WEBVTT - Sarah Belle 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.280 She's on the inside, she got the scoop on on 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.360 the on side. No one can do with clid my 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:34.519 Caral Carola. No one can do with cuid Caroline. This 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:40.400 time Caroline Today, I'm so excited. Sarah Bell is joining me. 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.159 She is a force to be reckoned with, beautiful inside 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:51.000 and out, incredible influencer, YouTuber, Instagram, fashionista, blogger, she does 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:55.560 it all. You guys, get excited. Sarah Bell is in 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.560 the house and we talked about how she got started 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.360 in YouTube, how to get started as an influence, certain 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:03.000 all of her tips in secrets. So get excited. Here 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:10.000 she is Sarah Belle in the hissy and we have Miller, 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:15.479 the tiny little teacup. What is this your teacup? Your key? 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.280 He's so cute, high Miller? What? And he has his 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:22.760 own TP? Does he sleep in his TP? Well, he's 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.800 missing the pad right now because Cody actually took his 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:26.640 to work when he was like when I was out 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:29.360 of town, and so he usually sleeps in it though 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.920 he yeh, he's sun bathed. We turn it that way 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.959 so it faces the window and then he just just 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.720 bask in the sun. We are in a swanky apartment 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.440 that you have. Thank you. This is amazing. Oh my gosh. Okay, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.720 so you're a new transplant to Nashville. I am a neobe. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.120 You're a newbie. So you moved from l A right, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:57.440 and you're a YouTube phenomen and an influencer for blogger, Form, Staffs, Stylist, Fashionista, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.800 all of that and you're only holl four twenty four. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.960 How do you become a YouTube phenomen and how did 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.840 it get going? You said you're you're from Arkansas, from 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:14.320 Kentucky's from Arkansas? I don't know. Okay, you're from Kentucky. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.760 How did how did you get this dream to become 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:18.600 a YouTuber? And how did you get to l A, Like, 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:21.400 how did it start? Give me? Give me the background 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:23.760 of who Sarabelle is growing up and how she got 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.639 into this. So when I started YouTube, it's probably like 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.040 the very same kind of story as Megan and Liz, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:33.040 who I know you interviewed. But I started when YouTube 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.960 was like first becoming a huge thing. And how did 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.679 you even know about it? I quit cross country and 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:44.320 I had so much free time, so bad. Uh, it's 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.440 so much free time. Didn't know what to do with myself, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.240 and so I started watching these videos on YouTube and 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.800 they were all about like makeup and fashion, and I 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.440 had no idea what bakeup was. Basically I would pretending 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.960 like I did, and so I started One day I 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.040 had like a digital camera that was like blue. I 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.440 remember exactly what it looked like, and I just like 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.440 put it on the top of my desk and I 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.400 just started talking to it in my room by myself. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.080 When I was like sixteen years old. And it was 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.640 at the time where like YouTubers were like weird, you 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.079 know what I mean. It wasn't like socially accepted. It 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.959 was like one of those people almost like clicked dragons 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:21.160 or something. Yeah. Basically I was like so humiliated because 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.920 it was leaked at my high school and we're you 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.760 kind of just trying to do private. Yeah, I didn't 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.880 want anyone to know about it. But then they posted 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:34.240 about it on Facebook. They were so me It was 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:36.520 just like such a weird thing, and like a time 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.920 they were like, oh, I like Eichelberger thinks she's famous, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.280 and I'm like no, I just wanted because at the 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.600 time I had like fifteen thousand followers, but she would 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.760 get fifteen thou followers so fast. No one didn't do it, Yeah, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.520 no one did it, and so it was just like 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.960 luck of the draw, I guess. So really that was 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.640 the thing. That's exactly what megan listened. So there wasn't 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.760 anyone doing it, so people were like, okay, yeah, follow you. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.040 So that's exactually like what happened. Wow, so kind of 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:06.360 right away you had fifteen thousand followers and what how 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:13.520 old are you? I was seventeen and probably yeah, I 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.840 was probably seventeen, so like a senior in high school 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.920 when I got to like that ranking, I guess. But 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.320 I remember like it was so easy to grow back 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.560 then because so like there wasn't anyone doing and everyone 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.960 was getting into that like watching YouTube and everything. So 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:32.120 that's literally luck. I mean that was amazing. So what 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:35.480 were you? Started off doing makeup and and then what 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.360 did that morph into? Miller is dying to be a 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:41.640 part of this? Um. I started doing makeup because that 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.080 was what was popular, and then I've was not good 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.039 at that honestly at all. I'm so bad at makeup, 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.680 Like I pretended to be good at it. I was 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.400 doing all these like extravagant makeup tutorials and it's like 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.320 I don't even wear makeup that much, so like that's 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.680 not really me. And then I started doing fat videos 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.640 and I was very good at that either, but it 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.320 was like I thought it was you had great makeup 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.359 and great fashion, so you've obviously grown into you grown. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.680 You don't want to see that the evidence from this 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.440 eighteen year old Sarah eighteen year old Sarah YouTube still up. 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.560 Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, you can creep on it um. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.719 And then I went to college and then that's really 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:22.320 like where my following kind of take took off, because 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.480 I was like the only YouTuber in college because most 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.200 people don't go to college when they are using YouTube stardom, 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.080 you know, so did you how did people? How did 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.080 it take off in college? Like just because people in 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.520 your college and you're a YouTuber? It was just because 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.360 I was posting videos like content about college, so like 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.880 what to bring with you to college and all this stuff, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.320 and so people working on to college because my age 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.640 demographic kind of grew with me, so like I was eighteen, 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:51.200 everyone else was eighteen, so and I guess that's just 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.960 how more people found me and like how to pack 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.000 for spring break and like what to bring with you? 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.080 And I don't know, just luck, When did you realize 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.160 that this could be a job and you could get 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:07.120 paid for it? And how do you get paid for youtubing? Crazy? Um? 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.400 I started getting paid when I was in high school 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:14.360 and basically at the age of sixteen, my brother I 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.560 had to be either in extra curricular activities or we 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.359 had to get a job. And so I was running 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.719 across country and stuff. And then when I quit that, 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.680 my I was doing YouTube obviously, and I remember my 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:32.160 first paycheck was like eighty dollars and I remember, like 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.479 I mean for high school. That is like it was 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.200 for like per thousand view. Yeah, so like ad cents 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.280 on your video, so like the ads they put next 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.320 to your video you get paid for if you were 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:47.040 like part of their partner program. And so I got 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.560 my first paycheck and I was like, holy crap, I'm 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.120 rolling in the door, like I'm so rich. My parents 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.640 were like, Okay, well you don't have to get a job, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.800 and I was like, awesome, be myself. Yeah, And so 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.719 from then I just kind of like took off from there. 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.239 But I also had like the luxury of not having 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:07.440 to pay for my college. My parents did yes, so 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.480 thank god, or else I would have been paying out 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.160 of pocket for YouTube. But I was able to save 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.720 money and then that eventually that money led me to 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.280 l A. Okay, so how did you decide? Las where 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.000 you gotta go? That's where ever YouTuber goes and Israel? 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.160 Do you all meet up? How do you all get together? 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.679 Or is it just like why why l A? Because 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.760 it's just I guess the entertainment industry. There's a lot 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.800 of like YouTube people out there and it's sunny. Everybody 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.880 wants to be out there. And so I decided because 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.080 it was like every YouTuber I knew was moving out 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.640 there that I wanted to do the same. And so 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.600 I moved out there just for summer to try it out. 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.760 Um with my best friend who's also a YouTuber. Who's 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:50.680 that Caitlin B the the letter V. Well, it's b 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:55.240 e A. It's cute. Yeah, she uh. We've known each 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.920 other since we were in high school, so we grew 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.800 up with each other. It's super cute, but it Yeah, 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:02.720 we decided to move out and so it was just 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.600 when I turned twenty one, and so I was like 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.680 living the l A dream? Was it? So fun, so 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:09.160 much fun. What was life like for you, l A 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.920 when you got out there? Oh my god, it's your 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.240 twenty one, your best friend in l A, your YouTube famous, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.120 and so what is life looking like for you? Um? 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.640 It was a lot of honestly, drinking in hot tubs, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.040 a lot of making out. No, no, any like gay 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:26.840 guys out there. But that's kind of fun that to 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:28.560 have a lot of gay best That was so much fun. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.440 I never had so much fun dancing on a dance 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:33.360 floor then I did at this party And it was 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.080 just Caitlin me in a bunch of like awesome game 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.120 in and they don't they weren't trying to hook up. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.400 They just want to dance and happen dance. It was 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.199 the best day of my life. That's pretty much what 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:48.040 l it was. That's awesome. So what did you learn 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:50.400 when you moved to l A and you got involved 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.160 with this big YouTube community? Ay? How did you get 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.000 involved with the community? How did you meet up? Y'all 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:57.080 just like message each other. Yeah, basically, I mean the 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.440 thing is is like when I started, a bunch of 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.200 girls my age also started and so we all just 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.120 kind of like grew up with each other and like 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:06.800 started messaging each other, shouting each other out in YouTube 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.040 videos and all that fun stuff. And so now that 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.360 everyone's just kind of doing their own thing, and it's 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.000 awesome because I get to see like these girls that 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.560 we all had so much in common at age eighteen, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.720 now there were twenty somethings and we're doing something completely 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.240 different and it's so cute. I feel like you are 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:29.320 such a positive influencer. Like every time being around you, 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.240 it seems like you are such an encourage r. I 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.559 don't ever get the vibe where you've been like competitive, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.520 or you've been in situations where it's been nasty, Like 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.719 it seems to me that your energy is always like 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.440 great with collaborating, great, building each other up. Like, I 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.840 don't since that you've ever had like drama. Have you 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.520 had any like YouTube drama or any like cattiness? Um? 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.719 I would say, like when I first started YouTube, there 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.920 was like cattiness, but that was just because we were 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:55.720 all high schoolers, and I mean there's clicks in high school, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:59.520 so there were clicks on YouTube. And I mean obviously 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.400 I grew up in that kind of faded away and 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.640 I just try to like remind myself that while you know, 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.720 everyone's growing and stuff, like we're growing for different reasons 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.600 and so like no one is exactly like me. And 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.920 so that's why I have no problem collaborating with people. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.360 Or I'm not a very competitive person. And it's like 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.440 kind of hard, I guess to not be competitive, especially 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.160 when I lived with like Caitlin for a whole year, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.360 like a year ago, and we just saw each other's 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.400 work like go in different directions, and so it's like, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:31.880 why am I not doing this? Why am I not 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.160 doing that? And at the end of the day, I'd 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.120 be like, oh wait, we're different and I'm doing this, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.840 And She's right, it's easy. It's hard not to compare. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.480 Actually talked to a Brooke um Web about that she 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:44.600 wrote this blog entry and actually, I think, actually, Wilson, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:48.280 it to just how comparison you really can't compare, especially 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.720 in this industry because it is such a new world 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:53.719 out there. What do you think Miller Miller has a 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.120 big slice of pizza toy Um, You really can't compare 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.360 because it will drive you crazy, literally to drive you 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.600 into How did you teach yourself not to compare? I 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.440 just think it was one of those things I just 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.640 grew up doing because I mean I was on YouTube 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.880 so for so long. It's just you've developed like thick skin. 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:15.400 You developed like basically seeing other people succeed and sometimes 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.720 you're not succeeding, and so you just kind of develop 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.640 it over time, I guess, and it just pikes for 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.000 a happier life, really it does. How what did you 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.520 learn in l A? So when you were out there, 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.560 what did you learn from this YouTube community that you 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:30.840 hadn't known before? Like, what are some tips that you 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.000 learned that you would tell you. I would tell them 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.439 not to move out to l A. Save your money. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.319 It's an expensive city. And honestly the friendships and stuff 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.359 that you make out there are very shallow. Um obviously 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.800 work related or how you can benefit each other, Yeah, definitely, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.640 how you can benefit each other's how people want to 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.840 advance themselves, thankfully, Like I found a few great humans 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.120 that when I was there that weren't like that. But like, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.320 you have to really watch yourself, which is why did 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.800 not date like any guys in l A. Because they 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.160 all just want to like see what you can do 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.120 for them. And so I was just like so over that. 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:14.720 And I just think creativity create creative, creatively, creatively, that's it. Um, 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.240 it's just not the best place. Like, yes, it's a 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.960 good place to grow and be in the center of 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:24.120 everything when it comes to like the industry, but it 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.160 just wasn't for me. And I think you are so 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.160 much happier when you're in the place that's like for you. 