Speaker 1: This is Conversationous with Olivia Jade in My Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Conversations with
Speaker 1: Olivia Jade. I am really stoked for today's guest, and
Speaker 1: she's actually a longtime friend when I had my app.
Speaker 1: I had an app when I was like, I think
Speaker 1: fifteen or sixteen, and we did a video way back
Speaker 1: in the day. Her name is Katie Austin. She's an
Speaker 1: amazing fitness and health connoisseur, influencer, and um, I'm just
Speaker 1: really excited to have her on to give us some
Speaker 1: insight on all things health and wellness. So please welcome
Speaker 1: Katie Austin. Hi, Katie, Hello, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: coming on my podcast. I'm so excited. I was just
Speaker 1: when I was introwing you, I was like, so when
Speaker 1: I was like fifteen or sixteen, I had an app
Speaker 1: and Katie and I phoned the video. Do you remember that?
Speaker 1: I remember that. You're actually unlocking a memory for me
Speaker 1: right now, because I didn't remember it before. You just
Speaker 1: said that, like, I actually don't remember, and now I do.
Speaker 1: It was so funny you came to my apartment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was your old place college. I know. I just
Speaker 1: grated from college and you came over and we cleared
Speaker 1: out the living room and we shot like how many
Speaker 1: workout videos. I don't know, but I remember I was
Speaker 1: super young and I had no idea what I was doing.
Speaker 1: Like I never worked out. I was probably what fourteen
Speaker 1: or fifteen? You were so young? Oh my god, so
Speaker 1: crazy crazy. So we go way back. But for those
Speaker 1: um listening that don't know who you are, can you
Speaker 1: give like a little intro as to who you are
Speaker 1: and what you do? Yes? So long story short. Um,
Speaker 1: I am from Virginia. I went to USC and then
Speaker 1: after college, I became a sports broadcaster at Fox Sports West.
Speaker 1: Then um, the last like I would say three ish years,
Speaker 1: I've been really focusing on my fitness brand and being
Speaker 1: like more like a fitness personality and doing you know
Speaker 1: more in homeworkouts especially that ramped everything up too. So
Speaker 1: I have my own app. It's called the Katie Austin App.
Speaker 1: I have over a hundred and seventy workout classes there.
Speaker 1: I have my own show called Austin a f I
Speaker 1: have my own um snapchat show too. It's a cooking show.
Speaker 1: So I do like I show like different recipes of
Speaker 1: the week, and then I just became a Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: swimsuit model. So the issue comes out in a month.
Speaker 1: I think, I don't know if I'm lat today, but
Speaker 1: it comes up. I'm really excited. Oh my god, I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of you. That's huge. Thank you. It's been
Speaker 1: a really really long process and it's like so kind
Speaker 1: of crazy to say, and I guess I'll officially be
Speaker 1: a rookie when it comes out. I already shot in
Speaker 1: Europe and in Montenegro, which was crazy. It's been the
Speaker 1: longest journey ever to get to be an s I.
Speaker 1: I had to audition. I first audition in two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen and then I don't remember seeing this, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then in two thousand and twenty, I auditioned again and
Speaker 1: it was a year and a half process and then
Speaker 1: I ended up winning, and so I am going to
Speaker 1: be in the magazine, which is crazy. That's insane. What's
Speaker 1: that process? Like? Did you? Did you do? They just
Speaker 1: host auditions and you go somewhere and then so basically
Speaker 1: they opened up to the public. Anyone online can join
Speaker 1: if you like. That's the whole reason for swim Search.
Speaker 1: They opened it up to you know, everyone who doesn't
Speaker 1: have an agent, So for someone like me who is
Speaker 1: not a real model in quotes per se. So I
Speaker 1: auditioned online. I turned in my tape, I posted on Instagram,
Speaker 1: and then about six months later, I got a call
Speaker 1: back and there was twenty two thousand girls auditioning and
Speaker 1: I got a call back. I think it was like
Speaker 1: two girls, and then it narrowed it down to thirteen
Speaker 1: girls and then um, yeah, it was a year and
Speaker 1: a half process and then I ended up winning it.
Speaker 1: And it's just been really wild, a lot of different
Speaker 1: like little things here and there, like little milestones of
Speaker 1: the year and a half, like I shot in Atlantic
Speaker 1: City and then I walked in Sports Illustrat and swim
Speaker 1: Suit runway show for Miami Swim Weeks, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I just kept doing like social stuff and yeah, it's crazy. Still,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. Congratulations, that's huge. I can't wait to see
Speaker 1: the photos. I haven't even seen them. They haven't sent
Speaker 1: you any No, I mean, I got one debut photo.
