Speaker 1: You're listening to Jojo Siwa Now with me Jojo Siua
Speaker 1: and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2: Oh welcome back to Jojo se one now and happy
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. That is scary. How how is it
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four? I don't know. I wrote the date
Speaker 2: for the first time just a couple of days ago
Speaker 2: on something actually was on my in my workout journal
Speaker 2: and I wrote down one slash three slash twenty three,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, no, it is
Speaker 2: twenty four. Saw this thing that was like, uh, congratulations,
Speaker 2: you are still mourning twenty nineteen and it is now
Speaker 2: five years later, and I was like, Jesus, that is
Speaker 2: so scary. Anyways, though, it is the new year and
Speaker 2: I could not be any more excited for this year.
Speaker 2: I think it is going to be a great year.
Speaker 2: I will say twenty twenty three had a lot of
Speaker 2: good in it. Twenty twenty three had a lot of
Speaker 2: bad in it, a lot of heart in it. I
Speaker 2: feel like everyone can kind of like agree with them
Speaker 2: themselves on like look looking back at twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: I feel like for me and at least for all
Speaker 2: my people around me, it was a very ugh. This
Speaker 2: feels like weird to say, but like educational year, Like
Speaker 2: I feel like I learned a lot about myself, feel
Speaker 2: like all my friends learned a lot about themselves. I
Speaker 2: feel like I learned a lot about the world. I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe that's just because I turned twenty in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: and I feel like you just learn a lot when
Speaker 2: you turn twenty. But I want to start off this
Speaker 2: podcast with a little bit of a twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: highs and lows moment. I had so many freaking highs
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. I was writing them down today
Speaker 2: to be able to talk about them on the podcast,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, I actually don't
Speaker 2: even like, I don't think I can remember them all.
Speaker 2: I tried to go through every month try to be like,
Speaker 2: what were my moments, And first one that I want
Speaker 2: to talk about is pretty obvious, and that is of
Speaker 2: Special Forces. I had the best time in New Zealand.
Speaker 2: It was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life.
Speaker 2: But again back to that educational thing, it really did
Speaker 2: change me. It changed the way I think about life.
Speaker 2: It changed my perspective on friends, on family, on myself,
Speaker 2: on work, on personal life, on everything. And so being
Speaker 2: able to kind of now apply that to the rest
Speaker 2: of my life. Hopefully I got a long long time left.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope I'm not done anytime soon here
Speaker 2: on earth. But it's cool that I got to learn
Speaker 2: those lessons at such a young age, and Special Forces
Speaker 2: is definitely one of the things I'm most grateful for
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and that actually leads me into
Speaker 2: my second high, and that is all the incredible people
Speaker 2: that came into my life in twenty twenty three. I
Speaker 2: met so many of my closest friends in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: which is crazy because I feel like, you know, for me,
Speaker 2: like I've kind of met friends throughout my life that
Speaker 2: have like really stuck around. I friends from when I
Speaker 2: was little. I have friends from when I was like,
Speaker 2: I mean like I had like friends from when I
Speaker 2: was six. I friends from when I was like twelve.
Speaker 2: Then I met a couple when I was like fifteen,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But I feel like in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I gained Oh my gosh, if I
Speaker 2: was to actually like really say, I mean, Nick Tyler,
Speaker 2: one of my friends named Kez Kelsey Savannah, I had
Speaker 2: so lex Oh my gosh Lex came into my life
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. I had so many incredible people
Speaker 2: that I'm like, wait, you are now like considered best
Speaker 2: friend to me, family to me, which I am just
Speaker 2: I'm so grateful for it. It's been a dang good year.
Speaker 2: I got into some really fun hyperfixations in twenty twenty three. Uh.
Speaker 2: I wanted to become a barista in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: so I built a coffee bar. I thought I was
Speaker 2: gonna go into the World Cup in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: so I went through two weeks where I was determined
Speaker 2: to become a professional soccer player. Did not stick with it.
Speaker 2: I went through a rock climbing phase. I went through
Speaker 2: a really intense tap dancing phase. I still tap dance,
Speaker 2: but I went through like a like I go every
Speaker 2: single day phase. I went through a workout classes at
Speaker 2: a gym. Phase. I went through. This is actually one
Speaker 2: that I've been going through since I was like fourteen,
Speaker 2: and that's indoor skydiving. And this year twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: so I guess last year twenty twenty three, I got
Speaker 2: really back into indoor skydiving because for my twentieth birthday,
Speaker 2: we actually went on an Alaskan cruise, which was so fun,
Speaker 2: and I gosh, I love Royal Caribbean so much. I'm
Speaker 2: actually just about to go on Icon of the Seas,
Speaker 2: their new ship. I'm going on the inaugural sailing of it,
Speaker 2: which I am so stoked about. I was gonna be crazy,
Speaker 2: the best six days ever. But I went on another
Speaker 2: one of my Caribbean ships, Quantum of the Seas, for
Speaker 2: my twentieth birthday and for my brother's twenty third birthday.
