1: just Caitlin me in a bunch of like awesome game
Speaker 1: in and they don't they weren't trying to hook up.
Speaker 1: They just want to dance and happen dance. It was
Speaker 1: the best day of my life. That's pretty much what
Speaker 1: l it was. That's awesome. So what did you learn
Speaker 1: when you moved to l A and you got involved
Speaker 1: with this big YouTube community? Ay? How did you get
Speaker 1: involved with the community? How did you meet up? Y'all
Speaker 1: just like message each other. Yeah, basically, I mean the
Speaker 1: thing is is like when I started, a bunch of
Speaker 1: girls my age also started and so we all just
Speaker 1: kind of like grew up with each other and like
Speaker 1: started messaging each other, shouting each other out in YouTube
Speaker 1: videos and all that fun stuff. And so now that
Speaker 1: everyone's just kind of doing their own thing, and it's
Speaker 1: awesome because I get to see like these girls that
Speaker 1: we all had so much in common at age eighteen,
Speaker 1: now there were twenty somethings and we're doing something completely
Speaker 1: different and it's so cute. I feel like you are
Speaker 1: such a positive influencer. Like every time being around you,
Speaker 1: it seems like you are such an encourage r. I
Speaker 1: don't ever get the vibe where you've been like competitive,
Speaker 1: or you've been in situations where it's been nasty, Like
Speaker 1: it seems to me that your energy is always like
Speaker 1: great with collaborating, great, building each other up. Like, I
Speaker 1: don't since that you've ever had like drama. Have you
Speaker 1: had any like YouTube drama or any like cattiness? Um?
Speaker 1: I would say, like when I first started YouTube, there
Speaker 1: was like cattiness, but that was just because we were
Speaker 1: all high schoolers, and I mean there's clicks in high school,
Speaker 1: so there were clicks on YouTube. And I mean obviously
Speaker 1: I grew up in that kind of faded away and
Speaker 1: I just try to like remind myself that while you know,
Speaker 1: everyone's growing and stuff, like we're growing for different reasons
Speaker 1: and so like no one is exactly like me. And
Speaker 1: so that's why I have no problem collaborating with people.
Speaker 1: Or I'm not a very competitive person. And it's like
Speaker 1: kind of hard, I guess to not be competitive, especially
Speaker 1: when I lived with like Caitlin for a whole year,
Speaker 1: like a year ago, and we just saw each other's
Speaker 1: work like go in different directions, and so it's like,
Speaker 1: why am I not doing this? Why am I not
Speaker 1: doing that? And at the end of the day, I'd
Speaker 1: be like, oh wait, we're different and I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: And She's right, it's easy. It's hard not to compare.
Speaker 1: Actually talked to a Brooke um Web about that she
Speaker 1: wrote this blog entry and actually, I think, actually, Wilson,
Speaker 1: it to just how comparison you really can't compare, especially
Speaker 1: in this industry because it is such a new world
Speaker 1: out there. What do you think Miller Miller has a
Speaker 1: big slice of pizza toy Um, You really can't compare
Speaker 1: because it will drive you crazy, literally to drive you
Speaker 1: into How did you teach yourself not to compare? I
Speaker 1: just think it was one of those things I just
Speaker 1: grew up doing because I mean I was on YouTube
Speaker 1: so for so long. It's just you've developed like thick skin.
Speaker 1: You developed like basically seeing other people succeed and sometimes
Speaker 1: you're not succeeding, and so you just kind of develop
Speaker 1: it over time, I guess, and it just pikes for
Speaker 1: a happier life, really it does. How what did you
Speaker 1: learn in l A? So when you were out there,
Speaker 1: what did you learn from this YouTube community that you
Speaker 1: hadn't known before? Like, what are some tips that you
Speaker 1: learned that you would tell you. I would tell them
Speaker 1: not to move out to l A. Save your money.
Speaker 1: It's an expensive city. And honestly the friendships and stuff
Speaker 1: that you make out there are very shallow. Um obviously
Speaker 1: work related or how you can benefit each other, Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: how you can benefit each other's how people want to
Speaker 1: advance themselves, thankfully, Like I found a few great humans
Speaker 1: that when I was there that weren't like that. But like,
Speaker 1: you have to really watch yourself, which is why did
Speaker 1: not date like any guys in l A. Because they
Speaker 1: all just want to like see what you can do
Speaker 1: for them. And so I was just like so over that.
Speaker 1: And I just think creativity create creative, creatively, creatively, that's it. Um,
Speaker 1: it's just not the best place. Like, yes, it's a
Speaker 1: good place to grow and be in the center of
Speaker 1: everything when it comes to like the industry, but it
Speaker 1: just wasn't for me. And I think you are so
Speaker 1: much happier when you're in the place that's like for you.
Speaker 1: Did you learn anything that helped you with YouTube out
Speaker 1: there from being around all these YouTubers or just kept
Speaker 1: doing what you always did? Just kept doing what I
Speaker 1: always did. So what are some tricks or tips that
Speaker 1: you would tell a YouTuber who's getting started, Like, don't
Speaker 1: do this for sure, definitely do this as far as
Speaker 1: getting going, getting building following, getting good content, collaborating, I
Speaker 1: would definitely say, especially nowadays, is buying followers is such
Speaker 1: a big thing and it just like tears me up
Speaker 1: inside because it's just like these people like it's just
Speaker 1: a number to them, and it's like that's not what
Speaker 1: you want. You want like quality over quantity, as stupid
Speaker 1: as it sounds, but people true following you for you
Speaker 1: and your stuff just because it's I mean, you feel
Speaker 1: better honestly if you have like better followers that actually
Speaker 1: want to see what you put out and want to
Speaker 1: see you succeed. And so that's honestly the biggest one
Speaker 1: these days is growing an authentic following, just because I
Speaker 1: feel like people want to collaborate with people who obviously
Speaker 1: have authentic ones instead of bots and stuff. Totally. I
Speaker 1: totally agree. Actually, everyone I've interviewed has said that, Yes, totally.