Speaker 1: But when I opened the magazine along with the rest
Speaker 1: of the public, is when I will find out what photos.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they're gonna look amazing. So you've been
Speaker 1: into fitness obviously for a while because you grew up
Speaker 1: around it. Yes, So do you want to talk about
Speaker 1: that a little bit? Yeah, I would love to. So
Speaker 1: I grew up honestly in the fitness industry. It sounds crazy,
Speaker 1: but since I was six weeks old, or you could
Speaker 1: even say like in the womb, because I was in
Speaker 1: my mom's pregnancy videos and so she was doing workout
Speaker 1: videos with me in her belly. So literally, I've been
Speaker 1: in the fitness industry forever. At my first workout video
Speaker 1: when I was like actually learning a choreograph routine was
Speaker 1: when I was seven years old. I had to go
Speaker 1: through like so much practice to learn workouts, and so
Speaker 1: I've really been in the industry for a while because
Speaker 1: my mom Denny s Austin. But a lot of people
Speaker 1: listening to us right now will probably not know who
Speaker 1: she is because she is a lot longer than us
Speaker 1: because we were so young. She was like in the
Speaker 1: eighties and nineties with like Jane Fonda, um and so
Speaker 1: basically she had her own show on ESPN for eleven years,
Speaker 1: Lifetime for about fifteen years, and um, so she has
Speaker 1: like the record for like most workout vhs is sold
Speaker 1: which is not possible these days. Obviously no one's gonna
Speaker 1: buy a VHS. So yeah, I'm in the industry for
Speaker 1: a while, but I never really thought about it as
Speaker 1: a career because it's just I don't know, you just
Speaker 1: don't really think about it all. So you're like you're
Speaker 1: younger and stuff, and I don't really know how it
Speaker 1: happened in the fitness industry. And so I graduated college
Speaker 1: and thank goodness, like social media was a thing when
Speaker 1: I was graduating, and that's how I really got started.
Speaker 1: Did you go to school for fitness or did you
Speaker 1: just grow up around it? And then that's kind of
Speaker 1: like self taught. So honestly, I don't I didn't get
Speaker 1: a actual like degree in college for fitness. I emphasized
Speaker 1: in health, but I am a certified group first personal
Speaker 1: trainer and stuff. And I also have you know, like
Speaker 1: my health degree um in a in a separate thing.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like I went to USC
Speaker 1: for broadcast journalism and because I was athlete there. I
Speaker 1: was an athlete my entire life and it was just
Speaker 1: like very instilled in me from a young age. My
Speaker 1: dad's a professional athlete, my mom is, you know, a
Speaker 1: fitness guru. My sister was never one of the nation
Speaker 1: for lacrosse, so we just come from a very athletic background. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so honestly, guys are built different. Being an athlete my
Speaker 1: whole entire life, you know, it was like I always
Speaker 1: had a coach training me and like really putting me
Speaker 1: through workouts, and my mom, obviously, um, you know, taught
Speaker 1: me everything I need to know about teaching workouts. And
Speaker 1: so when I graduated and I stopped playing lacrosse, it
Speaker 1: was like a really weird thing for me to not
Speaker 1: work out with the coach anymore. And I really struggled, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell do I do in the gym? How
Speaker 1: do I work out at home? I don't really feel
Speaker 1: comfortable going to the gym because I always had a
Speaker 1: set routine of like my coach telling you what to do.
Speaker 1: And so I decided, like other girls will probably feel
Speaker 1: the exact same way eight and so I just started
Speaker 1: creating workouts that and thank god, I've gotten better at them,
Speaker 1: because if you go back to like two thousands fifteen,
Speaker 1: and I'm prob, I'm sure I'm just on my app
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. I think they're gone like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened to that app. I don't
Speaker 1: know what company that was with. I don't remember anything
Speaker 1: about it, but I do remember doing some workout videos
Speaker 1: with you in your apartment and it was really fun.
Speaker 1: Um did you ever feel like because for me personally,
Speaker 1: it took me a while to get to a point
Speaker 1: which I feel like I just got to recently where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my dog, Um, I just started to
Speaker 1: like enjoy working out where it's not a chore anymore.
Speaker 1: And anytime I talked to my sister, she's like, I
Speaker 1: don't like working out because I have such a negative
Speaker 1: relationship with it because I correlated with losing weight and
Speaker 1: feeling like I'm not good enough and just anything in
Speaker 1: that realm. And I kind of want to just like
Speaker 1: hear your advice to maybe somebody listening that like what
Speaker 1: was that mental switch or if you even ever had that,
Speaker 1: or maybe you did an you always loved it extremely
Speaker 1: relatable and for someone like me coming from an athlete,
Speaker 1: I actually didn't work out after I moved on from lacrosse.
