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50. new month, new goals... hot girl fall? reality of working in social media + travel tips · Hot Girl Energy Podcast

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Hi guys, and welcome back to another episode of the Hawkgirl 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 Hawkgirl Energy you want to attract. Hi guys, Happy
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August. I cannot believe we have officially entered the month of August. That
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is, Oh my god. I don't know how to feel about that.
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I kind of feel sad knowing that it's kind of officially the last month of
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the summer. Oh my god, I can't believe I'm saying that. But
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yeah, I don't know how to feel right now. I feel kind of
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sad, But I also love the month of August just because I feel like
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so many fun things are happening for me specifically. And yeah, I always
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feel like August. It's like you try and cram everything in that you you
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know haven't done throughout the summer that you're like realizing, oh my god,
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summer won't buy so fast. I need to do all these things that I
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wanted to do when you're doing it, like the whole month of August.
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So anyways, at least that's what works out for me all the time.
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But Happy August. Before we even get in today's episode, this episode is
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really just going to be about a girl chat. I really wanted to just
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talk about some things that are going on, obviously going into a new month.
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I want to talk about some goals because we haven't done that in a
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hot minute where I've talked about goal setting going into a new month, so
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I want to get back into that because we have not done that for the
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past few months. In terms of episodes, I also want to talk about
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some traveling tips because, as I mentioned in the last episode, I am
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heading to Vancouver this week, so I thought it'd be fun to just give
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you guys some of my tips on flying specifically, and then just things about
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fall because going into August, yeah, September is coming quick and falls coming
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quick, so we're going to briefly chat about going into fall. So,
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as I mentioned before going into this episode, I just want to highlight that
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we have officially reached the one year mark of Hot Girl Energy Podcasts, which
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is so crazy to me that there is officially fifty episodes. Well, I
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guess fifty two would make it an exact year, but there's been like a
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week or two that I obviously didn't record a podcast episode because we would be
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at fifty two episodes if we officially reached a year. But in terms of
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like the timeline, this is around the time frame that I first launched the
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podcast, So it's very crazy just to see how much of a community we've
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built and just seeing all the you know, same listeners and all that,
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it just makes me so so happy that you guys have been listening for so
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long and it just brings the biggest smile to my face. So thank you
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to each and every one of you for supporting me and just always downloading an
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episode, referring my podcast to your friends and all that. That just means
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the world to me. You girls are my besties, and I always love
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being able to chat with you every Monday, but every Tuesday for you guys,
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and yeah, just give you guys advice and all that. So going
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into almost a year, we almost have two million downloads, which is so
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insane. So thank you guys so so much. You guys know how much
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I love you all. So let's briefly talk about Hot Girl Fall, because
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as I said, September is coming quickly and I don't know about you guys,
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but the other day I went to home Sense. If you guys don't
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know what home Sense is if you're not from Canada, it's basically a home
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goods that you have in the States. So I went to home Sense to
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look at a few home decorse stuff just because I'm decorating one specific area of
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my house that I've been neglecting to do this past year and I finally have
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everything to do it. So I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna get a
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few things at home Sense just for decor wise, and all the Halloween stuff
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was out, pillows, pumpkin decor in general, pumpkin spice, candles,
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Autumn sense, everything like everything was all fall. I felt like I just
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walked into a like a halloween store. It was crazy, and I was
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just like, it is July at this point. It was like July twenty
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fifth, and I'm like, it is July twenty fifth, it's not even
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August, and we already have fall stuff out, Like is that always the
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case? I feel like they're starting early this year, Like to me,
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that is mind blowing. And then there's other stores like Winners and Michaels that
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I also went to same thing all the fall stuff, so all the I
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just I couldn't believe it, Like I was like, are you actually kidding
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me? And then if you guys listened to my last episode, I mentioned
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to you guys that I went to the States, because if you guys don't
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know I'm from Canada, I always like to just hide. Like some of
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you guys that have been listening for a while, you guys know that I'm
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Canadian, but there has been a few new listeners that didn't realize that I
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was not from the States and from Canada. So on Saturday, my sister
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and I drove through hours to go to Syracuse, which is like the closest
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place to go for like a Target, a Trader Joe's home goods, like
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all the places that we don't have. That is the closest place that we
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have from my location in Canada, which is Ottawa. So we drove the
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six hours total for the day literally just the day, and that entire day
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we literally just went food shopping. Like I did not go to any clothing
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stores. We literally just went to Trader Joe's Target and we strictly were just
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looking for food that you can't get in Canada. So some of the things
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I got were like Lack colomb coffee, like literally my favorite coffee ever.