Speaker 1: What about getting good content? What do you suggest on
Speaker 1: when you put content out? What makes a great YouTube video? Oh,
Speaker 1: that's a good question, just because everyone's I don't think
Speaker 1: there honestly is a correct answer to that, because I
Speaker 1: think everyone has like a personality that's so different and
Speaker 1: that's what people really want to see. They don't really
Speaker 1: care as much these days about like how amazing the
Speaker 1: camera quality is. I'm granted, yes, if you're like a
Speaker 1: filmographer or whatever it's called, then they want to see that.
Speaker 1: But like we're coming on an iPhone right now, hey guys.
Speaker 1: But like at the end of the day, like you
Speaker 1: can start with like your MacBook, Like that's how I started,
Speaker 1: was just with that, like the little camera that was
Speaker 1: built into my computer. And as long as you're like
Speaker 1: consistent and do that mean like weekly or like one
Speaker 1: on the same day, each week or a lot of
Speaker 1: people want schedules and they want to be able to
Speaker 1: go back and like see when you're posting, so like
Speaker 1: for me, I usually post on Mondays and Thursdays, And
Speaker 1: so do you do to videos a week? I tried to,
Speaker 1: but it's been a little What is the content that
Speaker 1: you put up? Is it just whatever you're feeling? It's
Speaker 1: just like the at this point, it's not even so
Speaker 1: much about like the best quality video. I feel like
Speaker 1: people just want to know what's going on in my life,
Speaker 1: which is cool because I'm like, it's really not that exciting,
Speaker 1: but if you want to know, so it's almost like
Speaker 1: your own little reality show. You kind of recap what
Speaker 1: you've been doing. Nice. It's really boring reality show though. Whatever. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you moved to Nashville. You say I'm done with
Speaker 1: l A. What was your turning point when you're like,
Speaker 1: I'm out. I got kind of sick of l A
Speaker 1: after like a year and a half out there, and
Speaker 1: I just knew it wasn't for me, Like I wasn't
Speaker 1: getting anywhere from it, you know, I was just spending
Speaker 1: so much money on rent and just the cost of
Speaker 1: living out there, and I was just having fun and
Speaker 1: not doing much. I'd be like hungover all day basically,
Speaker 1: and so it's perfect to do that in your twenties.
Speaker 1: And it was good. It look good at the time.
Speaker 1: I utilized every minute out in l A. But I
Speaker 1: just like I was sick of it. I don't know,
Speaker 1: just somethings so much, yeah, exactly. And so I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: where should I move? I wanted to be somewhere that
Speaker 1: was closer to where I'm from, which is like five
Speaker 1: minutes south of Cincinnati, so it's like right across the
Speaker 1: river in Kentucky. And I was sick of paying like
Speaker 1: five hundred, six hundred dollar flights to go home and
Speaker 1: visit my family obviously, and everyone would be sick of that.
Speaker 1: And so I this was like, Okay, what's a big
Speaker 1: city near Cincinnati that's not Cincinnati? Because I wanted to
Speaker 1: be like away still and Nashville was it. So and
Speaker 1: so you just took a leap of faith and just said, okay,
Speaker 1: let's do this without really knowing much about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anyone here except Mallory. How do you
Speaker 1: know Valerie just from like influencing. Okay, so you move
Speaker 1: out here and what was your first impression and how
Speaker 1: did it go for you? Because I feel like you
Speaker 1: haven't been here that long, right, yeah, it will be
Speaker 1: a year in April, and you have I feel like
Speaker 1: you've gotten right involved, like a huge group of friends.
Speaker 1: To tell me what it was like for you moving here,
Speaker 1: the difference between l A and Nashville and how you
Speaker 1: how you compare it. Well. I feel like the minute
Speaker 1: I moved here, it was just so easy to like
Speaker 1: find other influencers as opposed to l A because there's
Speaker 1: so many of them and they all are just doing
Speaker 1: such like crazy things and I'm like, okay, well I'm
Speaker 1: like pretty chill, so like not for me. Um. And
Speaker 1: so I just like honestly started creeping on like every
Speaker 1: Nashville blogger. I was like follow, follow, follow, follow, and
Speaker 1: so eventually they followed back, and I would like slide
Speaker 1: into their d M. So I was like, hey, you
Speaker 1: want to get coffee? Like it's me that's awesome. And
Speaker 1: so you just kind of reach out and did you
Speaker 1: find that people were pretty friendly. The first person I
Speaker 1: actually got food with we got tacos, was Shelly no Way,
Speaker 1: and she had just moved here too, kind of on
Speaker 1: a whim also from evergot where she's from, Michies, Indiana, Illinois.
Speaker 1: Shelly is so stinking huge, d'all hit it off right away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was like in two weeks that I moved here.
Speaker 1: So it was like instant friend, which was awesome because
Speaker 1: I needed that because I was like, I don't know
Speaker 1: anyone here. And then I met up with Balerie and
Speaker 1: she was like, you need to meet like Megan and Liz,
Speaker 1: and so I met them at a concert in Michigan.
Speaker 1: We were which is so random. We were in Michigan
Speaker 1: for like Soap and Glory, which is the brand they
Speaker 1: sent us to, like a country concert Faster Horses. I
Speaker 1: remember seeing that in your house. Yeah, when to post
Speaker 1: her um and I was I was having way too
Speaker 1: much fun and it was just not the best time
Speaker 1: to meet me. So I end up meeting them again
Speaker 1: at your house and so was much better then. But
Speaker 1: everyone's so kind. Everyone's so nice. That's the thing I
Speaker 1: have realized about this influencing world is everyone is so
Speaker 1: nice and so willing to help and give tips. Okay,
Speaker 1: so give me some tips about what is influencing. Like
Speaker 1: if you had a breakdown what influencing even means what
Speaker 1: is what does it mean to you? Like, how would
Speaker 1: you describe it? Oh? God, I don't even know. I
Speaker 1: feel like the moment you kind of impact someone in
Speaker 1: like a positive way, whether I mean some would debate
Speaker 1: maybe like buying a shirt is a positive way, but
Speaker 1: like influencer is such like a a wide variety of
Speaker 1: a word because anyone can do it, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I don't really have a good answer for it.
