Speaker 1: This is Conversations with Olivia Jade and I Heart Radio podcast.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of Conversations. So
Speaker 1: today's episode, I'm flying solo because I'm currently out of
Speaker 1: the country. I've been traveling for the last month or so,
Speaker 1: and with the time difference and stuff, it's just a
Speaker 1: little difficult to get a guest on. But I also
Speaker 1: love these types of episodes because it gives me a
Speaker 1: good chance and I think you guys really like it
Speaker 1: as well, where we can just like hang out and
Speaker 1: talk to one another, which is always fun. So I've
Speaker 1: actually taken it to the podcast Instagram. If you guys
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Speaker 1: you're following that Instagram page. If you're not, it's Conversations
Speaker 1: with Olivia Jade. I believe it's in my Instagram bio,
Speaker 1: so you can check it out there. But I asked
Speaker 1: you guys on there for some questions to answer, and
Speaker 1: I won't keep you for too long on this episode,
Speaker 1: but I do want to go through and answer them
Speaker 1: and just catch up with you guys. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: Side note, craziest thing happened to me yesterday. I'm currently
Speaker 1: in a foreign country and I was just minding my
Speaker 1: own business driving on the road. I was trying to
Speaker 1: get to the grocery store because there's like where I am,
Speaker 1: it's a really really tiny town, so you have to
Speaker 1: drive like twenty minutes outside of the town for a
Speaker 1: real grocery store where you can buy like all your
Speaker 1: stuff for the week. Because here there's only one store
Speaker 1: and it's like a fresh produce, tiny, tiny, tiny store.
Speaker 1: So I decide I'm going to take the car. Also,
Speaker 1: I was so nervous to do this because everything's on
Speaker 1: the opposite side here, so the steering wheels on the
Speaker 1: other side of the car, and then you're also driving
Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the road. But I worked
Speaker 1: up the courage. I was like, it's okay, I got this.
Speaker 1: I know how to drop a car. Things were going great.
Speaker 1: I'm on the highway and it literally sounds and feels
Speaker 1: like I'm driving on gravel and like or like just
Speaker 1: giant rocks, like sharp pointy rocks, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what's going on? And then a woman drivers by me
Speaker 1: and she starts waving my car down and it's like
Speaker 1: you're tire, like pointing at the tire, and I was like,
Speaker 1: so I pull over to the side, I kid you,
Speaker 1: not my tire. The whole thing looked like it was
Speaker 1: going to fall off in any second. And when I
Speaker 1: had gotten in the car that morning, I saw on
Speaker 1: like the dashboard it had said like low tire pressure.
Speaker 1: But I didn't think anything of it because I feel
Speaker 1: like when I'm home in l A. My car said
Speaker 1: that to me in the past, especially when I was
Speaker 1: a little bit younger, and I would kind of ignore
Speaker 1: it and it would be fine, which don't do. Clearly,
Speaker 1: this is a big learning lesson. If your car says
Speaker 1: low tire pressure, it might actually be a severe problem,
Speaker 1: because I think if I drove any further, the tire
Speaker 1: would have fully flown off the car, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what would have happened. But I was on the
Speaker 1: highway and all these cars were going really fast past me,
Speaker 1: and it was just a really scary, scary, scary experience.
Speaker 1: But we're good anyway, kind of irrelevant, but that's why.
Speaker 1: Um oh, well, I guess us don't know this, but
Speaker 1: I was supposed to record my podcast yesterday and um
Speaker 1: that happened, so now we're here today recording it. But
Speaker 1: it made for an interesting evening, I'll tell you that much. Okay,
Speaker 1: So the first question you guys asked me on Instagram
Speaker 1: was what are three things people don't know about you
Speaker 1: that would be surprising? Three things? I think number one
Speaker 1: I don't know if this would be surprising, but three
Speaker 1: things I guess I don't talk about too often is
Speaker 1: but I'm really interested into listening to other podcasts, but
Speaker 1: specifically in the self help category, also just books in general.
Speaker 1: If you guys haven't listened to ed my Lets podcast,
Speaker 1: I listened to it on Spotify. I've listened to it
Speaker 1: every single morning while being away, I go for like
Speaker 1: a forty five to an hour walk in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: And I listened to any episode because he has the
Speaker 1: most amazing people on that I think are inspiring and helpful.
