Speaker 1: Once you realize, I don't know, depends what you've been through.
Speaker 1: I suppose once you realize that every single day, depending
Speaker 1: on what your mood is, it doesn't really matter regardless,
Speaker 1: you have been blessed with another day, and even if
Speaker 1: it's not the best day, you are still able to
Speaker 1: wake up tomorrow and do more things for yourself or
Speaker 1: try again or better yourself in different ways. That as
Speaker 1: well as if you're going through hell, keep going. That's
Speaker 1: something that resonates with me because my mom, she's been
Speaker 1: sick a lot of my life, so she has a
Speaker 1: lot of little like different diseases, ailments, just things like
Speaker 1: that that she just keeps going. And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if my mom can do this, I can make it.
Speaker 1: I can make it through another day. It'll be all right.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Rise and Conker Podcast. I'm your
Speaker 2: host Georgie Stevenson, former lawyer turned entrepreneur, social media personality
Speaker 2: and personal development junkie. This podcast is for my girl
Speaker 2: gang who want to feed their mind with positive and
Speaker 2: expansive thoughts to help them step into their power and
Speaker 2: live their most authentic life. We chat a variety of
Speaker 2: topics including mindset, business, relationships, health, and so much more. Basically,
Speaker 2: wherever you are on your journey, I want to help
Speaker 2: you feel inspired and empowered to rise up and conquer
Speaker 2: your next bold move. I know that's going to look
Speaker 2: different for everyone, but just no, I'm right here by
Speaker 2: your side and that you have the RNC community behind you.
Speaker 3: Let's do this.
Speaker 2: Hello guys, and welcome back to the Rise and Conquer Podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm your host, Georgie Stevenson, and today I am joined
Speaker 2: by the very inspiring, very motivating Libby Christiansen. So Libby
Speaker 2: is chatting to us all the way from the US.
Speaker 2: So the audio isn't one hundred percent, but this episode
Speaker 2: is worth it, so stick with us. If you don't
Speaker 2: know Libby, she is a woman of many talents. She's
Speaker 2: an absolute powerhouse in the gym. I follow a lot
Speaker 2: of her workouts. They are hard but epic. She is
Speaker 2: a fellow Jim Shark ambassador, and she's a much love
Speaker 2: Instagram and YouTube star. Plus just to add things on
Speaker 2: the top, she's also studying at UNI and she's just
Speaker 2: about to graduate, which is so so exciting for her.
Speaker 2: In this chat today, we chat about motivation, we chat
Speaker 2: about her health and fitness journey, how she got started
Speaker 2: on social media and really what was a pivotal moment
Speaker 2: in her rise, and we also get into a huge
Speaker 2: role in the Black Lives Matter movement. This episode was
Speaker 2: such a great chat. Libby is like honestly so full
Speaker 2: life and just so much energy. I think you guys
Speaker 2: are going to love it. Let's get into the show, Lippy,
Speaker 2: welcome to the Rise and Conquer Podcasts.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm happy to be on here. I guess, yeah,
Speaker 4: on here.
Speaker 2: I know it's weird, like gosh, like I'm happy to
Speaker 2: be you know, on air or like what do I say?
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's okay. I'm just excited.
Speaker 1: I'm super I'm thanking you were like, I want to
Speaker 1: meet with Livy and I want to talk. So thank you, No,
Speaker 1: right back at you.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: I've been a long time follower and lover of all
Speaker 2: your content, so I just want to share you with
Speaker 2: my rn C fam and get into it.
Speaker 4: Yay Georgie.
Speaker 1: When I tell you I've been watching you since I
Speaker 1: was a child, since it's been a hot minute, I
Speaker 1: feel like we've grown up together, so it's all the
Speaker 1: same same level.
Speaker 2: I love that I love that, So let's get straight
Speaker 2: into it. For those who don't know who you are,
Speaker 2: could you just give us a little snapshot of who
Speaker 2: is Lippy?
Speaker 3: What does she do?
Speaker 4: Sure? Okay, So my name is Libby Christiansen.
Speaker 1: I just turned twenty three in January and I'm a
Speaker 1: current college student. I actually should be finishing up college
Speaker 1: with my degree in liberal Arts and Sciences. I'm majoring
Speaker 1: in communications and I'm minoring in psychology. That takes up
Speaker 1: a lot of my time. But other than that, I
Speaker 1: am your average little social media gal. I post my workouts,
Speaker 1: lifestyle content, all kinds of stuff. I just share myself
Speaker 1: with the internet, you know, as we do. But I
Speaker 1: live a pretty average life as of right now. A
Speaker 1: lot of my focus is on school. I should be
Speaker 1: done next week, so I'm just counting down the days
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, that's insane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's done. College done.
Speaker 1: I'll be a full college graduate. I'll be a first
Speaker 1: generation graduate in my family. So I'm very excited about it.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 2: That is so epic. Oh my goodness. And what are
Speaker 2: the plans for after college?
Speaker 4: Right now?
Speaker 1: I'm thinking I will just kind of let it ride,
Speaker 1: wait it out, just because so much is up in
Speaker 1: the air. I want to enjoy my time where I
Speaker 1: can actually focus on content and social media, doing what
Speaker 1: I really enjoy, kind of expanding myself online and then
Speaker 1: you know, seeing what happens afterwards, but definitely trying to
Speaker 1: travel and use the time that I'm not using towards
Speaker 1: school right now to kind of just enjoy and relax.
Speaker 2: Well, all I can say is, if you know we're
Speaker 2: not even getting the full Libby and you're like doing
Speaker 2: all of this with college and content and everything, guys,
Speaker 2: imagine when she's finished college and we.
Speaker 3: Have the whole Libby. I'll just watched out. I'm scared
Speaker 3: and uproar.
Speaker 4: Literally, Libby will be in every corner, I swear.
Speaker 2: I just imagine the content you can create.
Speaker 4: I can't wait for it. I'm so excited.
Speaker 1: I feel like it'll be a huge weight off of
Speaker 1: my shoulders, a huge stress relief. I've been able to
Speaker 1: quit like a in person, full time job while also
Speaker 1: juggling social media as well as full time college, so
Speaker 1: I've like knocked those out slowly but surely, and eventually
Speaker 1: I'll get down to just being able to focus on
Speaker 1: what I really enjoy. So I can't wait for that.
Speaker 2: I absolutely love that, and I resonate with that so much.
Speaker 2: I remember doing my social media and UNI and it's
Speaker 2: just like when you can't focus on one thing fully,
Speaker 2: you feel almost like this guilt for even one.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm torn in too many directions.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, but so bloody exciting. Can you give us
Speaker 2: just a little snapshot, like, what does the day in
Speaker 2: the life look like for you? I'm sure it's different,
Speaker 2: but a typical day in the life right now?
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely so. Usually I will wake up.