Speaker 1: So it could be like, can you be an influencer
Speaker 1: just be on Instagram? Or do you need to have
Speaker 1: something else to back it up, like a YouTube to follow,
Speaker 1: a blog to follow, like a podcast, or like something
Speaker 1: you have to do you need to have something else?
Speaker 1: Or can you just be like I'm going to influence
Speaker 1: the show close. I think you can be like an
Speaker 1: influencer just on Instagram. I don't think you need to
Speaker 1: have anything, but I think it's safe to have. Like
Speaker 1: a miller is so chill right now. Uh, it's so
Speaker 1: much better to have like something to fall back on
Speaker 1: in case Instagram shuts down, because it probably will. Yeah, eventually,
Speaker 1: it's going to like be an old new It's kind
Speaker 1: of like Facebook kind of. It's just like parents. Now
Speaker 1: I'm like, what's going to be the next thing. I
Speaker 1: don't know. My space is over. Oh my god, rest
Speaker 1: in peace day Oh those we're good. Okay, So when
Speaker 1: you are, if you're telling someone who was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I really want to start this fashion blog, what is
Speaker 1: your suggestion on growing followers, on how to get brand deals,
Speaker 1: on how to just start increasing your reach to people.
Speaker 1: What are some things that you would recommend doing. I
Speaker 1: would recommend definitely kind of if you're starting a fashion blog,
Speaker 1: go to like Forever Tony one, pick up a bunch
Speaker 1: of different outfits and start styling them you can, especially
Speaker 1: if they're like more basics. Take your iPhone, start taking
Speaker 1: pictures in different locations. Don't do like an all white wall,
Speaker 1: because people want to see different things. They want to
Speaker 1: see creativity and instantly, I'm sure you'll find stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Your Instagram is growing because people want affordable things, and
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of like the niche. I totally
Speaker 1: agree with that. So start just showing that you have
Speaker 1: an eye for fashion and putting stuff together. How do
Speaker 1: you get collaborations? I thankfully I had a manager since
Speaker 1: I was in high school. I know it's been so long,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I can't believe she's known me this long.
Speaker 1: She's seen me through the good and the bed. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah. So I have a manager named Abigail. She
Speaker 1: gets me brand deals and then she brings them to
Speaker 1: me and everything gets negotiated through her, which is so
Speaker 1: nice because I'm not good with contracts, but I understand
Speaker 1: that can be very overwhelming, and so I think having
Speaker 1: that buffer, whether it be like your boyfriend or your mom,
Speaker 1: even being like your manager, it's good because like you're
Speaker 1: not it's like being handled and you can do all
Speaker 1: the creative stuff, you know what I mean. So when
Speaker 1: you collab with I was talking to the Ashley's about this,
Speaker 1: When you collab with like a brand deal, they will
Speaker 1: say you have like a contract and you agree to
Speaker 1: do something like three posts on Instagram, a blog and
Speaker 1: or something, and then they is that is that kind
Speaker 1: of how it goes? Is it different for every brand deal? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's different for me for every brand deal because like
Speaker 1: on YouTube, but we have three different kind of ways
Speaker 1: of collaborating and so my manager will give like the
Speaker 1: brand an option of like a feature, so it's just like, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: I bought this the other day and then moving on
Speaker 1: to like whatever else I'm talking about, and then I
Speaker 1: forget what the other word is for the next one.
Speaker 1: But it's like we incorporate it more into the video.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like that a secret marketing or
Speaker 1: like drinking a Coca Cola can. Yeah, kind of secret marketing,
Speaker 1: but like yeah, but subtle. Yeah, it's not as like
Speaker 1: obvious that it's like a fool on dedicated thing. You
Speaker 1: kind of just like have it in the post with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so then there's also like a fool on like
Speaker 1: dedicated video. So it's just like the product is basically
Speaker 1: what the entire video revolves around. Okay, So that would
Speaker 1: be like, okay, I'm I'm gonna show you how to
Speaker 1: do this product editorial or something. Okay, so that's awesome.
Speaker 1: What about with blog post? That's the one we're like
Speaker 1: just now getting into because I launched my blog back
Speaker 1: in May or June of last year, and so I'm
Speaker 1: still new to it, um, but I would say most
Speaker 1: of my campaigns and stuff come through Instagram. Actually, blog
Speaker 1: posts I think are so easy, and I always think
Speaker 1: it's like so crazy that like brands want to pay
Speaker 1: me for a blog post because I'm like, it's like
Speaker 1: a diary. You know. I'm like, you really want to
Speaker 1: pay me for that? But okay, I mean whatever, sure,
Speaker 1: come on. Uh. But Instagram is like, honestly my favorite
Speaker 1: thing because I think you can really be creative and
Speaker 1: you know, people can either shoot that picture down and
Speaker 1: he had to take another one, or you know, they
Speaker 1: love it. And it's always awesome when they love it,
Speaker 1: because I'm like, because this is like my vision, you
Speaker 1: have more creative like aspects of it, right, Like you
Speaker 1: go do the picture and then you sent it into
Speaker 1: them and they're like, Okay, we either love this or
Speaker 1: it's your creativity. Do you blog on a regular basis
Speaker 1: or is blogging kind of depending on do you like
Speaker 1: weekly blog or is it based on if you have
Speaker 1: something going on. I tried a weekly blog. When I
Speaker 1: first kind of got into it, I was I went
Speaker 1: like full on craziness. I had basically content going up
Speaker 1: every single day. It was, uh, whatever day I wasn't
Speaker 1: posting on YouTube was being posted on my blog. And
Speaker 1: then I quickly was like like five times a week
Speaker 1: I was, but now I'm like, that's just like a
Speaker 1: lot of work. I was like what am I like,
Speaker 1: I'm over committing myself and so now it's it's like
Speaker 1: once or twice a week. But it's still a lot
Speaker 1: because I'm still posting on YouTube, but see YouTube twice
Speaker 1: a week, blog once or twice a week. Is there
Speaker 1: any other things that you're instagram every single day? And
Speaker 1: is that like someone shows doing outfit or what's your
Speaker 1: what's your What do you like to post on Instagram?
Speaker 1: I love posting my outfits. And you don't necessarily blog
Speaker 1: about this. You just link. You just link your clothes.
