WEBVTT - JANINA - Vegetables are Cheaper than Meat 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:07.520 In today we have the infamous Janina. Hey, what's up, guys. 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.240 It's your girl Janina here with Colleen Wit and we 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.280 are eating will broke and making habbage soup. I'm super 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.400 excited and I'm super hungry. So I didn't see any 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:22.040 meat and this many this ingredients or anything, but I'm 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.440 still hungry and I can't wait for you to feed me. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.400 It's going to be great. So what ingredients did you bring? 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:34.680 So here I have celery, carrots, bell peppers, onions, lemons, parsley, 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.200 and cabbage. And then the vegetable broth. Wow, so this 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.479 far broke dish. This has a lot of moving parts, 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:44.239 which means it's gonna taste great. Oh yeah yeah. So 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.479 And and just so you guys know that are listening 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:50.160 and watching, Janina already started. She she has a little 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:55.840 secret helper that came in before and helped already prestart 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.280 the broth. So you guys won't be here too long 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.400 or we won't starve to death while we're talking and 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.640 catching up. But I'm must sit and watch you do 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.440 do your thing, and I may just shoot off some 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.200 questions just to find out more about you and your 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.679 background on this about perfect. Yeah, I think I'm gonna 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.200 go ahead and add somemart broth. It's already boiling vegetable 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.800 broth we have here. Yes, So is this because like 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:24.560 growing up you were like a vegetarian or something because 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.480 there's no meat in this. Um, well, it was a 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.120 healthy meal and it didn't like I know meat back then, 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.640 like it's more money and so the vegetables were just 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.240 less for us to go ahead and like, honestly, it's 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.560 fulfilling the cabbage and it was just very like easy 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.280 to make for me and my sister. You know, when 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.920 my mom was working so nice and I'm taking your 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.920 mom talked to you guys this meal she did. My 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.360 mom teaches us everything. I'm like, I literally get it 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.840 from my mama. That's good. I'm gonna go ahead and 0:01:55.880 --> 0:02:01.040 add that. I'm learning to start. So I know you 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.280 don't cook a lot now, right, I do not. I 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.360 am a person that loves to eat out. Now. Back 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.320 then we were definitely in the house with peanut butter 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.880 jelly sandwiches from the noodles and um. But now I'm 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:19.480 just like all four restaurants. Yeah, now I'm going to 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.600 add the bell peppers because I also want that to 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:30.760 soak in with the other vegetables. We got green bell peppers, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:32.919 red bell peppers, yellow. It looks like it's gonna be 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.480 a very colorful dish. Oh yeah, oh yeah. So how 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.240 long on average does this dish take? Because, um, I 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.440 would say about all together, the whole process is about 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.480 thirty minutes. It's not that long, all right, And it 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:52.000 smells good so far. So you started like real young. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.040 I want to move this out of the way. Um, 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.400 you started real, real young because I know you from 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:06.840 working really really music thing, always doing tours, always performing. Yeah, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.240 and you were a killer. I mean, I'm sure the 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.640 boys would always have a heart attack when he showed 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.840 up to the school. It was a split, and it 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:15.800 was the split. The second she did a split, it 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:20.639 was like a rap. People were the nuts. It was 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.919 a show time the second she did a split. But um, 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.839 a lot of people, I feel like they don't know 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.040 that side of you. They don't know how long it 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:35.800 took before you're of the official Janina that everybody knows. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.320 Yeah they don't. Because I feel like something that I 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.800 kind of like messed up on was like not really 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.240 incorporating my music when I got into social media because 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.760 it was just all about videos. Like as soon as 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.440 everyone got together, it was like, oh, what's your idea? 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.600 And I kind of like put aside of music instead 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.200 of combined it. And now I look back and I'm like, oh, 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.400 I should have done that. But and anytime I would 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:03.560 like go in the studio and record a song, they 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.360 would be like, why are these viners trying to do music, 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.880 And it's like, You're like, oh, stay other way around. 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.560 These viners already did music. You just didn't know that world. 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.920 So it was it was hard to like intertwine both 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:24.400 worlds once I was already established as a social media gure. Yeah, 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.120 but I'm coming back. I am coming back. I'm going 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.960 to get in the studio and start recording again because 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.240 I feel like I do have such a strong passion 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:38.000 with performing and just being on a stage. And so 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.640 now I'm like, i gotta get a team because I've 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.159 done social media. I've been it for six years now, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.760 and it's right once a day in the life of 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:52.160 like an influencer, a day in the life of an influencer. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.239 So we like to stay healthy and like we also 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.880 create content when we do this. Um, we work out 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.040 in the morning, and then after that we go straight 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.120 home get ready for shooting, and then we literally shoot 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.960 all day long, and then we go home and we 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:10.719 edit what we shot, and it's like it was a 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:14.120 repeated cycle back then when like Instagram's algorithm was popping 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:17.520 because we're like what four million views, Leanne was getting 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.200 like twenty two to thirty million views, and like it 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.719 was so exciting back then that we wanted to like 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.320 continue to create content. So I always meet people that 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.080 are are saying that. I always say, oh, I want 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.200 to be an influencer young people. I think I'll just 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.039 be an influencer. I'm like, I don't know. I tried 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:37.200 working out with you guys. As you know, I worked 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.159 out with these guys for I want to say it 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:43.080 was like six months and was insistent. I was consistent, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:47.160 and it was to say the least, like first of all, 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.919 you have to change your diet, and then their workouts 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.880 were horribly brutal. It was like training for the Olympics. 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.120 I lost. I think I went in weighing like a 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.599 hundred and sixty and by the time I was done, 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.479 I was like seven within three months, Yeah, your come 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.520 doown was insane and that's how hard you guys work. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.640 Oh yeah, No, it's an everyday thing. Like yeah, so 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.720 when you see an influencer body, just so you know, 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.200 when you see an influencer body online, like at first 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.560 I used to think, Okay, maybe some of them are 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:20.680 enhanced or whatever. But the amount of work that it 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.600 takes to sculpture body to that level of perfection. I'm 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.400 still trying to get these games. I'm like, I'm so tiny, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.280 but i mean, one day super perfect body. I'm gonna 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.159 go ahead and add the celery and carrots to the 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.880 broth as well as the cabbage, so that could start 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:45.640 to soak softened up. Yeah, make it tender, nice good. 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:51.600 So on the business tip, though you've been technically in 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.640 business for yourself for a very long time. On the 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.320 on when it comes to being an influencer, how does 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.760 the whole money play into Is it like you just 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.640 pursue your your passion and then the money comes later 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.960 or do you grind for that too. So that's the 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.040 interesting thing about it all. I've been doing social media 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.000 for six years and I feel like within the last 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.720 two three years is when I just started to make 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.560 my money. It would literally be like I have two 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.000 million followers on Instagram and I'm still not making anything. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:28.120 So then they came out with like waste to like 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.840 monetize your content. I know YouTube has been doing that 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.680 for years, but with Instagram, like you're doing You're creating 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.120 all this content and you're not getting paid unless a 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.520 brand reaches out and they're like, hey, we want you 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.200 to promote our product. Can you create a video or 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:45.560 a concept about it? And that's how Like recently I've 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:52.040 been like I get a lot and yeah, within the 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:57.800 last year, m two year or two, I've been working 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.680 with a lot of brands and like I got a 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.800 man that plays like a huge role in it because 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:08.120 she actually like consistently pitches me to brands. But before 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:11.200 it was just it was really hard. I'm like, how 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.320 long can I start making money? Like and then doing 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.680 like long shifts and then to not like so here 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.240 you are you're working say I'm guessing like a ten 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:24.600 to ten hour day minimum, and then you're still not 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.720 making money for the first three years and then you're 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:33.160 finally making money. That's crazy. It's insane, and um, I've 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.080 been blessed like to work with so many brands like 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:40.720 I did Victoria's Secret recently Mabel Lane, um like big brands, 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.560 and I'm like, I'm finally working with people I dreamed 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.240 of working with. So it's kind of like crazy like 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.880 to see like the whole process. But people are like, 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.280 you've got so much money, and I'm like, if only 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.079 you knew, I just started making money. And it's kind 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.079 of like figuring out ways to make money. Like a 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.120 lot of people don't know about monetization on TikTok or 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.880 Instagram and facebooks or you said algorithm and I was 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.640 like algorithm, and yeah, oh my god, it's switched up 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:13.000 on us drastically. We're like where are the views? Where 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.599 are the likes? Where are the people? So are you 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.440 guys able to make money on like say when a 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.920 TikTok comes out, Like, um, so TikTok has a creator 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.199 program now where you can monetize your content. It's not 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.760 like any crazy money, but you're still getting paid by 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.360 like I think it's her how many views you get? 