Speaker 1: And if you're in a creative rut, or you feel uninspired,
Speaker 1: or you're a little depressed or whatever, is there's some
Speaker 1: sort of episode for you. I listened to one the
Speaker 1: other day all about gut health, and I thought it
Speaker 1: was so fascinating. He brings on so many amazing people
Speaker 1: that specialize in these categories and they teach you so much.
Speaker 1: So if you're in anything like any sort of clouded head, um,
Speaker 1: you guys should check out his podcast. It's been really
Speaker 1: helpful to me and it's taught me a lot, and
Speaker 1: it's something that, like, it is so inspiring where I
Speaker 1: want to make my content kind of in that direction
Speaker 1: as well, because I think for so long I've been
Speaker 1: so passionate about fashion and makeup and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: which I still love and adore, and that's what my
Speaker 1: content will probably always be about because that's what I
Speaker 1: think I'm really good at. UM. But I feel like
Speaker 1: as I've gotten older, I've learned so much about I
Speaker 1: guess just like mental health in general, especially after going
Speaker 1: through the last few years online and dealing with stuff
Speaker 1: publicly and then how I deal with it privately hasn't
Speaker 1: always been like the healthiest and so trying to like
Speaker 1: listen to these podcasts and read these books to find
Speaker 1: ways to be a little easier on myself or um
Speaker 1: just kind of like figure out ways to minimize how
Speaker 1: unmanageable I make my life by how tough I am
Speaker 1: on myself, if that makes sense. So I've really been
Speaker 1: loving podcasts and self help books. I think that's one
Speaker 1: thing many people probably don't know. Another thing people don't
Speaker 1: know about me is maybe that I'm a sensitive person.
Speaker 1: I am a tough person, but I'm also really sensitive.
Speaker 1: And I also think that I'm one of those types
Speaker 1: of people. I'm sure somebody else can relate to this,
Speaker 1: and if you can, god bless you, because I sometimes
Speaker 1: feel so lone in it. But do you ever feel
Speaker 1: like something like so minimal will happen? Like it's so minimal,
Speaker 1: to the point where it's like probably a passing comment
Speaker 1: from somebody else, But I take it and I like
Speaker 1: replay it in my head and I think, like something
Speaker 1: so wrong, and it's something that I've done just recently now,
Speaker 1: and I don't know where it's coming from. But I
Speaker 1: basically like take things and I make stories up in
Speaker 1: my head that I think are a bigger deal than
Speaker 1: they actually are. I never act upon them. They're all
Speaker 1: just like things that live inside my brain that eventually
Speaker 1: just passed, but I never act upon them. But it's
Speaker 1: just like something that kind of trips me out and
Speaker 1: trips me up. And I think that also ties into
Speaker 1: my sensitivity because I'll like overthink things and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, just me being a sensitive person is
Speaker 1: probably something a lot of people don't know because I
Speaker 1: think on the outside, especially when you see people on
Speaker 1: Instagram and social media and um, just like everybody puts
Speaker 1: out their best moments or for me, sometimes I don't
Speaker 1: put anything out at all when I'm like really dealing
Speaker 1: with stuff internally, and then I think sometimes that comes
Speaker 1: across as like, Oh, everything's great in their life, like
Speaker 1: all what you see is just the positive because I'm
Speaker 1: not putting out like, oh, I'm having a terrible day today. Like,
Speaker 1: so I think that factors into like a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of things. But I think like sensitivity tying in with
Speaker 1: a lack of confidence sometimes is also something people don't know.
Speaker 1: So I could say those kind of go hand in hand. Um,
Speaker 1: But I think that's a long enough and I think
Speaker 1: that's a long enough answer for that question. So moving on,
Speaker 1: what is something you are proud of? I'm probably a
Speaker 1: lot of things I'm proud of, Probably honestly, the thing
Speaker 1: that I'm most proud of is the way I treat
Speaker 1: other people. I think that would have to be my answer,
Speaker 1: because I do feel as though I'm very like, understanding
Speaker 1: and empathetic of other people. I think I'm really forgiving,
Speaker 1: and I also think that I just I'm a kind
Speaker 1: human and I think that goes a long way. And
Speaker 1: I think also it goes with feelings secure with yourself
Speaker 1: and like getting to a point in life when you
Speaker 1: realize like that is what is the most important at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, and you're going to feel
Speaker 1: so much more fulfilled in life if you're kind to others.
