WEBVTT - La Vida as an Influencer. 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:05.920 I'm Honey Germy. My parents are Dominican. I was born 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:08.320 and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:09.840 I'm a body positive advocate. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.280 I'm Carolina bermudez Sonkawns, but I was born and raised 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:18.400 in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama, and a worker bee. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.520 This is life and spanglish. You guys, we are having 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:22.119 so much fun. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.840 We had just such an amazing conversation with Lil Sasolm Packet. 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:28.000 That we had to keep her for an extra week. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:29.600 So thank you so much for. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.320 Being of course, of course I enjoyed myself. I'm glad 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:32.880 to be here. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.680 So now we were discussing on the last episode because 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.080 we were talking like we hit so many things, your 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.920 your rise to now making. 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:44.839 This your career. We talked about your family not following. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:49.120 Your family's footsteps, choosing a different career, and we were 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:52.840 talking about body positivity and I wanted to stop down 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.920 to let you know just how impactful it is. But 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.440 there was a day where, you know, and this is 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:00.840 the thing where I hear all the time people like, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.960 oh well what girl, why are you worried or why 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.160 are you so you know, upset you're this, You're that, 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:09.440 you know, like when we talk about bodies, you know, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.679 everybody has their own body. You have to be comfortable 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:13.880 in your own skin. And I think we all have 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.920 our own insecurities. And there was a day where I 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:20.240 was really like not feeling myself and I was just down, 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.039 like about everything, you know what I mean. And so 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.360 again I go to Instagram and you know, I'm just 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.160 scrolling through and then I see one of your videos 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.600 where you're talking about how we have to like love 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.919 the skin that we're in. We got this one life 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.240 and how you have completely embraced who you are and 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.440 what you are, And so I wanted to share that 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.160 with people because there are so many of us who 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:44.839 need to hear things like this. Yeah. 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.240 Yeah, It's like I said, I really believe that this 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.960 world will do everything in its power to make you 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:57.440 feel like less than, whether it's comparing or invalidating sometimes 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.680 how you feel about yourself. You could sit there and 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.720 feel like I have this issue and someone's gonna be like, oh, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.800 but you don't have this, or there's someone who has 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:07.600 it worse. It's like, can I just accept like how 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.960 I'm feeling right now, so that I can get through it. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.000 That's exactly it, because it doesn't mean that I'm ungrateful. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.680 I recognize I'm breathing, I can see, I can touch, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.240 I can feel all of these things. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.880 But there are days where you just kind of feel 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:21.200 like blah. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.200 About yourself, you know, and I think that like there 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.239 also is that other side of like almost toxic positivity. 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.160 Yeah, don't allow you to just feel the feeling. 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:29.600 Like you can't. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.960 You can't just be real with yourself and say like 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.480 today I just don't feel like it because someone else 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.160 has to come in and be like oh but again, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:37.840 like again comparison, and. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:39.760 You notice that we don't do that when somebody is like. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.720 Happy, like if I want a PlayStation and someone's not 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.400 gonna be like, oh, well, there's other people out there 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.959 that have mansions like can I accept my happiness on 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.400 this PlayStation? So I feel like when you're down, people 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.919 love to almost invalidate, like how you're feeling in that moment. 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.800 And I'm a big believer. If this is how I feel, 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:56.360 I accept how I feel. It doesn't mean I'm going 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.040 to stay here, but I have to acknowledge it in 0:02:58.120 --> 0:02:59.040 order to get through it. 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:03.080 Yeah, So no, we are talking with Lil Sasolm packet 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.720 three t's at the end because you gotta follow her 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.799 on Instagram all social media. So I wanted to bring 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.040 you back because we had so many different questions that 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.560 we didn't get to get to last week, and one 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.040 of the first ones is do you have any favorite 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.880 creators that you follow or like, how do you how 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:21.880 do you come up with the things that you like 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:26.880 post on Insta and TikTok eighty HD trauma. 