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.240 I think, yeah, so, um, I think you could get 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:43.480 paid their. Facebook also monetizes your content. The footage has 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.000 to be three minutes long, though. I think it's like 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.720 that on Facebook and YouTube or YouTube maybe ten minutes 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:51.920 worth of content. So it's like you have to create 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.640 all this content for all these platforms and like try 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.440 to figure out how you can like make a rew 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.720 you know. So it's it's so it's so much to study, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.840 it's so much to do. Like people don't understand, like 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.000 do you think it's easier for you to just do 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.680 a brand than did the monetization dollars or um? I 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.560 think I love working with brands, Like it's honestly easier 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.360 for me because they kind of give you a creator 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.240 brief and let you know what they want you to do, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 and it's like okay, like I can knock that out 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.559 as to me being like what do I shoot today? 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.720 You know, like what's gonna go viral? So it's just 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:33.880 like I just love working with brands in general, you know, Lemons. 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.600 So when you see when you produce like your dance 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.480 videos per se, like a lot of them look to me, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:46.480 they look very pricey, Oh my goodness. Oh yeah yeah, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.360 And but you're the business mine and the person that 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.160 cuts the check, right, I do it all. See. I 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.560 think a lot of people that yeah, I know, I scout, 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.520 I scout the talent. I go and buy the wardrobe. 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.600 Like I play all roles. Um when it comes to 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:06.400 like my content, Um, well, I don't shoot the video. 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:09.320 I have a video offer comes and captures that, but 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.080 I still have to pay him for that, you know, 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.640 Um locations, I have to pay for locations. So it's 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.520 just so much that comes to shooting a video, especially 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.360 in the dance videos, Like when I get a bunch 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.360 of girls, I have to buy all their wardrobe and 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:27.360 pay the choreographer and like it's so much, and I 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.720 don't think people realize that. So I'm like, I want 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:31.480 the video to do good so I could like at 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.600 least get something back, or even if it's just support, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.680 you know. I'm like, I think as a female, and 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.920 I hate to do this bring up the female versus 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:43.720 male thing, but I think when they see like people 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.679 see a pretty girl, they just say, oh, it's a 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.160 it's a it's an influencer. And I tell people all 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:53.440 the time, those influencer girls are badass, Like no, we 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.520 are definitely hustlers, you know. And then even back then 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.480 when we would have to attend events, like it was 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:04.080 always something like especially my main thing is like staying relevant, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.400 you know, because there's in the influencer world. Anyone can 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:09.959 do it now, you know. It's literally you start from 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.079 being home like and having a phone, you know. So 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:17.319 the market has become saturated so quickly that it's like, 0:12:17.559 --> 0:12:21.240 all right, years are going by, and I even get 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.160 people like she's still around, Like are you serious? Yeah, 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:29.360 where's Janina been? I'm like on all platforms, you know, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:37.080 like working. I'm twenty three. Yeah, Like that's what people 0:12:37.120 --> 0:12:42.319 don't like take into consideration, like you're twenty three. Yeah, 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.760 And it's partially because I was dating an older man, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.240 But I mean it is what it is. I'm gonna 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.760 add more vegetable broths because this thing is getting alone. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.440 I love that you in Storm. I don't know your 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.840 guys situation. I'm not going to get into it, so 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.600 I don't want the commis shift to it. But I 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.880 love that you guys still remain very well. If you 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.880 guys are back together book obviously right, but but cordial, 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:15.080 very cordial, and you still keep the working supportive relationship going. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.720 Oh yeah. I mean Storm played a major role um 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 with my career, and I feel like a lot of 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.320 the things I know I wouldn't know if I had 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.400 never met him. You know, I learned how to edit, 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.560 I learned how to come up with ideas. Um and 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.960 his work ethic is like insane. Oh yeah, and he's 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:40.600 so helpful. Like that's one thing about that man Um 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.880 that like you just can't like not acknowledge. He has 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.280 helped so many people, like from King batch Le and 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.280 v Hannah Stalking and so it's always like we like 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.960 thank him so much and appreciate him so much because 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.240 he's played a big role in all of our careers. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.560 So yeah, now he he also brought up the whole 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.360 Vines situation and that's where it was that the first 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.000 platform that you got on. Yeah, Vining was the first 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.920 platform I got on because it was popping back then, 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.040 and it was so easy to grow on Vine because 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.960 everyone was coming together and they were collaborating and everyone 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.280 was just shooting videos. And before it shut down, I 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.280 got to half a million followers. And so when it 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.720 shut down, we all transferred over to Instagram, and I 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.560 believe back then it was fifteen second videos. Yeah, and 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.000 then there's like no, it started to be like all up. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:34.840 It's just fascinating to me and I want everybody to 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:39.040 hear or see this, like to really understand because obviously 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.520 being in l A, you people talk about influencers like 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.680 I just want to be one, or or oh it's 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.800 just a hot chick or or or maybe even fake 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.440 boots or fake this, and it's just like I know 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:54.680 you guys, and I'm like false, Like this girl is 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.680 a badass hustler. Yeah, we're not giving enough credit. No, 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.160 That's why I'm so excited to have you on the 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.400 show because people need to see, like, you're entrepreneur. These 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.000 women are entrepreneurs. They're working ten twelve hour days. They're 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.880 the creative and the business, which usually you don't get 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.680 in business. Usually you're either a creative or business. You 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.360 have to manage both. Yeah. Yeah, and sometimes we even 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:22.440 like we're the director, you know, like we will have 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.560 a director to shoot our series, but we know what 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.160 we want at the end of the day, and so 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.280 we're the director, the producer, the creator, like every we 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:34.720 play every role. But it's it's I think social media 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:38.600 is beautiful and the reason why I say that is 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.880 because it lets you be you. You know, you have 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.560 control of what you do. I noticed when I was 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.680 in the acting world and the music world, I was 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.360 always depending on someone and like, at the end of 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:50.760 the day, if I want to be like I want 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.200 to shoot TikTok's all day, I have my phone. I 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.520 could do it by myself, you know. And so I 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.920 like the fact that I have control of what, like 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.760 my career now, you know, if I want to put 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:02.480 up create a business, go get people and be like 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.800 this is what we're doing, you know. So I just 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.480 love that social media like you have the ability to 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:14.640 do that. Do you feel like social media helps boost 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.760 your confidence in your all? Like I guess, um, what 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:24.800 is it like self? Yea, yeah, no, definitely, because I 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.800 remember in the acting world, when you go to these auditions, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.480 you take all this time to learn their scripts. You 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.440 go in they actually to read give you some direction 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.640 and then I like have a good day. Then you 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.760 sometimes you don't hear back from them, and it's like 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.640 I just spent all this time doing this and I 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.000 don't even know if I'm going to get the role. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.800 So I felt like my self esteem back then was 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:47.640 starting to get low and like like almost hitting a 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.360 little depression, like why am I not getting anything? And 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.520 it was just a tough world. And then it's like 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.880 some people have bad days and then they're taking it 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.720 out on you, like casting directors, and I'm like, I'm 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.720 just here in my roles. So it's just a lot 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.000 of energy in that world that I feel just was 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.600 almost like, I don't know, a little toxic. So social media, 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.000 you don't, you don't really have to deal with that. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.440 You know, you deal with people and like it's either 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.639 you want to work you don't. You know. But now 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.520 if you were to cross over to mainstream, and I've 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.240 seen some of you guys like Melvin Greg was able 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.159 to if you came from your guys squad, And do 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.399 you feel like there's a hindrance or there could be 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:34.280 a hindrance going from influencer to mainstream, Yeah, I do, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:39.119 because the thing I hear the most is mainstream doesn't 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:43.920 really take social media influencers seriously. So I like, if 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:47.639 you only knew these social media some social media creators 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.520 actually did mainstream before, but they just weren't known, you know, 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.080 Like I was an actress before social media. I could 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:57.720 still read a script, but because I'm an influencer, I'm 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.639 not going to be as like taken SERI like, you know, 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.240 so it's it's definitely harder to cross over, like I've 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.159 tried to like get agencies and like be like, oh 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:09.119 I want to work with you guys, and it's still tough. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.840 Like I'm like, I have this whole platform and it's 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:17.479 it's still hard, you know. So it's definitely what's the 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.800 hardest thing that you think in your career you face 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.760 where you thought about maybe given up or where you 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.560 were like in the crossroads of like the dark side, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.439 you know, jump it off the cliff, you know, staying 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:33.000 on on the mountain, like you're right. Um, with social media, 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:36.280 I don't really think I've come across that. With acting. 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.040 In music, I feel like I did again. I just 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.080 feel like the energy in that world is just a 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.959 little darker. And um, I don't know, I'm gonna say this, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.480 but you guys can get off you want. I feel 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:52.640 like there's a lot of pedophilia and music and acting, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.879 you know. So it's always like you do this for me, 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:57.720 I do this for you, you know, and then that's 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.840 for both guys and girls, because guys do get it. 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:04.840 Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah absolutely, But I think that 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:08.440 was just my thing. Yeah, that's interesting you say that. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.720 I like that you said that because nobody ever talks 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.479 about it. Yeah, no, it's it's a thing. And like 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.359 I remember, like I went to this meeting, like this event, 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.919 and I was so disgusted because I'm like, wow, social 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.920 media is so different than this. And this guy comes 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:26.760 over and he's like, what do you want to do? 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.320 Whatever you want to do, I got you. I'm like, okay, 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.000 Like I'll pitch you my ideas. And then it went 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:36.440 down this path and I was like, you're nasty. I'm 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:39.359 not doing that. I'm gonna stick on here and be 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:44.000 on TikTok and my good gram. So it's just it's hard, 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.840 like as a woman and like any world honestly, but 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:51.080 in social media you don't really encounter like weird people 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.840 like that, you know, because you're you're basically taking the 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.120 tools that everyone has accessible to them, but you're exploiting them, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.160 I would say, exploiting them to grow your business to grow. 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.879 Do you think that the secret to being an influencer 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.760 or to having success is really being yourself or creating 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.720 a character. So I think it has you have to 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.960 be yourself with social media because I remember you remember 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.680 when I used to wear contacts, I used Oh my god, 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.920 the storm at that time was like you don't want 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:29.160 to start social media like being this character because they're 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:31.800 always gonna want that, you know, So it's just better 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.080 to be you instead of kind of like my desireus. 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.280 Hannah Montana like, I just think it's better just to 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:40.400 be who you are because you can always be you. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:42.639 At the end of the day. When you're playing a character, 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:44.879 it could become a little exhausting and everyone knows you 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:46.879 as that character and it's like, hey, guys, I'm actually 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:50.240 myself and nobody takes you serious as yourself because they 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.560 know that character. So I would say just to be 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.000 you all the way, and then if you want to 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.440 play characters, play characters, but don't have it be your 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.240 like main focus. You know. Do you think the secret 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:05.440 is how much you like quantity over quality or quality 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.040 over quantity when it comes to social media because it 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:14.000 is competitive landscape that looks so good camera above, I 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:18.800 hope I wish you could see this. It looks great. 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:21.360 I'm like, should let me just throw a little more 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:27.440 for it? Some pep worm. So do you think it's 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:32.520 quality over quantity or quantity over quality um? I think 0:21:32.600 --> 0:21:37.920 it's quantity over quality because if you have more quantity, 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:42.200 quantity and people don't care for the quality stuff honestly, 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.880 like when I shoot like high deaf videos and like 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:49.240 the more serious stuff, they don't really relate to that 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:53.280 because they can't really do it. But ut quantity, you 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:55.680 are consistent and it's more and they know that they're 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.800 gonna continue to get more from you. So I definitely think, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:02.920 why is that like a tongue twister for me? Quantity 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:08.080 over quality? Are you going to diversify? Diversify like as 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:11.120 in like all different industries. Are you just gonna stay 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:16.520 like music and entertainment and I'm doing everything. Yeah. Now 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.240 that I've like under like understand social media and I 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.160 feel like I hadn't fully mastered it, but I feel like, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:31.119 very what's going on here? Don't start a fire? Um um. 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.240 Now that I feel like more comfortable in social media 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:37.240 because my main thing was just having money, you know, 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:41.000 and being able to support myself and my family if 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.320 maybe you know. So now that I finally have reached 0:22:45.320 --> 0:22:48.960 that state, which is recent, I'm able to branch out 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:51.119 and be like, oh, I want to do movies and 0:22:51.200 --> 0:22:54.359