WEBVTT - Ashley Houston & Ashley Wilson 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.400 Carol. She's a queen of talking. He was. She's on 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.160 the side. You got the scoop on on the on side. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:29.760 No one can do win clid my Carola, Carol, No 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:36.760 one can do win quiet Caroline, Caroline. We are on 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:41.600 part two of my influencer series What What I Got? 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:44.919 The two Ashley's joining me today Ashley Houston and Ashley Wilson. 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:49.320 Their blogs are Ashley Houston is Nashville Wife, Styles dot 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:53.479 Com and Ashley Wilson big announcement is rebranding. Her blog 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.160 is Bow and Bows and Ashley b E A U S. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.560 And Ashley because this is about her boy and hurt. 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.800 So these two actually are incredible, their moms that each 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:09.240 have two kids, and their bloggers, their lifestyle experts, and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.720 they are so real, so authentic. They're sharing all their tricks, 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.640 tricks and tips. You guys, this is a great episode, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.560 especially if you're wanting to get into blogging and if 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.920 your mom how to balance it all. This is the 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.000 episode for you. It gets crazy her It's real life. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.920 It's called get Real. So we have tons of stuff 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:29.160 going on, like babies, crying, people coming to the house, 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.040 like interruptions galore. But y'all, this is real life and 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.760 we are showing you how it is done in real life. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.480 So get excited. Here is Ashley Houston and Ashley Wilson. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:48.560 Oh work with my two favorite actually's we got Ashley 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:54.080 Wilson and Ashley Houston. Yes, my father in law will 0:01:54.080 --> 0:02:00.640 be really unhappy. Prob and not only you guys, beautiful 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.400 inside out, Thank you you're incredible mothers. We have a 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.880 baby here with us today, always a baby of this group. 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.760 Wilder is actually Wilson Younges and we're just a little 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:15.080 milk battle right now. Ball service, but your service by 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:21.360 incredible bloggers. So we're gonna talk about it. Okay, chouted out? Okay, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.800 First off, where you up from? How did you get 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:29.320 into fashion? What was your upbringing? Like? All right, um, 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:33.760 I'm from Kingsport, Tennis, which is northeast Tennessee. Um, and 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.440 I already forgot the rest of your question. What every like? 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.840 And how did you get into fashion upbringing? Like? How 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.560 did you grow up? Really? Are we trying to get 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.600 deep over here? Like I don't know what's going on? Um? Yeah, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.399 like a nature girl, I was pretty much a tomboy. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:55.720 Um yeah, up until middle school and then I basically 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:59.680 had to choose between like cheerleading and basketball, and I'm 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.760 it was because I wanted to be popular, so I 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:09.600 chose cheerleading. But you really loves yeah, um, I don't remember. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.639 That was a lot so long you're fast. I was 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:16.000 pretty fast, so I was a sprinter also in school. Um, 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.840 so cheerleading and I love cheerleading actually yeah um. And 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.200 I cheered all from school and in college and then 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.960 I didn't cheer anymore. Chear in college for her one 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.080 year in college it was pretty chill. It was like 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.000 a really chill college so um, and that's why I 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:38.160 stopped cheering because I was a competitive cheerleader and like 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:42.800 good stunts yeah yeah, and um, they didn't really do that. 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:45.920 They didn't even do like stunts period, And I was like, okay, 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.720 I'm not fair to like actually cheer, so I wanted 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.800 to do like the stunts, so equipment. And then I 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.880 moved here when I was twenty six. I brought you 0:03:54.920 --> 0:04:00.960 to Nashville. Honestly, I just needed a a change. Yeah, 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.640 And Nashal was close and also a great city. Yeah. 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:05.600 And I had a friend that I had moved here 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.680 and I didn't know anyone here and I just like 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.760 packed my stuff up. My lease was up in like 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.440 three weeks, and I was like, you know what, I'm 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.000 just gonna move And so I put all my stuff 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.360 in storage and I came here and stayed with her 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.039 until I found a job and a place to stay. 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:25.479 And you know, you know, I was but like that's 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:28.880 I'm not like a sporadic person. I'm a planner. I'm 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:30.719 really really an'tal. So that was really out of my 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:32.600 element for me to do that. How did you get 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:34.479 the sensation that this is what you're supposed to do? 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.320 I just never beat Sheley the other day, She's like, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.280 I've never got to Nashville, But I just knew I 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:42.360 hadn't here either. Actually, um, I don't know. I think honestly, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.920 probably partially because it was the closest big city was 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.200 a big factor in it. But um, I just always 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.880 you know, I grew up in a really small town, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:52.640 so like I always just knew I wasn't meant to 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.760 be in a small town. And no nothing against small towns, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.919 but I just knew that that wasn't me. Yeah, And 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.400 I was like, I've got to get out of here, 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:01.560 and I just I knew if I didn't do it 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:04.280 right then, like on a whim that I wouldn't do it. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.160 So I was like, I'm just gonna do it, and 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.120 I just did it. And it was, like, I mean, 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.239 clearly the best decision ever made, because like, I love life. 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.920 But I also like reconnected with my husband who I 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.400 knew from. We're from the same town and actually he's 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.880 younger town. My best friend babysat for his family. Yeah, 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:23.839 so you grew up with your husband. I did, but 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.040 I didn't know him know him like I knew him 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.840 because my best friend babysat for his family, but he 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.279 his family was like rich in small town and mine 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.239 was not. And I went to like the county school 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.120 and he went to the city school. So he was 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:42.000 like he was like a big fancier than me. Yeah, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.560 he lived in the nice neighborhood I lived in, Like 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.839 I mean, not that I was poor of any means, 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.560 but like we we we were just different. But my 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.440 best friend babysat for his family and so I stayed 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.400 in his house before um when he was out. But 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.800 he's also younger than me, and so we talked about 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.760 this othern night. Yeah, and so I didn't I would 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:10.360 never talk to him, you know. Yeah, that's yeah five years. Yeah, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:13.440 I called myself a puma also, but he looks he 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.679 looks older than me, but he's actually looked fine. Girl. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.719 He's actually younger though, and so yeah, we reconnected. Wilder 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.240 who is this is my other boyfriend. Wilson's little boy 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.920 is just staring at actually house loves me so much, 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.800 crushing Hey, he's got this like for real. When I 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.919 brought her dinner a few weeks ago and I was 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.480 like holding him for he looked at me like this 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.400 the whole time, like and I was like, can I 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.280 take him? You know? Even that like you brought her 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.400 dinner weeks ago? That is so great. Y'all are not 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.240 only like beautiful people awesome as but like couple of blockers, 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.760 but your friends are supporting, and that is something that 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:53.520 I have loved this Influencer series. It's been such a 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.080 treat because I don't know how I got to fall 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.720 into this group because y'all are so much more advanced 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.320 school are often to me coming in that world. But 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.240 I have loved getting to know you guys because not 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.880 all are your talenting, go all are so supportive and 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.680 this whole group is so kind to each other. And 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:14.320 that isn't always like face in blogger world. No, it's not. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.840 It's really not. And I didn't realize that until we 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:20.400 are part of the Facebook group with other bloggers and 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.679 they just talk about how competitive in each little niche 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.440 market it can be and how it's a little cutthroat. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:30.400 But Nashville has a really great communal vibe bloggers, and 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.080 everyone's kind and encouraging and it's the way to be. 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.120 There's room for it is saturated, but there's still room 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.320 for everyone. Yeah, there really is. And I think that's 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:42.480 what people don't understand. Like Ashley and I are kind 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.400 of similar in our niche just if you say that correctly, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.080 but like, yeah, I never know if I'm saying that correctly. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:54.520 But but I never feel competitive with actually ever similar. Yeah, 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:59.160 I mean, heck we have the same name. Yeah, we're 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.640 good mom ash and lifestyle bloggers. And she has two boys. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.520 I have two girls. Like it's kind of like plays 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.200 off each other. But like I never ever like, if anything, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.720 I feel like I'll be like, oh, I'm working with 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:11.960 this brand, do you want this contact? Like I think 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.320 it would be a good fit for you too, And 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.240 I feel like we help each other a lot and 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.560 like not but not only do I not feel competitive, 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.440 but I feel like we like grow off of each other. 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.160 Like why do you think so many people don't catch that? Mough? 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.280 I think insecurity rule to be competitive, and it's very 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:34.240 especially when you're in fashion and homecore and all these things. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.800 It's easy to be keeping up at the Joneses. It's 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.560 easy to play the numbers game to see, oh, she 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.920 has so many thousand, now she's growing to this new thousand. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.680 It's very, very easy to be competitive, and you're like, 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:47.559 I know how I like this. It's just yeah all 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.000 the time. But it's just as easy to be kind 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.959 and encouraging. It's just it's just a mindset and you 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.520 just have to focus on it. But some people just 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:58.800 don't see that and they just want it all really 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:03.520 actually trying to have it really does. So basically like 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:06.679 every time that you are friends with somebody in your 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.120 encouragement and helping them, not only are you, you know, 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.520 building relationship and helping each other, but you can you 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.320 can sifen their audience. So if she has a similar 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.960 audience to me, yes, it is competitive, but we're also 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.800 we have the SATs in the graphic as their audience, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.959 so I can sifen that from her and she can 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:27.800 sifeen mine, and it helps them along much. I feel 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:31.760 like people shouldn't be as competitive in the sense that like, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:33.760 and I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:36.400 feel that way sometimes, meaning like if I see someone 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:39.280 growing or that got a good brand new, I'm not like, 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:41.680 oh my god, that's all I mean, and I am 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.440 happy for them. But sometimes sometimes I'm like, why did 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.200 I get that? Or why am I not growing like that? 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.000 Like it's it, that's just human nature. But it's just 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.240 the way you handle that. I feel like they define 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.400 your character. But touch on what she said, like like 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.880 her success is my success in my opinion, like in 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.680 my success is her success because if you grow, that's 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.160 technically helping me. And if so, that's why I like, 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.559 I think it's so good to build your friends up 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:11.679 because like you're helping each other, and much fun is 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.040 it to hang out there? Yeah? Way more fun when 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.240 everyone's in the same playing field. And also you are 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.880 who your best friends are and write surround yourself with. 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.600 So if you surround yourself with successful people that are 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.200 positive and happy, in doing big things. Then that's what 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.800 you're destiny. Well yeah, I love that. Okay, So actually, Wilson, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:29.640 tell me a little bit about your upbringing and how 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.760 you got to Nashville. Okay, so do you want to 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:38.640 go to your girlfriend? Oh my gosh, wild set. You 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:42.520 can concentrate on talking. So I grew up outside of St. Louis's, 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:46.680 small farm town, very small town, same as ash And 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.160 the only thing to really do is focus on sports 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.720 or dance or something like that. So I put all 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:56.719 my energy into dance and cheering. Competitive Well there, cheerleaders too, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.800 were somewhere. I really are so somewhere. That's so funny really, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.360 But no one was really into fashion. My parents did 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.040 not understand it at all. And they would give me, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.880 you know, a budget for Christmas or whatever it was, 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.280 or pick on a present for something, and my sister 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.080 would get fifty different things and items. And I've just 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.240 always had it in me. I just wanted that one 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.720 designer piece, and I was perfectly content with my one 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:26.960 little thing compared to her fifty. It just part of 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.640 me wanted like quality always always. And my grandmother was 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.640 an artist. She's very artistic, and she is my inspiration. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.880 I love her, and she would always take me shopping. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.920 She kind of was a dress designer for a while, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:41.880 and I did some sewing, and so I really kind 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.480 of got that from her. And then as far as 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.079 like the blogging thing, I was always part of a team. 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:51.679 So I was always like Dante cheered team teachers not 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:57.080 It's always say I danced in college, and so I 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.640 dance in college, NBA, NFL. So I was on a 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.520 team with other women that were always built in friends, 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:08.200 built in teammates. Are ye for it? Well yeah, but 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.439 I was like that my whole life. And so when 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:15.320 I moved to be with my husband, um, I was 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.400 not part of a team anymore, Like I know, where's 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:22.560 the team? And I really missed that feeling like a 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.840 community and like a you know, just a built in 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:30.160 little family, second family. And so whenever I tried several 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.200 different things in fashion, I did styling. I actually Bow 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.839 and Arrow Nashville was the name of the boutique that 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.440 I was going to start with my girlfriend, and she 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:43.360 ended up starting a successful men's store called broccol and line, 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.800 just like there yesterday did my whole hood. His favorite 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.920 was honestly, YEA sure she decided to take that route, 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.760 and then I decided to kind of go to logger 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.280 influencer space, and then I became part of the team 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.880 again and part of like a communal vibe with other 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.679 women can help each other and really, how did you 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.120 love team for? Like, how did you like? How did 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.160 this to actually meet? Okay, so how did him for? Oh? 