Speaker 2: And on that ship actually have indoor skydiving, so it
Speaker 2: was the first time that I had done it in
Speaker 2: a really long time, and I did it a lot.
Speaker 2: And that's actually where I met one of my best
Speaker 2: friends this year. She was an instructor and we just
Speaker 2: we grew super super close and it's been amazing. And
Speaker 2: we figured out that we had some like ties to
Speaker 2: each other before we even met, which is crazy. It's
Speaker 2: such a small world. Uh. And then yeah, I really
Speaker 2: really stuck with it this year and now it's become
Speaker 2: like a part of my family. I won't kind of
Speaker 2: I won't talk about why just yet because I don't
Speaker 2: know if that's something that how it relates who it
Speaker 2: relates to would actually want me to talk about. But
Speaker 2: now it's like become a part of my family. Indorse, skydiving,
Speaker 2: which has been so fun and so awesome. God, I
Speaker 2: can't ever get enough of it. The last hyperfixation that
Speaker 2: I am so happy about is drums. So towards the
Speaker 2: end of twenty twenty three, I got to perform with
Speaker 2: the artist G Flip, who is so amazing. They're an
Speaker 2: Australian artist who is just so phenomenal. I can't even
Speaker 2: say enough amazing things about G anyway, so thank god
Speaker 2: I did, because watching G perform that night, I literally
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I G is an incredible drummer.
Speaker 2: That is their thing. Kind of how people will sing
Speaker 2: and dance or sing and play guitar or singing play piano,
Speaker 2: which they also do, they sing and drum and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god, I want to learn how
Speaker 2: to drum. Like I was so inspired after that night.
Speaker 2: G is just such an incredible person, Like it was
Speaker 2: just the best freaking night in my life. I was like, yes,
Speaker 2: made the right choice. It's very happy that I left Florida.
Speaker 2: I miss Tyler, my brother, of course, but so happy anyway,
Speaker 2: So I left the concert and I was like, yo,
Speaker 2: I am gonna get a drum kit. I'm gonna drum.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna teach myself. This is gonna be great. And
Speaker 2: two days after g Textan was like, dude, if you
Speaker 2: ever wanted to learn how to drum, I would teach you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Oh, you don't even know that,
Speaker 2: That's what I was thinking. So then Gee's been helping me.
Speaker 2: I got a drum kit, got one at the house
Speaker 2: and one at my studio. I have been playing now
Speaker 2: for about three months, and I just love it. She
Speaker 2: is a phenomenal teacher. It's been so fun. I can't
Speaker 2: I really can't get enough of it. It's been great,
Speaker 2: all right. I feel like that though those were pretty
Speaker 2: much my highs. I mean, we got to go to Hawaii,
Speaker 2: which was sick. I moved actually into my brother's room,
Speaker 2: which was sick. That kind of leads me into one
Speaker 2: of my low lights. The reason why I moved into
Speaker 2: my brother's room. So our house is structured so there's
Speaker 2: like three rooms on the right side, and then one
Speaker 2: room on the on the left side, right, and so
Speaker 2: on the right side, and this room actually that I
Speaker 2: filmed the podcast and was my old bedroom. And I
Speaker 2: decided that because my brother was moving out and he
Speaker 2: moved to an apartment a while ago, so he hasn't
Speaker 2: been at home for a minute, but still in California.
Speaker 2: But then this year he decided in twenty twenty three
Speaker 2: that he was going to move to Orlando, and that
Speaker 2: that was something that honestly, I was this, Okay, you
Speaker 2: gotta stick with me here, you gotta stick with me here.
Speaker 2: I was stoked about not because my brother was leaving,
Speaker 2: but because he was going to live his life and
Speaker 2: go do what he's wanted to do. I feel like
Speaker 2: my life and my career. Some people look at it
Speaker 2: and see like, oh wow, that really takes over the
Speaker 2: whole family. And the thing is is it has, and
Speaker 2: there has been cases where it has, and there has
Speaker 2: been cases, of course where it hasn't. But I've always
Speaker 2: looked at my brother and questioned, like, what is what
Speaker 2: is who is he? What does he do? What does
Speaker 2: he want to be? Where's he going to go? And
Speaker 2: he's older than me, but I still, you know, I
Speaker 2: still look at him and I think like, what is
Speaker 2: what is his life? You know what I mean? And
Speaker 2: so this year when he decided to move down to Orlando.
