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36. everything that happened at Coachella.. travel blues & reset routine · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hello you guys. Welcome back to another episode of the Hawkrol Energy Podcast.
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I'm your host, Kaylee, and this is your weekly reminder that it's a
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new day, a new week, a new mindset, and another day for
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you to become the Hawkrol Energy you want to attract. Hello you guys.
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I am so late on posting episodes, and I am so sorry for that.
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As many of you know, I recently just got back from a trip.
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I was in LA and I also was at Coachella and I could not
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pack my MIC. I wanted to pack my MIC so I could record an
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episode while I was in LA, and I unfortunately forgot it. So that
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is my apologies. I'm so sorry there was no episode last week. I
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was unsure if I was even going to have the time to record because it
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was such a crazy week of just running around heading to events and all that.
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So I was also unsure if I was going to even have the time
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to record an episode. So I do apologize for that, but I am
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back. I am ready to get into another episode. I was really trying
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to think hard on what I wanted to make this episode about. But you
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guys know that I always like to make episodes about what is happening currently for
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me, and I'm going to make this episode a bit of a way to
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lift your mood up. I feel like every time I do travel. Obviously
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I always have the best time when I go on my trips, but I
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do always feel a little disappointed when I get home, and my mood just
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kind of lowers a bit because I'm in such a fun social setting and then
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coming home it's almost a disappointment because you are back home in a gloomy state.
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Because I live in a gloomy city and our weather right now isn't the
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greatest. And I also work from home, so I don't really have a
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lot of social interaction with people work for myself, so I'm at home a
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lot, so I get a bit of a downside to me when I get
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home from travels. So I'm going to give you guys some tips on what
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works for me and how I uplift my mood when I'm in this type of
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state. So if you're that kind of person like me, where when you're
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traveling, you come home, you feel a little sad and you just don't
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know how to get your mood back up into a good state. This episode
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is for you before we get into this episode, I really wanted to give
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you guys a La and Coachella recap because I feel like Coachella is obviously such
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a huge thing through social media. I feel like a lot of influencers,
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a lot of celebrities are all there, so I kind of wanted to give
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you guys a bit of the tea on what happened last week. So,
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as you guys know, I first started off in La. I flew out
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to Vancouver to meet up with Trinity, which is the host of the Wellness
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Cafe. I know a lot of you guys know that, but her and
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Elena Bloomberg are two of my really good friends that I met through social media
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who are also podcast hosts, So we consider ourselves a little trio and we
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always love to do influencer events together and all that, and it's fun to
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do it with two people that I'm generally so close with now and consider my
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best friends. So it's always such a great time to travel with them.
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And I only see them usually five to six times a year, but it's
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enough and I feel so so good when I'm with them. The energy is
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always so great with them, so I flow out to Trent. I stayed
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with her to fly out to la with her on Monday, so we flowt
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on Monday. We got to this hotel. We stayed at the Mandarin Hotel,
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which is right in West Hollywood, which is perfect. I love West
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Hollywood so much. If you guys ever are looking to stay in Los Angeles,
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I highly recommend that area. It's such a nice development, such a
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great area for great food, great workouts. There's a lot of like health
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and wellness sectors for like just good food and yeah, I don't know.
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It's just a great area to stand. So highly recommend checking out that hotel.
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It was phenomenal, It was beautiful, it was close to everything.
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It did not disappoint. One of the reasons why I just love to travel
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out to La is because they have the best coffee shops, they have the
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best food, and they also of the best workouts. And you guys know,
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I always love trying new workout classes, and one new one that we
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tried was a similar to a hot pilates class. It was a bit different.
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It was called Heated Room. We did that with the skincare brand Tacha.
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They invited us to go to a wellness day with them. They gave
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us a bit of Tatcha skincare goodies, We did a workout class together,
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we did some brunch at this place called Bluestone, So all in all,
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it was just such a fun little morning. And then you guys know that
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I've been in my spinning era. So I was determined to get Trin and
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Land to a spin class. And Trin was like, Kaylee, I do
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not like spin classes. I am not going. And I'm like, Trinity
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ton Delier, you need to come to a spin class with me. I'm
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so obsessed. You are totally gonna love it, Like, just trust me
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on this. So we look at Soule Cycle, which was super close to
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our hotel, and they actually had a Coachella themed ride. So I'm like
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Trin, like, we have to go, Like we're going to Coachella.