Speaker 1: I link my clothes and that's what I usually blog
Speaker 1: about on my blog, is the fashion. I don't really
Speaker 1: talk about that on my YouTube as much. But I
Speaker 1: love Instagram like it's my favorite. I love your Instagram beautiful.
Speaker 1: Gosh your Stagram boyfriend? Is that your Did your boyfriend
Speaker 1: take the pictures? Every picture? Yeah? How great is that?
Speaker 1: I know it's a luxury and he doesn't complain either,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, thank you. And your style is very
Speaker 1: you tell me what your style is because like no
Speaker 1: one else dresses like you like you have a starabil
Speaker 1: style for sure. I would definitely say like very free people. Yes,
Speaker 1: I love free people. Free people's my favorite brand. So
Speaker 1: I would say more of like a bohemian like eclectic
Speaker 1: kind of out there sometimes, yes, but yeah, just chill
Speaker 1: comfy and you rock bell bottoms like major flares. I
Speaker 1: love flair jeans kill the flares, like you'll start with
Speaker 1: the flare from your knee and it's awesome. I'm like, gosh,
Speaker 1: I want to dress like that. I love them. They're
Speaker 1: like my favorite pants. But my like some people don't
Speaker 1: appreciate them. Ak. My father he's like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's like two thousand again in the seventies again. He's like, Sarah,
Speaker 1: You've done this trend too many times now, and I'm
Speaker 1: like them, love it. What's the high, like the highest
Speaker 1: high and the low slow. What's the best experience you've had,
Speaker 1: and as your job as an influencer, like your best moment,
Speaker 1: like a moment that mark time for you in a
Speaker 1: great way, and a moment that mark time for you,
Speaker 1: and like, oh my god, this is awful. Um honestly
Speaker 1: they might be the same day, which is crazy, I know.
Speaker 1: So this past year I went in to the c
Speaker 1: m AS and it was so awesome, like an awesome
Speaker 1: experience and basically everything kind of like went to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I went to Talkies real quick. Um, the brand I
Speaker 1: was working with, I obviously don't want to mention anyone's name,
Speaker 1: but it just wasn't a pleasurable experience. And I was
Speaker 1: basically like bawling my eyes out after like the red carpet,
Speaker 1: just because I didn't have basically what they promised me,
Speaker 1: and so they were expecting all this stuff and I
Speaker 1: couldn't give it to him because I didn't have help.
Speaker 1: So it was just like I was just free for all.
Speaker 1: So here you are at this amazing experience. You're in Nashville,
Speaker 1: neuter Nashville. You're going to c m as all dressed up,
Speaker 1: great brandial partnership, so you're super excited, and then it's
Speaker 1: all like it's just like just kidding, So what did
Speaker 1: you What do you do in a situation like that
Speaker 1: when the brand doesn't follow through on their end. I
Speaker 1: prayed that my best because my best friend flew in
Speaker 1: from uh California to come with me because she was
Speaker 1: my plus one and basically it was told by me
Speaker 1: that she would be on the red carpet with me,
Speaker 1: so then I could get all the content that they needed.
Speaker 1: And then that day, they were like, just kidding, she's
Speaker 1: not going to be on the Red carpet with you.
Speaker 1: They're being extra strict this year. And I'm like, so
Speaker 1: you expect me to get all this content because you
Speaker 1: needed her to film it and like record stuff, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: I needed pictures and like all this crazy stuff because
Speaker 1: they were being very specific on what they wanted. I
Speaker 1: had to be smiling showing my teeth, and so I
Speaker 1: was like, I just I couldn't do it, like it
Speaker 1: just I had a meltdown right then and there. I
Speaker 1: was just like this is crazy, Like I don't have
Speaker 1: any direction, no one's here, like no one from the
Speaker 1: brand was there to help me as they told me
Speaker 1: they would be. And so I just got off that
Speaker 1: red carpet as soon as it possibly could because I
Speaker 1: was like, get me off of here. And then I
Speaker 1: went to find Caitlin in her seats and I just
Speaker 1: like started bawling. I was like this was so bad.
Speaker 1: I was like and they were telling me I needed
Speaker 1: to get a picture and I couldn't deliver that. And
Speaker 1: so I was like, I don't know how you expect
Speaker 1: me to get this picture, Like there's literally no way
Speaker 1: I could unless you wanted like a selfie, but that's
Speaker 1: not the kind of content I post, so it's like
Speaker 1: professional pictures. Yeah. So I was like I don't know
Speaker 1: what to do. So my manager I got a little
Speaker 1: sassy with the brand and which was a bad don't
Speaker 1: do that body you say, how what is your sassie mean?
Speaker 1: I was just like, how do you expect me to
Speaker 1: do this when you guys aren't even like following through?
Speaker 1: Like it was just I did not need to be
Speaker 1: talking to them. My manager should have been talking to them.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's hard to keep it's hard to it's
Speaker 1: hard to stay perfect, to do everything. I know, even
Speaker 1: we feel like you've just been totally screwed. I was
Speaker 1: like I can't do this. I was like piste off
Speaker 1: and so my manager was like, Sarah, just talk to
Speaker 1: me now, and I was like, okay, fine, I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you. And then it was just a disaster. But
Speaker 1: thankfully I got it done. The brand deal is over.
Speaker 1: Won't work with them ever again. And it all worked
Speaker 1: out like they were happy with the content and we
Speaker 1: I got paid, so I guess that's all that matters
Speaker 1: because I got the money in the end. So but
Speaker 1: that's fresh rating because you want to do great work
Speaker 1: and you want that's why I m Ashley Wilson was saying,
Speaker 1: you want to have the contracts later ahead of time,
Speaker 1: and you probably had all these stuff agreed upon. Like
Speaker 1: they're doing that, they're showing up this way and oh man,
Speaker 1: so that's how Brandell's can go real south, real quick,
Speaker 1: real south, real quick. It could be like the best
Speaker 1: day ever and then the worst day ever all in one.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, did you end up having fun after seats? Were? You?