Speaker 1: It just depends on the morning, and I'm really a
Speaker 1: morning workout person, so I like to get to the
Speaker 1: gym as early as possible. It depends if I have
Speaker 1: like online meetings or anything like that, but I'll usually
Speaker 1: wake up anywhere between like six to seven thirty, and
Speaker 1: then I'll head to the gym do a workout, usually
Speaker 1: takes a couple of hours, and then I will head home,
Speaker 1: hop onto meetings, kind of start my day, answer emails,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and then I kind of
Speaker 1: relax do content edit depends on if I film the
Speaker 1: YouTube video or what content I'm wanting to put up,
Speaker 1: like if it's a workout on Instagram or TikTok or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Then I kind of relax, eat some food,
Speaker 1: hang out with my dog and my boyfriend, and really
Speaker 1: just connect with a lot of people online. That's what
Speaker 1: I find myself doing throughout the day quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I'll answer dms and comments, have full conversations, and then
Speaker 1: eventually I will start to wind down, have some more food,
Speaker 1: and then I'll start like schoolwork at the end of
Speaker 1: the night, so I can actually just like focus on
Speaker 1: that all of my day is really out of the way,
Speaker 1: and then that's about it, just the same routine each day.
Speaker 2: I love that I'm the exact same, Like my day
Speaker 2: is so pretty much the same. And when yeah, so
Speaker 2: petive and when people are like, oh, like why don't
Speaker 2: you vlog more, I'm like, cause it's boring, Like I
Speaker 2: don't do anything interesting.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I hope that there's some type of like excitement throughout
Speaker 1: my day so I can be like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: should I film this? Should I document it?
Speaker 3: But I'll put this on my stories?
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Let's kind of get into your health and fitness journey.
Speaker 2: So that's definitely what I see you focused on your
Speaker 2: social media, and you can see you have so much
Speaker 2: passion and so much like you know, motivation, and to
Speaker 2: be completely honest, you're so my hype girl. Like when
Speaker 2: I'm lacking motivation for health and fitness, like fitness, I
Speaker 2: go to your page because I love like your mini
Speaker 2: rants and you know, just the yeah, you can see
Speaker 2: the spirit is there, which I absolutely love. Can you
Speaker 2: tell us about your health and fitness journey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm really happy that it all translates really well.
Speaker 1: That's what you see on Instagram is what you see
Speaker 1: in person. I am all energy, A million topics are
Speaker 1: in my head at one time, so I'm glad that
Speaker 1: it translates the same way. But in terms of my
Speaker 1: health and fitness journey, I've always been an athlete. I
Speaker 1: ran track and field when I was in middle school.
Speaker 1: In high school, I was a sprinter and that's what
Speaker 1: I loved to do. And then my junior year, so
Speaker 1: eleventh grade, I stopped doing track because I was focusing
Speaker 1: on work because I had to pay for everything myself
Speaker 1: and I was just very you know, I had my
Speaker 1: priority straight. So unfortunately I had to stop running track,
Speaker 1: and also the coach at the time, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you've like been in athletics where a coach will
Speaker 1: make you actually like loathe the sport completely, like hate
Speaker 1: it because they take pride in you rather than like
Speaker 1: their work.
Speaker 4: They think that you are just everything to them. I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 1: My coach really made me like mm disliked the track
Speaker 1: and feel the whole sport of it.
Speaker 4: So I kind of fell out of love with it.
Speaker 4: But I had a lot of like.
Speaker 1: D one university scholarships, but I didn't want that coach
Speaker 1: to receive credit for me, so I actually just stopped
Speaker 1: running completely my senior year. So when that happened this
Speaker 1: summer of my senior year, after I had graduated, I
Speaker 1: really lacked like direction because for so many years I
Speaker 1: was having somebody tell me, all right, go sprint this,
Speaker 1: go do this, do long jump, all of this, and
Speaker 1: I didn't know what to do with myself. So my
Speaker 1: sister she was like into, you know, the influencers. This
Speaker 1: was like twenty sixteen when it was you know the
Speaker 1: world of fitness influencers had just like really begun, and
Speaker 1: she was like, have you seen all these like influencers
Speaker 1: working on and everything. I was like no, But she
Speaker 1: told me about the gym, and my sister and I
Speaker 1: didn't grow up together when we were younger we're twins,
Speaker 1: but now we're like a lot closer. But at the time,
Speaker 1: she was telling me about it, and I somehow went
Speaker 1: to the apartment gym at my dad's house because I
Speaker 1: was visiting my dad in Utah and she was visiting
Speaker 1: my mom here in Kansas. And I went to his
Speaker 1: apartment gym when he was at work one day and
Speaker 1: I just started lifting some weights. That's really how I
Speaker 1: got into weightlifting, and from there I really just enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel super strong and powerful, confident, and
Speaker 1: I feel like that's like my zone. So I really
Speaker 1: haven't stopped lifting since then. But yeah, I definitely take
Speaker 1: pride in not going your typical route in terms of
Speaker 1: like fitness influencers. I guess that will come out with
Speaker 1: plans and an app and whatnot. I truly just started
Speaker 1: my Instagram showing like my accountability or my little workouts
Speaker 1: that I was doing, and it just spiraled into this.
Speaker 1: So what you've seen if you scroll back, is just
Speaker 1: like my entire journey, I suppose. But I've never been
Speaker 1: the type to just come out with a plan or
Speaker 1: anything like that. First of all, I'm not certified to
Speaker 1: do so. In second, it's just like a free resource.
Speaker 1: I've never claimed that I'm a professional or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but I just enjoy sharing stuff. Sharing My personality and
Speaker 1: my finish journey is really tied into my lifestyle, so
Speaker 1: it's super simple for me to be authentic in that
Speaker 1: way online.
Speaker 2: M I love that and I resonate with that because
Speaker 2: I'm much the same where I'm not necessarily well, I'm
Speaker 2: not I'm not qualified as you know, a pet, but
Speaker 2: I just really enjoy sharing my workouts, like I don't
Speaker 2: have to pay for them, and I just.
Speaker 3: Really enjoy it.
Speaker 2: And obviously, you know, I have some sort of knowledge
Speaker 2: because I've been training since I was seventeen. But I
Speaker 2: love your workouts because I always go to them and
Speaker 2: I do a lot of them when I'm like, I
Speaker 2: want to know, bullshit workout and I just want to, like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, grumblers, try one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh your workouts are hard, though, I'm like, holy fuck.
Speaker 4: They are a lot. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love to feel like I am about my breaking point.
Speaker 1: That's my favorite thing, Like what else can my body do?
Speaker 1: I just love to know that I'm capable, honestly, That's
Speaker 1: why I love working out.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a big thing about you too, is I
Speaker 2: can kind of like I definitely got the vibes that
Speaker 2: you came from an athletic background, because don't you think
Speaker 2: there's kind of like, you know a difference in the
Speaker 2: fitness world is like really training for that you know,
Speaker 2: aesthetics to look a certain way, doing like the entrend
Speaker 2: you know, fitness fitness regime compared to when someone like
Speaker 2: loves to move their body, and like you very much
Speaker 2: remind me of like you know, Natasha on YouTube, Like
Speaker 2: you can tell she just loves movement, she loves like,
Speaker 2: you know, the athletic side, which yeah, I can see absolutely.
Speaker 1: I just I swear ever since I was a child,
Speaker 1: I've just run around like a crazy person always, and
Speaker 1: I finally found somewhere where I can actually focus that energy.
Speaker 1: And it's just through movie my body and having some
Speaker 1: type of like routine or just trying something new. So
Speaker 1: it's cool that I get to share that and document it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it, And so tell us because you
Speaker 2: just seem like you have all the energy all the time.
Speaker 2: You're so motivated, you're so pumped up. Do you ever
Speaker 2: have like off days or days like you're I'm not.
Speaker 4: Really feeling it absolutely literally all the time.