Speaker 1: I didn't work out for like ten months because I
Speaker 1: was like, and I know this word sounds very extreme,
Speaker 1: but it is really extreme. When you've been in a
Speaker 1: Division one sport and it's like every day at five am,
Speaker 1: it's traumatizing. I would work out till I threw up,
Speaker 1: and honestly, that's not good for anyone's body. I'd work
Speaker 1: out for four hours a day, and that was my
Speaker 1: entire life. Like middle school, I had run tests and
Speaker 1: lift test and I would max out lifting, and so
Speaker 1: I had a very bad relationship with working out because
Speaker 1: it was always training way too hard and so intimidating.
Speaker 1: I would be an anxiety ball because I hated working
Speaker 1: out so much. And so once you find out that
Speaker 1: working out isn't about losing weight unless you want it
Speaker 1: to be, or working out isn't about training your absolute hardest,
Speaker 1: it doesn't need to be so intimidating. It's really just
Speaker 1: to make you feel you're like your best self, and
Speaker 1: also it's to boost your confidence. It's for your heart health.
Speaker 1: You know, going on a thirty minute walk is working out.
Speaker 1: Doing a five minute at routine is working out. You
Speaker 1: don't need to work out for an hour every day
Speaker 1: a and max out lifting and push yourself to extreme limits.
Speaker 1: You know, some people aren't really built like that, and
Speaker 1: that is totally okay. It's all about working out for
Speaker 1: how you feel on the inside and not really working
Speaker 1: out to, you know, for the aesthetic or for training
Speaker 1: for something unless you are and to switch that mindset
Speaker 1: takes a lot of time. So give yourself place, because
Speaker 1: it took me years to get out of the you know,
Speaker 1: the traumatized state, and I still to this day can't
Speaker 1: go to Barry's boot camp because it still reminds me
Speaker 1: of my practices and I'm like, hell no, not for me,
Speaker 1: because I don't really I don't really respond well. And
Speaker 1: I know I'm a trainer myself, but I don't really
Speaker 1: respond well to being yelled at to push myself to
Speaker 1: absolute extremes throwing up, and I don't think anyone should
Speaker 1: if you're not really training for something. So um, it's
Speaker 1: just about switching the mindset to having fun. And I
Speaker 1: know that sounds so cliche, but it's true. It is true.
Speaker 1: I feel like that is like the most important thing
Speaker 1: when you're working out or when you're trying to get
Speaker 1: into like a good routine, because I think always, at
Speaker 1: least for me, it's kind of hard to start, but
Speaker 1: once you're in it, you really do mentally feel so
Speaker 1: much better that it kind of becomes like an addiction
Speaker 1: where even it's like I don't push myself in the
Speaker 1: gym for over an hour, like I go when I
Speaker 1: walk on the trail for thirty minutes and I leave,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, and that's like perfect, and that's great,
Speaker 1: and you actually, yeah, you brought up a really good
Speaker 1: point of like once you start, and I think that's
Speaker 1: the hardest thing is just starting. And so for me,
Speaker 1: I always lie to myself and I say, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna do this for like five minutes, for ten minutes,
Speaker 1: and I lied to myself to get me motivated to
Speaker 1: just start. And then once you're five ten minutes, and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna keep going because you realize that you're
Speaker 1: getting so much more positive, you're getting more energetic, you're
Speaker 1: feeling more confident, and you feel really good about doing it.
Speaker 1: So just not pushing yourself to places that you feel
Speaker 1: so intimidated by it right Sadly, these days, social media
Speaker 1: effects body confidence crazy amounts um. Is this something that
Speaker 1: you've ever faced or learned to overcome or do you
Speaker 1: have like any special tips or are you still dealing
Speaker 1: with it like I am. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: very normal to especially in your teens in your twenties,
Speaker 1: to go through waves of confidence to some days you
Speaker 1: feel absolutely amazing some days or just not your best.
Speaker 1: And as females, we have a lot of hormones and
Speaker 1: mood switches, so that just in turn doesn't help us.
Speaker 1: I will say for me, going back to like say
Speaker 1: my college days, it was really hard for me, especially
Speaker 1: after I graduated, because I had a different muscular body type,
Speaker 1: and then once you stop training, it's like, well, why
Speaker 1: do I have this? I want to fit in with
Speaker 1: like in quote l A girls and they're skinnier, and
Speaker 1: you have that like body image issue because you don't
Speaker 1: you're not training anymore, and then you're what do you like?