Speaker 1: Kind of did it right? It was just rained on
Speaker 1: my parade, honestly, because then I had like they kept
Speaker 1: coming back because I had to like post at the event,
Speaker 1: and so here I'm trying to post, but they promised
Speaker 1: me these really nice seats and I didn't get the seats,
Speaker 1: and so everything was like really far back, and I
Speaker 1: was like, this is this is not what I wanted
Speaker 1: for the teams because I love country music. Yes, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'd like to be able to see the people,
Speaker 1: but you know, people on TVs got better views than
Speaker 1: I did, so man, that's so frustrating. It was so annoying. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I like to sort of talk about callings to
Speaker 1: and its influencing. It is such an interesting thing because
Speaker 1: it's it is it's a job, like it's a job,
Speaker 1: but it's like it's such a new career path. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like you're walking in your calling? Like like
Speaker 1: this whole smart report of YouTube, blogging, fashion, all this
Speaker 1: is what you're meant to do? Like, do you feel
Speaker 1: like that's what your soul want you? Like? Is that
Speaker 1: what you were meant to do? I think so, because
Speaker 1: it's so funny. I went to college for pre law
Speaker 1: and law that's useful for me now clearly. Um, And
Speaker 1: when I was growing up, I had all these like
Speaker 1: guidebooks basically from like teen Vogue and stuff like how
Speaker 1: to land your dream internship. And I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work at Team Vogue and I'm going to like
Speaker 1: do their blogging for them and all this cool stuff
Speaker 1: and like style and like I want to be a
Speaker 1: model like all this stuff. So I always wanted to
Speaker 1: be in the fashion industry, wanted to style blog, I
Speaker 1: want to do all of it. That's what you're doing.
Speaker 1: You're a model for you, You're styling for yourself and
Speaker 1: others if they want to mean you're also giving inspiration,
Speaker 1: so you're kind of doing exactly what you wanted to do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's so funny how everything worked out because I
Speaker 1: was like dead set on that being what I was
Speaker 1: gonna do, and it ended up working out, which is
Speaker 1: awesome because so I was like, I couldn't have asked
Speaker 1: for a better job. Why do you think some people
Speaker 1: don't follow their passion and they settle That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I mean it can be a risk, I think whenever
Speaker 1: you try to like go towards your passion, because sometimes
Speaker 1: your passion isn't always what's going to pay the bills,
Speaker 1: and that can be intimidating because I mean I wanted
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer because it was going to pay
Speaker 1: the bills. I mean, that's on the reason why I
Speaker 1: wanted to do it, Like I like, you know, political
Speaker 1: science and stuff, but it's not like my passion, you know.
Speaker 1: So I honestly think it's just being able to afford
Speaker 1: a living. That's what it boils down to. Do you
Speaker 1: think that it's worth that people should take the risk? Oh? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Anytime I hear that someone's like quitting their job to
Speaker 1: go full time blogging, I'm like that is so cool,
Speaker 1: Like good for you, Like this is literally what you
Speaker 1: want to be doing. And I think that's so awesome.
Speaker 1: It's I agree because to me, like this life is
Speaker 1: so short and it's already hard enough if you're not
Speaker 1: if you're working every day and hating what you do.
Speaker 1: And I understand there's all sorts of circumstances, but I'm
Speaker 1: the same way. When people take that jump and they
Speaker 1: go for their passions, I feel like it has to
Speaker 1: pay off in some way though, right, especially if you're talented. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's just like it must be like the most
Speaker 1: rewarding feeling. I can't imagine because I've only just done it,
Speaker 1: but like I just wish for one day I could
Speaker 1: like being someone choose that's just like you know, put
Speaker 1: it in there two weeks at Corporate America and being like, Pizza,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go chance this dream of mine. I think
Speaker 1: it's so awesome. It's so awesome. I know, I know,
Speaker 1: and I feel the same way. I love it when
Speaker 1: people are like, Okay, I'm taking the risk because you
Speaker 1: really don't know how it's gonna end up. The thing
Speaker 1: with this influencing job and all this stuff, like nothing's
Speaker 1: ever set in stone. Really like your brand deals are
Speaker 1: kind of coming in sporadically, not sporadically, but it's not
Speaker 1: like commit committed thing happening, So you sort of have
Speaker 1: to have faith in general that it's going to work
Speaker 1: out definitely. And I mean even when you're like made it,
Speaker 1: I guess you're still well, like being able to pay
Speaker 1: the bills, I guess is making it. But like even
Speaker 1: for me, like some days I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: Like if I don't get a brand deals soon, like
Speaker 1: is this all over? Like is this do I have
Speaker 1: to go back to like law school down? Like no,
Speaker 1: thank you. It's one of those things because you're always
Speaker 1: like praying basically because you never know when your next
Speaker 1: paycheck will be. Yeah, where do you see yourself in
Speaker 1: five years? If it can go according to you exactly
Speaker 1: how you have a dreamed in your head? What would
Speaker 1: your life look like in five years? Um? Hopefully the same.
Speaker 1: That's awesome? How great is that? Yeah? Um, hopefully like
Speaker 1: married because because you got a real cute I got
Speaker 1: a cute boyfriend. So in five years, I'll be almost thirty,
Speaker 1: which is insaneties are awesome. You're gonna love it. I'll
Speaker 1: be almost forty, so you know, I can just like
Speaker 1: be your mom, or I like, I just can't imagine
Speaker 1: being like twenty nine. That's like feels like so long
Speaker 1: from now because whenever I was like in high school,
Speaker 1: I was like five years from now, I'll be twenty four,
Speaker 1: and now I'm twenty four, and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: like I thought all these people had it together, and
Speaker 1: no one actually has it together. Collaborate on that because
Speaker 1: so many people, especially like you see a perfect Instagram
Speaker 1: feed and you see like to like, honestly, to me,
Speaker 1: you look like you have it all together, Like I
Speaker 1: look at you on socials anonymous, but you're so real,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. So people can actually get to know
Speaker 1: you and realize that you are human definitely don't have
Speaker 1: it together. But what is that? Because people you think
Speaker 1: people have it together, and what have you learned about
Speaker 1: the truth behind the behind the facade? No one is
Speaker 1: actually perfect, which is hard to like wrap my mind
Speaker 1: around because even I get like so like sucked on
Speaker 1: this idea that like this person is perfect, they have
Speaker 1: no problems, but like we have problems, we just don't
Speaker 1: choose to share them, Like everyone goes through stuff. How
Speaker 1: did you realize this that no one was perfect. Oh God,
Speaker 1: when did the veil get lifted? That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I honestly have no idea, Like, I can't think of
Speaker 1: a specific time started. Gradually, it all started. You started
Speaker 1: meeting people probably that you thought were perfect. And when
Speaker 1: you meet like somebody that you looked up to, Like
Speaker 1: I remember years ago I looked up to this one blogger.