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So I got like the oat milk vanilla draft, like cold brew in a
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can So I got a few of those. My favorite Graham Crackers are the
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anti Bunny Graham crackers or like these, like basically it's my dessert. And
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they have two flavors that you can't get in Canada, which is the birthday
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cake and it's like the chocolate chip or something like that. So that was
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something that I can't get. All epop I can't get, so I got
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some of that. You guys sent me so many recommendations for Trader Joe's stuff
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and like Dunkin Donuts. I tried that for the first time. I had
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a I think it was a Peacan pecan butter am I wrong pecan something and
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it was so good, but it was so sweet, Like I was like,
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I didn't realize how sweet the coffee was, Like the stirrups. I
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only got two pumps and it was really sweet. You literally only need one
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pump in a small coffee. Like it was really really sweet, but it
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was good and yeah, just like a few other things that you can't get
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in Canada, so it's so fun just to do like like grocery shopping basically
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in the States. But again, when I went to Target, same thing,
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like all the false stuff was out, So I don't know, maybe
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this is typical and I'm just not remembering like this time last year, and
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you know, saw all the pumpkins spice stuff, Like Target had the pumpkin
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spice. Starbucks coffee out like all that, like not the actual coffee that
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you get at Starbucks, but like the the whole beans that you could bring
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home for your coffee machine. But I'm pretty sure like Starbucks starts to sell
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their pumpkin cold foam and all that, I think that starts in the beginning
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of August or second week of August, so I know August is typically when
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things start to like release for fall stuff like fall coffees and all that.
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But I didn't think July like I thought July was a little too soon.
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So anyways, I mean, I'm excited for fall, don't get me wrong,
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but I would have to say summer is by far my favorite, and
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I just hate when like these stores just rush into the next season. I
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understand why they do it, but I don't like it. I don't like
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to see it. Like I hate when you're going into Halloween and you see
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Christmas stuff. It's like, really like Christmas is not for another three months.
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So whatever. I understand why stores do it, but it's also just
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like I feel like I just need to avoid those stores clearly to not you
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know, get me too excited for the next thing. So but as I
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said, summer's going by so fast, but I am excited for Fall.
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I think fall will be good. So yeah, all right, let's get
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into my August goals. I wrote down four goals that I really want to
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make a priority this month, and the first one being less screen time and
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being more present I think specifically, like knowing that August is the final month
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of the summer, it's really you know, putting me in the perspective where
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I'm like, this is literally the last month of the summer, and I
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just want to soak everything in. I want to be so present. I
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want to be outdoors the entire time. I really want to try and you
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know, lower my screen time. Obviously, me working in social media,
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I have to be on my phone, you know, probably still at least
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six hours within the day, if not longer. But if there's ways where
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I can, you know, stop using my phone at six pm and just
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you know, do outdoor activities with Zach or go to my parents' house and
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catch up with them, or you know, go on a date with Sack
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something like that, You know what I mean, Like, I just need
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to find ways to lower my screen time because I actually haven't even looked what
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my screen time is. I don't even want to know, to be honest,
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because I think it's going to be really freaking high. And yeah,
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I just don't need that anxiety in my life. So I'm just not even
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going to look at it. But I just know it's probably bad. So
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we are making that a priority this month where I just want to be more
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present and just yeah, try and stay out my phone as much as possible
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this month, and kind of touching in like working social media specifically, Like
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just obviously bringing up this goal, it makes me think of the love and
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hate relationship for this job. Like I would say nine of the job is
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a love. I love the flexibility my schedule. I love being able to
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do what I love, which is creating content inspiring women like there's so much
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a love for the job. But the hate to the job is is that,
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you know, being on your phone all the time, Like I don't
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want to have to be on my phone all the time, but I have
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to. And another thing is it's just like filming. I love filming,
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but if you're a girl, you understand me. Where there's days where you
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don't want to film yourself. Like, for an example, last week,
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I was on my time of the month. I did not want to pick
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up the camera and film myself, Like I just was not feeling good.