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It's going to be the perfect like prep to listen to all the Coachella music
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at the Soule Cycle class. So I finally convinced her and we went to
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a class. Guys, let me tell you, this was probably five times
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harder than my typical class here. It was insane. I could not believe
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how hard a soul cycle class is if you guys go to soul Cycle all
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the time, good on you. That is amazing. I was seriously dying.
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I think my Autawa classes they it's very similar style, it's just not
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as intense, if that makes sense. This class was like, no hands
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on the handlebar, We're using a towel to hold you up. So many
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interesting movements that I've never done before in my entire life. And if you've
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ever tried spinning, usually the first time it's really hard to get your legs
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and hand movements going at the same time. You really just kind of got
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to figure it out. So I feel super comfortable in my Autowa classes,
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but at this Soul Cycle class, I felt like I was a brand new
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beginner spinner that just had no idea what they were doing. But other than
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that, it was such a great ride and it was so fun to listen
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to some of the Coache artists at the sole Cycle class, and Trend still
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loved it. She still had a great sweat and she said she's going to
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try to get into spinning when she gets home from the trip. So anyways,
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all in all, that was a really good workout. But for the
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rest of the week we were pretty low key in La. We knew that
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Coachella was going to drain our souls. It's such a crazy and busy weekend
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that we were like, let's keep it low key because we know we're about
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to head into some craziness. So from LA, we decided to rent a
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car to get to Palm Springs. We didn't see the need of paying for
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flights or anything like that. We just thought it's an hour and a half
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drive, it's not that far. So we ended up renting a car drove
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down to Palm Springs. The weather in Palm Springs is insane, like being
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in the desert. The heat is like unmatched, like it's just so stunning.
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In La, it was kind of gloomy. It wasn't the greatest weather.
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I didn't really pack very good for that trip, but I definitely packed
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well for Palm Springs. We rented a cute little airbnb and we just stayed
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all three of us together, and we also had Fernanda, some pep you
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may know Fernanda. She is a huge YouTuber, so she stayed with us
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as well, which was super fun. And yeah, we just got this
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cute little airbnb in Palm Springs and made our way to the first night.
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The first night was so amazing. We saw Metro perform. When I saw
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the lineup before even going to Coachella, the only names that I personally recognized
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was Frank Ocean and Labyrinth. Those were the only two. So I knew
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going into that that I was going to know a few songs, but Metro,
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I didn't realize how many songs it actually knew by this artist. He
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also brought out so many surprise guests, including the Weekend twenty one Savage Don
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Tolliver, which just made the performance ten times better and all in all was
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just such a great first night. And then the following day we were getting
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ready for Revolve Festival. If you guys don't know what that is, the
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brand Revolve, which is obviously very well known in the fashion industry. They
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do a festival every year during the same weekend as Coachella, and they have
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artists that perform there. They have celebrities walking around like every time I to
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that event. I went there last year and then this was my second time
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going this year. Every time I go to an event with Revolve, I
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always feel like it's such a pinch me moment and it doesn't feel real.
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I always feel so beyond grateful for trips like that, and it's all thanks
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to you guys for supporting me and using my links and all that. So
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I just want to say a huge thank you to you guys for making this
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possible for me and making me be able to go to events like that,
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and just yeah, it's just always such a pinch me moment. But seeing
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people like Shay Mitchell, Hailey Biever, Noah Back like in the same like
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festival as me is so crazy to me, and like I can't even speak.
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It's just like such a speechless moment, and I like, I can't
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even like film content when I'm there. I'm so in the moment that I'm
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like, I don't I don't even want to whip my phone out when I
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have to get work done. But I'm so like, I'm just always so
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beyond grateful and I just love to live in the moment for those kind of
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things. And yeah, it was such a great event that they hosted.
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They had Ice Spice there, they had Don Toliver also perform at Revolve Fast,
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so all in all, it was like such a fun day being in
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the sunshine, having some drinks, you know, seeing a lot of you
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know, different influencers and all that. It was just so so great.
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And I met so many of you there at the event as well who came
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up to me. So if you listen to my podcast and you came up
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to me, thank you so much. I always love meeting you guys.
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It's literally the best feeling ever. If you guys ever see me in person,
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do not be afraid to come up to me. I always love meeting
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you guys in person. It means the world to me. So I want
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to tell you guys that because I like to travel a lot. So if
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you ever see me, come hug me, come say hi. I always
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appreciate it. And then that night, Labyrinth did perform. Guys, his
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performance was insane. I literally felt like it was a real life scenario of
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euphoria. Like it was insane. You guys need to go on TikTok or
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YouTube and search up the Coachella performance by him. He was such an amazing
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performer. I cannot I cannot even put into words how good it was.