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.520 No, honestly, I kid you not like I put on 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.000 the camera and I don't know what I'm going to 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:33.680 talk about. I don't plan them out. I don't sit 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.920 there and be like today I'm gonna talk about this. 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.440 I put roll and whatever blurts out, I'm like, okay, 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:40.640 I guess that's what. 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.400 We're feeling like today. But I have some creators that 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:44.640 I really look up to. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.560 They're friends of mine. I have this friend his Instagram 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.280 handle is rich black Guy. He does stuff with his son. 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.560 He's just very like he's so everything is like a movie, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.400 and I love the stuff that he does. I have 0:03:56.440 --> 0:04:00.320 another creator named Barbosa people who just rant New York City. 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.200 I love and I follow creators that you can just 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.440 tell that they're just themselves. They're not they're trying to 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.640 be anything else, putting on a whole show. I can't 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.120 sit there and watch other creators Like I try to 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:13.000 do my best to. 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:14.680 Post up and get off the internet. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:18.560 Oh really, I do, because since when it becomes a career, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:21.919 sometimes you get so mentally drained in doing so that 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.320 you don't even want to do nothing with social media. 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.920 Because again, when you're an influencer, everything is social. 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:27.600 It's true. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.040 So at some point it's like I need to unwind. 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:31.680 I have to remember what it was like to be 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.080 outside when MySpace was a thing, and like you know, 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:37.919 back in the days when social media just started and 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:39.120 you didn't know what to do with it. Like I 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.040 have to bring myself back so that I'm not everything 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.640 doesn't become watching the likes and the views and getting 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:46.400 upsessed with the follows and the unfollows and the hate. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.520 It's just it can take over. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:49.720 That can be toxic too, Like when you don't get 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:51.719 the likes on the video, Oh yeah, did you brush 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.040 it off? Or are you like. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.680 There are I have to detach myself from my work 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:59.479 in a sense where it's just like if I put 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:01.040 it up, I have to be like, well, I like it, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.520 because before I used to be like, this is gonna go. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.159 Viral, this is a hit. Expectations were too high, too high. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.560 Girl was like, again, those are the videos I get 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:13.680 the three likes my first viral video, I will never forget. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.760 We got two million on YouTube. All I did was say, hey, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.599 I say the word talk, and I didn't realize I 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:21.440 had an accent. I So to this day, I look 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.600 at that video and I'm like, I don't understand why 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:25.839 you got two million views. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.480 But I'm in my mail truck talking about talk. 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.039 I didn't realize they say talk, it's talk, but I 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.640 say talk and I just posted it, didn't think anything 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:33.880 of it. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:34.680 Two million views. 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.400 It really be like that. A lot of the viral 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.159 stuff I'm like, okay. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:42.240 No one kid a million views isles things, Yeah, that 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.880 can really pop off. So it's like, but by the way, 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.680 she said my Space, I feel like we would be 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:47.239 in your topic. 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.359 I miss I missed the top e. But I know 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.000 this worl could not handle a topic. They could not 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.200 excuse me. I was five yesterday. What you mean I'm seven. 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.520 I think that you are in my opinion, a trailblazer. 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.360 But what does it mean to you? 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.920 To me, I felt, you know, I realized earlier on, 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.320 I felt like there were so many I don't think 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.240 that there's a lack of Latina representation. I think there's 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.400 a lack of pushing the Latina representation and them being 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.840 big faces. I think that a lot of them are 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.960 slept on and channels are not being pushed the way 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.000 that they need to. So for me to get some 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.600 kind of recognition, it means a lot. And that's why 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.599 I'm such a I'm a big believer of putting on people. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.919 I'm not a gatekeeper. I'm very much If I believe 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:35.800 in you, I'll share your stuff because sharing is free, 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.000 don't cost nothing to just tag people. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.000 And I think there just needs to be more of that. 