Speaker 2: I was so proud of him because I was like,
Speaker 2: you freaking go. You go live your life, you go
Speaker 2: do your thing. Him and his girlfriend Abbey live down there.
Speaker 2: Now there arriving, they're so happy and so yeah, they're
Speaker 2: they're living their best life down there. I love going
Speaker 2: down there. I love actually staying at their apartment. I
Speaker 2: called their apartment the Ritz Carleton because it is the
Speaker 2: not the Ritz Carlton at all, but I love calling
Speaker 2: it that, and I love staying there with their dog.
Speaker 2: It's freaking great. But now that I know he was
Speaker 2: never coming home again, I was like, well, I'll screw that.
Speaker 2: He has the nicer room in the house, so I'm
Speaker 2: moving to his room. So I moved over to the room,
Speaker 2: and uh, yeah, it's been It's been freaking great. Uh.
Speaker 2: The other the other low light actually is is was
Speaker 2: a really devastating part of the year. In the beginning
Speaker 2: of the year, we got a sweet little puppy. His
Speaker 2: name was Toowey. He was the best dog ever. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, he was crazy. He uh used to put
Speaker 2: one arm up and scream all the time and then
Speaker 2: walk on it like he was fine. And and then
Speaker 2: just walk like you see he was. He would just
Speaker 2: sit there and then just like fall over like he was.
Speaker 2: He was the most personality crazy dog ever. Uh and unfortunate,
Speaker 2: on April twenty eighth, about a couple couple months maybe
Speaker 2: a month two months after we got him, he unfortunately
Speaker 2: was attacked by coyote and the coyote came in our yard,
Speaker 2: scooped him up and ran off. My my dad was
Speaker 2: outside with them, same morning routine too. He was out
Speaker 2: playing with the other dogs. My dad was five ten
Speaker 2: feet away from him. Like we know to watch for coyotes.
Speaker 2: It's a very big thing in our yard. We've had
Speaker 2: a coyote attack before that a dog has survived, and
Speaker 2: so it was you know, we were aware of it,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, it happened and we were all just devastated.
Speaker 2: And then a couple months later we got new puppy.
Speaker 2: His name is Clyde. We call him Baby Clyde. And
Speaker 2: I was looking at Clyde. Something came over me and
Speaker 2: I was like, I wonder when Clyde's birthday is. And
Speaker 2: no matter what you believe in, this is still a
Speaker 2: freaky coincidence, whether you believe in reincarnation or not. I
Speaker 2: don't know if I do or not, but it's still
Speaker 2: just a freaky coincidence. I was like, I wonder what
Speaker 2: his birthday is. I'm I never looked to see what
Speaker 2: a dog's birthday is said, but I was like, I
Speaker 2: want to know what when Clyde' is. It just came
Speaker 2: over me anyway, So I go and I pull out
Speaker 2: his birth certificate and he was born on April twenty ninth.
Speaker 2: So two, he passed away on April twenty eighth, and
Speaker 2: Clyde was born on the twenty ninth. Isn't that like,
Speaker 2: that's like there's some it's weird, it's freaky, but we
Speaker 2: missed Towey Boy every day. But we are very very
Speaker 2: grateful for Clyde, and we love all of our puppies.
Speaker 2: I feel like twenty twenty three for me was a
Speaker 2: pretty transitional year. Last year, New Year's Eve, we were
Speaker 2: we were on a cruise and I remember I was
Speaker 2: entering twenty twenty three and I was like, I have
Speaker 2: one rule for myself, only one. No dating. I had
Speaker 2: just gotten out of a whack. That's that's not fair
Speaker 2: to call it that I had just gotten out of
Speaker 2: a whack relationship and I had a lot of things
Speaker 2: happen to me, and I had a lot that I
Speaker 2: couldn't talk about pop happened. And there's still a lot
Speaker 2: that I can't talk about publicly that happened. But I
Speaker 2: did learn like, look, all right, no more public relationships.
Speaker 2: That is the lesson that I haven't learned. But I
Speaker 2: was like, all right, no dating in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: and Miss Mother Nature held me to it. There was
Speaker 2: a few times where I got close few people that
Speaker 2: I wanted really bad, but Miss Mother Nature was like
Speaker 2: absolutely not. Somehow she she swiped every every possible relationship
Speaker 2: away from me in twenty twenty three, which honestly was
Speaker 2: the best thing for me. At the end of the year,
Speaker 2: I got to do this massive project that I have
Speaker 2: been waiting about. I mean I've had the plan for
Speaker 2: it for two years, like the set and Stone plan,
Speaker 2: but I mean it's been in my head for six
Speaker 2: or seven years now, and so finally got to do
Speaker 2: this massive project. And if I would have been in
Speaker 2: a relationship, I wouldn't have been able to do the
Speaker 2: project the way that I wanted to in the way
Speaker 2: that I did, so like Miss Mother Nature and away
Speaker 2: had my back, but yeah, home girl was not letting
Speaker 2: me date. However, twenty twenty four is the year for me.