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Then he brought out Billie Eilish, which wasn't insane. I've never seen her
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perform either, so all in all, that night was such an amazing night.
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It was hands down, like the best night. And then after that,
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Calvin Harris played, which was also amazing. I know so many Calvin
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Harris songs, So that was another person that I literally didn't even see on
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the lineup, Like I don't even know. I just wanted to go to
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Coachella. I knew I was going to go. I didn't even look at
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the lineup. I'm like, I'm gonna have a fun time no matter what.
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And the thing about Coachella is that there's always surprise guests. You never
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know who's going to show up on stage. Last year, Justin Bieber showed
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up. I am like obsessed with that guy, like he is like my
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childhood like lover, like love Justin Bieber. So I literally cried when he
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came out on stage. So just because the lineup might not be great,
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you guys never know who's going to show up. Like the Weekend this year.
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I did not expect the Weekend to get on stage. So just know
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that if you're ever interested in going to Coachella, if you don't like the
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lineup, you never know who's going to show up because there's always surprise acts.
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And then the last day I was really struggling. This is day three
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of Coachella. I almost didn't make it out Like the twenty seven year old
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in me, I was like, oh my god, I am not used
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to going out this often anymore. Like I'm very much a homebody, and
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you know, I don't mind going out like one one night on the weekend,
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Like I don't like to go out every night, Like I just it's
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not me. But I pushed through it. I had to do it for
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Coachella. I had to do it with my friends. Had a lot of
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coffee, had a lot of energy drinks. I just really needed to push
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through the last day. It was more so like putting makeup on, putting
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the outfit on, like knowing that I was gonna be up till three am
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in the morning once again, Like you do not sleep during Coachella. It's
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just not a thing. Like some people go to after parties till six am.
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Some people don't even sleep, like I don't. I don't know what
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these people are doing. I can't do it. I really can't do it.
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So anyways, I pushed through. We went to Revolve Festival again and
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this day we really just focused on content because I got nothing on Saturday.
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I was so starstruck, I was so in the moment, like living in
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the moment of being at that festival, that I had nothing that I even
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captured there. So I ended up focusing on just shooting content that day,
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and then at night Frank Ocean was there. If you guys have heard the
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whole scandal about Frank Ocean, and if you haven't, I'll give a bit
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of a rundown. Essentially, he was pretty disappointing in seeing his performance.
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There's obviously like some people who thought it was really good and some people who
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thought it was not that good. A lot of people actually ended up leaving
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during the performance because they were so disappointed on how it turned out. But
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basically, we got there an hour before he was supposed to perform. We
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wanted to be there as early as we could get as close as we can
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because obviously Frank Ocean would be amazing to see. He hasn't performed in like
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six years, so it was a pretty big moment. And he also canceled
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the live stream. So every Coachella there's always a live stream for people who
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don't attend, they can watch it via live stream, and he didn't want
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Coachella to live stream his specific performance because he was launched a new album.
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He wanted to just do it for the fans and no one else, which
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seems like a pretty big deal. So obviously everyone's like wanting to go to
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it. We get there, he takes an hour to actually get out on
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stage. They're like deconstructing the stage, and we're all confused. We're like,
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what is he what are they doing? Are they taking the stage down?
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Like it was just all so weird, And after the concert we realized
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they released some information out as to why it took so long for him to
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come out, and apparently he changed his whole Coachella performance, Like the stage
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was completely different than what it was supposed to be. He decided to change
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it all last minute. There were supposed to be an ice rink, and
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why it was an hour delayed is because the workers were melting the ice,
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so it took them obviously an hour to do that, and I guess Frank
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said he wasn't going to come out until the stage was exactly the way he
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wanted it, so that was kind of a shit show. And then he
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comes out and he barely sings his own songs, like he's singing like half
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the song and then would end the song and go onto the next and some
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of the times he was lip singing. Some of the time he wasn't.
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He was adding some different flare on his like O G songs, So I
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don't know, it just overall was a very like interesting performance. And he
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would take like five to ten minutes till the next song, like till he
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performed the next song, so it was just like awkward silence, kind of
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like what is happening like, and then he would walk on and off the
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stage and like then there was this DJ that went on for fifteen minutes,
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and he took like a fifteen minute break, and the DJ was honestly so
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entertaining, like honestly, like that was probably like the best part of the
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performance. And that's kind of sad to say. I feel like everybody was
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just totally looking forward to seeing him since he was such a big headliner.