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.640 You know, So it's like weird because I feel like 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.719 you just followed people because you want to support them, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.000 and they were like in Nashville, and so I think 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.199 we just followed each other for when I very first 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.640 started blogging, like um because I think actually be starting blogging, 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:24.160 so like I would find people that kind of had 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.199 blogged in Nashville. And then so my best friend Jessica 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:34.040 and I went to UM we I was pregnant and 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:38.080 actually had just had a baby George, so we alternated 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.199 her pregnants basically, and so she had just had her baby. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.840 I followed her on social media. She followed me and 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.000 I don't know if you even remember this, are actual 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.920 with this? I don't know. I think we physically meant. 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:50.440 But then I messed you after and I was like, 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.760 oh my god, I didn't even know what that was you. Um, 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.240 so you know I went to Stay Dinaho before my 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.240 husband's event. Yeah, and um with Jessica and then we 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:05.439 ran into mal Or, yes, and so we ran Yeah, 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.720 we ran into Mallory in the bathroom and I knew Mallorie, 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.120 but Jessica did it. And then before Mallory started doing 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.640 any of this too, she was doing it already. Yeah, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.439 and so she was like talking to Jessica because Jessica 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:19.600 is like a makeup goddess, and she was like, oh 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:21.880 my god, I'm obsessed with you. And Jessica was like 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.720 and so that's how they met actually too. Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.680 so actually wasn't there yet, but so she was. I 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.520 was like, yeah, I was gonna go to that event upstairs, 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.240 but like, I can't just go for a second. It 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.200 was like a boot event or something. I walk upstairs 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.560 and Ashley was sitting at this table. Because I literally 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.760 feel like I'm telling a lobster right now, It's just hilarious. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.480 And actually was sitting at the table, and I remember 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.240 I kept looking at her and being like, God, I 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.560 know that girl from somewhere. I know that girl from somewhere, 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.960 but I couldn't like place how I knew her social 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:55.240 media because I never actually met her in person, and yeah, 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.000 so actually I just kept like looking at her like 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.240 the creeper because I was like, I can't for how 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.320 I know her, and um, anyways, we were just there 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.600 briefly and then Jessica and I went to that's event. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:08.760 But um, I'm not trying to give him to you, 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:12.200 but you can't. Like I was like, he's bouncing. Your 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.200 cousin also had been there now, he used to be 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.200 in it now he was nominated for like it's something 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.480 for natural was a Man of the Year them like that. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.480 But when I message actually and I was like, hey, 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.360 I didn't want you to think I was being rude 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.920 because I didn't say hi, but like I couldn't figure it. 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.000 But I was like, but I think that I saw 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.640 you at this event, and and then she rubbed me 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.040 back and she was like, oh my god. Yeah, I 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.000 didn't know anyway, as it was just like that and 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.840 then we would like started just like commenting on each 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:48.640 other stuff and and she looked amazing by the way 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.400 you mamas look like you've never had children and you'll 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.680 both had too. And I'm like, I'm like, you're crazy, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.400 but I have had no babies, and I'm like, God, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:02.440 look like you're swimsuit models. So about okay, so that 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:09.400 started the last for what year was that two thousand six? Recently, 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.000 actually it was April of two thousands. It was April. 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.880 That's just like warm time for Actually I love this. 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.520 I mean, listen, I remember what about that. I feel 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.600 like I love it. But then commably after that, we've 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.920 been together like a lot because we used to live well, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.280 we we live really close together. We still don't do that, 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.560 but like, yeah, we just had a lot in commons 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:33.120 so much. We're fun to hang out a friend when 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.240 and I mean I love my other friends, don't get 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.800 me wrong, but like it's just different when your friend 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.960 has kids and they understand. And it's also different when 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:44.320 they do the same thing that you do, so they 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:49.240 just stuff. And then yeah, and we just I mean 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.320 it came to like at first like texting each other 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.520 about like work stuff, and then it's just like evolved, 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.560 I feel like, because we just had so much in common. Like, 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:00.680 so tell me how I OT started separately to start? Like, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.959 how did you realize? Like the fashion and lifestyle blogging 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.639 is my passion because I'm all about people finding their 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.679 passions and all, and they're calling and like just living 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:12.800 their life in a way where you can make money 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:15.480 doing what you love, because it's the only way to live. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.159 And y'all have figured out a way to beat moms, 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.200 to fulfill your passion and then have this great community. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:22.840 So how did you We kind of know that was 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.160 gonna happen when you started your blog actually take off, 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.240 it was gonna happen. So whenever I first started this, 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:31.680 I was just looking. I was kind of lost a 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.920 little bit of what to do. And that's the normal 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.719 feeling I like to talk about because so many people 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.680 are lost, like after you graduate college or like you're 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:41.520 in those twenties, you don't know what to do and 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.960 you feel like stressed out, like the life is like 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:45.320 what am I SUPs to do? I'm I ever gonna 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:49.600 find purpose. It's a really normal feeling. Woud I understand 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.000 He's like, I got you. He has learned his voice. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:57.720 So I was doing some styling and working in and 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.680 out of a couple of boutiques just a little bit, 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.440 but I was trying to find something where it could 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.680 still this is pretty baby, which it was not very 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.760 long ago, and I had two in two years, but 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:11.480 four months A. Yeah, So I was looking for something 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.200 where I could still travel with Tray and still and 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.680 your hasn't an a music inste He's a man, he's awesome. 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:22.520 Here's it is pretty awesome. Um. Well his baby band, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:28.400 his main one is black or Smoke alf Um, Michael 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.880 and your husband used to open for back in the day. 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.160 Was just such a small, such a world. And now 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.480 we're all hanging out again. Yes, so now he's got 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:39.760 some other new clients and it's crazy, but that's that 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:42.320 was our So you're traveling with him. So I was 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.120 traveling with him all the time, and um, I still 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.359 wanted to travel, but I needed something for myself. And 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.480 in Nashville, I really only knew people in the music 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.960 scene through Tray. I didn't really have my own friends 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.399 necessarily at my own friends circle. And I was just 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.719 really crazy that So my friend bringing I did want 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.480 to open a boutique and we were really I mean, 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.679 we had a business plan, we had a realtor. We 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.960 were trying to find a space. During the whole nine yards, 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:11.280 it just wasn't working. It was like square pay round hole. 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.840 It just wasn't quite working. And when you feel that 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:16.119 explained that feeling, because I've had that happen to me 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.080 many times in my life, where I'm presented with this 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.960 incredible opportunity, but yet it's just not coming together. There's 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:25.960 resistance where you could push through and make it happen, 0:19:26.080 --> 0:19:28.320 but in your gut, you know that it's not about 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:30.600 you have feeling. It was just a good feeling, and 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:33.119 I'm all about going with my gut feeling. Even I 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.000 just eat something to speak completely, and I still sometimes like, 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.600 what if that would have worked? But this was pre pregnancy, 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.359 and I became pregnant right after this happened, So it 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.600 was it was meant to be. I don't think I 0:19:44.600 --> 0:19:47.440 could beat in a store. I like to be hands 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.040 on mom. I like to be home with my kids. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.400 I like to have not missed your moment with them. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.160 So I don't think I could be in a store 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:56.479 all the time and be happy with that decision. Some 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.280 people would be great at that, I grant it wasn't. 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:01.680 It just was the match. So I followed a bunch 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.639 of fashion bloggers and I was just like, this is 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:06.440 like kig, I mean, this is fun. So I started 0:20:06.480 --> 0:20:10.960 It's just truly just fashion blogging just here's the outfit, 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.199 here's why I like this outfit, And it was just 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.679 kind of and it still didn't feel quite right. It 0:20:16.800 --> 0:20:19.760 was I was phoning in it. I was getting that 0:20:19.880 --> 0:20:21.960 niche and like coning it on. Is this how people 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.560 you starting to field that you think you like and 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.720 then you just start whittling it down and trying it out, 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:30.400 Guys like that's how Yeah, it's And I was going 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.399 from the styling and I was still styling too, but 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:35.840 it was like taking that styling and putting it into 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:39.639 this artistic form of photography and fashion and everything. So 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.520 I liked that. But then I had George and I 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:45.320 kind of took a six month break. I didn't really 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.800 I just spent all my time with him. I didn't 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.560 really do it, and I didn't really feel right just 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:53.920 doing fashion with George too. So now I'm kind of 0:20:54.000 --> 0:21:01.120 developed and evolved into this more um omnipresent space where 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:04.400 it's home to core, it's mom life, it's fashion, it's 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.679 everything that's part of my life, and it's just kind 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.400 of it's essentially monetizing. Where did you get you? Where 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:12.200 did you get that shirt? Where did you get that recipe? 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.320 It's just kind of monetizing your life and making it 0:21:15.400 --> 0:21:18.440 a brand. And for me that just makes perfect sense 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.520 because I get a keep all my moments with these 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.200 precious boys, but then I also get to do something 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:29.520