Speaker 2: Sign me up for the freaking bachelorette like count me
Speaker 2: in Dog, twenty twenty four is the year of dating. Also,
Speaker 2: something else that I wanted to do in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four is travel by myself a lot more. I traveled
Speaker 2: by myself for the first time ever in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: and it was freaking awesome. I went to Ohio for
Speaker 2: the first time. That was where I went for twenty
Speaker 2: four hours by myself on a word trip. But it
Speaker 2: was a lot of fun. And then I flew to
Speaker 2: New Zealand for Special Forces with my two best friends,
Speaker 2: so I wasn't alone, but I wasn't like it wasn't
Speaker 2: like I was with my parents, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And then flew to Hawaii by myself, I flowed, flew
Speaker 2: to Florida bunch by myself. I've kind of been all
Speaker 2: over by myself now and I thoroughly enjoy it. I
Speaker 2: always loved my solitude time, and I think it's I
Speaker 2: think it's a good thing, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Something that happens over New Year's that I feel like
Speaker 2: literally all seven billion of us in the world think
Speaker 2: about is New Year's resolutions. And I think New Year's
Speaker 2: resolutions are awesome, but I think sometimes they become unrealistic
Speaker 2: and people think that you're going to make a lifestyle
Speaker 2: change on the first of the year, and truthfully, best
Speaker 2: thing you probably do is make it the last day
Speaker 2: of the last year, you know what I mean. It
Speaker 2: is that way, Like you there's not as that is
Speaker 2: not as much fresh as I started mine on the
Speaker 2: December thirty first, and it was so great. I'm still
Speaker 2: sticking with them. It's been amazing. But I think New
Speaker 2: Year's resolutions, honestly, for me this year, I feel like
Speaker 2: over the time I've developed some pretty solid habits and
Speaker 2: I'm really happy with my keeping my room clean, my
Speaker 2: eating habits, which has been a learning curve and I'm
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about that eventually on this podcast,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's I've really developed some cool workout habits
Speaker 2: and cool eating habits, some cool sleeping habits, and I
Speaker 2: feel like there's now like I don't need to change
Speaker 2: anything or or make a massive change on you know,
Speaker 2: January first, but I just want to keep sticking to
Speaker 2: the plant now what I do need to do is
Speaker 2: stop biting my nails. That look I thought when I
Speaker 2: left Dance Moms, Maddie told me she because when I
Speaker 2: left Dance Moms, I text about it and I was like,
Speaker 2: guess what I left. And she was like, oh, get ready,
Speaker 2: you stop biting your nails immediately. And I was like, actually,
Speaker 2: for real and she was like, yeah, mine are literally
Speaker 2: perfect now because I left the show, and I was like, sick,
Speaker 2: here I am eight years later, still biting every day
Speaker 2: of my life. So that did not work out for me.
Speaker 2: But that's okay, that's all right, We're gonna, We're gonna
Speaker 2: it's it's fine, it's fine. Twenty twenty four for me,
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be a pretty epic year personally
Speaker 2: and professionally. I twenty twenty four is there's a lot
Speaker 2: in store. There's I mean, the most massive project of
Speaker 2: my career for sure is happening in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: And it's scary, and it's a shift and it's a change,
Speaker 2: and it is a goddamn leap of faith. And I
Speaker 2: think because it's something though that I'm so passionate about,
Speaker 2: I'm not scared of it. And I also think, thanks
Speaker 2: to Special Forces in twenty twenty three, I'm not really
Speaker 2: scared of much anymore, which is it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's good to have healthy fear, but I
Speaker 2: think sometimes fear can hold you back from doing something
Speaker 2: that you could really end up loving, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. And so I think I'm really excited for
Speaker 2: this new career journey that I'm gonna embark gone in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. It is scary, but I'm not scared.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? I feel like that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I mean, look, what goes around comes around, and I
Speaker 2: think it's I think it's gonna be good or it
Speaker 2: could be bad. You never know. Karma always chooses her
Speaker 2: own way. You never know how she's gonna go. Oh okay.
Speaker 2: I talked a little bit about traveling alone and twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four. So far, I have a couple of travel plans.
