WEBVTT - Shea Leigh Mills 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.880 Caroline. She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:19.000 She's on the side, she got the scoop on the watch. 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.079 On the one side. No one can do win quiet 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:32.960 like Caraline. Caroline. No one can do win quiet Caroline. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.520 This time of Caroline. You guys, I am so excited. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:44.120 I'm starting a new series. It's the Influencer Series. I 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.840 cannot wait for y'all to hear this series. It's probably 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.559 gonna be about ten weeks long, maybe longer, I'm not 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.720 quite sure, because I have fallen into this group of influencers. 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.200 And I don't even know if you know what an 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.680 influencer is, but it's basically it's like an influencer slash blogger, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:03.280 slash slash fact, fashion blogger poster on Instagram. I'm not 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:04.880 even technical with it. I don't know what it is, 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.640 but basically, people look to you for a resource of things. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.560 It can be all sorts of things. But what this 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.120 group that I have gotten to be a part of 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.880 is it's blogging, it's fashion, it's style, it's products. But 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.440 their hearts are so great and these girls, they're such 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:24.080 incredible females and they're so all about empowering each other, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.240 working together, collaborating, and they're gonna share all of their 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.600 secrets on how they do what they do, how they 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.440 grow their Instagram, how they make money, how you get 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.679 started tips. It's gonna be amazing. My first guest is 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:39.880 Shelley Males. She's so freaking cute. She's twenty years old. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.320 She's a bright, bubbly, blonde, beautiful bombshell. But her heart 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.800 is even more beautiful than she looks on the outside, 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.240 which is hard to believe. She talks about some real stuff, 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:51.600 you guys, like, she really gets in to some struggle 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.640 she was went through in high school and how she 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.320 has found positivity, what faith is to her, what an 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.080 important role it plays in her life, how she does 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.960 her blogging, how she does her post on Instagram. She 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.760 is the most precious, most adorable person on the face 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.640 of the earth. I'm so excited she's kicking up my 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:13.360 Influencer series, So you guys, get excited and welcome Shyley Mills. 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:18.600 You're my first interview on my Influencer Serious. So honored. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.680 I feel so honored because you're so baited. I've been 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.560 watching your I guess listening and watching your podcast. I 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:29.600 was a nanny, and I would seriously watch them while 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:31.720 I was folding the kids laundering topic, and now you're 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:36.359 in my apartment. I'm being me like I'm the lucky 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.760 one it forced to be wrecking with. And you're so 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.480 freaking young. Okay, so like what are you? Twenty year? 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.200 Oh my gosh, and you already have over a hundred 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:51.960 thousand followers. You never would've imagined ever that this would happen. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.960 You are a fashion guru. You have all these people 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.960 who love your style like you are some people's style inspiration. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.640 That's so weird a thing because I were like leggings 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:03.040 and sweatpants in my house. What you're seeing me in 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.800 right now, This is not like surprising to anybody if 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.280 they know me. But you have closets and closets full 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.800 of clothes that never see the light of day. What 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.960 do you do with all those clothes? I shoot them 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.959 so people can see them, and then they sit in 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.840 my closet. I know I need to sell them honestly 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.440 or give them away. At this point, I need to 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.160 just like have people come in my house and made 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.520 my space and just go or have like a fashion 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:30.519 show charity charity. Actually, all the influencers that are these 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.680 fashion bloggers who have all these clothes. Y'all should do 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:37.160 a fashion show and just have your clothes auction and 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.520 then sell them right after. That would be so genius. Yeah. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.520 I love that. We need to talk to the girls 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.120 that honestly, which is kind of exciting. Okay, so we 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:48.360 I feel like I'm the lucky one because I'm like 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.400 the odd man out. I am not I am not 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.640 a really a fashion blogger, but somehow you always look 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.120 so cute every event we go to your like the badasset, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.360 like just the leather jacket, cool earrings, like we talked 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:04.720 to her Scott, but you always look so good. I 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.720 don't know how I fell into this group though, because 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:10.600 all of y'all are these fashion icon influencers. But it 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.640 has been the most fun thing I've been a part 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.160 of because there's a group of like how many are 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.520 the twelve? I mean we throw new girls in there, like, 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.039 oh there was how at that spin cycle thing. Yeah, 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:22.920 we're kind of sweating gross right now. Shelly is such 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:24.839 a good sport. She's the cutest person on earth. A 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.359 fashion icon obviously, but I was like, we went to 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:33.160 this spin class for Liz bachelorette like spin party, and 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:34.840 I was like, are you cool if we interview afterwards, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.840 and it was like, yeah, sure, that's how natural. She 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.040 is a little rough, But talk to me about that 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.400 spin class. That was so fun. It will kick your 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.040 ass for the full time. It's at Verticity Cycling. Yes, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.279 it's in not Green Hills, it's in East Nashville. Yes. 