Speaker 1: I met her and it was just like stone cold,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, oh, like I thought you
Speaker 1: were warm and fuzzy. Yeah, I was like, this is disappointing. Like,
Speaker 1: but I mean, it's not all that it's cracked up
Speaker 1: to be. Basically, everything you see on Instagram just goes,
Speaker 1: especially before like Instagram stories, we never really knew what
Speaker 1: people sounded like. You know, you just saw the pictures
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, this person is so cool, like
Speaker 1: they have it all together, and then you meet them
Speaker 1: and you're like, that's not the voice I was expecting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's ever happened to you. That's
Speaker 1: it's always so like it's like when you go to
Speaker 1: or drink like your coke and then you get iced
Speaker 1: tea and you're like, yeah, a little shop, Yeah, totally unexpected.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's important to be real and your
Speaker 1: inst stories? Oh yeah, I think it's so fun too,
Speaker 1: because it's like everyone I forget what picture it was.
Speaker 1: Like a few days ago, I posted a picture on
Speaker 1: my bed and I had a bun in my hair
Speaker 1: and I had like this little bandana wrapped around it,
Speaker 1: and it was like leopard and you couldn't tell from
Speaker 1: a picture, but I had to like take like a
Speaker 1: hair clip and like clip the ends of the bandana down,
Speaker 1: and so I just had this massive hair clip on
Speaker 1: the back of my head, but you couldn't see in
Speaker 1: the picture, and so obviously, like I took it out
Speaker 1: and then all my story, I was like, guys, look,
Speaker 1: this is what it really looks like, but you can't
Speaker 1: tell from the picture. So that's so awesome that you
Speaker 1: share that too, just to help people relate, to be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we got a great shop. But then here's the real side. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's definitely not all that's cracked up to be. My
Speaker 1: life is not what it looks like on Instagram, but
Speaker 1: it is pretty fabulous. And then your fabulous apartment, which
Speaker 1: I have seen on Instagram, and it's just as amazing
Speaker 1: that I thought it was. I love your wallpaper, thank
Speaker 1: you love your Queen chair, Queen peacock chair. I have
Speaker 1: another one in my bedroom too. I'm like an obsessed
Speaker 1: because it's awesome. Yeah, my boyfriend's like another one. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yes, another one for our seven square foot apartment.
Speaker 1: He needs Yes, he needs one. A king chair. A
Speaker 1: king chair. So if you could have a dinner party
Speaker 1: and you could invite five people, who would you invite
Speaker 1: and why? Okay, so my first one is a no brainer.
Speaker 1: It would be George W. Bush. I think George Bush.
Speaker 1: I think he's the cutest yes man ever to exist.
Speaker 1: I just think he's so cute, right, I have looked
Speaker 1: up to him for years And what is it you
Speaker 1: love about him? His personality? He's pretty precious. He like
Speaker 1: it reminds me so much with my dad. Reminds me
Speaker 1: of my dad to right, Like, I just want to
Speaker 1: give him a hug so bad. So definitely George W. Bush.
Speaker 1: Like I missed out on the opportunity to meet him
Speaker 1: last year and I'm still not over it, but one
Speaker 1: day my time will come. Um and he loves dogs,
Speaker 1: must love dogs. Yes. Another person would probably be Marion Morris.
Speaker 1: I love her. She's amazing. She is my favorite country artist.
Speaker 1: She's so fantastic. Yeah, definitely, Uh. Blogger wise, I don't
Speaker 1: know if there's there's people I'd like to meet, but
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like, I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: want to meet them because I don't want to like
Speaker 1: the facade, Like I don't like they say, don't make
Speaker 1: your heroes because they might let you down. Right, Um,
Speaker 1: I honestly don't know who the other people would be.
Speaker 1: It's such a hard question because there's so many people
Speaker 1: I want to meet. Geezy, Oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I didn't think of that one. I want to
Speaker 1: meet so bad. This would be a great party, so much, right,
Speaker 1: I have the best people. I've got a country artist,
Speaker 1: the former president, and a rapper that sounds good to me.
Speaker 1: It's like a bad joke or something with a bad
Speaker 1: punch line. What would the conversations be? I wonder if
Speaker 1: I okay, if if what is something that someone would
Speaker 1: never guess that about you, Like a trade about you
Speaker 1: that someone would never know, like a secret skill or
Speaker 1: personality quirk or something that you love or crazy food
Speaker 1: that you eat, Like, what's something that no one would
Speaker 1: know about you or only your closest friends. Um, well,
Speaker 1: there's one that like a lot of people know about me,
Speaker 1: but it's still like shocks people. Is I actually do
Speaker 1: carry like a Tabasco sauce in my bag? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: really do, And it's I go through them so fast,
Speaker 1: Like I have a huge bottle of Tabasco sauce in
Speaker 1: my cabinet, like I'm addicted. I will put it on anything.
Speaker 1: Do you have to have it? I have to because
Speaker 1: you need it for every meal. Like I hate when
Speaker 1: I go to a restaurant and I'm like, hey, can
Speaker 1: I have some Tabasco sauce and they're like it is
Speaker 1: cholula okay, And I'm like, no, that's so rude, Like no,
Speaker 1: that's like giving you a pepsi when you ordered the
Speaker 1: worst thing in the entire world. Another thing would obviously
Speaker 1: be my obsession with you easy. That one shocks people
Speaker 1: there more. It's like, oh, Sarah Love's country music and
Speaker 1: then that's just not country music at all. Who's your
Speaker 1: country crash? If you weren't dating this cutie pie Cody
Speaker 1: and you can date any you know this one. It's
Speaker 1: Brett Elders. I love him He's my favorite. I listened
Speaker 1: to him all the time and I cried when I
Speaker 1: saw him live. What are you gonna do when you
Speaker 1: actually meet him and hang out with him, because you
Speaker 1: know you will, I won't be able to form words.