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk about this because I think it
Speaker 2: would be so fun, and especially because I don't even
Speaker 2: really know where we all went. I have to find
Speaker 2: out from the DS and stuff. But twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: when I did Special Forces, that was in Queenstown, New Zealand, However,
Speaker 2: we went all over New Zealand. They would stick us
Speaker 2: in a car and drive us for three hours and
Speaker 2: we never knew where we were going out long we
Speaker 2: were going to be in the car, like, we never
Speaker 2: knew anything, right, And something though that I want to
Speaker 2: do in twenty twenty four is I actually want to
Speaker 2: go to New Zealand again with my family and take
Speaker 2: them to the damn wall so they can like actually
Speaker 2: visualize it and see, like, whoa, that's like where they were,
Speaker 2: That's how tall it was. Take them to where the
Speaker 2: trenasium was set up, take them to all of the things,
Speaker 2: Take them to where the ice bath was, take them
Speaker 2: to where the hikes happened, take them to where our
Speaker 2: base was. Oh my gosh. So how the boat challenge
Speaker 2: was like really even for myself, like go back, Go
Speaker 2: stay at the hotel we stayed at before we actually
Speaker 2: went to forces the mill Burk. It was awesome, great,
Speaker 2: it was a freaking resort. It was amazing. Then we
Speaker 2: went to the freaking middle of nowhere, slept on a
Speaker 2: sheet and called it a day. But I think that'd
Speaker 2: be so fun. And then we also have a plan
Speaker 2: to go, Like I was saying, earlier icon on the seas.
Speaker 2: That's happening at the end of this month, end of January,
Speaker 2: and I am so excited. Oh. I always meet the
Speaker 2: best people on cruises. I always have the best time
Speaker 2: on cruises, and I I could not be any more
Speaker 2: stoked about it. Something that I do think is really
Speaker 2: to really focus on as I'm getting older is taking
Speaker 2: care of yourself, whether that's you know, some girlies do
Speaker 2: their self care, facial routine and nighttime routine. Me personally,
Speaker 2: I use baby face wash and baby lotion and that
Speaker 2: is it because baby wash on my whole body, baby
Speaker 2: lotion on my whole body. Call it a day Johnson
Speaker 2: and Johnson Newborn howshig not sponsored, but that stuff life changing.
Speaker 2: It's the only thing I put on my skin. It's great.
Speaker 2: No routine, it's one time. This was maybe like I
Speaker 2: think it was like three years ago. You know how
Speaker 2: Vogue do that thing where it's like Datta da skincare routine,
Speaker 2: get ready with dat da da, and it's like for Vogue,
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a pretty big deal, right Well,
Speaker 2: Vogue asked me to do it, and I of course
Speaker 2: said yes. You don't say no to Vogue. So they
Speaker 2: come over to the house, they set up, they do
Speaker 2: all this stuff. They're like, all right, uh, can you
Speaker 2: grab us your products so like we can we can
Speaker 2: set them up with the video and I was like,
Speaker 2: oh sure, grab my baby washing, grab my baby lotion
Speaker 2: on the handed to and they were like, oh no,
Speaker 2: we need like we need like products and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is them and they were like no, no, no, we
Speaker 2: need like your full skincare routine. And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this this is it. And they were like no, we
Speaker 2: need like your full thing and I was like no,
Speaker 2: I swear on my life, like I this is all
Speaker 2: I use. And we went back and forth, and I like,
Speaker 2: I was like I don't know I can with you.
Speaker 2: I'll like go through my covers like whatever y'all want.
Speaker 2: And they were super nice about it too, and I
Speaker 2: was super nice about it too. It just was like, not,
Speaker 2: this is not happening. So then we went through the house.
Speaker 2: We tried to like rummage up some shit to like
Speaker 2: put in this video to like make it look like Finally,
Speaker 2: after like ten minutes looking for stuff pulling my brother's
Speaker 2: girlfriend's skincare, I was like, this just isn't this just
Speaker 2: isn't the vibe, is it. And everyone was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: this just isn't the vibe. Like no hard feelings on
Speaker 2: either end, but like it's just not the vibe. And
Speaker 2: I was like, all right, let's let's not do it.
Speaker 2: So only project that I've ever like been on set
Speaker 2: and been like that, this isn't This isn't. You agree?
Speaker 2: I okay, I know it's just not. But back to
Speaker 2: what I was saying, taking care of yourself, eating, working
Speaker 2: out right, taking care of your body, getting outside, treating,
Speaker 2: getting enough sleep. Oh my gosh, I cannot stress how
Speaker 2: important sleep is. And I'm just learning that. And I
Speaker 2: I'm a very bad sleeper. I really am. I wake
Speaker 2: up alive in the middle of the night. I don't
Speaker 2: fall asleep easily. I do wake up easily because I'm like,
Speaker 2: all right, let's go freaking time to shine. The day
Speaker 2: before I did this big project in twenty twenty three though,
Speaker 2: like the biggest project, the one that I've been like
Speaker 2: talking about but not talking about, So the one if
Speaker 2: you follow me on social media and I use a
Speaker 2: a heart with the fire and the big wave emoji,
Speaker 2: this is that same project anyways. And so the night
Speaker 2: before that I fall asleep, and I don't fall asleep
Speaker 2: till like three in the morning. I'm just staying awake.
