Speaker 1: This is Take twenty with Mattie and Kenzie Ziggler and
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio podcast. Hey guys, so we have Mia
Speaker 1: back again and we are so excited to ask me
Speaker 1: a more questions. And yeah, so I wanted to know
Speaker 1: since we were talking about all of the things that
Speaker 1: you do, because you're just like, you know, you can
Speaker 1: do everything. Um, how do you juggle all of that,
Speaker 1: especially going to u c l A and living on
Speaker 1: campus and you're also doing movies and you're doing music
Speaker 1: and you're doing all these things. How how do you
Speaker 1: juggle everything? Honestly, I don't even know. I literally like
Speaker 1: I really don't. I take it day by day honestly,
Speaker 1: just because like my schedule will just get so busy
Speaker 1: for like no reason at all, and I'm like like
Speaker 1: I have to take a deep breast, like I have
Speaker 1: to take a step by step and like check things
Speaker 1: off my list, like something that I will do. It's
Speaker 1: like right out, I'll get really overwhelmed and like I
Speaker 1: have so much to do, Like I have to learn
Speaker 1: my audition, I have to do X, Y and Z,
Speaker 1: I have this lesson whatever, my school work, my interns.
Speaker 1: I'll write down everything that I have to do and
Speaker 1: then usually it's not as much as I think it
Speaker 1: is once you write it down, and then you just
Speaker 1: go off the list, right, And like as you get
Speaker 1: stuff done, you just crossed off the list, and then
Speaker 1: you have like peace of mind in a way because
Speaker 1: you see it on paper and you're like, okay, so
Speaker 1: it's not as much as as it seems in my head.
Speaker 1: So you just kind of go through it and once
Speaker 1: you do it, you take it off. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think another thing is like you don't have to
Speaker 1: like do everything all at once, you know, like you
Speaker 1: can take your time, and like that's something that I
Speaker 1: am still learning as well, because when I get stuff,
Speaker 1: like I feel very overwhelmed and I'm like I have
Speaker 1: to do everything, but you know, if you just take
Speaker 1: your time and do it and like don't stress yourself out,
Speaker 1: because if you stress yourself out, you're not going to
Speaker 1: get it done. So of course, yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: such a good thing for everyone listening as well, even
Speaker 1: for me, Like I'm like, oh my gosh, I should
Speaker 1: really start writing down everything because if you do everything,
Speaker 1: you know, like in situations where your schedule builds up,
Speaker 1: it's like everything sometimes feels like a ten when really
Speaker 1: it's maybe like a five or six, you know, like
Speaker 1: in the bigger picture, like everything, really if you just
Speaker 1: like you said, just take a moment, take a deep breath,
Speaker 1: step back from it, write it down, and then you're like, huh,
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm capable of doing that, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to do it one at a time and then I'll
Speaker 1: accomplish it. That's a really smart thing to do, because
Speaker 1: you can't do everything at the same time, like you
Speaker 1: will just go crazy. You can't do that. Literally, that's
Speaker 1: so important. Okay, So is there any piece of advice
Speaker 1: that you've learned from your mom or even your dad,
Speaker 1: even because you have such an incredible family and they're
Speaker 1: so intelligent, and I don't know, I feel like your
Speaker 1: mom has just always given such great advice. Is there
Speaker 1: anything that she's taught you that you've like this, It
Speaker 1: could be anything that you've kind of taken with you
Speaker 1: through life now as like a young adult. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's literally everything. I mean literally, my whole
Speaker 1: like mindset and everything is like based off of, you know,
Speaker 1: my parents, because I do look up to them as well.
Speaker 1: I think that like even like the thing that we're
Speaker 1: talking about last about like managing time and stuff. Like
Speaker 1: my mom literally tells me like write everything you have
Speaker 1: to do down and then get things off your list,
Speaker 1: like that's her things. Like I didn't make that up.
Speaker 1: She does. She told me to do that, you know.