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.160 I think a lot at times with the Latino community, 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.560 we have a tendency of glorifying struggle where it's like 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.760 I struggle, so you need to struggle, And I'm not 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.280 about that. I think there needs to be more of 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.039 us who are willing to extend a hand of like, hey, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.520 I made it here, and if I see you're trying 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.640 and I believe in you, here like I'll put you 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.080 on or I'll give you an opportunity, because there there 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.599 are many of us, just we're not on these bigger platforms. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.760 And I think it's because, of course, not only is 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.479 it kind of against us the industry to kind of 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.240 put us on, but there's not enough support amongst each other. 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:12.280 There's more competition. 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:13.720 So it means a lot. 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:15.920 To me to just be having a space like that 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:16.520 that could do that. 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.440 And your voice has an impact, you know, and a 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.000 lasting impact. So I think that that is something that 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.200 people need to remember. But now, what kind of advice 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:26.600 would you give your younger self. 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:32.080 It's gonna be all right, I don't chose those boys, 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.120 I would say, younger me. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:35.600 It's funny. 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:39.240 Younger me was more wanting to be a wife than 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.680 wanting to be like a business woman. Like I always 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:44.400 was more into relationships and stuff like that. And not 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:46.840 that that's a bad thing, but I feel like there 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.559 was a part of me that I was always pouring 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.360 into other people and not willing to give that to myself. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.120 But don't you think that that is the example. That's 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:55.040 the example that. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:56.040 I had from my mom. 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.680 Oh yeah, my mom. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.480 Gave up her entire Life mentioned this on the podcast 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.440 because she was raising six kids. My mom had dreams. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.000 My mom never got to realize those dreams. But it's 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.720 almost like in our community, not only is it expected, 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.559 but it's venerated. Yeah, that you gave it up because 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.600 of the kids, you know, and even for people who 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.920 don't have kids, you're still giving up something like it's 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:20.360 such a selfless thing. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.920 But I think it's we not doing that no more. 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:23.120 Care. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:26.200 I am so sorry, we just do that no more. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.160 It's honestly, to me, it's almost like a false sense 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.240 of humility at some point, because it's almost like we 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:34.880 can't even accept help if we're struggling sometimes. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:36.400 Because we feel like, no, as a Latina, you have 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:36.880 to have it. 0:08:36.920 --> 0:08:39.079 You have to be able to hold down the fort 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.040 and hold on a job and hold on all the stuff. 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:42.280 And it's just like it's okay to say that you 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.679 need help. And again, like you said, it's completely venerated 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.439 to the point that people feel like amongst the Latino community, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.000 we serve the man and the kids and everyone else 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.680 gets served first, and we last the scraps, and you know, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.520 it's it's honorable, And I'm like, no, there has to 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.719 be a point where you're like, it's okay to pour 0:08:58.760 --> 0:08:59.680 into myself too. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.160 Okay. So I have two stories for you. Number one, 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.320 when my brother had three older brothers. When my brothers 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.000 would come they were in college and like they were 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:08.200 way older than me. But my brothers would come home 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.400 from with their friends from the bar, and my mom 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.160 would be like, Mama, Mama, I'll go see that, but 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.280 I need it, you know. Like my mom would say, 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.280 and I was like ten eleven years old. She would 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.520 be like, get up, we're going to serve the guy. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.800 The guys are coming home. And it's like, I'm sorry, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.720 you know, man. But by the way, I don't. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.920 Blame my mother. I think it's a cultural right. 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.320 And then just this past weekend, Mark and I, my 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.719 husband and I went to we got a house in 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.000 Fire Island. We invited friends and I cooked for twenty 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:36.680 three people. 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:41.800 Oh I cook, Yeah, I did salad. I did my 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.480 same day or you started a day before this. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.320 Is like, I mean, I started prepping as soon as 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:46.840 I got. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.559 Their Okay, good man. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:53.000 Everything right. So we're serving everybody and my husband looks 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.360 at me and he's like, where's your food? And I said, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:56.839 I know he I thought, that's it. 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.719 Yeah, wow, yeah, you. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:03.320 Know, upset, and he goes, why didn't you say anything? 