Speaker 2: I was practicing at home. I was just too stoked
Speaker 2: having the best night right too stoked, couldn't fall asleep,
Speaker 2: woke up at like my call time on set was
Speaker 2: like seven am, and so I was up at like
Speaker 2: four so I could get a workout in before I
Speaker 2: was just I was too excited. Long story short, not
Speaker 2: a good sleeper. So that is something though that I realized,
Speaker 2: like does affect me. And I noticed when I get
Speaker 2: a good night's sleep, how I wake up and how
Speaker 2: I feel and how I how I fall asleep, and
Speaker 2: it just it all depends when I don't sleep how
Speaker 2: I feel. And so figured out what works for me
Speaker 2: is actually comfort shows. If I put on a show
Speaker 2: from my childhood, that will put me to sleep. Currently,
Speaker 2: I'm in a good Luck Charlie phase. I've gone through
Speaker 2: a Zach and Cody phase, gone through a Wizards Waverley
Speaker 2: Place phase, and now I'm in a good Electrinity phase
Speaker 2: and it just freaking freaking gets the job done. In
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I fell in love with dance again,
Speaker 2: and that is something that I have found, my love for,
Speaker 2: lost my love for found my love lost, my love
Speaker 2: for found my love for lost my love for and I.
Speaker 2: Since I was about seventeen, I've been in a phase
Speaker 2: of like found my love for it again. But in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I this is this is oh, I
Speaker 2: getting serious. This is one of the hardest things for
Speaker 2: me to talk about because I can't legally to safety wise,
Speaker 2: to protect myself. I went through a situation in the
Speaker 2: beginning of twenty twenty three that actually affected my mental
Speaker 2: health mental well being more than anything ever has. And
Speaker 2: the only thing that got me through was dance. And
Speaker 2: there was days where I texted my friends and said, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm going up to the studio because my friends and
Speaker 2: I will do hang outside the studio. Will come up. Well,
Speaker 2: we'll talk, we'll dance, we'll have food, we'll chill, we'll gossip, like,
Speaker 2: we'll do whatever, like where everyone's pretty chill. But in
Speaker 2: the beginning of the year I was like I would
Speaker 2: There would be days where I like, I need to dance.
Speaker 2: Everyone's you're invited, please come, please hang out with me,
Speaker 2: But like, I have to dance today. It's not like
Speaker 2: a talk day. Because if I talk, I can't talk,
Speaker 2: and that really got me through that. And I what's
Speaker 2: crazy is that anytime I went through something that was
Speaker 2: hard or something that was made me not okay, I
Speaker 2: found myself wanting to go to Studio Siwa and wanting
Speaker 2: to dance. And now Studio c has kind of become
Speaker 2: that safe place for me and my closest friends. They
Speaker 2: will text me and be like can we go to
Speaker 2: the studios day? And I'll be like, I will meet
Speaker 2: you there in an hour, like count me in. And
Speaker 2: the amount of times that I have cried on the
Speaker 2: Studio Sewa floor is actually insane. I went through heartbreak
Speaker 2: without going through heartbreak this year because obviously no dating,
Speaker 2: but I definitely got my heartbroken this year. And I,
Speaker 2: when I tell you the what the walls have Studio
Speaker 2: Sea have sayed is co crazy. It is actually insane,
Speaker 2: but it's great and it's become my safe space. And
Speaker 2: now that's why I'm out there all the time, just
Speaker 2: to keep myself mentally happy. And I think that's something
Speaker 2: that's so important that when you find that thing that
Speaker 2: truly can keep you happy, embrace it, run with it,
Speaker 2: and keep freaking going with it. Ah Man. You know,
Speaker 2: I gotta admit, New Year's is one of my favorite holidays.