Speaker 1: So like I can't take credit for half of this
Speaker 1: stuff because like my parents just I don't know, they
Speaker 1: just taught me how to get things done. But like
Speaker 1: also take care of yourself as well. And I think
Speaker 1: that's another thing that like my parents like really instilled
Speaker 1: in me, is like taking care of yourself, um and
Speaker 1: just like self care and away, but like really like
Speaker 1: doing like I don't know, doing stuff for yourself, like
Speaker 1: being kind to yourself, you know, because I beat myself
Speaker 1: up all the time about like random things, and they're
Speaker 1: always someone telling me to like take a step back,
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, um, like you can do this.
Speaker 1: Like they're always there supporting me, you know. And I
Speaker 1: feel like they support so many other people as well.
Speaker 1: Like we have like a lot of friends and family
Speaker 1: members that like we always want to like look out
Speaker 1: for a stick up four and be supportive for And
Speaker 1: I feel like I get that a lot from them
Speaker 1: as well. Um, like I I like cheering on my
Speaker 1: friends and my family and like the people that like
Speaker 1: I love, so I feel like they definitely helped with that.
Speaker 1: And I feel like whenever you help and lift other
Speaker 1: people up, it's just gonna make you feel good, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna help lift you up as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's basically like treating people how you would want to
Speaker 1: be treated, even necessarily if it's not reciprocated. You know,
Speaker 1: I feel like people forget that, Like, you know, everyone
Speaker 1: isn't you, so you know, you just kind of have to.
Speaker 1: You just have to be a good person or you're
Speaker 1: very not a good person. You know. It also really
Speaker 1: shows like who you surround yourself with, because I think
Speaker 1: like and obviously it's really hard as you're a teenager,
Speaker 1: because and you're as you're growing up, because sometimes you know,
Speaker 1: you can let someone in who whose intentions you thought
Speaker 1: were pure and they maybe they weren't. And I think
Speaker 1: like even just having negative people around is such it
Speaker 1: really affects your everyday life, and I think it's so important,
Speaker 1: Like and it's it's it's okay to make mistakes and
Speaker 1: to you know, make friends with people that you end
Speaker 1: up realizing maybe aren't the best fit for you. But like,
Speaker 1: as long as you are surrounding yourself with people who
Speaker 1: are positive and kind and uplifting and people that really
Speaker 1: motivate you to be a good person or have a
Speaker 1: good day, I think it's really important. And even like
Speaker 1: with Unia, like every every time I know I hang
Speaker 1: out with you, I know I'm going to leave feeling
Speaker 1: happy or I'm feeling good because but it's true, You're
Speaker 1: just a genuine, like happy soul and you have such
Speaker 1: great intentions and you're just such a kind person and
Speaker 1: it really shows and it it radiates like everything, Like
Speaker 1: I think anyone who could look at you could just say, wow,
Speaker 1: that person looks like a very nice person. You are true,
Speaker 1: literally I love that. That's so sweet. But like it's
Speaker 1: such a big like that is a huge factor. Like
Speaker 1: you have to surround yourself with good people and people
Speaker 1: that like you know, we'll support you and look look
Speaker 1: out for you. You have you have to have that
Speaker 1: network of people. Of course, Um, well, I feel like
Speaker 1: we haven't touched on this topic yet, but you have
Speaker 1: a podcast I do, so do you want to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about that and how you came up
Speaker 1: with the idea and you could maybe give us some
Speaker 1: tips because you started before we did. So. I have
Speaker 1: a podcast with miss Tila Dunn called Adulting, and basically
Speaker 1: what it's about is is, you know, in the name,
Speaker 1: we just are going through our adult lives. And it's
Speaker 1: kind of cool because she's twenty five, I'm twenties, so
Speaker 1: like there's a little bit of a difference, but we're
Speaker 1: still like early on adults. You know, we're trying to
Speaker 1: like figure out adulthood from like being a teenager. So
Speaker 1: that's like living by yourself, going to college, I don't know,
Speaker 1: taking care of your mental health, take care of your body. Um,
