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Creator Retreat on Virgin Voyages! | Creator Wave 2024 VLOG | #224 · Influencer Confidential

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Influencer Confidential by Sidewalker Daily. My name is
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Speaker 1: Nina Zeta and I will be your host. I love
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Speaker 1: working with brands and influencers on all things business strategy.
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Speaker 2: Are you ready to learn what it takes to.
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Speaker 1: Work in this influencer industry and see behind the curtain?
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Speaker 2: Well, let's jump in, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, Creator Wave recap, Let's get into it. I had
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Speaker 1: the best five nights of my life.
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Speaker 2: Literally came back a new woman.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know what I'm talking about and you're like,
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Speaker 1: what is this woman rambling? Creator Wave was the first
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Speaker 1: ever creator retreat that our team put on. So first
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Speaker 1: of all, it was not a conference so to speak,
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Speaker 1: you know where you're just like in the little room
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Speaker 1: with your notebook. Like, we didn't those exist. God bless them,
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Speaker 1: we love them, we go to them. We didn't want that.
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Speaker 1: We're just like about fun. Learning is important and that's
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Speaker 1: what we built our company on.
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Speaker 2: I have my MBA, Clorisa's her law.
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Speaker 1: Degree, but we were like, we need to have fun
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Speaker 1: with these people and we need to like have experiences
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Speaker 1: with them and shoot contact with them and like just
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Speaker 1: make it so much more than just learning. Because learning
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Speaker 1: happens in those small moments. Our team took like a
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Speaker 1: bunch of time and resources to put together this retreat
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Speaker 1: and here's how it went down. So we started the
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Speaker 1: trip off by getting to the port of Miami where
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Speaker 1: we were going to be boarding Virgin Voyages.
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Speaker 2: On a five night cruise.
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Speaker 1: We met the guest speakers there and we got in
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Speaker 1: before the guest did, so we had to get on
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Speaker 1: to look at the meeting space. And then after that
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Speaker 1: we had like this meetup that happened before the sail
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Speaker 1: away party. This is kind of where everyone had the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to quickly meet before the sail away, which was
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Speaker 1: an epic like basically dance party on the top deck
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Speaker 1: as you're leaving the port of Miami Beautiful. We all
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Speaker 1: had just so much fun dancing and like there's like
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Speaker 1: people doing the conga line and there was people. It
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Speaker 1: was just awesome, champagne tosts really having fun as we're
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Speaker 1: sailing out. And then after the Sidewalker team, we had
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Speaker 1: like a private event towards the back of the ship.
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Speaker 1: It was more intimate, it was only open for our
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Speaker 1: people that you know, our attendees.
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Speaker 2: We did like some sort of bingo like.
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Speaker 1: Creator Wave Bingos, so people get to know each other
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Speaker 1: and it was really sweet.
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Speaker 2: I did like a mini little speech, but it was.
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Speaker 1: Really sweet because that was the only opportunity people are
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to meet before shows, dinner, and the
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Speaker 1: learning the next day. Like we needed a time for
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Speaker 1: people to like get to know each other. So the
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Speaker 1: welcome party was that. Then we went to a really
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Speaker 1: fun show on the ship. It was called The Misbehaved Show.
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Speaker 1: Its literally freaking hilarious, amazing icebreaker. People were like crying, laughing.
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Speaker 1: One of the girls like was doing like splits on stage,
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Speaker 1: so that was epic.
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Speaker 2: And what do we do after?
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Speaker 1: Oh, dinner, we had like an amazing Mexican dinner. And
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Speaker 1: that's one thing about Virgin Voyages that is the chef's
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Speaker 1: kiss is their food. Like the food was just delicious.
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Speaker 1: So we started the night off with a really beautiful meal.
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Speaker 1: And after dinner there was the Virgin Voyage's Pajama Party,
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Speaker 1: So it's like an adult pja party and it's so
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Speaker 1: fun because obviously there's no kids on the ship, so
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Speaker 1: it really makes for just like a.
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Speaker 2: Funny little end of evening.