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But I can't say the whole thing was terrible. There were some good moments
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that he did have when he was singing and not lip singing or anything like
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that, But then the concert ended early because he went past curfew since he
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came out so late, so that was very disappointing to know that he couldn't
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even play like the good good songs that everybody knows, like Thinking about You,
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like Ivy, like just so many like good songs that everybody would sing
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along too, and he didn't even have the chance to perform it. So
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all in all, it was a little disappointing for people who are such big
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og like Frank Ocean, like people who just love his music, like I
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wouldn't say I'm a die hard fan, but I was looking forward to seeing
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him, and it was just a little disappointing to end the Coachella Knight that
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way. But all in all, the whole Coachella weekend was absolutely amazing.
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The people I was surrounded by, the opportunities that just the event in general.
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The food was good, the vibes were good, the energy was good,
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and I just had the best time. If you ever think about going
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to Coachella yourself, here's a few things that I would personally recommend that I'm
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taking in for myself next year. This was my second Coachella, but I
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know for my third Coachella, it's definitely going to be even better than what
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it was this year. First off, make sure you get a airbnb as
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close to the festival grounds as possible. Coachella is not in Palm Springs.
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It is in Coachella Valley, which is about an hour and a bit away
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from Palm Springstown. So get an airbnb in La Quinta, that is where
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it's the closest to the festival grounds. We did not do that. We
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made that mistake, so next year we'll definitely be finding an airbnb that's closer
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to the festival grounds. Another thing is, I know this sounds extremely bougie,
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but I honestly think it might actually be cheaper to do this verus.
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What we did is hiring a private driver. The ubers are insanely expensive,
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Like I'm talking a six minute drive to the festival grounds would be one hundred
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and fifty USD if not more like just ridiculous, Like no cheap pricing down
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there when it comes to driving, because there's a very limited amount since there's
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so many people there, there's service sucks, like everything is not the best
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since there's so many people in this one area. So it's definitely something to
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look into if that's something that you would want to do, but it's just
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a lot. If you're super close to the festival grounds and you're walking distance,
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I mean, that's obviously a huge bonus, but if you're not,
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I definitely recommend looking into hiring a private driver. And last, this is
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something that we tried to do this year, but the tickets sold out so
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fast that we weren't able to get our hands on it. But getting a
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VIP wrist pan, it just saves you the lines for drinks, it saves
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you the lines of the bathroom. It's just more of a secluded area.
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You don't have to feel like you're in a mosh pit when you're in the
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crowd. You have your own separate area. I'm also pretty sure that the
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celebrity is also chill in the VIP area. So it's a bit more expensive,
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but I think it's honestly worth it. It was something that we tried
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to do this year, but we just didn't get our bracelets on times.
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So highly recommend like trying to get VIP bracelets the day the tickets launch.
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But that's a bit of an inside scoop of Coachella and my week in La.
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I know this was kind of a long speel. I know I don't
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talk about my personal life too much, but I kind of wanted to just
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give you guys that information because I feel like Coachella is such a huge thing
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and I wanted to give you guys the inside scoop as to what happened for
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us. But all in all, it was such a great trip and highly
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recommend going to Coachella if you've thought about going. Okay, so let's get
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into this episode. I really wanted to highlight and talk about ways to lift
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your mood when you get home from a vacation and you're experiencing some post travel
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blues. I can definitely say I'm feeling that a bit right now, just
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coming home to you know, the gloomy weather and like I said, not
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really being in a social environment anymore and being with you know, really good
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friends of mine that I always love to be with, and like, yeah,
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it's long distance friendships are so hard. Like we all we all live
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within Canada, but not close to each other enough for us to see each
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other all the time. So it's definitely hard. And I'm sure a lot
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of you guys can relate to long distance bessies. It's never easy best thing
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to do is always, you know, try and keep yourself communicated with them
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by texting them, try and schedule some FaceTime calls together. We always try
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and do that to keep our you know, friendship strong. But like I
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said, it's never easy to say goodbye to your besties who live quite far
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from you. But just know that every time you guys get back together,
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it's always like so good, it feels so good getting back together. So
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anyways, first things first, you know you're gonna feel sad when you get
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home from vacation. You know you're going to feel unmotivated. Like this is
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very normal, Like it's normal to feel that way if that's how you're feeling
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after a vacation. But one thing that I can recommend when you get home
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is that give yourself a few days of rest. Don't push yourself to get
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back into things immediately. I think it's important too at least have a day
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or two just to kind of chill, Like, especially from my weekend,
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I needed to relax. I needed to force myself to not do anything.