Speaker 1: you're you know, how you handle relationships, not only you know, romantically,
Speaker 1: but friendships as well. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different factors in adulthood that you know, you you kind
Speaker 1: of just go through. It's exhausting, Like if you laundry,
Speaker 1: you have to wash your dishes, you have to go
Speaker 1: get gas, you have to put your oil chains, like
Speaker 1: there's so much and basically it's us, um just talking
Speaker 1: about those things and how we do them and hopefully
Speaker 1: have a litlehead mind well doing them how amazing. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not there yet, but I listened to your
Speaker 1: podcast as if I am one, Like, No, you definitely
Speaker 1: are like an adult Maddie, like, you definitely are. You
Speaker 1: guys are very independent. So if that's not adult thing,
Speaker 1: I don't know what is. What kind of sparked your
Speaker 1: interest to do a podcast? Like besides obviously the fact
Speaker 1: that you were like, we want to talk about this,
Speaker 1: like was there because for us and like me and
Speaker 1: Kenzie specifically, we were just like and you can relate
Speaker 1: to this TUNI is like we have grown up with
Speaker 1: people watching us in in the spotlight. I guess you
Speaker 1: could call it. I've I don't know, and I I
Speaker 1: feel like people feel like they know everything about us,
Speaker 1: but they know a version of us. They know they
Speaker 1: they I think most of the time when people come
Speaker 1: up and recognize us, don't you still feel like they
Speaker 1: think we're like people because that we've evolved, we've changed,
Speaker 1: We've grown up totally. So I feel like that's that's
Speaker 1: cool too, that you have a podcast talking literally about
Speaker 1: adult ing and like growing as a person and maturing
Speaker 1: in your life and doing new things and trying new
Speaker 1: things and figuring out life in its own And I
Speaker 1: think that's really important because I think people really, you know,
Speaker 1: are stuck in this like version of us. So it's
Speaker 1: cool to see that we're growing up and we're evolving,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna mankee mistakes and we're gonna have success
Speaker 1: and we're going to do all the things, because that's
Speaker 1: what it's like to be an adult exactly Exactly, there's
Speaker 1: upstairs downs, but yeah, basically kind of like the same
Speaker 1: thing as you guys. Like I felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: I've I'm twenty now, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's time for people to like hopefully like if they listen,
Speaker 1: they can see how much I've grown as a person,
Speaker 1: you know. And then also I think it was just
Speaker 1: something that it was something that was passionate about because
Speaker 1: I like talking in a way where like I like
Speaker 1: talk shows, and I felt like it's kind of like
Speaker 1: a little talk show. Isn't it so fun? Like talking microphone?
Speaker 1: Sorry this is so I don't mean to cut you off,
Speaker 1: but nia remember we had a talk show when we
Speaker 1: were younger. Yes, well why did we actually it? And
Speaker 1: it was called t Talk, wasn't it? No? No No, no,
Speaker 1: it was called it was called celeb Secrets. Oh, secrets,
Speaker 1: did you. Guys used to film it in like the
Speaker 1: hotels we have filming in the hotels. We would sit
Speaker 1: on chairs like in the in the hallway, or it
Speaker 1: would be like a bench and we would just set
Speaker 1: up our iPad and be like, so, yeah today, yeah,
Speaker 1: welcome to that's the memories. I know, but I continue.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, stop. I guess we've always just like talking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we all love talking. We love it because maybe we
Speaker 1: got to bring it back. Maybe we bring Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what about the farm. That's what I'm like, What about
Speaker 1: the farm? We always said we would have one. We
Speaker 1: were going in on investment right now, I think we
Speaker 1: should actually start looking. I need to tell everyone this.
Speaker 1: Because we were obsessed with video games, Niah and I especially,
Speaker 1: We would always sit together on the bus because both
Speaker 1: of us like, I don't know why, why didn't we
Speaker 1: We always just like that was just like all right, um,
Speaker 1: and so we would play Minecraft and we would make farm.