Speaker 1: You're just hard to really um understand how your body
Speaker 1: is supposed to look and how you're supposed to work
Speaker 1: out afterwards, especially after college, and like what to do
Speaker 1: and figuring that all out and so to be honest,
Speaker 1: that was probably my hardest body image issues, and it
Speaker 1: takes a very very long time to figure out what's
Speaker 1: right for you and your body. I will say, obviously,
Speaker 1: social media is the number one um harmful things you
Speaker 1: could do to yourself if you are having body comparison
Speaker 1: issues and stop comparing yourself to everyone aligne because it's
Speaker 1: first up, just like not real. And unfortunately, sometimes there
Speaker 1: are going to be, you know, always prettier girls than you,
Speaker 1: skinnier girls, fitter girls than You're smarter, there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be someone smarter than you. And my mom always told
Speaker 1: me growing up growing up, like there's always gonna be
Speaker 1: somebody that's or something that's like better than what you're doing,
Speaker 1: or something that's a little bit more skilled, but nobody
Speaker 1: is you. That she would always say, like when I'm
Speaker 1: literally exactly what I was about to say, and it's
Speaker 1: so freaking true, but I will say it takes a
Speaker 1: lot a long time. I'm twenty eight now, so it
Speaker 1: takes like a long time to really realize that. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the beauty of growing up because you
Speaker 1: start to a care less about what people think. You
Speaker 1: start to really just focus on yourself, and you also
Speaker 1: realize that those flaws you're so worried about are so natural,
Speaker 1: like cellulite for example, or like acne on your skin.
Speaker 1: It is so normal, It is so okaycent of women
Speaker 1: out there habit, and that's like the beauty of the
Speaker 1: female body too, and embracing all those things. Again it's
Speaker 1: so cliche, but it's so freaking true. It's like cellulite
Speaker 1: is one of the reasons we can bear children because
Speaker 1: we have enough fat on our body to go through that.
Speaker 1: And so it's switching the perspective and realizing how grateful
Speaker 1: you are. I think, if you ever do go through
Speaker 1: those days, and obviously I do too, it's like switching
Speaker 1: the perspective. It's like, get all social media, remind yourself
Speaker 1: what is amazing about you and why you're so grateful,
Speaker 1: Like anyone would kill to be in your shoes, right,
Speaker 1: And I also think that you have to remember guys,
Speaker 1: it's like you're seeing everybody's best moments. And I always
Speaker 1: talk about this, but take it from somebody like me
Speaker 1: who puts out photos of their best moments and of
Speaker 1: the angles that look good and bikini photos of like
Speaker 1: a certain angle, because I'm like, oh, I look really
Speaker 1: cute in that, But if you saw the other ten
Speaker 1: photos that are after it, like I look like a
Speaker 1: normal human being because I'm not perfectly sat up with
Speaker 1: like my stomach sucked in and twisted a certain way.
Speaker 1: Like it's so easy to think like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: she just looks perfect all the time when it's like, Nope,
Speaker 1: that went through severe angles and different types of like
Speaker 1: photo shoots, and like you have to remind yourself of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so true. Um. One thing that I love is
Speaker 1: you balance fun and health really really well. How important
Speaker 1: is balanced for you? And like a typical day in
Speaker 1: your life, what does it look like. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: some people might be shocked at how much I balance
Speaker 1: my life and indulge. I will say I'm really lucky
Speaker 1: in a sense that um genetics also play a really
Speaker 1: huge role that I'm able to um eat a lot
Speaker 1: of you know, unhealthy foods at the same time while
Speaker 1: enjoying my healthy foods. And I think it's all again,
Speaker 1: the word balance is so vague, but it's the truth
Speaker 1: of how I live my life. And it's like eating.
Speaker 1: My mom always said to like eat good eighty percent
Speaker 1: of the time and enjoy your treats and indulge twenty
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and life is meant to be lived.
Speaker 1: I think you can still lose weight if you're trying to.
Speaker 1: I think you can still maintain your weight as well
Speaker 1: and still be really healthy by living life in moderation.
Speaker 1: And so living life in moderation means, you know, still
Speaker 1: having those moments where you want to eat chocolate at
Speaker 1: night because you freaking can. And if you restrict yourself,
Speaker 1: if you don't let yourself eat what you want and
Speaker 1: intuitively eat, you're just gonna go to the opposite direction
Speaker 1: and start to binge and then feel really filthy about Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it's crazy how much it happens, because like, you
Speaker 1: just have to learn about you and your body. Like
Speaker 1: some people always say, like, oh, try internet, a fascinating
Speaker 1: really helps for me. I cannot intermitte it fast because
Speaker 1: if I skip breakfast, I am eating ten times more
Speaker 1: dessert at night. And so you just learn how your
Speaker 1: body works, and that comes with growing up as well
Speaker 1: and trying different things out. Um, and once you learned
Speaker 1: that if you have a cheeseburger on a Tuesday night,
Speaker 1: it's not going to set you back a month or
Speaker 1: even a week where you are totally fine. You're human
Speaker 1: and to just not be so damn hard on yourself exactly.