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It wasn't even like about how I looked on the outside of just I like
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inside and mentally, I just wasn't in the mood to film myself. But
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because it's my job, I had to force myself to, you know,
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be in the public eye and deal with that, you know what I mean.
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And so that's kind of like the hate when it comes to the job
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is that the days where you feel low, in the days where you don't
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feel confident, or the days that you don't feel yourself, you really have
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to like push yourself. I mean, like it's definitely good to take breaks,
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and I have done that in the past, but I wasn't going to
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take a you know, a week off just because it was the time of
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month or because I wasn't having a good week, Like I can't justify doing
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that when I love what I do so much that I don't want to just
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like take that week off because I wasn't feeling you know, like I'll regret
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it the next week. I'll be like, why didn't at least take two
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days to film like as much content as I can and then the other days
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to wreak. So there's definitely days where I can be hard on myself where
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it's like, you know, it sounds lazy because it's like killy, like
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you're like filming your life is so easy, Like yes it is, and
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that's the truth. But if you can understand from like another woman to another
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woman, like if there's days where you just like don't feel yourself and you
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don't want to put yourself out there, like you know, you don't want
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to do it, Like I don't know. So as much as I love
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what I do, like I would, like I said, ninety five percent
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of my job I like, adore, but that five percent of like those
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days where it's like I really don't want to pick up the camera and I
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have to. It's like days like that where it's kind of like, like
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that is not something that I want to do. And also sometimes you know
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I talked about in the past, but like hate comments and all that that
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can get to you as well, and then still putting yourself in the public
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eye, like not beating yourself up for it. It's can sometimes be hard,
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but that's the reality of working in social media sometimes. But as I
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said, there's nothing in the world that I would change about what I do
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or anything. I just wanted to like rant and just tell you guys my
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honest opinion about you know, how people feel sometimes when it comes to working
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in social media. Going into the next goal before we do that, I'm
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so sorry if you guys heard like jingling noises. I had these earrings on
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and they were like kind of ringing in my ear so I'm so sorry if
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you guys can hear that listening to the podcast episode. I just took them
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off, so hopefully it's better moving forward. I won't know until editing this
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episode if you didn't hear like the little ringing, but those are my earrings,
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so I just took them off. So we should be good for the
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rest of the episode. But anyways, so goal number two is journaling.
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I sucked at journaling the entire month of July. I'm not gonna lie and
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right now I'm going to use the excuse and be like, oh, like
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some are so busy, I don't all the time, Like that's not a
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good excuse, Like I'm fully calling myself out for that. But I think
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that was like my mindset where I was like, oh, like, you
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know, I've just been so busy, I don't I don't need to journal
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today. Well, no, I need to get back into it because I
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enjoy journaling. I feel good when I journal, and I just kind of
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push it to the side. So my goal for August is to definitely make
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it a priority at least like five times a week, Like there's no issue
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for me to take five to ten minutes on my morning to write down things
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that, you know, things that I'm grateful for, affirmations all that.
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So that is definitely something that I just kind of pushed to the side this
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month. And yes, it was a busy month, and I know August
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is going to be even busier, but as I said, like, there's
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no excuse for me to take five minutes out of my morning to do such
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a small task that I know is good for my mental health and it's good
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for me. So that is definitely something that I'm going to stick to this
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August. Okay, this is something I've highlighted in previous episodes, and i
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want to highlight it as a goal because I'm not doing it every night.