Speaker 1: And I think that comes with just having so much
Speaker 1: on my plate in terms of a lot of things
Speaker 1: are writing on my shoulders, whether that is like school
Speaker 1: and being able to finish. I owe it to myself to,
Speaker 1: you know, finish school. I can't tell you how many
Speaker 1: times I've been like, all right, I'm dropping out. I'm
Speaker 1: done with this, I'm over it, just because it's so
Speaker 1: much to handle, and you know, your priorities are elsewhere
Speaker 1: where you're actually passionate, but motivation's not there. It's absolutely
Speaker 1: discipline and actually knowing that when you come out of
Speaker 1: a workout or do something for yourself at least like
Speaker 1: if it's a self care day or anything like that,
Speaker 1: you're going to feel better and you're gonna feel like
Speaker 1: a reward rather than you know, sulking and being in
Speaker 1: that upset mindset. I feel like you have to like
Speaker 1: know how to dig yourself out of it, because I
Speaker 1: can't tell you how many days I've sat and I've
Speaker 1: just been like, yeah, I'm just gonna sleep the day away,
Speaker 1: which I still do sometimes because I just literally can't
Speaker 1: handle it. And that's like a good form of self
Speaker 1: care for me to be able to like rejuvenate my body.
Speaker 1: But oh absolutely, I don't feel motivated all the time
Speaker 1: at all. And I think that having a community of
Speaker 1: people that kind of look to you for some type
Speaker 1: of like reassurance and motivation your themselves, it kind of
Speaker 1: allows you to build that up for yourself too, if
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Yeah, sure, it's like you just go
Speaker 1: off of each other.
Speaker 2: Really, Yeah, you feed off that one hundred percent. And
Speaker 2: so tell us about like if you aren't feeling motivated, like.
Speaker 3: What what will you do? What will you tell yourself?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 3: What's the pet talk? Give it to us.
Speaker 1: So I am a quote girl. I have tattoos of
Speaker 1: quotes everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: My favorite is like my trademark that I somehow came
Speaker 1: up with on my stories about day is still a luxury.
Speaker 1: It's just it resonates so well and it's so true.
Speaker 1: I don't know how it came out of my mouth,
Speaker 1: but I believe it every single day, literally have it
Speaker 1: on my body. And once you realize, I don't know,
Speaker 1: depends what you've been through, I suppose once you realize
Speaker 1: that every single day, depending on what your mood is,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter regardless, you have been blessed with
Speaker 1: another day, and even if it's not the best day,
Speaker 1: you are still able to, you know, wake up tomorrow
Speaker 1: and do more things for yourself or try again or
Speaker 1: better yourself in different ways.
Speaker 4: That as well as if you're going through hell, keep going.
Speaker 1: That's something that resonates with me because my mom, she's
Speaker 1: been sick a lot of my life, so she has
Speaker 1: a lot of little like different diseases, ailments, just things
Speaker 1: like that that she just keeps going. And I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if my mom can do this, I can make it.
Speaker 1: I can make it through another day. It'll be all right.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think that having those motivational like quotes
Speaker 1: as reminders or just little things that make you think
Speaker 1: and reevaluate your day help you to kind of get
Speaker 1: through it a little bit better. But you know, self
Speaker 1: care too. I literally took a bath today because I
Speaker 1: was like, I would love a bath.
Speaker 2: Hey, brons, Yeah, no, I love that. And I'm also
Speaker 2: such a quote queen, Like, I know it's very you know,
Speaker 2: it's very Oh, of course she's using a.
Speaker 3: Quote to motivate her.
Speaker 2: But I was like, no, that she actually works, Like,
Speaker 2: I absolutely love that.
Speaker 3: So it's a bad day is still a luxury.
Speaker 1: Yes, And you don't have to be luxurious with material things.
Speaker 1: If you realize, like you have a twenty four hours
Speaker 1: that somebody else possibly doesn't have, you really put things
Speaker 1: into perspective a lot more and I think you appreciate
Speaker 1: every single moment a little bit more as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's the big thing.
Speaker 2: Like what I see there is like a huge mindset
Speaker 2: on perspective and gratitude and when you can kind of
Speaker 2: get back to that and realize, like, you know, the
Speaker 2: little things don't matter that are in how fucking epic
Speaker 2: that I do get to do a workout and you know,
Speaker 2: I even have this opportunity. I even have a gym
Speaker 2: to go to, you know, to move my body and
Speaker 2: staff Like getting back to that, it's almost like you
Speaker 2: want to slap yourself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're like, why would you do this? Bitch? Like
Speaker 4: what the hell? No, Mari, why bit? But it really
Speaker 4: be like that sometimes.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like thankfully, like we do
Speaker 1: have a mindset where it's like all right, let's snap
Speaker 1: out of it, let's get go, And there's other people
Speaker 1: like that are writing on us that we carry throughout
Speaker 1: the day, and we have to be able to like
Speaker 1: step into our character for them, even though sometimes we
Speaker 1: don't feel at ourselves with It's like sometimes if you
Speaker 1: do it, you believe it.
Speaker 4: You know, like this is unlike.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's just like you know, the whole quote
Speaker 2: of whether you believe you can do it or not.
Speaker 4: You're right, yeah, yes, how true it is. It's almost rude.
Speaker 4: It's almost as effectful.
Speaker 3: And I'm about it. I almost like need you on FaceTime.
Speaker 2: So like anytime I'm like having this little wingy moment,
Speaker 2: I can just like have you there, and then you'll
Speaker 2: just say that.
Speaker 4: To me literally look at you. You know what I'm
Speaker 4: gonna say, yeah, and I'll be like, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm being a wingy bitch.
Speaker 1: No. I love that perspective though as well, like yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like you can do this, you can do this.
Speaker 1: Don't let you know, negative thoughts or those intrusive thoughts
Speaker 1: get to you because you've come so far. Look at this,
Speaker 1: with every single obstacle that you've had in your life
Speaker 1: that you were like I can't make it through this. Okay,
Speaker 1: Well it's tomorrow and you've done it, So I mean, like,
Speaker 1: what's next? You have another hurdle that come over, get
Speaker 1: it down?
Speaker 2: And what I always say, like, imagine a life where
Speaker 2: you had no hurdles, nothing bad happened, everything was easy.
Speaker 2: You would never learn any life lessons. You would never
Speaker 2: you know, get to that next step and feel accomplished.
Speaker 2: Like if you think about it, life is literally just
Speaker 2: like learning shit lessons. And you mean the bad days
Speaker 2: you need those emotions to realize the good days, to
Speaker 2: you know, feel those things.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, it's like you can't make it through life
Speaker 1: without any struggles because you wouldn't have learned anything and
Speaker 1: it would have all been.
Speaker 4: It would have been too easy. If only life was easy,
Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, excuse me, so easy to move.
Speaker 2: Libby's dog wants to come online with us Bronx.
Speaker 4: If he there's no Bronx, you know, here's something else.
Speaker 3: Well, I love that little pep talk. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Let's like, let's switch gears and let's chat about social media.
Speaker 2: So I honestly can't even remember how I came across here.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was like it was definitely before gym shark,
Speaker 2: So I don't know. I've just like i've just come
Speaker 2: across to your page and loved the workouts of everything
Speaker 2: was happening. And I remember following you when you were
Speaker 2: like twenty thousand, like.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, my comeback has been very recent. I will
Speaker 1: say like I definitely was sitting stagnant at some numbers
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I get like three hundred K.