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.520 My heart was busting through my chest the whole time. 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.440 You were killing it. I could see you through the 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.960 mirror and I was like, what the heck. She obviously 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:59.200 does this every single day, Like twice today. I was like, okay, no, 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.000 I got put in the front row because Kim the 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.719 owner thought I could do it because I've done it 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.400 like twice before. I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm not 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.520 a pro at all. They've ever done it. They were 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.360 killing it, and they're twins and they were doing it 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.440 right at the same time. Everything. I was like, they 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.920 are like the same person, They're so in sync. They 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:15.320 got it though. But this little influencer group has been 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:17.679 the most fun thing, and we do all these events together. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.800 Like you said, new people are coming in all the 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.760 time and everyone's so welcoming, like no one is like, oh, 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.440 I don't want them here. I don't want them there. 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.200 Like everyone's like, come on in, what do you need? 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.760 We got you like right off the bat, they're like sisters. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.359 So talk to me about what it actually means to 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.719 be an influencer, because that is such an interesting thing 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.800 that's just popped up since social media's existed, and you're 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.360 so different that you're like on the forefront of it. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.839 So when did you become an influencer and how does 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:45.479 that even happen? What does that mean to you? Well, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.560 I became I guess I didn't even realize I was 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.200 becoming a blogger. Whenever I became a blogger, blog I 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.000 do what do you like to blog about? It just depends. 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.680 It's daily Shilly dot com And so how do you 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.279 spell it? D A I L Y s H E 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:04.200 A L e I g h cute daily dot com. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:06.159 I can't even handle it. I was like, okay, Like 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.160 I didn't intend on it. I didn't follow any bloggers. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.919 I didn't know anything about the world. Didn't even know 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.480 it was like its own separate that old were you 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.440 I was eighteen, it was you become You've had a 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.599 hundred thousand followers happened in two years. Yeah, a little 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.799 less than two years, I had four thousand followers on Instagram. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.440 I just like in high school, I was friends with 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.080 people from different towns, and like naturally had kind of 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.320 just a bigger follower from moving away, going and being 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.440 a part of different things, doing new things, that kind 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:34.840 of stuff. And then I was always I moved to 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:39.560 Nashville after graduation. Nashville, and you're from Illinois, from dount Illinois, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:44.279 very very small town in southern Illinois called Carterville. Carterville 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.480 loved it. I mean, we all love our hometown. Right 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.520 after you leave, you love it more. Now you have 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.280 to be gone to appreciate it absolutely. So I still 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.360 go back. I was actually there yesterday with my parents. 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.599 It's nice to go back, but I'm so glad. It 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.799 was such a blessing to move here. So I actually 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.120 had never even been to Aashville when I decided to 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:04.680 move here Nashville. I was going to originally move to Texas, 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.240 and then I was like, you know, that's not where 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.160 I'm meant to be, And how did you know where? 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.080 How did you know You're not meant to be in Texas? 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.840 You just I prayed honestly, I know how cliche that 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.320 can sound. By was like God, where it was March? 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.720 So I graduated in May. It was March, first spring break, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.760 and I was like, God, where do you want me? Um? 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.880 I have no idea, Like put me on a path 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.480 because I have no idea what to do. And I 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.120 literally woke up one morning and I went up to 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:30.040 my mom and I was like, I'm moved to Nashville. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:31.920 How did you get that feeling? Did it just come 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.160 to you? I don't know if it was a thing 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.840 I saw, something I heard. I just was naturally like 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:39.640 Nashville because it just came to my mind. Like I 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.920 can't explain it. It's the most bizarre like I've I've 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.840 always been a Christian, always trusted in God, but this 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.960 was a different kind of thing, Like you started a 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:51.000 whole new relationship religiously. What did it open up for? What? How? Okay, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.040 because this is also a spiritual podcast, So what did 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.520 that do for you? Spiritually? It made me turn to 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.640 God for every little question, every idea, any thing I needed. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.280 It was a complete reliance on God at that point. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.120 Answer you. I wish I knew. I wish you would 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:09.280 tell me that because it's like literally, I was like, God, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.200 where am I supposed to be? And he said Nashville 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.440 and I was like okay. When upstairs said Mama moving 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.280 to Nashville and she got her first thing she said 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.360 was you've never been there, and I was like, I know, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.440 but that's where God wants me. So she's like, all right, springbreak, 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.720 we'll go and visit. And I had an old youth 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.720 pastor of mind and I was like, coming to visit, 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:27.680 checked it out one neighborhood and I was like, this 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.000 is where I'm meant to be. So when you say 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.480 he answered you. I always wonder when people say God 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.720 talks to me, like what, because like is he speaking 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:37.400 words to you or is he like giving you feelings? 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.760 Or is he showing you like a neon flashing signs? Well, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.800 I always I remember pastors and people being like, you know, 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.200 God told me this. I was like, okay, how do 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.760 you hear? Always like I don't understand that. How does 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.199 that even happen? And then I can't even explain. It's 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.600 just like like just in your brain he's talking like 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.800 you just have like it's almost like he it's I 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:58.680 don't even know how to explain. It's almost like I 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.160 feel like everyone probably has a a friend occurrence whenever 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.439 it happens, like either they see something in a dream 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.440 or like something that mine was just your kid. Something 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.400 just told me, like a feeling. It was almost just 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:12.880 like you know how, like you're thinking throughout it's almost 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.520 like okay, almost like a grocery list. You're like, okay, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.360 I need bread and eggs and milk and okay, and 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.880 then you just think, okay, where should I go? Houston, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.400 stay home, Nashville, Wait, Nashville. It was almost like one 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.880 of those and it just clicked. It was just sadi. 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:29.880 You can't quite explain it, like when you leave someone 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.600 and you're like, how do you have a connection almost 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.600 or something. It was just like one of those things 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.240 that somehow randomly crossed my mind. But it was never 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.840 a maybe. It was like it was yeah. It was 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:44.959 never a maybe Nashville. It was like here's my list. Wait, boom, okay, 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.840 I that's it. There was after that. There was no doubt. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.880 The first time it came to my mind never went away. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.000 And when you got here, was it totally exactly what 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.240 you thought it would be? Okay, not at all? What 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:59.120 happened when you got here. I moved here with just 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:02.360 by myself, and I don't know our mattress. I knew no. 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.240 When you're eighteen, I was. I had just turned eighteen. 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.200 I was like eighteen and two months and just a 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.160 little baby. And my I mean, I was the first 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.960 kid to like leave and fly the nest and or 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.719 fly the coope and just go. How many siblings do 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.880 you have? I have two brothers, Grant and Brock, and 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.040 they're older. Grant is older and Brought is younger. We're 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:27.160 eighteen twenty and two. So when you got here, was 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.199 it nerve racking? Oh? Yeah? I mean I came here 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:31.600 in the summer, and at first I was out by 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.199 the pool, like yeah, I'm out by the pool in Nashville, 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.319 Like look at me. I'm eighteen. I'm doing the thing. 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.120 And I was like, wait, bills, wait, hold on this, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.880 I have to buy food. I have to do this, 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.480 Like it's fun to grocery shop with your mom. Whenever 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.280 you're in charge of everything. Oh my gosh, it was 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:50.120 like adulting real quick, heart. Next you became an adult 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.320 literally one thing after another. It was like, wait, I 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.360 didn't realize it was just right after everything started kind 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.120 of it was like two weeks of fun because I 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.120 moved here in June, so see Mayfest and that's always fun. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.560 And hey, this is I love Nashville. Let's go partying 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.000 and dance and do this in a concert. Yeah. And 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:07.960 then it was like, oh, wait, I need a job. 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.320 And then before I knew it, I had four jobs. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:16.280 I was um working at a smoothie bar, at Gold's gym. Um, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.280 I what else was there? It's been a while. I 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.679 became a nanny. I started doing extra work on like 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.400 CMT shows and different stuff like that, like in Nashville, 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.800 and um, there was something else did I do? I 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:32.080 mean you name it? I was doing. Yeah, I mean 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.160 just here and there are anything? Oh Francesco's the little 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.400 store here in Hendersonville. And I was like, I've seed 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.199 a job. And I was like, okay, I gotta get 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.280 as many. I was going to school full time. It 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:44.680 was crazy, are you still in school? I'm done with 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:48.360 school kind of kind of done. That's an effi, effi 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.320 kind of thing. But I really need school to be 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.599 a fashion star. Well. I was going to school for 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.439 communications for radio and TV, and then I was actually 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.920 being an extra on a TV show one day and 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:00.959 they were like, you kind of look like our main girl. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:03.120 Do you want to be her body double? Like her 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.760 stand in kind of a thing? And I was like, yeah, sure, 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.160 that seems fun working on TV. Yeah, And then that 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:10.920 kind of just went into a new thing and then 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.160 I met people from that that led me to the next. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.520 And then people were like, wait, what are you doing 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.679 in Nashville? You're on this TV thing? But then you're 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.040 at a smoothie bar and then like what are you doing? 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.120 So I quite a bunch of my jobs. Became a 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.520 full time nanny after the show wrapped, and did that 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.840 for a while, and then people were like, wait, what 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:30.200 do you do now? I always got what do you do? 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:32.720 What do you do? Especially when you don't have a 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.480 definite you don't want to say that you don't. I 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.600 mean back then I was like that question. Oh I 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.560 did too. That's why my first bog post was called 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.960 so what do you do? Yes, it was called so 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:47.680 what do you do? And Daly that you started, that's 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:49.320 my first post is called so what do you do? 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:51.120 And it was just like a list of kind of 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.000 what I'm telling you now and just all the different 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:55.880 things I did from smoothie bars to clothing to I 0:12:55.880 --> 0:13:00.680 mean anything, and I did that and then I was like, yeah, 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:03.440 I guess I just need a website. Started that started 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.680 that up, took some pictures of things already had and 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:08.840 clothes and stuff I've just closed I had, like me 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:10.960 in the mirror. Those were my posts, like just little things. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.760 Then hey can you take a picture of me real quick? 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.800 And like I've right before, I would leave work in 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.600 my outfit and I would like go on there and 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.280 just ride about it, and people like where should get 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.440 eat whenever I'm in Nashville, and I was like, um, 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.120 I don't know. I need to go and explore. So 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.560 I went out and I started exploring and writing about it, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.400 and then writing about it, took pictures of my food 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.680 put it on there too, and then a restaurant was like, hey, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.400 we want you to come eat for free, and I 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.520 was like free food, Oh my god, I have four jobs. 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.680 I'd love free food, like yes, And then it was like, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:39.120 we want to send you a T shirt to put 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.480 on your Blox shirtet T shirt. Yes, I would love 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:44.680 a free T shirt. Oh my gosh, yes, of course. 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.840 Here's a full post on it. And then they like bracelets. Yes, 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.280 and we'll pay you to ride about it. I'm making 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.160 money from this now, yeah, I'd love to. And then 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.199 we'll pay you this much and we'll do this and 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.000 come here and and I was like whoa, whoa. Okay. 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.400 Then it was more Nashville bloggers following me, seeing a 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.679 world of it, and then outside of bloggers, and then 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.040 the big time bloggers with millions of followers and would 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.679 follow you to and gosh, I wish no, but like 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.320 I would find them off of that and I would 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.120 be like, wait, I've seen this girl on Pinterest. Oh 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.679 she has a website and oh my gosh, wait that's 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:16.640 her and it connects here, and just it became a 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.440 whole separate world. It changed everything and the way the 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:21.440 blog is set up and how it's not just some website. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.840 It's like a career. You really made it, studied it, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.200 and you you figured out how to make this a 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:31.640 career so that your career was divinely inspired obviously because 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.400 God just told you to come to and then he 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:40.000 pretty much anointed your steps. I mean yeah. It literally 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.200 was like every little job fell into someone I met. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:47.840 Everywhere that I worked, I've met someone that has led 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.000 me to where I'm at now, whether it's like my 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:52.080 boyfriend was at the Smoothie bar and now that time 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.920 at him two years later together, but like it's just 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.080 so funny how different things worked out. And I now work. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:00.880 I used to work for francesco Is and now they 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:02.440 send me stuff and I posted for them, so it's 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.080 kind of like different, you know, working, it's still work, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.040 but it's so much bigger than I ever anticipated. So 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.280 how did your followers jump so fast? You've been on 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.320 Instagram for two years and you have a hundred fowers? 