Speaker 1: And what's really funny actually is you just said the
Speaker 1: twenty rule, and that's a question I had written down
Speaker 1: for you was going to say, do you believe in that?
Speaker 1: Is that something you like live by? Because you know,
Speaker 1: people always there's all these different fads and diets and
Speaker 1: things that people should and shouldn't do, And that was
Speaker 1: a big one. But I think so like the overall
Speaker 1: messages moderation. And my mom always told me that growing up.
Speaker 1: She's just like, not with food because she doesn't know
Speaker 1: anything about fitness and health, but just with like anything
Speaker 1: in life, she's like, yeah, everything a moderation, right, I
Speaker 1: mean a twenties a little strict. I would say, like
Speaker 1: what if one week you're like fifty or sixty, just
Speaker 1: know that you're human and it's not like a strict rule.
Speaker 1: I don't really believe in really strict rules or guidelines
Speaker 1: or anything like that. I just think, you know, eating
Speaker 1: what makes you feel good, and looking at food is fuel,
Speaker 1: and not looking at is anything like, okay, so this
Speaker 1: has how many calories in this? Right here? It's looking
Speaker 1: at it and like, how will this feed and fuel
Speaker 1: my body? What nutrients is in this right now that
Speaker 1: it's going to either energize me or exhaust me or
Speaker 1: what's good for me in this? And looking at it
Speaker 1: that way and like the antioxidants the vitamins in it,
Speaker 1: instead of like looking at it being like, okay, so
Speaker 1: that's thirty grams of carbs. Because also carbs are really
Speaker 1: good for you. Um, that is so weird. You just
Speaker 1: said that. You took the way I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: Can we please talk about carbs and how they aren't scary?
Speaker 1: They're not scary. I have a toast. They're good. Especially
Speaker 1: if you work out, you need carbs. I have a
Speaker 1: piece of sour dough toast every single day. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna eat bread, I say, eat sour dough bread. I
Speaker 1: actually literally just had a piece of toast like ten
Speaker 1: minutes before this. You and I need it to Carbs
Speaker 1: are the one thing that like a leave me feeling
Speaker 1: very energized, um and be full for longer. At the
Speaker 1: same time, it's a fiber, and carbs really helped me
Speaker 1: feel full for longer. Whenever I go with like just
Speaker 1: having salad in a meal, I'm like, Okay, what's my
Speaker 1: next meal? Like an hour brier. So don't restrict yourself
Speaker 1: because then you're just going to you know, do the
Speaker 1: opposite of what you wanted to do. In the end exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm so with you on that because people that are
Speaker 1: scared of carbs, I'm like, I don't get it, because
Speaker 1: if I have a salad, just what you said, I'm
Speaker 1: eating snacks on snacks on snacks right after not even
Speaker 1: like an hour, like I'm right after into my country,
Speaker 1: like which obviously a salad sometimes it's great and I
Speaker 1: love it, but like every like if you're so terrified
Speaker 1: of it, I feel like it can do the exact
Speaker 1: opposite effect of what you're trying to do. And also
Speaker 1: like it's if you find healthy ones. Obviously we're not
Speaker 1: saying like every day if you're trying to get in
Speaker 1: maximum like best shape of your life having pizza and
Speaker 1: pasta and like but like rice and bread and all
Speaker 1: of that. I feel like people there's such a negative
Speaker 1: connotation just because it is a carb when it's like
Speaker 1: I eat that literally every day totally. I I fully,
Speaker 1: fully agree. And if you are the type of person
Speaker 1: who wants to, you know, obviously eat pasta because pasta
Speaker 1: is not bad for you whatsoever. But there's always like
Speaker 1: little things you can do to make it a little
Speaker 1: bit healthier. I'm a huge believer and still eating like
Speaker 1: pizza and pasta, but doing little fixes and switches, so
Speaker 1: like in your pasta, maybe adding three vegetables or you know,
Speaker 1: switching it out for like chippy pasta, So like little
Speaker 1: things that you guys can still enjoy your life, but
Speaker 1: making sure you're still getting into nutrients. Right, Okay, switching
Speaker 1: the topics from carbs and food. I want to get personal.
Speaker 1: You just moved in with your boyfriend. I did. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: how is that? I think this might be the first
Speaker 1: time I'm talking about it like on um an interview.