Speaker 2: I really love like the end of the year and
Speaker 2: the very beginning of the year holidays. End of the year,
Speaker 2: we got Halloween, we got Thanksgiving, we got Christmas, and
Speaker 2: then we got New Year's. That chunk of holidays for
Speaker 2: me is like my freaking kryptonite. I think the reason
Speaker 2: why I love New Year's is because I have a
Speaker 2: lot of fun New Year's memories. I mean, you know
Speaker 2: how you have those like super faint memories from when
Speaker 2: you were a kid. This one, I did gymnastics when
Speaker 2: I was little, And I have this one where we
Speaker 2: were at this our gymnastics place with me and my
Speaker 2: brother and it was like a big sleepover and you
Speaker 2: stayed all night you did gymnastic and I mean, god,
Speaker 2: I was probably four or five. Long story short, it
Speaker 2: was a babysitter for the parents to go out and
Speaker 2: go have a fun night and you stayed at the
Speaker 2: gym with the coaches and it was great. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure the gym that had to have been a cash
Speaker 2: cow for the gym cash cow. So there you go,
Speaker 2: dance teachers out there, if you're looking to make some
Speaker 2: money gymnastics coaches. I be looking to make some money
Speaker 2: freaking babysit on New Year's you will get bank that
Speaker 2: was backed. I also remember the year that, like my
Speaker 2: brother and I were old enough to be home alone,
Speaker 2: and my my parents went out. We uh we we
Speaker 2: banked pots and pans outside at midnight, and then we're like,
Speaker 2: all right, good night this year for New Year's I'm
Speaker 2: not even gonna sugar go what happened at all. I
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, I'm gonna have a great night. You're
Speaker 2: gonna stay up late. It's gonna be fun. Had steak
Speaker 2: dinner with my dad. It was amazing. He cooked the
Speaker 2: steak I decided. He had buffalo cauliflower, sweet potatoes, Brussels sprouts, broccoli,
Speaker 2: and flaming your on New York Strip and rabbi. It
Speaker 2: was the best meal ever. Anyways, after that, I was like,
Speaker 2: all right, I'm gonna go work out, so I stay awake,
Speaker 2: make it up to bed. I'm like, all right, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna stay up all this sudden. It's eleven fifty six,
Speaker 2: seven eleven, we'll say, we'll say six, we're gonna, we're gonna,
Speaker 2: We're gonna now. Actually we're gonna say seven because we're
Speaker 2: gonna make it even closer to midnights eleven fifty seven,
Speaker 2: and I was like, I can't do it. I'm going
Speaker 2: to bed, closed my eyes and I woke up and
Speaker 2: it was the next day. I could not do it. No,
Speaker 2: it was just I'm sired. I can't help. But my
Speaker 2: mom called me and she was like, so, who'd you
Speaker 2: bring in the New Year's with? And I was like,
Speaker 2: literally no one. I fell asleep and she was like
Speaker 2: I don't believe that for a second. And I was
Speaker 2: like okay, and she was like, who are you talking
Speaker 2: to and like cause she knew I was at home,
Speaker 2: but she was like, but who are you talking to
Speaker 2: him midnight? I was like, you can go through my
Speaker 2: call history, Like I don't know what tell you. I
Speaker 2: literally fell as I was like, I was determined to
Speaker 2: make it. Couldn't even stay awake three minutes. But I
Speaker 2: wasn't talking to anybody. I just was just was sleepy.
Speaker 2: Speaking speaking of my mom, toughout this podcast up, I
Speaker 2: actually have a funny story about her, so she my
Speaker 2: mom helps me out behind the scenes of this podcast.
Speaker 2: I have an incredible podcast team who kind of helps
Speaker 2: me figure out what will be I guess interesting to
Speaker 2: talk about because let's look at I'm sitting here talking
Speaker 2: to myself for thirty minutes. I gotta have some sort
Speaker 2: of structure, right. And then after we get that list,
Speaker 2: my mom goes through that list and like checks it out,
Speaker 2: kind of fills it in the gaps because she knows
Speaker 2: me better than I even know myself, right, And so
Speaker 2: she added this note to the end of my my
Speaker 2: what I Want to talk about list? And I laughed
Speaker 2: out loud because I was, like, Mom, this is so
Speaker 2: obviously wrote by you, it is actually hysterical. She wrote,
Speaker 2: You're really disciplined with your schedule and time. That is
Speaker 2: clearly something you taught yourself. What made you like this?
Speaker 2: Like mom, is that the advice that you want from me?
Speaker 2: But it's so funny because my mom and I we
Speaker 2: talk about all the time, and my dad and I,
Speaker 2: actually my dad and I talk about this more than
Speaker 2: my mom and I do. But how you know, parents,
Speaker 2: you raise your kids, and kids you're raised by your parents,
Speaker 2: and you have traits, You have beliefs, you have habits
Speaker 2: that you are taught, you have habits that you don't
Speaker 2: even know. You have things that you don't even know
Speaker 2: are taught, but they just are. They're inherited. And then
Speaker 2: you have like your stuff that you develop by yourself,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, and then you repeat the
Speaker 2: pattern to your kids. And something that I did not
Speaker 2: get for my parents at all is the way that
Speaker 2: I schedule out my day and my life. I quite
Speaker 2: literally schedule out every single day. I'll read you today's schedule.