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You guys know me, I love being productive, I love leaving the house
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doing stuff. All that I really had to force myself to stay on the
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couch and just you know, get a bit of work done on my phone.
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And you know, I don't know. I just tried to chill as
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much as I could and just relax, and I'll be entirely honest, I
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still haven't gone back into my workout routine. This is only day two of
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me being home, but I've been beating myself up and I'm trying to tell
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myself that, Kaylee, it's okay. You were listening to your body.
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You're not ready. You know when you'll be ready. So I am really
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trying to listen to my body and just not try and push anything. I
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also feel like I'm getting a bit sick, which I feel like is always
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common for me when I travel. I think it's just because of you know,
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always being so go, go go, and obviously like you know,
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long travel days. I had such a long travel day, ended up traveling
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for like I want to say, like it ended up being like almost twenty
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hours of travel, So it was a lot in one day, and I
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think it really just hit me. And then on top of that, just
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dealing with, you know, no sleep at Coachella since you're literally a festival,
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so one thing that I've been really making a huge priority since I've been
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home is my sleep. I have realized that sleep is just my biggest priority,
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in anyone's biggest priority. When you get back from travel, Like,
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like I said, you have long travel days. Usually when you're on vacation,
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like, you're not really focusing on sleep. You want to wake up
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and you want to do all the activities that you want to do, you
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want to hit all the tourist attractions. You want to just you know,
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be in the moment and get things done while you're there, right, And
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sometimes there's a time difference, Like right now, I'm actually three hours ahead
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then what I was in La, So it's three hours behind in LA.
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And it's definitely been affecting me when it comes to like my eating schedule,
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my sleeping schedule, all that. So I'm really just trying to get back
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on track with my sleep schedule. And obviously getting back into routine is something
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that's extremely important to me. But what I'm trying to do is I'm trying
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to gradually get back into it. I'm not trying to force anything. So
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this morning, my mindset was, I want to get a workout in.
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I want to have my healthy breakfast, and I want to do my skincare
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and I want to feel like I'm putting myself together. But you know what,
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I woke up this morning and I didn't get a workout in because I
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wasn't feeling motivated and I was really just trying to listen to my body.
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And so, like I said, I'm really trying to not beat myself up
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for that. I had a healthy breakfast, I got ready for the day,
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I did my skincare, trying to reward myself for those little things that
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I did within my routine and not beat myself up for that. But one
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thing that I did do today, which I think is actually a really good
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idea if you're someone that has a hard time getting back into a workout schedule
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getting back into a worker routine after travels, is booking a workout class and
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holding yourself accountable if you don't show up for it. So I booked a
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seven am spin class for tour morning. Am I thinking about regretting that?
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Probably? But am I going to push my butt at the door and get
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that workout class in? Absolutely? I think that's the best way to do
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it. I just find if I actually book a class, I have to
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stay committed and I have to get my butt to it. You guys know,
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I'm also a big at home workout gal, but I think I just
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need that class to push me out of my comfort zone and just get that
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workout class in and then get back into routine of getting my at home workouts
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done as well. So that's a tip that if you feel like you're having
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a hard time, book a workout class. Doesn't have to be spinning.
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It could be a yoga class, it could be a pilates class and anything
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like that. Just do something that will just push you to get back into
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routine. I think another thing I do that I always find uplifts me and
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makes my mood better when I get home from travels is reaching out to my
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friends and family after travels and just sharing my experiences, you know, telling
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them all the fun moments that I had on my trip and all the experiences,
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and it makes me feel like I'm almost reliving those good times. And
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it's fun to just share those stories with people that you love because they like
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to hear them. It's funny for them to hear and it makes them feel
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good knowing that you had a good time, so I always love to reach
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out to my friends and family and just tell them everything about the trip and
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just all the good moments and all the good experiences. Another thing that I
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do to boost my mood that I make a pride or a tea when I
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get home is always doing some self care. You guys know that I always
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make my skincare routina priority, the shower routina priority, just all the things
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that I love that make me feel good. And so one thing that I've
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done literally every single day since I've been home from travels is take a shower,
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do my skincare routine, put a cute outfit on, and then I
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at least feel put together and I at least feel like I'm doing something for
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myself, And it just puts my mindset in a better mood knowing that I
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have myself put together and I'm not sitting on the couch doing nothing. Right
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like the first day, like I said, I literally did nothing, But
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today I woke up, I did all those things, and I felt so
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much better knowing that I put myself together for the day and I put myself
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first. Another thing that makes me feel so good coming home is home cooked
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meals. There is nothing like a home cooked meal that feels so good.