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I'm only doing it every third night, so maybe like twice a week if
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I'm lucky. Is meditation. I've talked about it where I've just been trying
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to meditate to help with stress. And I know meditation is it's not for
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everyone, and it might not be for me, but it's something that I
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want to challenge myself to do. I really like to, you know,
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try and include things that I know is good for my health and my mental
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health and all that. Like obviously, getting into a new habit is not
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easy, and so you know, maybe some of you guys like you don't
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really work out, but and it's challenging for you to include that into your
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routine. So but it's something that you're working on, right that's kind of
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like new with meditation, Like working out for me is so easy, but
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meditating is not. So I really need to focus on meditating for like five
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to ten minutes every night before I go to bed, because I've tried in
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the mornings. I tried it for like two weeks, and I just didn't
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think it was the best for me, just because I felt like all I
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could think about during meditation was everything that I had to get done throughout the
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day. Like I was like, I don't have time to do this right
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now, Like I'm thinking about everything I have to get done for work,
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and then I would get stressed thinking about it. So that didn't work for
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me. But I tried a few times at night because I'm not really thinking
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anything about night. The only thing I'm thinking about is having a good sleep.
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So I've decided to start to do meditation before I go to bed for
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like five to ten minutes and strictly just putting on my headphone, sitting in
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my bed, making it a whole vibe, like lighting a candle all that
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and just listening to it. And I downloaded the Aloe Moves app for my
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app of choice for meditation, but there's also apps like I think it's called
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Superhuman. I hear that's really really good, and I know form as well
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as Sammy Clark's platform, they also have some meditation options as well, but
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I've been using the Alamos one and they have like different stages, so it
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could be like beginner stages, expert like whatever you're you know, however long
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you've been meditating for can allow you to kind of pick what suits you best.
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But that is something that I really really want to try and like challenge
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myself to do, is meditate for like five to ten minutes every single night.
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Okay, last goal for August for myself is kind of similar to the
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FOTE first one, which is about like staying off my phone and just like
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lowering my screen time, but no phone for thirty minutes before bed. I
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used to do this all the time, And I guess, you know,
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you go in and out a habit sometimes, right, So right now I'm
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in that bad habit again where I'm like constantly on my phone. And then
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when I'm on my phone too close to bedtime. I don't know about you
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guys, but looking at that screen, like when I try and go to
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sleep, I have a hard time falling asleep because I was staring at a
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screen for so long, right, so, which is obviously not good.
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So this is a rule that Zach and I used to do together where we
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both like put our phones to the side and just like watch a TV show
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together or you know, just him and I just spend time in the room.
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So I need to get back into that where we do no phone for
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thirty minutes before bad. So those are my four goals for August. I'm
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really hoping I can stick to them. I think they're pretty achievable. Obviously,
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I've mentioned this in previous episodes that it's really important to set goals for
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yourself each month and making sure that they are achievable, because it's definitely not
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a good feeling when you set goals to yourself and they're not achievable. So
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if there's one tip that I can give, it definitely makes it motivating for
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yourself to have goals each month, but make sure that they're achievable. That
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way you feel good going into each month. Right. So, anyways,
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that's a little tip. If you're someone that doesn't typically set goals for the
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month, it's so so important, honestly, Like, especially for someone who
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doesn't feel motivated all the time, maybe you need that push as goal setting,
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like you need to have goals each month in order to push yourself.
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So yeah, I don't know. I find that works for me and I
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do it every month. And yeah, but we're going to get back into
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that for each beginning episode of each month again because yeah, like I said,
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we definitely well I slacked on that in terms of like forgetting to do
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it. But since the episode falls on an August first, it's a perfect
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opportunity to bring back the goal setting for each month, all right, So
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let's get into travel tips for flying. So I am leaving for Vancouver in
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two days and it is a five hour flight, so it's kind of long.