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.360 How did that happen? Is that also a god thing? 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.080 That is such? And with Instagram here's the thing they 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.560 people can say you buy and you buy likes and 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:26.480 this and that, but you can followers because that's the 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.200 whole world. I actually talked to a few of our 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.720 Nashville bloggers, which I'm sure that they'll get into that too, 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.240 but I was like, how can one girl can really 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.960 tell who buys? And I'm like it's like a magic power, 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.600 and I mean she just knows. I'm like, okay, teach 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.640 me how because I don't know. I am almost like Dane. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.040 This girl grew so fast and I'm like, that's not real. 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.640 I guess, so you can like buy followers, I guess 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.000 for pennies is what someone was saying. It's so cheap, 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.560 but it hurts you in the long run because companies know, 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:54.320 how do they know because they have the thing. They 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.960 have some sort of website that you can check because 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.840 I'm like, oh my gosh, they know someone's not some 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.760 one who's a real company is gonna check, and they're 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.000 not gonna want hire you advertising to fake people, So 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.040 you don't want to go to a bunch of spam accounts. 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.560 But people thought maybe you were I was buying, or 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.000 you were doing that or that. And I actually, whenever 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.760 I first started blogging, a company called Pink Lily saw 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.200 me and I modeled for them full time too, so 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.440 that helps a lot with everything. And then they'll do 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.920 a contest or post a video of me doing something 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.120 stupid because Laura knows I do during shootes. We have 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.560 a whole blooper account. But I just people see that 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.760 and they see my account like a more not serious 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:34.680 side of things, but see it as a blogger. But 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.880 then they see that I'm real. It's not going to 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.600 be you know me and five thousand dollar pairs of 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.720 shoes and you know, fifteen thousand dollar bags and stuff. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.880 You know, it's this is from on sale before Bucks. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:50.240 So like that you're going to get for me, you know. 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.960 So it just kind of I think being realistic, being genuine, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.600 being goofy, that is what really made people be like, 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.800 I'm gonna follow her. So that's I mean, I've put 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.120 on my store before, how did you on my account? 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.800 And they're like Pinterest, pink lily, my friend told me. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:05.600 So it's just all over the board, and Nashville is 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:11.240 spooming so fast. They're constantly looking at different things restaurants, hotels, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:15.520 airbnb's shopping, all sorts of stuff in Nashville. So hashtags 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.520 make it, makes it grow. I mean, it's just it's 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.120 is important. Like I haven't done hashtags and so long, 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:23.479 and I guess I need to just to get like 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:28.000 a new group in but like hashtag Nashville blogger, hashtag Nashville. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:29.320 My friends make fun of me for it, but I 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.359 mean it was working. I was growing. I was like, dang, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.879 it was cool. So do you think being specific about 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.199 your brand? Do you have like when people look at 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.600 your feet, is there a brand you're trying to promote. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.600 Is that a big part of growing your followers? I 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:44.840 am all over the place with that. Like one day 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:48.280 I'll post more like like a leather jacket type of 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.199 style or a fun little dress or flirty this or 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:53.320 boho that kind of stuff, and then I'll be in 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:55.440 a juicy suit the next Like I literally wore a 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.840 juice intore sweatsuit the other day and that got more 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.600 likes than half of my photos that I actually try 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.000 hard on really, but oh yeah, just some people like 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.080 a selfie more than like a real photo. If I 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.520 go out and get my photos made and pay a 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.080 photographer made, and like pay a photographer for it, all, 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:11.760 I won't get as many life as if I post 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:13.520 a photo of me and Kipper, me and my boyfriend, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:15.200 or I post in one of me and the mirror 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:19.320 with yes, kitten is my little cat. He's not here 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.640 right now. But I mean, just real life stuff does 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:25.600 way better because they know that it's you. It's what 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.320 you would actually be doing. It's not you posing in 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.920 a certain outfits what you actually were that day. It's 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.720 real life. So do you think it's good to have 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.320 a mix though, like to have a professional photo. So 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.679 actually people might not even know this. Those pictures on 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.520 your feet sometimes they're taking it by a real photographer 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:44.440 and they're not that day. If you see me plan 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.320 out there, people tell me this all the time. I 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.280 actually have an app on my phone I can show you, 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:54.320