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.480 And I said two things. Number One, I was so busy, 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.120 I didn't even realize. 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.480 You don't come. You're just so distracted. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.920 But there was no more chicken thighs, you know what. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.320 And he felt horrible and he was like, no, we 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.640 are getting you food. But it's just like it's one 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.080 of those things where we're so conditioned to be that way. 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.440 We're so conditioned to not look at ourselves or the 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.760 mentality of being a servant instead of serving. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:26.800 Like I'm a big believer. 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.920 I'll serve and I'll you know, take care of my 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:30.800 family and all that stuff, but I'm not a servant 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:31.800 where you're not. 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.600 Going to treat me like lessons or forget that I 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:34.360 need have needs to. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.000 I need to eat some of that that I'm making. 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:41.440 And it was seriously, the compliments were off the chart. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:43.880 You know, you have to take that time and make 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.000 that space for yourself. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.199 That's a fact. Now I want to talk to you 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:50.200 about other creators. I know a lot of people in 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.720 this building who went to school journalism. They do this, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:55.960 they do that, but they don't want to create content 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:02.920 because of hair, makeup, background, own sound video. You're out 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.120 here just doing you like, talk to them, please, I 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.240 want you to talk to them because I'm not getting through. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.000 To them talking to me right now. 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.640 You're overthinking it. You're overthinking it. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.640 Look at some of the stuff, like even when I 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:17.320 told you about how my video went viral and I 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.800 was like talk And even to this day, I'm like, I. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:21.839 Don't understand while that one viral and I'm in the video. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.280 You know you're overthinking it because at the end of 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.720 the day, whatever message that you want to get across 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:28.360 has to be said. It doesn't matter how you look 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.520 the makeup of so people just need to hear what 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.000 you have to say. And if you're too busy caught 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.959 up in your own head about it, doesn't look There 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:35.760 was a girl who got four million followers off a 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.160 period a per uh. 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.760 Please don't sit there and overthink the process of. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.240 Being of whatever messages you want to do, just do it. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.360 Put the camera on and again, if you love it 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:46.680 and you have a passionate about it, and you have 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:47.680 something positive. 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:48.720 To say, just go for it. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:49.360 I love that. 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:51.160 And like I said, don't get caught up on the likes, 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.400 because the one that you have your hair and makeup 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.800 all done may get the ten likes. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:55.640 And then the one where. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.280 You're busted out, you know, Noah's hair is coming out, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:00.600 that might be the one that goes viral, and that's. 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.320 The one that people will appreciate because they can relate 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 to it, like you know, that's that's where people find 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.560 like that common thread. We're gonna take a quick break 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.120 and then I want to hear about what's coming up 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.480 next for you. So after this we're going to discuss 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:18.160 future plea. Okay, we are back. 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.840 With my girl, Rita Lilsa so packet you had that 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:21.200 you know. 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.200 By the way, this isn't easy. A lot of people 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.000 think like, oh, doing a podcast, everybody can do a 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.600 pocket this this is not easy. 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:31.960 You're talking about her being interviewed us hosting. 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:31.760 You know what I mean, because it's not something that 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.880 you commonly do, you know, I mean, I don't know 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.600 if you if you nod, well. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:36.280 She's doing great. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.360 We're just having a conversation here, you know, vibes and 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.720 life and san English exactly. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.160 Now, I do want to ask if you have any 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.600 plans to do stand up in your future because you. 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.600 Are so fun like it. It comes so naturally to you. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.760 I get asked that all the time. I get so 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:55.960 many people you should just stand up. 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:56.839 I've had people. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.080 Tell me that they'll like, you know, have they have 0:12:59.120 --> 0:12:59.720 a venue for me. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.560 But truth is, I'm gonna be one hundred percent with 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.839 you guys. I cannot handle Heckler's And so I don't 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.000 do stand up because I know it will take one 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.680 Stacy and Josephine in the comments and in the audience 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.559 for me to be like world Star. And so I'm 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.679 not delivered from Egypt yet. So for me, it's just 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:17.959 better if I did. 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.679 Not and I'm behind the camera doing it because. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:21.600 People and people people. 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.120 There's a part of me that's still the Bronx side 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:28.000 that I'm like, all right, let's we have to be professional. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:34.600 She took off the hoops shout out. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:40.240 She's one of my favorite comed She is amazing. She 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.280 loves coming up to power. She's dope. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.280 She's Dominican and Puerto Rican. She's both and she's from 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:46.320 New York too. She's dope. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.920 No, but stand up is no joke. You really have 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:49.880 to be prepared and. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.480 You have to be quick, and you got I feel 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.280 like you are all of those things, but you know, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.320 maybe like performing in front of a crowd isn't for you, 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.280 So like, what is the next goal? You know? 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.200 Right now, my next goal is I'm opening up a 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.360 social media management company because i want to start putting. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:07.120 Like I said, I'm a big believer in influencer is 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.760 it nothing without their following? And so now that I've 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.800 gotten too a space where it started to work for me, 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.160 I would love to be able to put other people on, 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.200 people of color, latinos and help promote their businesses and 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.560 get their social media's up and going for them. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:20.360 So that's what I'm doing. 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.080 I don't know this, but were you self talk is like, 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.000 how did you navigate? 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.520 You talked about your YouTube channel, you talked about your tiktoks, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.600 you talked about Instagram. Was it just you sitting there 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:29.640 figuring it out. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.520 Finding out what works? 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.280 Yeah, finding out what works. 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:33.880 Because a lot of times I'm a big I like 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.120 to ask questions and I would always get the same 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:37.240 kind of common responses. 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:38.120 Just work hard. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.760 It's like, okay, so you're not going to try to 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.440 give me something beneficial cool I had worked in the 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.840 background before, Like I've helped casting directors cast for projects. 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.240 And I've worked in media where I used to work 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.320 with influencers just like you know, helping them build their pages, 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.200 until I decided that I want to do it for myself. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.080 So it's just a learning curve where some days you're 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.320 like this works, and then the algorithm changes and it's like, 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.360 well that don't work anymore. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:02.560 And social media it's like you learn everything today and 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:03.600 tomorrow you got to start coying. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.800 It's a monster. Social media is an absolute monster, and. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.440 It's so crazy that just in the past however many years, 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:12.160 you know, like what since Facebook started or. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.280 Twitter, probably like the last ten to fifteen. 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:14.960 Years made it harder. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.320 It's because so many people started going viral and becoming 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.320 you know, huge content creators. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:21.840 They started to make it harder, which is why they 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:23.080 switched the algorithm so much. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:24.560 So you really have to kind of be on top 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.840 of like, Okay, I'm noticing that the views don't look 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.360 the same and it's the same type of content shadow 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 bands you get get shadow band. I had a page 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.520 gaint shadow bands, and then I started the little sets 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.200 Une package one in November because I had a page 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.520 of like thirty thousand followers, and I was like, I know, 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:40.960 there's a reason why I'm not growing. 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:41.840 I was like, there's absolutely. 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.200 I was like, I am posting every day consistently, my 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:44.880 views are not there. 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.720 I think I'm shadow band. So I had to start 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:47.400 a new page. 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.440 That is so wild because there's a guy in South 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:52.520 Dakota that makes leather wallets and he has more followers 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.760 than I've been in that industry for twenty day. Yeah, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:57.160 I was just grinding and hustling. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:58.160 I'm like, I don't get it. 0:15:58.400 --> 0:15:58.920 I don't get it. 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.520 It's like my growth is just like boom, it just stopped, 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.960