Speaker 4: I don't know how to deal with that. I literally
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know what's going.
Speaker 3: I knew you're a big deal.
Speaker 1: And that's the crazy thing, because it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: when you see numbers, you're like, oh, you must be
Speaker 1: famous in your town.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Literally, my neighbors don't know who I am. There's maybe
Speaker 1: like one or two girls at the gym that are like,
Speaker 1: are you Libby? And I'm like yeah, and it's like
Speaker 1: oh hi.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like when people like do people just
Speaker 2: come up to you all the time. I'm like, no,
Speaker 2: no one knows who the fuck I exactly.
Speaker 4: I'm a piece of shit. Like they literally walk past me.
Speaker 4: I'm the person that they run into with the grocery car.
Speaker 4: I swear.
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't worry about me. My toes are fine,
Speaker 1: It's okay.
Speaker 3: I'm just a doormat. It's fine.
Speaker 2: No, so yeah, you've had to come up like things
Speaker 2: have happened. And don't get don't get me wrong, Like
Speaker 2: it's huge. I enjoy your content so much. You bring
Speaker 2: so much to the table, and you're one of those
Speaker 2: people I'm a big person of I will constantly go
Speaker 2: through my feed and mute people, unfollow people, and you know,
Speaker 2: continuously make sure that what I'm consuming is feeding me
Speaker 2: and fueling me in a really positive way. And you've
Speaker 2: made all the cuts. Oh so you two says thank goodness.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, I'm sorry to do the same thing though,
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you feeding my mental are you helping
Speaker 1: me grow? Like? Am I learning anything from you? If not,
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. It's nothing personal, but like that's not
Speaker 1: necessarily on my feed. What do I need to consume
Speaker 1: this for?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: Not interested?
Speaker 2: And also I find that if I have like too
Speaker 2: much going on, like I even like just having a
Speaker 2: small kind of group that I'm you know, feeling off
Speaker 2: and looking at so it doesn't feel almost too flinting.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so you know you've definitely you bring it
Speaker 2: to the table, which is huge. So firstly, your big
Speaker 2: congratulations because that's all your girlfriend tell us about, you know,
Speaker 2: your relationship with social media. Like you said, this wasn't
Speaker 2: something you know you planned or thought was a thing.
Speaker 2: But now you're here, you're doing it, You're creating content. Ow,
Speaker 2: what's your feelings about it?
Speaker 4: I love social media.
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, Georgie, when I tell you
Speaker 1: that I've literally watched you since I was a child,
Speaker 1: I'm not joking. So do you remember when Instagram came out?
Speaker 1: It was like twenty twelve. You know what tumblr girls were? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's helpless girl.
Speaker 4: Okay, I was a tumbler girl. I had an.
Speaker 1: Instagram and I was thirteen, thirteen years old in middle school,
Speaker 1: about to be in high school.
Speaker 4: So I'm like very aware of social media.
Speaker 1: And what's crazy is like I was doing sponsored posts
Speaker 1: before they were sponsored posts, before it was hashtag gifted.
Speaker 4: Like I was.
Speaker 1: Literally just receiving like little diy hairbows from these all
Speaker 1: businesses at thirteen years old. So it's crazy because I
Speaker 1: feel like I grew up with social media in such
Speaker 1: a huge way. But eventually I did this iPhone case
Speaker 1: collection okay on YouTube, my first ever YouTube video.
Speaker 4: It was for an iPhone four.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I had all these squishy, crazy cases that
Speaker 1: were sent to me, and I put that a video
Speaker 1: on YouTube and I swear I had the bullies in
Speaker 1: middle school and they were just making fun of me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, I can't take it anymore.
Speaker 1: So basically, they started playing that video in middle school,
Speaker 1: which I feel like happens to a lot of people.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: They played it on the projector so I literally like wept.
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't do this anymore, Like this
Speaker 1: isn't for me. So at thirteen, I deleted my account.
Speaker 1: I had like fifty thousand followers then, how crazy, Like
Speaker 1: that's how I know, Like, ah, it must be my personality.
Speaker 1: It just might be me as a person that people
Speaker 1: flocked to, which is really nice and reassuring.
Speaker 4: But at that time, I was like I can't handle it,
Speaker 4: can't do it.
Speaker 1: So basically I remade an Instagram A couple of years
Speaker 1: later and went through a breakup. My ex knew my
Speaker 1: passwords to everything, and this was when I had like
Speaker 1: an okay following where I had carryover from my thirteen
Speaker 1: year old self. I had like three thousand followers that
Speaker 1: just like followed me for like lifestyle and stuff. Right
Speaker 1: when I entered college. So I was a freshman. My
Speaker 1: ex I broke up with him, and he had my
Speaker 1: passwords and he went through and deleted all of my
Speaker 1: Instagram because he knew how much it meant to me,
Speaker 1: like how much I loved social media and Instagram. And
Speaker 1: when I tell you, my heart was just ripped out
Speaker 1: of my body. I was like literally crushed. Nothing hurt
Speaker 1: me more in the world than that. So my first
Speaker 1: Instagram picture, if you scroll down and look at it now,
Speaker 1: it's me my freshman year of high school, I mean
Speaker 1: in college, and I was like, you lose, and it
Speaker 1: was like a selfie okay, and then the next one.
Speaker 4: Was I win, Georgie. I cannot make this shit up.
Speaker 3: This is I know you're like, I didn't.
Speaker 4: Ask that question.
Speaker 3: I know, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: So basically I was like, I'm not bitch, okay, and
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it yet, but I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not letting you get to me, stupid hater. So
Speaker 1: then as time went on, I literally like went through college,
Speaker 1: met my boyfriend, and then that's when the little random
Speaker 1: workouts started. But I feel like I've just really grown
Speaker 1: up with social media and OG's will know it too.
Speaker 1: But it's just crazy because I just feel like social
Speaker 1: media has a huge place in my heart.
Speaker 4: I used to watch YouTube forever ago.
Speaker 1: I've just been around it so much, and it's just
Speaker 1: really cool to kind of come to a place where
Speaker 1: I consumed so much content and I was so invested
Speaker 1: in other people and now other people are like.
Speaker 4: Libby, what's up?
Speaker 1: What are you eating? Like what are you doing today?
Speaker 1: What's your workout? And it's crazy that it's come full
Speaker 1: circle that way. But I'm so thankful that all that
Speaker 1: stuff had happened that I deleted my first little Instagram everything,
Speaker 1: because it put me where I'm at now and I've
Speaker 1: learned so much and i feel like I've just like
Speaker 1: accumulated so much knowledge and experience from it.
Speaker 4: Although I'm like still young.
Speaker 1: It's I'm glad that it's been slow growth though, because
Speaker 1: it has cool as it is to blow up overnight
Speaker 1: for people. I've been doing this for like almost five years,
Speaker 1: just on the account that I have now, and it's
Speaker 1: so cool to hit little milestones to be able to
Speaker 1: reflect and not everything happened too quick where I won't
Speaker 1: forget special things. It's been a gradual growth, and I'm
Speaker 1: just very, very thankful for it because if you told
Speaker 1: me where I would be six months ago, wouldn't have
Speaker 1: believed you. I would have literally laughed in your face.