Speaker 1: It's such a waste of time and energy to be
Speaker 1: a negative person. Uh um, So I think I have
Speaker 1: to say that probably my main answer. Who is your
Speaker 1: style icon? Mm hmm. I love fashion questions. I honestly
Speaker 1: get a lot of inspiration from random things I see online.
Speaker 1: But my style icon has to be huh, this is hard.
Speaker 1: I really love how Elsa. I might bought her name
Speaker 1: host cost that model. She's got amazing style. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if that's her name, now that I said
Speaker 1: it out loud, I think it is. She's beautiful, like
Speaker 1: has such great style, as like such a classy vibe.
Speaker 1: I also have to say the Olds and Twins because
Speaker 1: their styles fantastic. Um, but yeah, maybe those two or
Speaker 1: I guess three, since the whole things are two people.
Speaker 1: Who is your role model? My role model is? I think, God,
Speaker 1: it's hard to choose one. I think an easy answer
Speaker 1: would obviously be my mom because I think what I
Speaker 1: said earlier about something I'm proud of is being a
Speaker 1: kind person, and I owe every inch of that to her.
Speaker 1: She is so lovely and treats people so well and
Speaker 1: with so much respect no matter who you are, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, she she's one of the kindest people.
Speaker 1: And I actually was on FaceTime with her yesterday and
Speaker 1: I was I was talking to her. Also, it's her
Speaker 1: birthday to day when I'm recording this, so I have
Speaker 1: a birthday. Mom, I love you. But um, I was
Speaker 1: talking to her on FaceTime yesterday and I was like,
Speaker 1: it's actually so funny because I think that anybody that
Speaker 1: knows you personally, if anybody's ever met my mom, I
Speaker 1: can guarantee they have not one bad thing to say
Speaker 1: about her. She is like so lovely and sweet and
Speaker 1: kind and compassionate and empathetic and like just the nicest woman,
Speaker 1: like genuinely so nice. It's scary. So we were just
Speaker 1: talking about random stuff yesterday on the phone, and I
Speaker 1: was like, it's funny that, you know, sometimes we get
Speaker 1: so hard on ourselves and so down on like what
Speaker 1: people think and these perceptions and stuff, and you have
Speaker 1: to kind of sit back and go like, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: how have I impacted the people that like know me
Speaker 1: or that have met me here and there? Like what
Speaker 1: do they think about me? And if that response is
Speaker 1: generally positive? And I'm going to say, of the time
Speaker 1: is positive with my mom, Like that's what life's about,
Speaker 1: That's what matters. Like those are the things we should
Speaker 1: be focusing on, but instead we all get in our
Speaker 1: heads of like, well, I want to appease everybody, and
Speaker 1: I want everybody to like me, and I want everybody
Speaker 1: to know this about me, And like that's a really
Speaker 1: slippery slope because at the end of the day, ay,
Speaker 1: not everybody's gonna like you. And this goes further than
Speaker 1: anything I think. This is generally just a good thing
Speaker 1: to always remember. Now everybody's gonna like you, not everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna agree with you. Now everybody's going to see your
Speaker 1: side of things. Not everybody's going to empathize or sympathize
Speaker 1: with you. And that's okay because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I think we feel, especially online with people's
Speaker 1: opinions and freedom of speech and like people that can
Speaker 1: reach you and talk to you and judge you and
Speaker 1: they don't know you. We feel like their opinions are
Speaker 1: so valid, and in my experience, I feel like they're
Speaker 1: so valid and so heard by me that it's almost
Speaker 1: shaped me to believe I'm a certain type of person.
Speaker 1: And it takes a lot of like strength and maturity
Speaker 1: sometimes to sit down and be like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not correct. Like your kind, you are whatever it
Speaker 1: is about yourself that you like, but just like being
Speaker 1: a little bit nice or to ourselves. Um. And I
Speaker 1: think that that was a total rant of my My
Speaker 1: mom is my role model, but she is because she's
Speaker 1: kind and I think kindness is the most important thing
Speaker 1: in this world. I think it will never die out,
Speaker 1: it will never get old. It's just a beautiful thing,
Speaker 1: all right. What was your favorite YouTube video that you've made?