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It's not that short, and I thought I could share with you guys
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some of the things that I find work for me when it comes to like
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flying, just like some tips of things that I always remember to pack or
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always remember to do before I leave, or things that I do on the
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plane, anything like that. So I feel like I've mastered some of these
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things because I feel like I probably like I'm not a huge travel bug.
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There is a lot of other influencers who are traveling like way more than me,
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so I'm sure they have it down to a t. But I would
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say I probably get on a plane at least like six to seven times a
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year, which I think is a decent amount of time. And yeah,
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so I'm going to share with you guys some things that I always do before
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leaving. So first things first, this is like the number one thing I
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will never forget and I will always put in my carry on a reusable water
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bottle. I need water on the plane, Like I hate getting those cups
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of water that are literally the size of like the height of my fingers.
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Like I can't even explain to you how small these cups are that you get
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from the plane, And I always ask them can I buy a water bottle?
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And they're like no. So I've learned, like this past year specifically,
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is that I always bring an empty, reasonable water bottle. Way,
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you know, you don't have to worry about going through security of the water
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being filled. I've had times where I've had to dump my water out,
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put it through security, and because there's still like water residue in the cup,
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it will go off and then I have to go back in the line,
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go through the security again and then usually it's cleared. But yeah,
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so come with an empty water bottle, and then there's usually like water fountains
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and all that that you can fill it up at the airport. And then
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that way, when you're on the plane, instead of getting cups of water,
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you have your big water bottle, just because I'm always asking them like
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can you bring me two cups instead of one, or I'm like clicking the
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button to get more water. Like obviously, like if you've been on a
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plane a few times, you know how like dehydrated you get from being on
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a plane. And I just hate that feeling. And I also hate like
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coming off the plane feeling like crap, having a headache and all that just
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from like being super dehydrated. So yeah, I mean, if you have
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to go to bathroom a lot of times, it is what it is like
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if you can't you know it, if you don't have a good bladder and
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you can't deal with it, like, it is what it is like.
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I don't really care if I have to get up and go to the bathroom
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all the time when I'm on the plane, but I just like can't stand
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the feeling of being dehydrated, so I always always bring a reusable water bottle.
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Okay, another tip that I always do because I have had my bags
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missing multiple times, as I always pack at least one item like per category
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in my carry on, so one pair of shoes, a pair of socks,
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underwear, braw one top, one dress, like I just like,
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I mean, yes, it's kind of heavy to Cairia and the carry on,
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but I want to at least have some stuff that way, I you
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know, with my bag does go missing, I have some things that I
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can use and I don't have to rely on someone else or you know,
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if it's just me and Zach traveling for an example, like I don't want
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to have to go to Zara and go buy clothes or whatever. So I
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always try and do that because, like I said, I feel like it's
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so common, especially now I feel like like bags going missing. Another thing
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too to add on to this, this is like another tip is get an
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air tag that way you know if your baggage hasn't made it or not.
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I did this for when did I get it? I don't remember my last
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trip. I got it for my last trip and it was a game changer.
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So that is definitely something I recommend, especially because like you don't want
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to have to stand there and wait for like two hours for your baggage to
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get out. Kay, two hours. Two hours is a bit over exaggerated.
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Let's say forty five minutes after your flight and you're still waiting, assuming
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that your baggage is eventually going to come, and then you realize it didn't,
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and then you have to go through that whole process of saying, yes,
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my baggage got lost, they have to submit it, blah blah blah.
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It's like a two hour process. In the end. I'd rather just
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have an air tag and no, yeah, no, my bag isn't here,
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Okay I got to go up to the girl immediately or nope, it
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made it. I can wait and all come out. So highly recommend getting
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an air tag if you're the kind of person that always stresses if you know
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your bag is there or not. Another thing. This is actually something that
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my friend Land recommended to me. I okay, I'm going to talk about
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this in terms of like anxiety. I'm going to talk about plate anxiety.