Speaker 1: It's crazy, It's just crazy. I'm just so thankful for
Speaker 1: social media and as crazy as it seems, and how
Speaker 1: weird influencers. My dog is I snoring as weird as
Speaker 1: influencers seem. My dog is literally an influencer. He has
Speaker 1: an Instagram. It's just like, I can't be anything but
Speaker 1: grateful for where it's taken me.
Speaker 4: You know, it just you can look at it in.
Speaker 1: A shallow perspective, but if you actually do a deep
Speaker 1: dive and think about, oh my gosh, like this has
Speaker 1: really changed my life and made me a better person,
Speaker 1: opened me up to new experiences and new people, why
Speaker 1: not be thankful?
Speaker 4: You know, I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been It's so it's so true. Like you said, like,
Speaker 2: you know, the slow growth and being so thankful Instagram
Speaker 2: growing with you, and I feel like you're definitely, you know,
Speaker 2: a quote unquote influencer who is so authentic.
Speaker 3: You bring so much to the table. You're such a positive.
Speaker 2: Influence and it's like we need more of that. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I yeah, I think I think that's so important.
Speaker 1: I think, And yeah, I think part of it is
Speaker 1: also as much as we hear the term influencer, that's
Speaker 1: cool and whatnot. I can influence you to pi a
Speaker 1: pair of Jim Shark, that's so cool. I love that
Speaker 1: for me, But I want to be more than Jim Shark,
Speaker 1: and I want to be myself and I don't want
Speaker 1: these other things to be my identity.
Speaker 4: I'd rather have impact rather than influence.
Speaker 1: So I hopefully, hopefully I impact people in a positive way,
Speaker 1: not just influence them to you know, spin their coins
Speaker 1: or like X, Y and Z. But I hope that
Speaker 1: I do make a positive difference in people's lives and
Speaker 1: urge them to be confident in themselves and unapologetically themselves
Speaker 1: and authentic as well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh absolutely, And I think you definitely hit
Speaker 2: the nail on the head there because there's almost like
Speaker 2: this new era of influencers that are coming through that
Speaker 2: it is impact over influence, and people like you know,
Speaker 2: consumers and I hate calling them you know, followers, but
Speaker 2: it's like they want to see the real shit that yeah,
Speaker 2: they be to have a look at your sponsored posts
Speaker 2: and whatnot. But unless you are giving value like uh,
Speaker 2: you know, and adding to their lives, people are smart.
Speaker 2: They're not gonna, you know, stand for it. And I,
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, Libby, but I kind of
Speaker 2: went through a new if you, if you truly are
Speaker 2: an OG, you would know this. But I went through
Speaker 2: a bit of a transformation where at the start I
Speaker 2: was a super surface level influencer like I used to post,
Speaker 2: you know, bikini pick my Instagram really kind of blew
Speaker 2: up at the start with a before and after photo.
Speaker 4: It was there.
Speaker 2: It's very kind of like surface of all fitness. And
Speaker 2: then I kind of remember this pivotal moment where I
Speaker 2: kind of saw what was happening in the industry and
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't want to be that person,
Speaker 2: and I know there's so much more that I can
Speaker 2: bring to the table. I almost felt like not enough,
Speaker 2: Like who am I to speak about you know, female
Speaker 2: empowerment and you know, all these different issues. So but
Speaker 2: then I remember there was kind of this Pervottle moment
Speaker 2: where I was like, no, I want to be known more.
Speaker 2: But then you know, just looking a certain way or yeah,
Speaker 2: like that sort of side, and I really kind of
Speaker 2: brought this other aspect and it was kind of bringing
Speaker 2: the whole georgy to the table. Do you have a
Speaker 2: similar sort of thing or have you always been the
Speaker 2: Holy be?
Speaker 1: Honestly, I would love to say that I've had a
Speaker 1: similar thing, but like it's really take me as I am,
Speaker 1: relieve me, Like, bye, Yeah, I have always been off
Speaker 1: the walls, like energetic, one hundred percent myself. I say
Speaker 1: things how it is, and I need to like sometimes
Speaker 1: stop myself and check myself because I don't need to
Speaker 1: hurt people's feelings. Sometimes I'm just brutally honest and I
Speaker 1: state my opinion and it's not a well liked opinion,
Speaker 1: you know. But I feel like I have always been
Speaker 1: one hundred percent myself and I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: people turn heads about that, and I've had a lot
Speaker 1: of people judge me for it. But it's like that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing I feel like with my platform is
Speaker 1: because I am so unapologetically myself and so confident in
Speaker 1: who I am, there are always people my audience that
Speaker 1: follows me.
Speaker 4: They flock to me.
Speaker 1: I'm convinced because you know, you see people and you're
Speaker 1: like Oh.
Speaker 4: My gosh, she's so quirky and weird.
Speaker 1: But deep down that person has that little part of
Speaker 1: them that they're like, I just wish I could express
Speaker 1: it the way that somebody else does. And they flock
Speaker 1: to what they relate to. And that's how I know
Speaker 1: I have an audience that I do, because they're freaking hilarious.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: They send me the funniest dms and they have the
Speaker 1: exact same humor as me, And I'm like, you guys,
Speaker 1: my people. And that's what's crazy, is like, if you're
Speaker 1: not my people, there's a reason you haven't found my page.
Speaker 1: And what's meant to be yes, Like what's meant for
Speaker 1: you will not pass you by? Okay, yes, So it's
Speaker 1: like everything happens for a reason type thing, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: double quote. But it's like I feel like I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have the audience that I do if it wasn't meant
Speaker 1: for me, and I wouldn't be where I am now
Speaker 1: if it wasn't meant for me, And these people probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't come across my story or my page or find
Speaker 1: me somehow if they weren't meant to, Like they probably
Speaker 1: needed it at some point in their life, whether it's
Speaker 1: me show you my dog running in the backyard. There's
Speaker 1: a girl that's like on to me because she thinks
Speaker 1: I don't water my grass, but it's literally winter here,
Speaker 1: so the grass is dead. And I'm like, okay, so
Speaker 1: I don't know how you found me and this was
Speaker 1: your first DM was telling me to water my grass,
Speaker 1: but like, do you want me to go like lay
Speaker 1: a pipeline outside and put a sprinkler system in and
Speaker 1: the dead of winter. I'm sorry I hasn't covered yet.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like my audience lasted that as
Speaker 1: stuff because they have the same humor and it's just like,
Speaker 1: I feel like I found my people. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to do a meetup. Oh my gosh, it'll be so fun.
Speaker 2: But this is so this is a huge thing that
Speaker 2: be because I feel the exact same way of when
Speaker 2: you do show up authentically. When you are you know,
Speaker 2: you're quirky, and everyone's quirky, everyone's weird if you truly
Speaker 2: express yourself. But when you are that person, you attract
Speaker 2: the exact yes people, and anyone who you know says
Speaker 2: otherwise or talk shit, you're like, well, thank god, because
Speaker 2: they're not my people.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're not spearing. You must have sometimes too far.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I don't know how I got recommended to
Speaker 4: you said yeah bye. But that's what's.