Speaker 1: I'll just be excusing myself. That was like a question
Speaker 1: I got once before when I was in l A.
Speaker 1: They were like, what if you meet g easy? And
Speaker 1: I was like, honestly, I had the opportunity. His like
Speaker 1: photographer was like, want to kick it with him? And
Speaker 1: I did you kick it with him? You said no,
Speaker 1: I could, Like I just ignored it, like, no way,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? I know, don't meet your heroes.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, how do I look cool like
Speaker 1: around Geasy? You know? He's like and I'm like, you're like,
Speaker 1: words are your mouth is moving sort of, but no
Speaker 1: words are coming out. So it's just like I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna keep it chill and like not speak. I'll be
Speaker 1: a mute, right Miller That um okay, and a few
Speaker 1: more carses isn't gonna wrap up because I could talk
Speaker 1: to you forever because you're so inspiring. It's so interesting.
Speaker 1: What is the best advice that you've ever gotten? Be yourself.
Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of times, especially in the
Speaker 1: influencer world, you often thanks Miller uh Ye by squeaking
Speaker 1: his pizza. It's so easy to see other people doing
Speaker 1: something that is good for them and it's growing them
Speaker 1: and everything like that, and that you want to replicate
Speaker 1: that and then you kind of like lose yourself. That's
Speaker 1: the best advice I can give. Have you ever done that?
Speaker 1: Especially on YouTube, because like YouTube goes through these phases
Speaker 1: where something is super popular. Like for a while there,
Speaker 1: it was like morning routines and like bathtime routine, so
Speaker 1: it's just showing them like what you do to get
Speaker 1: ready for like your bath and like all this stupid stuff.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, oh, got to do this
Speaker 1: to get popular because these get so many views, and
Speaker 1: that's like not interesting to me. It's not fun for
Speaker 1: me to film. It's not like you're not passionate about it.
Speaker 1: And so I was like, this is not my forete.
Speaker 1: So eventually I had to like get a wake up call.
Speaker 1: I was like, this is not for me. So I
Speaker 1: love that. So even if it's hot and you could
Speaker 1: do it, if it doesn't speak to your self and
Speaker 1: your soul. And then don't do it, and people like
Speaker 1: would call me out on it. They're like, Sorah, this
Speaker 1: is like not your calling, and so I was like, Yep,
Speaker 1: you're right, that's good that you know that. So with YouTube,
Speaker 1: you would like to stay more to just talking, just
Speaker 1: talking like kind of like what do you talk about?
Speaker 1: Oh God? I have talked about everything on my channel,
Speaker 1: whether like growing up. People want to kind of like
Speaker 1: connect with you. They see you grow up on YouTube.
Speaker 1: They want to know your like life experiences. They want
Speaker 1: to know how your breakup went. You share all I've shared,
Speaker 1: like shared everything I've shared from sex to oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: just like pan after her sex. You know, like that's
Speaker 1: important just because I didn't know. And so I see
Speaker 1: sharing things that have been useful information to you in
Speaker 1: all areas. I like to say that it's like the
Speaker 1: things if you had an older sister, she'd tell you nice.
Speaker 1: I like that. Yeah, it's sometimes a little awkward, especially
Speaker 1: when your mom watches every single video. Did your mom
Speaker 1: ever call? You know? Like she never questions anything, so
Speaker 1: doesn't that's awesome? And there's like some stuff on there.
Speaker 1: There's some dirt on my channel, so it's like she
Speaker 1: could have been like who cheated on you? Who? What's this?
Speaker 1: But she never said. She just lets you put And
Speaker 1: how kind of awesome to put out your own dirty
Speaker 1: laundry however you want to, because then it's like you
Speaker 1: have no secrets. It's like you've already put everything out there,
Speaker 1: you know. It's not like I'm putting out like, you know,
Speaker 1: the bad, bad stuff that like no one wants to
Speaker 1: share about themselves just because I think it's good to have, like,
Speaker 1: you know, a filter. But I'm just being real, just
Speaker 1: being real as much as I can. Yeah, that's brave.
Speaker 1: That takes the bravery. Do you ever, like no freak outen, Like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't live with that out there. Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm like so used to it. I've been doing it
Speaker 1: for years. So it's just like whatever. And I guess
Speaker 1: your boyfriend has to be okay with it because he's
Speaker 1: obviously gonna be a character in your YouTube videos. He
Speaker 1: actually has never been in my YouTube what he's been
Speaker 1: like vlogs and stuff, so like my week in my
Speaker 1: life and he'll be in the background, probably like singing
Speaker 1: the Greatest Showman or something. But like other than that,
Speaker 1: like no one's really gotten like the Cody Experience. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a Cody Experienced debut someday. I mean, I
Speaker 1: just don't feel the rush. I guess because like back
Speaker 1: when I went through like another relationship, the guy was like,
Speaker 1: so many you can put me on YouTube videos, and
Speaker 1: I was like, um never, because like that's my thing,
Speaker 1: Like so it just takes time for me, Like totally,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe if I had to ring on
Speaker 1: my finger, I would do it. Then the Cody Experience
Speaker 1: could be debut. Yeah, I would totally debut then no
Speaker 1: pressure that, no subtle hands, nothing like, no nobody's here
Speaker 1: wanting to get engage. No, no, absolutely not definitely not okay,
Speaker 1: And let's wrap up with always leave leave your light.