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If you like travel and have anxiety when you're on the plane and all that.
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I luckily don't have anxiety on the plane. I have the anxiety before
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getting on the plane. What I mean by that is that going through customs,
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talking to the security guard, going through the security in general, my
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mind is full of anxiety thoughts like I'm thinking, oh my god, like
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did I accidentally pack and an illegal weapon? Obviously no I didn't, but
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in my head, I'm thinking, what is the worst thing in my bag
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that could be seen? As you know, for some reason, I think
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there's something illegal in my bag every time I go through security. I don't
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know why. There's obviously nothing, but I get that in my head and
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then I get all stressed and anxious. So I get all my anxiety before
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getting on the plane. Don't they get on the plane, I'm a happy
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camper. I'm like, oh my god, We're finally getting to the destination.
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Things are great, vibes are high. All that. It's the anxiety
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before, especially when it comes to customs and talking to like the officers.
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So one thing that I've downloaded recently just to help my stress is this app
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called MPC. And basically what it is is that it's an app for you
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to fill out the custom crossing information. So instead of the security guard asking
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you, or the officer or whatever you want to call it, you know,
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seven to eight questions and you're feeling stressed to answer them and all that,
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there's this app where they ask you all the questions that the guard would
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typically ask you, like, you know, are you declaring anything, are
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you bringing anything over the border, blah blah blah. And then when you
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get to the security customs there's two lines or three lines. There's like the
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next pass, which is like the people that typically travel a lot, that
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is something that I would love to get is the next pass if you have
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that amazing, But it's like a two year waitlist right now, So we
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got to think of other options and this is the best option. So MPC
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is another line and then it's like the normal one. So the MPC allows
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you to get through customs pass because sometimes there is really long line if you
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guys know, you know, and obviously it sucks waiting at a two hour
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line. So the MPC app not only allows you to talk to the officer
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less, but it also gets you through the line faster. And usually when
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you go through that line of you know, the MPC app, you basically
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just show your it's like a barcode just to show that you've completed the form
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that you had to do. The officer scans it and usually they just ask
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you one question. They're like, Okay, where are you going? Okay,
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I'm going to Los Angeles. Okay, have a great day. That's
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it. They don't say what do you do for a living? You know,
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where are you staying, who are you going with? Who are you
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seeing? Like you know all those questions like that. Just I know all
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the answers to it, but it just gives me anxiety. So anyways,
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maybe it's just because I've had bad like experiences like with officers. I've just
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like not like I've said the wrong thing, but I feel like sometimes when
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I'm trying to get my point across, I can talk a little too much.
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Obviously, you guys probably know that because listening to my podcast episode,
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I just ramble all the time. So anyway, sometimes I can just ramble
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too long and then I'm like, what am I doing? Like, I
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think it's just the anxiety playing in a factor when it comes to rambling in
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front of an officer. So the MPC app is a game changer for cutting
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long lines and going through customs way faster. So if you're someone who goes
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through customs a lot, you know, traveling through different destinations, that is
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key, Okay. Another thing is downloading the airline app before your flight.
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So whether you're flying through you know, Delta, West, Jet, Air,
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Canada all those, I always try and make sure I have the app
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downloaded. I check in before my flight always, that's like something I do
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twenty four hours before. That way, I can also like pick my seat
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if I want to sit like in the aisle, if I want to sit
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by the window or like closer, I always do that twenty four hours ahead
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of time. And then yeah, just always having the app is good because
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sometimes when you get on the plane, like they don't have TVs, so
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if you want to like watch a movie or something like that, sometimes you
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have to watch it on your phone. And updates in general, Like it's
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just good to like have the app on your phone. I think for like
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any delays or anything for your flight, they'll like notify you, so that's
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key. Another thing is downloading your boarding pass onto your phone. I hate
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carrying the paper ones like in my passport. It bothers me so much.