Speaker 1: True, is people flock to what they relate to, whether
Speaker 1: that's fitness or if it's me being mixed race, me
Speaker 1: being adopted, me having a twin sister. Like there's so
Speaker 1: many facets of me I feel like that people do
Speaker 1: relate to, and it's like, oh my gosh, it comes
Speaker 1: with so much else, Like there's so many more things
Speaker 1: to learn about me as a person that I can
Speaker 1: share based on my own experiences and just myself that
Speaker 1: you might fall into the Libby hole, you know, the
Speaker 1: little what's Libby about hole and be like, okay, well
Speaker 1: I'm here because she has curly hair. Now I didn't
Speaker 1: know she had a dog and a boyfriend. But I'm
Speaker 1: here for it too, you know. It's like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what spirals and people turn into it.
Speaker 4: Be like, oh my gosh, you're my best friend. Nor'm like, hey, besties,
Speaker 4: what's up.
Speaker 3: We love being in the Libby hole.
Speaker 4: We love it.
Speaker 2: We love being in that Libby hole. All right, Libby, Well,
Speaker 2: let's buddy swap. Oh wait before we swap gears, Sorry,
Speaker 2: before we change topics. Do you just want to give
Speaker 2: some advice for someone who maybe does want to start
Speaker 2: social media or you know, something on the side and
Speaker 2: they are not feeling confident enough to express themselves. What
Speaker 2: would you say to that person.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like there's always this hesitation when you're
Speaker 1: pursuing something that you aren't sure of what the outcome
Speaker 1: might be. And I think it's important to kind of
Speaker 1: allow yourself to try new things, whether that is getting
Speaker 1: into social media, or posting your workouts or even filming
Speaker 1: yourself in the gym for the first time. The more
Speaker 1: you do something, the more comfortable you get with it.
Speaker 1: And it kind of goes hand in hand with what
Speaker 1: we just talked about. If you're wanting an audience, you
Speaker 1: can't play into the numbers. Just know that the people
Speaker 1: that relate to you will flock to you, and whatever
Speaker 1: is meant for you is going to come, whether that
Speaker 1: is a small audience, whether that's finding a new hobby
Speaker 1: or a new passion and completely like sharing that on
Speaker 1: a different platform. I think that with it being twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty twenty one, we connect so much with
Speaker 1: other people based on their experiences, and I think it's
Speaker 1: really important to show and share your authentic self, share
Speaker 1: your journey, and honestly be yourself. Everybody wants somebody that
Speaker 1: they can relate to, and it's so important to not
Speaker 1: sugarcoat stuff because because somebody would like to hear their
Speaker 1: exact same story or a piece of that in someone else,
Speaker 1: because they won't feel so alone, whether that is in
Speaker 1: weight gain, weight loss, your fitness journey, being a college student,
Speaker 1: living on your own for the first time. There's so
Speaker 1: many different things that somebody just wants someone else to
Speaker 1: relate to. And I think that being able to share
Speaker 1: yourself and just kind of taking that leap of faith
Speaker 1: and not knowing what might happen.
Speaker 4: You never know. You could be like me and be like, Okay,
Speaker 4: I was not expecting any of this, but you'll be
Speaker 4: grateful that you did it at first.
Speaker 2: Oh, we love a motivational talk by you would be.
Speaker 1: I guess it.
Speaker 2: No, I couldn't agree more and yeah, no, we love that.
Speaker 2: And I think it's also super special what you said about,
Speaker 2: you know, not being too worried, because if you're feeling
Speaker 2: a certain way, like there are other people feeling a
Speaker 2: certain way.
Speaker 3: There are other people were interested. You just need to
Speaker 3: find your people.
Speaker 4: Absolutely yes.
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Speaker 2: let's get back into the episode. Well, let's change gears,
Speaker 2: let's swap topics. And I really wanted to chat to
Speaker 2: about the Black Lives Matter movement because you were a
Speaker 2: huge account that I went to during this time and
Speaker 2: it was like, I'm from Australia obviously, so things were
Speaker 2: a little bit different here, but it was.
Speaker 3: Also it was global.
Speaker 2: It was clearly a global issue, and yeah, you were
Speaker 2: definitely an account that I loved watching. I loved, you know,
Speaker 2: getting a lot of information for you. You were sharing
Speaker 2: a lot of information, And I really wanted to bring
Speaker 2: it up today because I think sometimes, you know, these
Speaker 2: movements can happen and people get involved and people are posting,
Speaker 2: you know, the Black Square and doing these certain things,
Speaker 2: and then it's all of a sudden not trendy, and
Speaker 2: we're not you know, thinking about it or talking about it,
Speaker 2: whereas I know you're still talking about it. You're still
Speaker 2: so informative in this area. So I wanted to bring
Speaker 2: it up today. Can you firstly tell us why it
Speaker 2: was really important to you to be really involved in
Speaker 2: the Black Lives Matter movement?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I feel like I have never been so passionate
Speaker 1: or heavily involved in anything in terms of social media
Speaker 1: until the Black Lives Matter movement came up. And it's
Speaker 1: always been a movement. It just hit social media and
Speaker 1: exploded as it should have. It got the recognition that
Speaker 1: it needed, and it brought a lot of change and
Speaker 1: understanding and education to a lot of people, especially during
Speaker 1: COVID when all of this had just hit, because I mean,
Speaker 1: we weren't going outside there wasn't anything to do, and
Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately the timelines did line up with different
Speaker 1: tragedies that happened, but it gave people a place to
Speaker 1: learn and educate themselves and to drop their ego and
Speaker 1: to stop acting like they knew everything, because even I
Speaker 1: don't know everything. But I just felt that it was
Speaker 1: so important to at least talk about something that I've experienced,
Speaker 1: that people that I love have experienced.
Speaker 4: Because you don't know something as much as you know
Speaker 4: it unless you've lived it.
Speaker 1: You know, you can do as much research as you want,
Speaker 1: but a lived experience is I think a little bit
Speaker 1: more valuable than just learning from reading a textbook, because
Speaker 1: as we know, textbooks have been altered and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: history is just a mess. But when you're living in
Speaker 1: a moment, that is so important. I think that being
Speaker 1: outspoken about it and sharing your own experiences, sharing resources
Speaker 1: is really something that brings people together and allows them
Speaker 1: to connect on a deeper basis rather than just like, hey,
Speaker 1: this is what I ate today. No, let me tell
Speaker 1: you about these lives that were lost due to racism,
Speaker 1: due to white supremacy, due to X, Y and Z.
Speaker 1: This is something that affects me and if you support me,
Speaker 1: I would really appreciate. I would really love if you
Speaker 1: took part in this and shared your support, because I mean,
Speaker 1: there's not going to be changed once we all kind
Speaker 1: of come together to you know, move forward for it.
Speaker 2: You know, yeah, one hundred percent. And I think also
Speaker 2: what you said about you know, there is so much
Speaker 2: information and there's articles and those books and there's textbooks,
Speaker 2: but going to someone and listening to their real life
Speaker 2: experience and even just the huge thing that I saw
Speaker 2: in the movement was just people.
Speaker 3: Being more aware of.
Speaker 2: Oh, on their Instagram feed, they do just follow you know,
Speaker 2: white blonde people who look like that.
Speaker 3: And because I think.
Speaker 2: Almost a lot of it, Like I remember kind of
Speaker 2: having a discussion with my friends who kind of explained
Speaker 2: that whether like I think, for me, the biggest thing
Speaker 2: was awareness because before it's like it wasn't evin and
Speaker 2: a thought, but for the first time, it was thought
Speaker 2: provoking and it was out putting that awareness in which
Speaker 2: is huge. But also why I did love going to
Speaker 2: your account too, was you know, from listening to someone
Speaker 2: who does have that personal experience too, which I think
Speaker 2: is so important.