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.719 Did you learn anything that helped you with YouTube out 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.880 there from being around all these YouTubers or just kept 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.640 doing what you always did? Just kept doing what I 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.320 always did. So what are some tricks or tips that 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.800 you would tell a YouTuber who's getting started, Like, don't 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.520 do this for sure, definitely do this as far as 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:50.160 getting going, getting building following, getting good content, collaborating, I 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:54.160 would definitely say, especially nowadays, is buying followers is such 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.920 a big thing and it just like tears me up 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.480 inside because it's just like these people like it's just 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.480 a number to them, and it's like that's not what 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.840 you want. You want like quality over quantity, as stupid 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.360 as it sounds, but people true following you for you 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.520 and your stuff just because it's I mean, you feel 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.240 better honestly if you have like better followers that actually 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.160 want to see what you put out and want to 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.319 see you succeed. And so that's honestly the biggest one 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.160 these days is growing an authentic following, just because I 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.080 feel like people want to collaborate with people who obviously 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:31.520 have authentic ones instead of bots and stuff. Totally. I 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:36.800 totally agree. Actually, everyone I've interviewed has said that, Yes, totally. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.840 What about getting good content? What do you suggest on 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:44.440 when you put content out? What makes a great YouTube video? Oh, 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.560 that's a good question, just because everyone's I don't think 0:13:47.600 --> 0:13:50.240 there honestly is a correct answer to that, because I 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.760 think everyone has like a personality that's so different and 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.880 that's what people really want to see. They don't really 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.920 care as much these days about like how amazing the 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.760 camera quality is. I'm granted, yes, if you're like a 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:05.480 filmographer or whatever it's called, then they want to see that. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.640 But like we're coming on an iPhone right now, hey guys. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:10.880 But like at the end of the day, like you 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.400 can start with like your MacBook, Like that's how I started, 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.280 was just with that, like the little camera that was 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.600 built into my computer. And as long as you're like 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.080 consistent and do that mean like weekly or like one 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.800 on the same day, each week or a lot of 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.280 people want schedules and they want to be able to 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.240 go back and like see when you're posting, so like 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.840 for me, I usually post on Mondays and Thursdays, And 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.040 so do you do to videos a week? I tried to, 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.720 but it's been a little What is the content that 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.080 you put up? Is it just whatever you're feeling? It's 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.800 just like the at this point, it's not even so 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:47.200 much about like the best quality video. I feel like 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.960 people just want to know what's going on in my life, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.680 which is cool because I'm like, it's really not that exciting, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.640 but if you want to know, so it's almost like 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.480 your own little reality show. You kind of recap what 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:01.640 you've been doing. Nice. It's really boring reality show though. Whatever. Okay, 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.880 so you moved to Nashville. You say I'm done with 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:05.520 l A. What was your turning point when you're like, 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.920 I'm out. I got kind of sick of l A 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:11.160 after like a year and a half out there, and 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:14.200 I just knew it wasn't for me, Like I wasn't 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.520 getting anywhere from it, you know, I was just spending 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.560 so much money on rent and just the cost of 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.360 living out there, and I was just having fun and 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.560 not doing much. I'd be like hungover all day basically, 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:29.800 and so it's perfect to do that in your twenties. 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.120 And it was good. It look good at the time. 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:35.840 I utilized every minute out in l A. But I 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:38.040 just like I was sick of it. I don't know, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.200 just somethings so much, yeah, exactly. And so I was like, Okay, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:43.880 where should I move? I wanted to be somewhere that 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.640 was closer to where I'm from, which is like five 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:49.480 minutes south of Cincinnati, so it's like right across the 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.120 river in Kentucky. And I was sick of paying like 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.440 five hundred, six hundred dollar flights to go home and 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.280 visit my family obviously, and everyone would be sick of that. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.920 And so I this was like, Okay, what's a big 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.520 city near Cincinnati that's not Cincinnati? Because I wanted to 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:09.320 be like away still and Nashville was it. So and 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.720 so you just took a leap of faith and just said, okay, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.680 let's do this without really knowing much about it. Yeah. 0:16:13.680 --> 0:16:16.160 I didn't know anyone here except Mallory. How do you 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.720 know Valerie just from like influencing. Okay, so you move 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.800 out here and what was your first impression and how 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:24.160 did it go for you? Because I feel like you 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.000 haven't been here that long, right, yeah, it will be 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.360 a year in April, and you have I feel like 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.160 you've gotten right involved, like a huge group of friends. 