Speaker 1: But it's really great because have you ever been in
Speaker 1: a relationship where you are scheduling out when you can
Speaker 1: see them like constantly. Yeah, and it's not fun. It
Speaker 1: kind of takes like the fun and it's like kind
Speaker 1: of stressful. It's like, okay, wait, so if we're hanging
Speaker 1: out on Tuesday, then I could do something with my
Speaker 1: friends on a Wednesday and then you go to town
Speaker 1: for a week. It's just like taking all that stress
Speaker 1: away of you know, like living together. It's just like
Speaker 1: we'll see each other. When we see each other, I
Speaker 1: will say, you hang out a lot less than you
Speaker 1: think you do. Like he goes to work every day
Speaker 1: he travels and stuff, and I do my own thing too,
Speaker 1: So it's really just like reduced stress in both of
Speaker 1: our lives. We are on the same page about everything.
Speaker 1: And also you just get that point to your life
Speaker 1: where you know that it's time to move in with someone.
Speaker 1: And got to age seven and we were very much
Speaker 1: so in love and we bought a house together. And
Speaker 1: it's kind of crazy because I feel so old. Um,
Speaker 1: I know, but I age. I age so much by
Speaker 1: living in this house with him. Because it's like the
Speaker 1: other day we're like looking for a lint roller. I'm like,
Speaker 1: when did this happen? I was just partying at Warwick Wednesdays.
Speaker 1: Don't know what is going on. But so I was
Speaker 1: talking to somebody recently. Oh, we were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: they just opened this smoothie shop down the street and
Speaker 1: we're like, it does that. We're excited about like a
Speaker 1: little random smoothie shop being opened. And we were talking
Speaker 1: about a vacuum and we were like me and my
Speaker 1: friends and we were like, oh my god, this vacuum
Speaker 1: is so good. We're like, this is this adulting. We're
Speaker 1: excited over a vacuum? Was going on? Yeah, it's the
Speaker 1: little things, and I've truly what's some advice you have
Speaker 1: for people that are thinking about moving in with their
Speaker 1: significant other, Like anything you've learned from it learned is
Speaker 1: space is definitely necessary and doing your own thing. And
Speaker 1: what I think about like living together is being so
Speaker 1: independent by still like doing your own thing and not
Speaker 1: fully basing your life off of someone else, because it's
Speaker 1: i mean, obviously when you're in love with someone too,
Speaker 1: you want to be with them, but also remember like
Speaker 1: your friends, your best friends are You're really really important
Speaker 1: to your family, your career, So like still doing things
Speaker 1: that make you you and not coming fully dependent on
Speaker 1: the person um. And something also to like if you
Speaker 1: want to watch a different show, watch a different show,
Speaker 1: like do your own thing, go to that earlier if
Speaker 1: you want to. You don't have to do everything that
Speaker 1: your partner does. And that took a few months because
Speaker 1: we're just so excited to live together. And then I
Speaker 1: literally was like I want to go up and nine.
Speaker 1: He's like, well I want to go up to ten.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what the hell am I doing? Go upstairs,
Speaker 1: go to sleep, right. It takes a little while to
Speaker 1: learn that, but still being independent is really important. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like my thing. If I were to live
Speaker 1: with somebody like a significant other, the only thing I
Speaker 1: think that would really get on my nerves is if
Speaker 1: they were like really messy. Because when I lived with
Speaker 1: my sister, she is so messy and she would disagree
Speaker 1: with me, but I'm just gonna say she was the
Speaker 1: messy one and I could not stand it. So props
Speaker 1: two couples that and I'm talking about my sister who's
Speaker 1: my blood, and I would be so annoyed to like,
Speaker 1: props to couples that lived together one's a mess because
Speaker 1: that's one thing I could not it's me. It's at least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So my boyfriend is so clean to the point where
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it. He's like very
Speaker 1: very cleanly, and I'm the messy one and he keeps
Speaker 1: me in check. Like that's our I think that's our
Speaker 1: main problem. I'm messy. That's honestly good though, for you,
Speaker 1: because like, at least it doesn't bother you. You You don't
Speaker 1: know it bothers me that he bothers me to clean,
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I probably should, I probably should. No,
Speaker 1: I get it, but yeah, you'll figure it out as
Speaker 1: time goes on what's next for you, like career goals,
Speaker 1: dreams obviously of Sports Illustrated coming out, which is crazy
Speaker 1: and huge, and do you have anything else that's like
Speaker 1: bucket list, So I would say Sports Illustrators at the
Speaker 1: top of the list right now, just in terms of
Speaker 1: like a career milestone, and it's like really cool to
Speaker 1: finally be a part of the family in the community
Speaker 1: and like going to Sports Illustrators MS to launch and
Speaker 1: like being a part of all the day like the
Speaker 1: rookie debut which is really crazy. Um, kind of just
Speaker 1: celebrating little by little, like where I've come, how far
Speaker 1: I've come. Because I'm always the type of person to
Speaker 1: you know, my entire twenties, I basically would be like,
Speaker 1: what's next, What's next? How can I get further? Like
Speaker 1: I'm not doing enough, I'm not working hard enough. I
Speaker 1: need to do this as this And to be honest,
Speaker 1: I'm finally at a place where I'm like, hey, you
Speaker 1: can chill out. You don't need to always think about
Speaker 1: like the next thing. You can be proud of yourself
Speaker 1: and celebrate the small winds and the milestones and look
Speaker 1: back how far you've come. Like my one year old
Speaker 1: self would be so proud of where I am today,
Speaker 1: So taking a little flower of being patient. But also
Speaker 1: I love that starting um season two of my show
Speaker 1: Austin a f soon And honestly I really love Snapchat.