Speaker 1: So leave some inspiration, just how you want your life
Speaker 1: to inspire people, how you've been inspired, what you wish
Speaker 1: people knew that would make their life better, Just some
Speaker 1: wisdom you want to drop on people, what you've learned
Speaker 1: over your experiences. That everybody has a struggle that they're
Speaker 1: not always posting about. I love that break that down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like I mean for me personally, I've talked about this before,
Speaker 1: especially if you creep far enough back on my YouTube channel,
Speaker 1: but like in college, I had to eating disorder, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't like something I like talked about and like
Speaker 1: no one would talk about it basically, and eventually, obviously
Speaker 1: some day I did talk about it and had you
Speaker 1: end up healing yourself from that. Just I guess I
Speaker 1: struggled with eating disorders also snapped out of it one day.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I got work more with it. I
Speaker 1: was like, like, this is stupid, Like what am I
Speaker 1: doing to myself? Like so I just snapped out of it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's just the luckiest way I could get
Speaker 1: out of it. I guess my mom and dad started
Speaker 1: hinting at stuff, and I was just like, oh frick,
Speaker 1: Like you're right, like this is stupid, Like what am
Speaker 1: I doing? Right? Food is awesome and it's not worth
Speaker 1: it to hurt yourself. That's what I finally realized. Like
Speaker 1: I dabbled with Blaemian and then diet pills and all
Speaker 1: sorts of stuff and found them like I'm not losing
Speaker 1: any weight, I'm feeling awful, I'm noted with food, and
Speaker 1: like my life sucks because I think about it all
Speaker 1: the time and it's just had to go to therapy
Speaker 1: for like a year, but really but the same thing.
Speaker 1: I was like, it's so great to share that stuff
Speaker 1: because so many people struggle with that and they think
Speaker 1: they have to be this perfect thing when real when really,
Speaker 1: like you said, we all have struggles, especially like in college,
Speaker 1: when like it's hookup culture and everything is just so
Speaker 1: sexual in a way, and you just want to look
Speaker 1: like fabulous and you're getting all this guy attention, you
Speaker 1: just like thrive on that, and that just seeps you
Speaker 1: down to the dark, dark path. That's what happened to me.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my god, I'm getting so many guys,
Speaker 1: Like guys are actually looking at me for once. It's
Speaker 1: I just got skinnier and skinnier and skinnier. And then
Speaker 1: I guess one day, like I'm sure some guy probably
Speaker 1: said something I don't even remember anymore because it was
Speaker 1: so long ago, but I just was like, no, And
Speaker 1: the thing is too like you want someone who really
Speaker 1: loves you for you, but when you're young, especially, that's
Speaker 1: why social media can be so dangerous for young girls,
Speaker 1: especially because if you don't realize, like you said, that
Speaker 1: everyone has a struggle and there's a backstory in a
Speaker 1: real side, it can really mess with you. Yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: messes with you. Like I mean you it's hard to
Speaker 1: like not compare. I mean, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: that's what it boils down to, especially girls looking up
Speaker 1: to these like you know, Instagram models who are like
Speaker 1: big butts like Higlie Jenner and like tiny, tiny ways
Speaker 1: like that's just like I'm sure that person is going
Speaker 1: through something that they're not talking about. I love that.
Speaker 1: So everyone has a struggle. Everyone has a struggle. I
Speaker 1: love that. And it's not aesthetically pleasing, so they're not
Speaker 1: going to post it. True, true that, But do you
Speaker 1: but you what's your balance of sharing your struggles to
Speaker 1: esthetically pleasing stuff. I would say Instagram is like the
Speaker 1: filtered life of me, Like everything looks great except for
Speaker 1: the stories of course, and then well except for my
Speaker 1: bluebir account. I have a bluebir account. I feel like
Speaker 1: that just kind of like keeps me humble. I love that.
Speaker 1: What's it called, Sarabelle Bloops camp. That's good, it's good.
Speaker 1: And just because I mean, we see all these beautiful
Speaker 1: pictures and girls are like, you know, you see a
Speaker 1: picture and you're like, that person probably got that picture
Speaker 1: in like five takes, whereas me, it takes like two
Speaker 1: fifty for the one picture. For the one picture, you
Speaker 1: get this awesome picture where you're like, Okay, that wasn't
Speaker 1: just a quick little snap. You see that good bad
Speaker 1: ugly on my accounts. So but I think YouTube is
Speaker 1: kind of like the unfiltered way. So it's like Instagram filtered,
Speaker 1: YouTube unfiltered in blog to unfiltered. What's your advice to
Speaker 1: young girls out there? Be yourself, never change, never change
Speaker 1: for any boy. Amen to that, because you will find
Speaker 1: your prince charming eventually. I love that, Is it so true? Though?
Speaker 1: It's so true, and after dating so many toads and
Speaker 1: going through it and the same kind of thing, like
Speaker 1: when you're young, you want to be pretty and you
Speaker 1: want guys to like you. But I've realized now being
Speaker 1: married to a great guy that and you're with a
Speaker 1: great guy, it's just it wait for that, because life
Speaker 1: is too long to be married someone who doesn't value you,
Speaker 1: or to be with someone who doesn't see you fully exactly.
Speaker 1: It's okay if you have fights and disagreements, but like
Speaker 1: someone who wants the best for you, who wants you
Speaker 1: to grow, wants you to blossom, to hold you down.
Speaker 1: It's like the best feeling when you find it. But
Speaker 1: you have to kiss a lot of frogs and don't
Speaker 1: get discouraged because it might take a while. It takes
Speaker 1: a long time a lot of guys, But I know
Speaker 1: I gotta kiss a lot of frogs, lots of them.
Speaker 1: Just a marathon at this point. Amen. Amen to that.
Speaker 1: Sarah Belle, You're amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It's so much fun. I could talk to you for
Speaker 1: like days. I could just talk to you forever. Two.
Speaker 1: I know we're already at like fifty minutes, so we'll
Speaker 1: have to wrap it up. But Sarahbell, you're awesome. What's
Speaker 1: your Instagram? Everyone gonna follow you, Sarah Bell Elizabeth, and
Speaker 1: then Sarahbell Bloops too if you want to check out
Speaker 1: the unfiltered one, you know, and then Sarahbell Elizabeth on
Speaker 1: YouTube too. I love it. You're a basic. Thank you.
Speaker 1: How amazing is Sarah Belle to be so young and
Speaker 1: so successful and to know what she wants to do
Speaker 1: and to have made it happen for herself. It blows
Speaker 1: me away. So inspiring. You guys, stay tuned to this
Speaker 1: episode because we still have so many Influencer series coming
Speaker 1: your way. We have a new one next week, so
Speaker 1: we'll see you Wednesday. Bye.