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I feel like every time I'm on vacation, you guys know, I always
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try and prioritize balance and balance is important. And don't get me wrong,
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I treated myself this trip. I had so much pizza, I it's so
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many goodies, so much ice cream, Like I did not care what I
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ate, but I did want a home cooked meal as soon as I got
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home and did that ever slap. There's just nothing like a good home cooked
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meal. I feel so much comfort when I'm at home and always a sense
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of routine as well, like eating the normal foods that you eat at home.
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So I feel like that always makes me happy when it's the good foods
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that I always make during the week, whether it's for dinners or my go
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to breakfast. You guys know, my favorite breakfast is oatmeal. Making that
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in the morning was like the best thing is Yeah, I don't know,
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just eating the foods that you always eat. There's some sense of cumbert in,
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some sense of routine that just makes you feel so good. And then
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this one I actually did this morning. This was something that I thought was
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such a great idea to again really just boost my mood was expressing gratitude,
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and this I did by journaling. You guys know, I love to journal,
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and I feel like me writing down everything that I experienced this week and
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this weekend and just being able to have those memories that I built and feeling
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so lucky for those opportunities that I was able to get. Was so beyond
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grateful and I was so happy I was able to have that moment and just
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write down everything I was feeling and write down everything that I was so proud
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of myself for doing, and just everything that they did on the trip and
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made me realize like how lucky I am and how lucky I was to experience
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those things. So it's always nice to express gratitude for those moments and you
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always get to look back at that knowing that you had such amazing opportunities and
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even looking back at pictures, like it's always fun to also make an album
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of like all the pictures that you took from that trip that you could look
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back at and just smile and just realize how fun it was to experience that
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with your friends and all that. So definitely just being able to express the
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gratitude of traveling and being able to travel and being able to have those experiences
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always so rewarding, and is it always makes you feel so good? And
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then this last thing is something that I feel like is so important to highlight
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when it comes to coming home. Is you need to realize, is what
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are the things that you do at home that you actually enjoy doing? Like
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what are the key things that make you smile and make you realize like,
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this is why I enjoy being home. It's these things here. So for
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an example for me, when I think of coming home, the things that
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I want to do as soon as I come home from travels is doing the
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things that I love doing, like doing my routine, like going to spin
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classes with my best friend, walking Freddie outside, having Sunday dinners with my
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family, spending nights with my fiance. Those little things make me realize,
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this is why I like to come home. This is what I like to
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come home too, is these little things that make me feel happy. So
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write down those things that you enjoy that you do when you are home and
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make a list of it, and do all those things the week when you
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get home from travels. And I'm telling you right now, you'll realize how
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grateful you are to be home and to be present with those people that you
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love and surrounding yourself with those good people, and you'll realize that, yes,
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you enjoy traveling, but there's also a sense of you loving to be
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home and doing those things that make you feel comfortable and make you feel like
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you're back into your routine. So those are just some tips on how I
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feel like I uplift my mood when I am feeling a little down, especially
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after travels. I know, you know, going away in the winter is
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always hard. And coming home to you the snow or the gloomy state and
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you were in the sunshine and the sun and the heat, it's never easy.
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I mean, I'm in that state right now. I was in the
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desert and now I'm you know, it's not snowing, but it's very gloomy
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and it's very cold, so it's not really enjoyable to you know, walk
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out in a jacket instead of walking out in a T shirt and shorts.
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But like I said, these little things that I'm doing are really helping my
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mood and really helping my mindset and just making me realize how I love being
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home. I'm a huge homebody. I love to be with my loved ones,
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and I love still being able to have the opportunity of travels. But
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I know that these things are going to help me get through those travel blues.
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So I think I'm going to end the episode up here. Thank you
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guys so much for listening to another episode. If you guys are new and
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you guys don't follow are at the Hawker Energy Podcast Instagram, definitely make sure
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to give that a follow. You guys can also follow me the host,
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Kaylee. I'm on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. And yeah, that's
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everything that I have to say. So thank you guys so much for listening
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to another episode. You guys know how much I love you also so much.
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Thank you again for allowing me to have opportunities like this, to be
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able to travel and all that. And yeah, I'm just always so grateful
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for you guys. So I love you guys all so much, and I
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will see you guys next week