Speaker 1: And I absolutely have completely different experiences from other people,
Speaker 1: and I talked about this a lot, is that I
Speaker 1: am biracial, I'm light skinned, and oftentimes people of darker
Speaker 1: complexion are quote targeted for absolutely no reason at all
Speaker 1: other than racism. And I, even as a young mixed female,
Speaker 1: experience racism differently than my boyfriend, who is six ' three.
Speaker 1: He was a lineman in college football, but he's a
Speaker 1: black man in America, and he experiences, you know, life
Speaker 1: so much different than I do. And I think that
Speaker 1: it was also important for me to try to bring
Speaker 1: his experience to the table because we hear so much
Speaker 1: about black men and how they are profiled and targeted
Speaker 1: in all of these different ways. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if people really think about the aftershock that that brings
Speaker 1: to the people that surround those men, or what the
Speaker 1: repercussions might be, or what the mental capacity or stability
Speaker 1: might be for somebody that is around somebody who's heavily
Speaker 1: affected by racism in that way. But I think that
Speaker 1: bringing it up and actually sharing those topics and experiences
Speaker 1: brings a lot more value to you on your individual
Speaker 1: platform and to an entire platform as a whole, because
Speaker 1: it's like everybody's learning and I like I said, I
Speaker 1: have a different experience than somebody else, but I can
Speaker 1: still live my truth and share my own truth as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so important. And I did love that too that
Speaker 2: you brought your boyfriend's experience into that as well. I
Speaker 2: wanted to know from your perspective. And please, don't get
Speaker 2: me wrong, I know you know we need to be
Speaker 2: taking these steps ourselves and being more aware and taking
Speaker 2: you know, our own action to find this out. But
Speaker 2: what would your kind of recommendations be for people who
Speaker 2: maybe they have fear and I to be completely transparent,
Speaker 2: have kind of felt this with saying the wrong thing,
Speaker 2: you know, sharing wrong information. What would your advice be
Speaker 2: for those people in regards to educating themselves first and
Speaker 2: then how to show up in a way where they
Speaker 2: can feel like, you know, they can have a conversation
Speaker 2: about racism and these salts issues.
Speaker 1: I feel like no matter where you're at, there are
Speaker 1: always going to be those people that will say you're
Speaker 1: not doing enough, or you're doing too much, or this
Speaker 1: is performative. But if you actually care to learn, I
Speaker 1: think that educating yourself by learning about other people's experiences.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's so many different people that you
Speaker 1: can follow or scroll back on their page or look
Speaker 1: at their highlights to see what they were talking about
Speaker 1: at that time specifically. But there's also other resources that
Speaker 1: talk about history in America or the reason that people
Speaker 1: wear box braids, like I've done a whole video on that,
Speaker 1: just a little snippet, But I think that expanding your
Speaker 1: reach or broadening your own horizons is really important. And
Speaker 1: I think that also talking with people or kind of
Speaker 1: looking into other people who have experienced life differently than
Speaker 1: you is valuable because if you're empathetic at all, you
Speaker 1: probably will feel those same feelings, although you won't experience
Speaker 1: it the same way. You can still resonate and try
Speaker 1: to understand what it might be like to live like them.
Speaker 1: But when it comes to actually sharing your allyship, I
Speaker 1: think that you have to be honest with yourself and
Speaker 1: acknowledge the fact that, hey, I am not a black
Speaker 1: person in America, but I would love to learn about it,
Speaker 1: and I would love to share my support, and I
Speaker 1: would love to educate myself and others on this topic
Speaker 1: because it is necessary for change to happen. And I
Speaker 1: do have a part, especially with a platform, to kind
Speaker 1: of voice this and to give those who do not
Speaker 1: have a voice, give them a voice and give them
Speaker 1: a platform. And I think that part of that was
Speaker 1: sharing black creators, which was great. And I think that
Speaker 1: now I've seen a lot of people sharing about the
Speaker 1: Asian community because the Asian community has also experienced an
Speaker 1: insane amount of racism, which is so okay. But I
Speaker 1: think as these things come up, it's important to be
Speaker 1: in the know and be part of it, rather than
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines and just hoping that it blows over.
Speaker 1: As uncomfortable as it might be, it's so necessary to
Speaker 1: do your part and to be able to acknowledge what's
Speaker 1: going on because you never know, like your child might
Speaker 1: experience this and you want to know how to talk
Speaker 1: to them about it, or how to teach them how
Speaker 1: to talk to a friend or learn about it. But
Speaker 1: I think that being open to the conversation is the
Speaker 1: most important thing, and also just trying because nobody's going
Speaker 1: to get it right the first time. I feel like
Speaker 1: I've said things incorrectly, even on my own platform, and
Speaker 1: I'm a black woman in America. But all I can
Speaker 1: do is be truthful, and I can right my wrongs
Speaker 1: and acknowledge the education that I do have and hope for,
Speaker 1: you know, hope to learn more in the future. And
Speaker 1: I think that everybody can do that, regardless of who
Speaker 1: you are, if you want to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that you touched on we're not always going
Speaker 2: to get it right the first time, and as long
Speaker 2: as you can acknowledge that and keep moving forward and
Speaker 2: keep learning and keep being open minded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like that's huge.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think that's the most important part. Sorry, I'm
Speaker 1: moving things, but I do think that's the most important part,
Speaker 1: is actually knowing and coming to terms with the fact
Speaker 1: that you're not going to know it all.
Speaker 4: You might not ever live.
Speaker 1: The same experience as someone else, but that does not
Speaker 1: disqualify you from being an ally or being an advocate
Speaker 1: for someone.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent. Oh I love that.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for chatting to us about that and
Speaker 2: everyone I Libby, do you still have all your highlights
Speaker 2: from Black Lives Matter?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: I do. They are a little bit back, but I
Speaker 1: mean they're there, and I mean I literally looked at
Speaker 1: those the other day because I have not visited them
Speaker 1: since I posted them, honestly, and it's just wild because
Speaker 1: I think I reference for people to go check it out,
Speaker 1: and I had replies to my highlights, so I was like,
Speaker 1: what are people replying to I went back and looked
Speaker 1: at it, and I was like, Oh my gosh, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of myself because I feel like for
Speaker 1: so long I've just been the type of person I
Speaker 1: kind of just like, yeah, I'm going to put my
Speaker 1: input in here. But I can just see how passionate
Speaker 1: I was, and I still have the same passion to
Speaker 1: share so much with people. And it's crazy because those
Speaker 1: highlights and those stories were literally in the moment of
Speaker 1: so much happening, from a mott arbery being shot by
Speaker 1: white supremacists up until me going to a Black Lives
Speaker 1: Matter protest being tear gased three times, like you see
Speaker 1: so much, and it's just me being candid and sharing
Speaker 1: my own experience and then trying to educate people and
Speaker 1: sharing resources.
Speaker 4: And I think that that.
Speaker 1: Was a really pivotal moment for me, at least in
Speaker 1: my own life too as well as social media, because
Speaker 1: I really found myself not only like in the in
Speaker 1: the world of fitness, but this is another part of me,
Speaker 1: and I think that opened up a lot of the conversation.