Speaker 1: You also played it as well, but we would make
Speaker 1: a farm every time we played. It would be literally
Speaker 1: a different day, different farm, every single day. And we've
Speaker 1: always every day and we would We've been saying since
Speaker 1: we were like six, I was six years old that
Speaker 1: we were going to have a farm. We really need
Speaker 1: to know what I think. We just haven't made it
Speaker 1: to that. Yeah, but I do know in our lifetime
Speaker 1: we're going to have this farm. You know what you
Speaker 1: could do? You could have a talk show on your phone.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's called It's called Alpacas Secrets Secret
Speaker 1: And I'm so funny. We're like breaking baby goats. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have baby chickens. We're gonna have baby horses, We're
Speaker 1: gonna have It's like, do we realize that these babies
Speaker 1: will grow up a right? Like that is funny. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're like just baby pigs, just baby pigs, just babies, babies. Remember,
Speaker 1: we would like kill all of the you know, like
Speaker 1: in Minecraft, were like you can spawn a bunch of
Speaker 1: animals and then like we would only keep the baby ones.
Speaker 1: We would never keep the big ones. Ever, we don't keep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so bad. Well, now you've learned that in your adult
Speaker 1: ing podcast that not only do we evolve and grow
Speaker 1: up and others and everything else in life that's hilarious.
Speaker 1: This is kind of off topic, but imagine like because
Speaker 1: you know, when you're a competition dancer and you basically
Speaker 1: just plan for your life to be that you compete
Speaker 1: from whenever you start to like till you're graduating high school.
Speaker 1: So like, imagine if we imagine if we like continued
Speaker 1: competing until we were eighteen, and how different our lives
Speaker 1: would be. I think about that sometimes and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my, it would be so toxic. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Like I'm so happy we we did because like because
Speaker 1: it literally just like it's so bad for your mental
Speaker 1: on your body, on your on your mental health. Just
Speaker 1: like it's a lot, it's a lot, and I'm so
Speaker 1: happy we were like able to like get out of
Speaker 1: that world and experience like our teens um not in
Speaker 1: that environment. I think it's really nice and like it's
Speaker 1: so funny because when we were younger, I would always think,
Speaker 1: like why do you, like why are there as many seniors?
Speaker 1: Like why do you ever why does everyone always quit
Speaker 1: like senior year or whatever. I'm like, I know, I
Speaker 1: know why. Now I'm like, because at a certain point,
Speaker 1: you just want to like have certain experiences with friends, families,
Speaker 1: just milestone milestones and um being in you know, that
Speaker 1: competition dance world, and it might be great for some,
Speaker 1: but it might just not work for other people. So
Speaker 1: it was kind of nice to kind of get both
Speaker 1: sides of it, like at least, you know, our our
Speaker 1: childhood was, you know, you know, in front of a
Speaker 1: camera doing competition dance like what seven like insane too,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of having like a regular life and
Speaker 1: going back to school and having friends outside the dance
Speaker 1: and you know, trying to figure out other things that
Speaker 1: you're passionate about, even for normal people. I mean, we
Speaker 1: are normal people, but you get what I mean for
Speaker 1: kids that for kids that go to school and go
Speaker 1: to dance, it's just still your entire life. You have
Speaker 1: to devote so much time that like you don't have
Speaker 1: time for friends, you don't have time for these things.
Speaker 1: So it's just like dance takes a big toll, and
Speaker 1: I think I think also, I'm so happy that we
Speaker 1: were able to like get out of competition world when
Speaker 1: we did, because we already started kind of having pretty
Speaker 1: intense body issues when we were young, like even when
Speaker 1: we were like eleven, like ten eleven, twelve, thirteen, And
Speaker 1: just imagine how much that would progress. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying I don't have body issues, because I definitely have
Speaker 1: a lot of like I I definitely have body dysmorphy,
Speaker 1: and I think we all do um and I think
Speaker 1: anyone who you know in our generation who has social
Speaker 1: media can probably But it's crazy how like you think,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, okay, fine, I'm out of the competition one.
Speaker 1: I don't have to deal with it anymore, and then
Speaker 1: you go on social media and you're like, oh, here
Speaker 1: I am again comparing myself and wishing I look different.