Speaker 1: Continuing on Snapchat, is I lost my Snapchat um obsession? Oh?
Speaker 1: I still like Snapchat my friends like privately, but I
Speaker 1: don't ever like I forgot. I think I still have
Speaker 1: a public Snapchat, but I don't know how to use
Speaker 1: it just basically repost everything that you do on Instagram
Speaker 1: to Snapchat. Do people still use Snapchat to you get views?
Speaker 1: On Snapchat? I get about nine million impressions a day.
Speaker 1: So that's why I love Snapchat so much. It's it's
Speaker 1: like my child baby. And also there's so much money
Speaker 1: in Snapchat that people don't really understand. This is like
Speaker 1: my hidden secret because everyone's focusing on TikTok right, Like
Speaker 1: literally every creator is like, how can I grow on TikTok?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna go A
Speaker 1: path that I don't think a lot of people know about.
Speaker 1: Is Snapchat has the same type of like you know,
Speaker 1: algorithm where new creators can be found. My friend post
Speaker 1: on Snapchat for the first time she got on exploring,
Speaker 1: she got two k views in a day for the
Speaker 1: first time ever. Because less creators are using it, so
Speaker 1: you always want to use a platform that less creators
Speaker 1: but the same amount of users. So you're still on
Speaker 1: Snapchat because you like to do it with your friends,
Speaker 1: but you're not a create If you're not creating anymore,
Speaker 1: you're not a creator. So there's still don't same amount
Speaker 1: of users, but less create leaders. So if your creator
Speaker 1: out there, I highly suggested that's really really smart. Catch
Speaker 1: me posting all over Snapchat again, see on my pom
Speaker 1: on notre page, my spore page. But literally, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have no idea what I'm doing, but I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: be trying it for whatever. But I love what you
Speaker 1: said about being patient because I really resonate with that,
Speaker 1: especially right now. I feel like I've put so much
Speaker 1: pressure on myself, and I think so many young girls
Speaker 1: and boys as well that maybe follow us or here
Speaker 1: or watch our stuff. That um. Obviously, with social media,
Speaker 1: it's so easy to compare yourself, like we were talking
Speaker 1: about earlier, but it's so easy to be so hard
Speaker 1: on yourself if you feel like you're not doing enough.
Speaker 1: And I was taking a drive, like a long drive
Speaker 1: by myself yesterday. I literally started talking out loud to
Speaker 1: myself and I was like, you're twenty two, Like you
Speaker 1: need to stop being so hard on yourself. You need
Speaker 1: to stop feeling like your world is over and that
Speaker 1: like everything up and you're never going to get anything back,
Speaker 1: and like everything is done. Like you were doing great
Speaker 1: and you're you're kind to people, like that's what matters,
Speaker 1: and like continue doing that, and just like it's so
Speaker 1: hard to, like I think for so many people to
Speaker 1: that aren't even in this space but watch people in
Speaker 1: this space and want to be a part of it
Speaker 1: and feel like so lost. And I just always want
Speaker 1: to remind people like we can relate to that to
Speaker 1: a certain degree too, because even though we're in this
Speaker 1: space that so many people dream of, we're humans and
Speaker 1: we're looking at other people that are further along and
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, damn, I'm not doing that, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So true, and I think feeling lost
Speaker 1: is a really relatable thing, especially in your twenties, because
Speaker 1: you go through so many different life moments and changes.
Speaker 1: Your brain essentially changes as well. Your twenties, Your passions change.
Speaker 1: Some people might not know their passions or what they
Speaker 1: want to do as well. So, um, you know, in
Speaker 1: your twenties, your friend could be married. I have three
Speaker 1: friends married and pregnant and I'm just in a relationship.