Speaker 1: For a lot of black creators or people of color
Speaker 1: that are creators online, they were able to share their
Speaker 1: own experiences and be raw and real and candid, and
Speaker 1: I think that's also what opened up the conversation for
Speaker 1: people that do follow them or for other content creators
Speaker 1: that they just saw how real it was, and I
Speaker 1: think that they empathized a lot, and they realized that
Speaker 1: they had to do something as well, because they don't
Speaker 1: want their friends to feel like that online. So I
Speaker 1: think that urged people to do their part and to
Speaker 1: really want to be part of the conversation.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. And those highlights, they are They're unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I remember obviously watching them in real time, but I
Speaker 2: did see that you had saved them. So guys, please
Speaker 2: go back to all the way back to Libby's highlights,
Speaker 2: because they are really good and really informative, and you can,
Speaker 2: you know, you can see how much you showed up
Speaker 2: and you were, like, you know, so there in the
Speaker 2: moment doing the thing, which is amazing to see.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's like four of them right now, but
Speaker 4: I just remember how exhausting it was. Georgie.
Speaker 1: I literally don't think I've ever been so mentally fatigued
Speaker 1: in my entire life, but it was obviously it was
Speaker 1: so worth it. But I remember talking to my friend
Speaker 1: a Jazzi, and we were both like hitting it on Instagram.
Speaker 1: We had hundreds of stories every single day of resources
Speaker 1: and then talking about what's going on in our own experiences,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 4: Was like a mod arvory that was a whole thing.
Speaker 1: And I remember going on the run on his birthday
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, like I feel like I've
Speaker 1: done my part, but I want to do more. And
Speaker 1: then a couple of days later, we have George Floyd
Speaker 1: and I'm like, Okay, mentally, I can't handle this. And
Speaker 1: I felt like I was so engulfed in social media
Speaker 1: and I felt like it was my job to educate people,
Speaker 1: which obviously it's not, but it felt like I want
Speaker 1: to share this and I want to put as much
Speaker 1: information out there as I can.
Speaker 4: But I cannot even.
Speaker 1: Tell you how tired I was. Like mentally, I was like,
Speaker 1: what else am I supposed to do? I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm doing everything I can. And that's the thing is
Speaker 1: like you feel like you're doing so so much, but
Speaker 1: racism still exists. And there has to be fights that
Speaker 1: are fought and you have to be part of it.
Speaker 4: And that's kind of the thing. I feel like I
Speaker 4: kind of compromise. I did.
Speaker 1: I compromise my own mental health, but I felt like
Speaker 1: it came at a greater cost and I felt like
Speaker 1: it was worth it. But now when these things happen
Speaker 1: and when there is a large conversation, I feel like
Speaker 1: I can take a step back, take a breath, analyze
Speaker 1: what's going on instead of just you know, it's like
Speaker 1: when somebody comes out with an apology video, they're like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I have to hop in here at
Speaker 1: the moment and I have to correct my wrongs or whatever.
Speaker 4: No, I've learned now.
Speaker 1: That I don't have to throw my entire body and
Speaker 1: everything into something. I can take a step back because
Speaker 1: I know that a lot of the work or some
Speaker 1: of the work has been done, but I don't have
Speaker 1: to do it all myself, and I won't be the
Speaker 1: person that doesn't all myself.
Speaker 4: I can only do my part, and it's important not
Speaker 4: to fatigue myself with trying to do that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, one hundred percent. And like I actually remember
Speaker 2: thinking that during the time, like you could just see
Speaker 2: how on you are, how on you were.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like how much heart was involved in everything you did.
Speaker 2: So I could imagine you feeling so fatigued and so drained.
Speaker 2: But it's just, yeah, so amazing to see. And like
Speaker 2: I said, guys, those highlights of there, make sure you
Speaker 2: check them out. It was it was honestly so pivotal
Speaker 2: and it was just even your content for me was
Speaker 2: such a pivotal moment in my awareness and my understanding,
Speaker 2: and so yeah, I couldn't imagine everyone else to Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh.
Speaker 4: I'm happy that it somehow made an impact on you.
Speaker 2: No huge part, honestly, and that's why I really wanted
Speaker 2: to chat about it today.
Speaker 3: But Libby, thank you so much. You are literally such
Speaker 3: a legend.
Speaker 2: That was a very ausy slang word to say, but mate,
Speaker 2: you're a legend.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: As So this season of the Rising Concord podcast we
Speaker 2: are chatting bold moves and bold action, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you what's next for you and how will
Speaker 2: you be taking bold action in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, bold moves and bold action. Well, first
Speaker 1: of all, we're getting this degree literally next week, Like
Speaker 1: I need.
Speaker 4: In the mail right now. Old, I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I'm just really proud of myself because I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can relate when you're in school, You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could just give up. I could just be done
Speaker 1: with it all and move forwardit. I'm just really proud
Speaker 1: of myself for sticking it out. Because I was supposed
Speaker 1: to graduate in twenty twenty in May, and then I
Speaker 1: was supposed to graduate in December of twenty twenty. That
Speaker 1: didn't happen. Things got pushed, and here we are now March.
Speaker 1: What a random time, but March of twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: I will be a graduate. That's definitely like my biggest,
Speaker 1: most near move I suppose. Other than that, I really
Speaker 1: just want to expand myself and I really want to
Speaker 1: build a business for myself. I have a couple of
Speaker 1: things that i'm working on the I'm super excited about. Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know how this works. Like
Speaker 1: I'm new to this game, Georgia, you've been in it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I need coach, please, But I'm excited for
Speaker 1: what potentially might come. I'm just really thankful, honestly thankful
Speaker 1: that I've been able to come this far, I've had
Speaker 1: so much stacked up against me, and I'm like, oh my.
Speaker 4: Gosh, statistics mean nothing.
Speaker 1: But I can't wait to build myself up, grow a
Speaker 1: little bit more, learn about myself. Hopefully I get to
Speaker 1: meet some people, and you know, hopefully twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: provides what we want. But other than that, I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just want to live life for
Speaker 1: a little bit, make some bold moves randomly. I'm sure,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know how these opportunities come up.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you got to have sactly No, Liby, you are
Speaker 2: honestly such an inspiration. We bloody love you, and I like,
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you right now, like you don't like. Oh,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I'm sorry. Happy to have some
Speaker 2: coach and calls anytime you want. But anything you do,
Speaker 2: I know it's going to be so epic because you
Speaker 2: put your heart into everything and like you said, you
Speaker 2: show up so authentically you and it's going to make
Speaker 2: sense and it's going to be, you know, on purpose,
Speaker 2: on point. So I have no doubts that twenty twenty
Speaker 2: one few is going to be epic and I just
Speaker 2: can't wait to see it.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, and Libby, can you let everyone
Speaker 2: know where they can find you, where they can join
Speaker 2: the Libby Hole.
Speaker 1: Yes, of course, you guys can find me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm at Libby Christiansen. Also on YouTube Libby Christensen, and
Speaker 1: I think that's it. I guess I have a TikTok
Speaker 1: as well. I'm not a huge TikToker. I'm no Charlie Demilio.
Speaker 4: I'm really just me, but I believe it's literally the
Speaker 4: same username. Thank goodness. But yeah, I love it.
Speaker 3: I love it all three and I'll put that in
Speaker 3: the show notes. Guys. Ah, thank you so much. Libby, Yes,
Speaker 3: of course, thank you. Thank you for.
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