Speaker 1: I think my favorite YouTube video I've made. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is a really tough question. I think honestly, it has
Speaker 1: to be the slang term series with my mom. But
Speaker 1: there was one year we did UM. It was me,
Speaker 1: my mom, John Stamos, and David O. Brick and it
Speaker 1: was the four of us, and I just remember that
Speaker 1: day and filming that was really fun. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's like the best quality produced video on my channel,
Speaker 1: but I think in terms of sitting down and filming something,
Speaker 1: I had like a sore stomach the next day and
Speaker 1: sore cheeks the next day from how hard I laughed
Speaker 1: on camera and off camera. Like that day was just
Speaker 1: hysterical to me. But I would say my favorite videos
Speaker 1: to film nowadays and to put up on YouTube are vlogs.
Speaker 1: I don't love the idea of people knowing too much
Speaker 1: about my personal life, but I like that I get
Speaker 1: to choose what I'm putting out there. I like that
Speaker 1: people love being in my life a little bit, like
Speaker 1: I think it's so cool to share that with people
Speaker 1: all over the world. And I also love like editing
Speaker 1: those types of videos because you can really get creative
Speaker 1: with it. As opposed to just like a sit down
Speaker 1: makeup tutorial, it's a little bit harder to edit and
Speaker 1: make fun but I also want to start incorporating a
Speaker 1: lot more fashion on my channel because I think I'm
Speaker 1: slowly starting As I sit here and like a massive
Speaker 1: oversized T shirt, but I think I'm slowly starting to
Speaker 1: figure out my style and what I really love and
Speaker 1: what I think is in and what I think is me,
Speaker 1: and so I would love to start producing more videos
Speaker 1: surrounding that in a more like artistic way. I think
Speaker 1: when I'm back home from my travels, I really want
Speaker 1: to hone in and focus on finding a videographer. I
Speaker 1: would say an editor too, but I love editing videos,
Speaker 1: so I'll probably do that for the rest of the time,
Speaker 1: but I do want somebody's help to like actually help
Speaker 1: me film. How do you maintain distant friendships was a
Speaker 1: question somebody asked. I think we're all very lucky because
Speaker 1: in this generation it's quite easy. There's spacetime, there's eye Message,
Speaker 1: there's Instagram, There's all these different things that we can
Speaker 1: use to really feel connected to one another while we're
Speaker 1: not there. So I think something that's amazing, even if
Speaker 1: you're in different time zones or whatever it is, it's like,
Speaker 1: let's have a meal together over face so time, like
Speaker 1: what a great way to connect. I think also the
Speaker 1: best types of friendships are the ones, you know, like
Speaker 1: we don't have to speak every day or every second,
Speaker 1: like I got you, you got me, and when we
Speaker 1: pick up, it's like nothing ever happened, because it can
Speaker 1: be really hard, especially if you're working a lot, or
Speaker 1: you're busy, or you're just tired, or you're in a
Speaker 1: new relationship, and it's harder to focus on those like
Speaker 1: you'll find your balance and you'll find your swing of things.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, having understanding friends and relationships
Speaker 1: and people around that are okay with that is really important.
Speaker 1: What's your life motto? This is a really big question
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I actually think it's quite deep. Um.
Speaker 1: I think right now my life motto is if you
Speaker 1: don't regret, you haven't learned, and I think that goes
Speaker 1: with everything. But I think that sometimes we have this
Speaker 1: idea of oh, I live with no regrets. Oh I
Speaker 1: I no regrets taha, Like it's become this kind of
Speaker 1: like saying that I think is actually kind of counteractive sometimes.
Speaker 1: And I think regret is healthy because I think that
Speaker 1: means like something in your brain went off to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: like that's not right. Do better learn from it? That
Speaker 1: feeling of that's kind of like self loath or like
Speaker 1: that negativity inside that feels sociary. Sometimes I actually think
Speaker 1: can be beneficial in life because it means like you
Speaker 1: want to change something. You don't want to feel that
Speaker 1: way forever, you know. So I think like not regretting regrets.