Speaker 1: It's just like an ongoing cycle that it's not even like,
Speaker 1: it's not even what situation you're in, it's just kind
Speaker 1: of carries along with you. And I think that is
Speaker 1: also why like going back to your role model Monday,
Speaker 1: is just because you can see that there can be
Speaker 1: so many different types of people who do different hobbies,
Speaker 1: do different things, who are all different skin colors, who
Speaker 1: are all different body sizes, and everyone is beautiful in
Speaker 1: their own way. And I think it's just really important
Speaker 1: to show. And something that I think we should that
Speaker 1: we all you know, are trying to navigate is just like, man,
Speaker 1: it's hard being a teenager and growing up in competition
Speaker 1: world as a dancer, being told you need to look
Speaker 1: fit or whatever, and then carrying that into social media.
Speaker 1: It's it's a really toxic, especially like growing up as
Speaker 1: a dancer, you're just like so hyper aware of your
Speaker 1: body in general, like whether it's feeling really, whether it's
Speaker 1: not feeling okay, whether it's um you don't like how
Speaker 1: it looks in the mirror, because you're always staring after
Speaker 1: yourself in the mirror in the dance too constantly, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: so you're very aware of what your body looks like,
Speaker 1: what your body can do, what your ability is. And
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people who are also just
Speaker 1: like in sports and athletics can like relate as well.
Speaker 1: So like coming from that world to even just like
Speaker 1: to social media, seeing it still just kind of like
Speaker 1: transfer over to social media kind of crazy. It's it's
Speaker 1: really weird because you would think that you could get
Speaker 1: once you stopped doing whatever that was, it would be done.
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about it anymore. But then
Speaker 1: now we stopped into like this new like area and
Speaker 1: it's social social media, and you know all those curated
Speaker 1: pictures of everyone looking perfect, because let's be honest, is
Speaker 1: everyone's highlight reel. No one's going to post like a
Speaker 1: bad picture of themselves. You know, so we're all basing
Speaker 1: our normal lives off of someone's like picture perfect life
Speaker 1: on social media, and that creates like a lot of
Speaker 1: comp with in your head because if you're like, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, like I'm not doing this or I don't
Speaker 1: look like that, and oh my gosh, it's a mess.
Speaker 1: And I think that's why it's really good. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: It's a mess, yeah, but I think that's I think
Speaker 1: it's really important that you know, people keep on sharing,
Speaker 1: you know that we're all in this together. And like,
Speaker 1: although social media can be great because I can post
Speaker 1: things like my role model mondays, it can also be
Speaker 1: really harmful as well, because you know, you see so
Speaker 1: many different people, so many different things, so many different
Speaker 1: opinions where you kind of feel lost or you feel
Speaker 1: like you know you're not good enough. So I feel
Speaker 1: like it's really good that you guys are like bringing
Speaker 1: up this conversation and like kind of just letting people
Speaker 1: know that you relate. And then we all have insecurities
Speaker 1: and things that we're dealing with, um just to feel like,
Speaker 1: just to make the world a little smaller and make
Speaker 1: the world feel hopefully a little bit more comfortable with themselves. Um,
Speaker 1: even though it is kind of hard, but I definitely think,
Speaker 1: like you know, social media cleanses sometimes could be nice,
Speaker 1: you know, like taking taking stuff back, take a day
Speaker 1: off from social media. Um, you know, just certain things
Speaker 1: like that. I can honestly kind of kind of help
Speaker 1: you in that sort of way. But totally everyone's everyone's
Speaker 1: struggles with nowadays. But it's because of you and and
Speaker 1: and people like you who just are great inspirations and
Speaker 1: instead of bringing negativity, bring light and try and focus
Speaker 1: on you know, what's to come. And we really appreciate
Speaker 1: you being on here just because we not only like
Speaker 1: look up to you so much, but you're also just
Speaker 1: one of the best people we know and we think
Speaker 1: you're such an amazing friend and we love you so
Speaker 1: You've impacted our lives so much. Honestly, some of our
Speaker 1: i mean some of our best memories have been with
Speaker 1: each other. So it's just actually really cool to that
Speaker 1: we're still friends. Yea, that is true. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming on and we a
Speaker 1: light to everyone's life and we love you so much.
Speaker 1: Thanks guys. Okay, I love you guys too. By guys,
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