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So like having it in my Apple wallet, I'm just able to like pull
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it up, they scan it. It's easy. I don't have to worry
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about, you know, having it in my hand. The other thing is,
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and I'm sure you guys can feel me when it comes to this kind
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of stuff, is like I am checking for my passport like eighty five times
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whenever I'm traveling, so I'm like, Okay, where my passport did I
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put in my purse? So to put in my carry on? Is it
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in my hand? So I always like to not have those papers in my
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passport, like the boarding passes, because I always feel like I might like
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put it down somewhere accidentally when I'm you know, going to get food or
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you know, going to get a coffee, and then it's like, oh
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my god, like where is it? Because those papers are so long they
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don't typically fit in my purse and obviously they have to scan them and all
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that. So I feel like lately it's been much easier to like put my
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pass or in my carry on or my purse, so I don't have to
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worry about the boarding passes sticking out of it. I can just have it
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on my phone. It's all in one spot, and yeah, okay.
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Another thing is pack snacks. Airport food sucks, like being on the airplane
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the food sucks too, Like it's never good. So I always just pack
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like granola bars or anything like, oh go to the girls's join and just
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like pack the snacks that I love to have, and I'll always have it
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in my carry on. That way, if I'm like craving something to eat
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on the flight, I have snacks that I can resort to. And also,
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like the prices of things are just ridiculous on the plane, like everything
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is just obviously the prices are increased on there because obviously you can't leave the
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plane to go get something, like everything is on the flight, so you
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have no choice but to pay what they have there. So I always always
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bring some snacks for the flight. Okay, so let's talk about flight anxiety.
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So, as I said, this is not something that I really struggle
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with at all, to be honest. So I feel like my anxiety is
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all before the flight. But if I've ever felt like, you know,
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there's been really bad turbulence, or if I just feel uncomfortable in the flight
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specifically, I really feel like one thing that could work. I've never done
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this, but one thing that could work for someone who might be struggling with
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flight anxiety. One recommendation that I think could really help a lot is meditation
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on the flight, like doing breathing exercises while you're sitting. I honestly think
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that could be a really good way of distressing and helping the anxiety when you're
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going through your flight. Like put like a fifteen to twenty minute meditation or
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a five to ten minute whatever it works for you, and almost just like
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shut your eyes completely, zone out, put noise canceling headphones on, and
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just like focus on your breathing and focus on the persons speaking. And I
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honestly think it would really help just like relax you and just put you in
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the better headspace on that flight. Again, I've never tried this before,
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but I definitely think that would be extremely helpful for someone who struggles with like
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flying anxiety, Like this could be something that maybe I should do before I
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get to customs, like I don't know where, before security, Like maybe
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that would help me and put me in a better like headspace going into like
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all the pre things that you have to do before a flight. So try
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it out if you're someone who really struggles with flight anxiety. I definitely think
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that could be something that could work well I know there's other things, like
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there's obviously medication if you want to do that, which I mean totally your
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choice if you have to do that, or there's other things that you could
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probably google that could help out. But that is definitely something that I think
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could really help with anxiety. And then there's a few other ones that I've
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seen, like people post tiktoks about like compression socks and all that. Again
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I've never done that, but those are other tips that you could use if
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you're someone that gets like swollen feet or ankles after a flight, compression socks
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could be key. But yeah, those are just some of the tips that
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I feel like have worked for me. Again, I'm not a huge traveler,
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but I have you know, I do travel a few times a year,
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and I definitely feel like I've gotten down to a t of like everything
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that I typically need and just like make the process less stressful and all that
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by doing these things. All right, guys, So that's a bit of
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a girl chat episode. I always love doing these because I just feel like
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we're just having a FaceTime session. It's just kind of like a best friend
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to another best friend just having a conversation. So I hope you guys like
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these episodes as much as I do, but I think I'm gonna end the
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episode off here, So thank you guys, so so much for listening to
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But thank you guys so so much for listening to another episode. I love
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you all so much and I will see you guys next week