Speaker 1: Or you could be single and my best friend is
Speaker 1: dirty and single, And so you literally go through so
Speaker 1: many different stages of your life, and you also try
Speaker 1: to figure out who you, who your friends are still,
Speaker 1: what your passionate, what you really want out a career,
Speaker 1: and so don't be too hard in yourself because no
Speaker 1: one hasn't figured out and if they do, they are
Speaker 1: lying and they're lying and it's so Yeah, there's so
Speaker 1: much pressure. I feel like also with people coming like around,
Speaker 1: I feel like my age demographic is around, like college
Speaker 1: kids or people that are just about to graduate, and
Speaker 1: that's a really frightening time. Um for you. Did you
Speaker 1: know when you were graduating, like this is what I wanted.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like fully indulge in fitness now or were
Speaker 1: you like a little like to figure this out? Not
Speaker 1: at all? And I think it's absolutely absurd because I
Speaker 1: committed to my college and they were pressuring me at
Speaker 1: age fifteen. How the heck, are you supposed to know
Speaker 1: what to do an age fifteen? Even people who are
Speaker 1: going to college at age eight teen, you don't even
Speaker 1: know who you are. You are literally so young, you
Speaker 1: have an entire life to live, and so taking that
Speaker 1: pressure off you is just so important because every single
Speaker 1: person in the world is going through it too. And
Speaker 1: if you do know exactly what you're going to do
Speaker 1: with your life, congratulations, because you are the point zer
Speaker 1: zero zero one percent as well, like, how are you
Speaker 1: even supposed to know your major of college? Yet? These
Speaker 1: colleges make you decide your major, even which is absolutely insane.
Speaker 1: And so just to not be too hard on yourself
Speaker 1: and everything you do is for a reason. I truly
Speaker 1: believe that, like, everything you do will lead you to
Speaker 1: somewhere that you need to be. Even if you think, like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I did this in the last for
Speaker 1: two years and now I am switching my mind, I
Speaker 1: don't want to do this anymore. You did whatever that
Speaker 1: was that you disliked to find out that you didn't
Speaker 1: like it. So finding out what you don't like is
Speaker 1: just as important as finding out what you do like.
Speaker 1: Like For example, I always relate this back to my dad,
Speaker 1: because my dad has like a crazy story. He basically
Speaker 1: was a professional tennis player. At age he was like,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be in and I don't want
Speaker 1: to be a professional athlete. You moore what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1: Went to law school at twenty nine, graduated by like
Speaker 1: thirty three. Thirty three. He became a divorce lawyer and
Speaker 1: he like hated his life, and then became a criminal
Speaker 1: lawyer and he was like thirty eight, and he was
Speaker 1: thirty eight years old and still didn't have a passion.
Speaker 1: And so after that he decided to get into representing
Speaker 1: tennis players, like combining his love for law and his
Speaker 1: tennis background. So again, you don't do anything in like
Speaker 1: in vain for no reason. And then from there became
Speaker 1: a basketball Asian and now he represents at age seventy
Speaker 1: years old, he represents the top basketball players in the
Speaker 1: entire world. And so I want to just like always
Speaker 1: say that because at twenty eight he didn't know what
Speaker 1: he was doing. He had just quit his sport that
Speaker 1: he was doing his entire life. He graduated from law
Speaker 1: school at thirty three. Like it just happens for a reason,
Speaker 1: and when it makes me feel Yeah, that makes me
Speaker 1: feel so much better. Yeah, you're right, and he always
Speaker 1: reminds that to me too, which is so kind to him. Wow,
Speaker 1: that makes me feel really good actually, because I'm at
Speaker 1: a point in my life right now where I'm low
Speaker 1: key in my had just like what am I doing?
Speaker 1: Like figure it out? But it's okay, twenty eight. And
Speaker 1: also you're gonna look back like I look back. I'm
Speaker 1: twenty eight now, and I look back at my toy
Speaker 1: two year old self and not that I like feel bad,
Speaker 1: but I feel so bad for myself for putting so
Speaker 1: much pressure on me. I feel so bad with myself
Speaker 1: for rushing things, and I just wish I gave myself
Speaker 1: more grace. So if you are younger than twenty five
Speaker 1: out there, give yourself grace, I mean yourself slat. Yeah totally.
Speaker 1: I want to end it on that note because I
Speaker 1: really love that. So thank you so much for coming
Speaker 1: on my podcast and spinning out all this wisdom and
Speaker 1: great advice. And I know so many young girls and
Speaker 1: boys that listen are going to really benefit, so I
Speaker 1: appreciate you so much. Thank you, Thank you guys for listening,
Speaker 1: and thank Loia for having me on of course, is
Speaker 1: there anything else you want to plug, like your show,
Speaker 1: your Instagram? Yeah, sure, follow me on Instagram at Katie Austin.
Speaker 1: I'm literally at Katie Austin on every platform, And if
Speaker 1: you guys want to follow me on Snapchat to go
Speaker 1: for it. I do recipes on there. Yeah. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Katie, Thanks Olivia. All right by most