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to regret. I think that's how
Speaker 1: you learn. I think that's how you live. I think
Speaker 1: that's how you move on it, and it's how you grow,
Speaker 1: it's how you become a better person. And I think
Speaker 1: all of us are so hard on ourselves. And I
Speaker 1: was listening to another podcast this morning about self confidence,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was really interesting because the woman
Speaker 1: on at my podcast today was talking about self confidence
Speaker 1: and she was talking about this inner voice of like
Speaker 1: the one that's so mean to her. And I kind
Speaker 1: of was sitting there listening, like this is a self
Speaker 1: confidence expert, is what she calls herself, And she can
Speaker 1: sit there and admit, like, Oh, I have that like
Speaker 1: bitch inside of me that's so mean to myself, that's
Speaker 1: constantly telling me like, oh, you can't do this, you
Speaker 1: can't do that whatever it is. And sorry this is
Speaker 1: a little jump off of my regret topic, but I
Speaker 1: just another thought. Um, I just think it's so true,
Speaker 1: and it's so interesting that like we all feel so
Speaker 1: alone sometimes within ourselves to be like so hateful and
Speaker 1: we're so mean to ourselves and we're so so hard
Speaker 1: on ourselves. And he it was kind of comforting to
Speaker 1: hear like, oh, I'm not alone in that, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure so many people listening to this as well can
Speaker 1: relate to what I'm saying, but also knowing that, like
Speaker 1: you can recognize that and and be a little easier
Speaker 1: on yourself. And she gave a great piece of advice
Speaker 1: which was just like reframing how you talk to yourself
Speaker 1: a little bit, so um, just saying, you know, instead
Speaker 1: of being so hard on myself and oh you're you're dumb,
Speaker 1: or like you're dumb, you're this whatever, whatever, you can
Speaker 1: just say Olivia, like you're doing okay today, or like, Olivia,
Speaker 1: that wasn't your best, but like what would what would
Speaker 1: make Olivia like kind of talk to me yourself in
Speaker 1: a different setting. So it's easier to be a little
Speaker 1: bit more gentle because for some reason we are ourselves
Speaker 1: biggest bully. I don't know if that made any sense,
Speaker 1: but made sense when I was listening to it. Um,
Speaker 1: what's your favorite thing to distract you from stress? I honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I have a way to distract
Speaker 1: me from stress. I feel like when I'm stressed, I'm
Speaker 1: just stressed. But I think it's fine to live in
Speaker 1: it a little bit. And then I think it's important
Speaker 1: also to realize, like how to let go, like what's
Speaker 1: a waste of energy and what's a waste of stress?
Speaker 1: I think like sometimes we stress about such small things,
Speaker 1: and if you think of it in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of life, like in two am I going to be
Speaker 1: thinking about like what I was stressing about? I feel
Speaker 1: like nine of the time it's probably a no. And
Speaker 1: if it's a yes, then maybe we need to evaluate
Speaker 1: that situation and see, like, Okay, how can I like
Speaker 1: make a decision that you know I'm not going to
Speaker 1: stress over, or how can I like aid that certain
Speaker 1: situation because most of the time I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: minimal and unnecessary. I'm gonna end with this question ways
Speaker 1: to overcome the fear of starting a podcast? I think
Speaker 1: if you want to start a podcast, Just start it,
Speaker 1: And I know it's easier said than done, but I
Speaker 1: also think now more than ever, is such an amazing
Speaker 1: time because so many people are trying to be in
Speaker 1: this space. What I will say though, is like, don't
Speaker 1: start and I think this has been said forever, but like,
Speaker 1: don't do stuff just for money. And I know it's
Speaker 1: easier said than done, especially because I sit here in
Speaker 1: a massive position of privilege where I don't have to
Speaker 1: worry about like finances, which is obviously like a very
Speaker 1: rare and specific situation. But I think that a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize like the work, effort and load
Speaker 1: that kind of it requires to be in the podcast
Speaker 1: space or the YouTube space. I don't really know about
Speaker 1: the other social media because I don't do it as much,
Speaker 1: but I think just starting if it's something you're passionate about,
Speaker 1: finding out what you want to talk about, what you love,
Speaker 1: what you think can help others, and then just going
Speaker 1: for it and doing it and teaching yourself as you
Speaker 1: go along with it. I taught myself how to edit
Speaker 1: all my own YouTube videos and how to film cameras
Speaker 1: and lenses and everything like that, so if I can
Speaker 1: do it, you can do it. It's possible, um, and
Speaker 1: I think that we ended on that, So thank you
Speaker 1: guys so much for listening to this podcast episode. I
Speaker 1: hope that it helped or I don't even know what
Speaker 1: I talked about for the last twenty five minutes, but
Speaker 1: I hope you enjoyed it, and I hope everybody's having
Speaker 1: a lovely evening or morning or afternoon. And I will
Speaker 1: talk to you guys next time. Thanks by