Speaker 2: So I make a note on my phone every night
Speaker 2: before I fall asleep, I pick out my outfit or
Speaker 2: outfits for the next day, depending and then I write
Speaker 2: out my schedule. So last night at ten fifty two pm,
Speaker 2: I wrote down seven to fifteen, wake up, seven thirty,
Speaker 2: fat burner, finish up by eight eight fifteen, I eat breakfast.
Speaker 2: I had down yogurt, but then this morning I wanted
Speaker 2: to switch it to the alvocado and egg bagel, so
Speaker 2: we swapped it out. Nine o'clock, work out, ten thirty
Speaker 2: in the shower, at eleven o'clock, get ready, twelve o'clock,
Speaker 2: eat lunch, twelve thirty podcasts after that in any particular order,
Speaker 2: go through photos, go to the studio, drum, run your
Speaker 2: old tour, XMG prep choreography, set up pastries for tomorrow.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of how like I structure out my life,
Speaker 2: and that is definitely not something that I've learned from
Speaker 2: my family. My family is like a wake up at
Speaker 2: your leisure, order breakfast when you're feeling it, wake up
Speaker 2: when you're feeling it, maybe get ready, maybe done, get
Speaker 2: some work done, has some lunch, get some more work done,
Speaker 2: call it a night. I'm like, no, I set my alarm,
Speaker 2: I wake up, I do this, I do that, I
Speaker 2: eat this, I eat, then I go there, I travel there.
Speaker 2: And there will be some days where like my day
Speaker 2: is like specifically structured, Like tomorrow, I have rehearsals with
Speaker 2: my girl group where I'm choreographing for their two that
Speaker 2: they are going on in twenty twenty four. Gets your
Speaker 2: tickets at live nation dot com. My girl group Xomgpop
Speaker 2: we have our first tour choreography day, and it literally
Speaker 2: my day will be structured out. To wake up, I'll
Speaker 2: plan my wake up time, my workout time, my breakfast time.
Speaker 2: Then I'll plan what time I go to the studio,
Speaker 2: and then from there I'll plan how and what time
Speaker 2: I drum for, what time I stretch for what time
Speaker 2: I rehearse for what time I eat for like I'll
Speaker 2: really I'll go into graphic detail about how particular it is.
Speaker 2: And that's just one of those things that keeps me
Speaker 2: on track. It's one of those habits that I developed
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three. Actually I didn't do it before
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, so it's definitely a twenty twenty three habit,
Speaker 2: and that is one that I'm grateful for that's stuck
Speaker 2: around and I think think if I could, if I
Speaker 2: could give any advice, it is create habits that can
Speaker 2: just become your lifestyle. Create eating habits instead of going on,
Speaker 2: you know, a diet. Sometimes a diet is the right answer.
Speaker 2: You need to like really drop it and then figure
Speaker 2: out what your common ground is, or you need to
Speaker 2: really gain it and then figure out what your common
Speaker 2: ground is. But you know, find something that you can
Speaker 2: truly maintain, and it might be small changes for me.
Speaker 2: It's something that I've definitely had to learn with my
Speaker 2: diet because I I'm already I mean, I'm a little
Speaker 2: I'm little, you know what I mean, And so I've
Speaker 2: had to figure out to get to my body goals.
Speaker 2: Can't necessarily put myself on a diet because that could
Speaker 2: get unhealthy for my body type, and so I've had
Speaker 2: to be very slow about my process, very slow about
Speaker 2: changing little tiny habits that will make a difference. But
Speaker 2: here I am two years in and it's still making
Speaker 2: the difference, and it's gotten frustrating. But I know overall,
Speaker 2: it's not what you look like in your body in
Speaker 2: the mirror. It's what you feel like, what your health
Speaker 2: is like. And that's the stuff that is truly important.
Speaker 2: And that is why I'm going to do a whole
Speaker 2: podcast dedicated to things that I've learned, work out things,
Speaker 2: eating things, things, hell things, because that is something that
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three I became so passionate about. So
Speaker 2: we are gonna fall down the rabbit hole, fall down
Speaker 2: the drain, and that will be on a Jojeseua now
Speaker 2: coming up, So you'll just have to wait and listen
Speaker 2: to that. Everybody, I just want to say, happy freaking
Speaker 2: New Year. I hope you have the best twenty twenty
Speaker 2: four ever. Thank you for listening. Makes you listen to
Speaker 2: all of the podcasts everywhere you listen to your podcast,
Speaker 2: listen to every Joja's you wa now and get Ready
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. There's gonna be so much awesome coming
Speaker 2: your way. I love y'all and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 2: Peace out. Thank you so much for listening, everybody.
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