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:33.760 To tell me what it was like for you moving here, 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.280 the difference between l A and Nashville and how you 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.920 how you compare it. Well. I feel like the minute 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.560 I moved here, it was just so easy to like 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.520 find other influencers as opposed to l A because there's 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.520 so many of them and they all are just doing 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:50.560 such like crazy things and I'm like, okay, well I'm 0:16:50.680 --> 0:16:53.880 like pretty chill, so like not for me. Um. And 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.040 so I just like honestly started creeping on like every 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:59.440 Nashville blogger. I was like follow, follow, follow, follow, and 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:02.480 so eventually they followed back, and I would like slide 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:03.600 into their d M. So I was like, hey, you 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.639 want to get coffee? Like it's me that's awesome. And 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:09.119 so you just kind of reach out and did you 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.920 find that people were pretty friendly. The first person I 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:17.400 actually got food with we got tacos, was Shelly no Way, 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:19.359 and she had just moved here too, kind of on 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:24.800 a whim also from evergot where she's from, Michies, Indiana, Illinois. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:28.200 Shelly is so stinking huge, d'all hit it off right away. Yeah, 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:30.880 it was like in two weeks that I moved here. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.920 So it was like instant friend, which was awesome because 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.639 I needed that because I was like, I don't know 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:39.240 anyone here. And then I met up with Balerie and 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.200 she was like, you need to meet like Megan and Liz, 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:45.040 and so I met them at a concert in Michigan. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.680 We were which is so random. We were in Michigan 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.560 for like Soap and Glory, which is the brand they 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.920 sent us to, like a country concert Faster Horses. I 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.320 remember seeing that in your house. Yeah, when to post 0:17:56.320 --> 0:18:00.119 her um and I was I was having way too 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.960 much fun and it was just not the best time 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.240 to meet me. So I end up meeting them again 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.600 at your house and so was much better then. But 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.960 everyone's so kind. Everyone's so nice. That's the thing I 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.600 have realized about this influencing world is everyone is so 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.600 nice and so willing to help and give tips. Okay, 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:20.760 so give me some tips about what is influencing. Like 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.000 if you had a breakdown what influencing even means what 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:25.000 is what does it mean to you? Like, how would 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.040 you describe it? Oh? God, I don't even know. I 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:32.919 feel like the moment you kind of impact someone in 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.199 like a positive way, whether I mean some would debate 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:39.640 maybe like buying a shirt is a positive way, but 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:44.800 like influencer is such like a a wide variety of 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:47.440 a word because anyone can do it, you know what 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.400 I mean. I don't really have a good answer for it. 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.440 So it could be like, can you be an influencer 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.680 just be on Instagram? Or do you need to have 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.800 something else to back it up, like a YouTube to follow, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.960 a blog to follow, like a podcast, or like something 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.640 you have to do you need to have something else? 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:03.320 Or can you just be like I'm going to influence 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.879 the show close. I think you can be like an 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.080 influencer just on Instagram. I don't think you need to 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.080 have anything, but I think it's safe to have. Like 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:16.240 a miller is so chill right now. Uh, it's so 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.480 much better to have like something to fall back on 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.679 in case Instagram shuts down, because it probably will. Yeah, eventually, 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.800 it's going to like be an old new It's kind 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:26.880 of like Facebook kind of. It's just like parents. Now 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:29.080 I'm like, what's going to be the next thing. I 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.680 don't know. My space is over. Oh my god, rest 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:38.960 in peace day Oh those we're good. Okay, So when 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.720 you are, if you're telling someone who was like, Okay, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.159 I really want to start this fashion blog, what is 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:49.159 your suggestion on growing followers, on how to get brand deals, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:52.760 on how to just start increasing your reach to people. 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:56.200 What are some things that you would recommend doing. I 0:19:56.240 --> 0:20:01.199 would recommend definitely kind of if you're starting a fashion blog, 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.280 go to like Forever Tony one, pick up a bunch 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.200 of different outfits and start styling them you can, especially 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.600 if they're like more basics. Take your iPhone, start taking 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.080 pictures in different locations. Don't do like an all white wall, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.159 because people want to see different things. They want to 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.080 see creativity and instantly, I'm sure you'll find stuff like that. 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:25.200 Your Instagram is growing because people want affordable things, and 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:27.840 I think that's kind of like the niche. I totally 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:29.560 agree with that. So start just showing that you have 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.199 an eye for fashion and putting stuff together. How do 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:36.600 you get collaborations? I thankfully I had a manager since 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:40.480