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Speaker 1: Like nice thing, but imagine you have the meat and greet,
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Speaker 1: the sail away, the welcome party, a show dinner, and
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Speaker 1: a pajama party. Like it is a lot. So people
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Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, this is obviously very heavy,
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Speaker 1: but you don't have to do all the events. You
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Speaker 1: can choose whatever you wanted to come to. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: that was our first night. Then the next day started
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Speaker 1: off with a hilarious icebreaker. Our team did a private
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Speaker 1: eighties workout class. So this is one of the things
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Speaker 1: that Virgin Voyages is known for. They have this really
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Speaker 1: fun eighties workouts, like Richard Simmons workout where you know,
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Speaker 1: you're just in eighties clothes and the workout's very eighties esque,
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Speaker 1: and that was so fun.
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Speaker 2: Everyone had a blast.
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Speaker 1: And imagine, these are a bunch of content creators, so
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Speaker 1: it makes for epic content. We were just not only
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Speaker 1: working out together, we were all dressed up in our
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Speaker 1: eighties gear. Like everyone was just laughing and it just
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Speaker 1: created so much fun. Like it started the day off
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Speaker 1: really really strong because people.
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Speaker 2: Were like, this is fun.
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Speaker 1: You know, they got to have fun in the morning
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Speaker 1: working out in their outfits and like.
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Speaker 2: We all had our eighties gear. It was just it
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Speaker 2: was really cute.
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Speaker 1: Then that day was the first learning day and it
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Speaker 1: was about four and a half five hours.
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Speaker 2: Of learning in a meeting space.
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Speaker 1: So I started off by talking about the brand perspective.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to share some of my brand clients.
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Speaker 2: Like what I do for them, so that the creators.
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Speaker 1: In the room could kind of have that brand inside perspective. Monette,
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Speaker 1: who is from the Traveling Child. She is a wealth
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Speaker 1: of knowledge when it comes to negotiating, advocating for yourself,
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Speaker 1: standing up for your worth. I mean, the woman is
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Speaker 1: so successful, so smart, so brilliant. So her session was
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Speaker 1: a very eye opening because it was like all example based.
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Speaker 1: After Monet's session, we broke off for lunch and then
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Speaker 1: we had Sandy and Jimmy from Trying Something New. They
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Speaker 1: are like viral super stars. I think they have over
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Speaker 1: three million followers. They know exactly how to go viral,
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Speaker 1: how to grow. So they taught like short form video
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Speaker 1: and like growth strategies. So people were really pumped about
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Speaker 1: that because obviously we all want to learn how to
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Speaker 1: like grow our accounts. And then Michael Moretti, who is
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Speaker 1: a really talented videographer and photographer that I have hired
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Speaker 1: on multiple shoots for my brand clients, He taught us
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Speaker 1: the value of high quality content and truly how to
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Speaker 1: shoot like quality content, not that fast one five second
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Speaker 1: you know what we call kind of like fast food content.
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Speaker 1: So really epic from a learning perspective, I think people's
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Speaker 1: minds were blown because the guest speakers are really really smart.
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Speaker 1: Not only are they're really smart, they're just all very
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Speaker 1: successful and they all have a lot to share. So
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Speaker 1: then after the learning, but a few of us we
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Speaker 1: did like this reflection.
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Speaker 2: So Kimy called well from Parae Kamey. She is one of.
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Speaker 1: Our inner Circle members. She is a creator in the
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Speaker 1: brofiting space. She is just a breath of fresh air,
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Speaker 1: lovely again, super dynamic. She hosted this like reflection circle
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Speaker 1: for us, and this was meant to be very more
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Speaker 1: like meditative journaling, kind of just peeling back the layers
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Speaker 1: you know that we all put on as content creators.
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Speaker 1: It was a very emotional space. I'm not allowed to
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Speaker 1: share like too much what happened in there, but it
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Speaker 1: was transformative, to say the least. I think for some
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Speaker 1: people it's probably the best part of the trip.
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Speaker 2: For me, it was very very moving.
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Speaker 1: I was a disaster mess, like baled my eyes out,
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Speaker 1: but yeah, it really struck home and just like gay people,
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Speaker 1: something really deep. It wasn't just like fun from fun, partty,
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Speaker 1: partty party learn, learn and learn, Like, hey, we need
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Speaker 1: to do the inner work. So I love that we
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Speaker 1: incorporated that into the program. Then that evening some people
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Speaker 1: went to go watch different shows. We all did a
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Speaker 1: group dinner. We had Korean barbecue, which is obviously freakin delicious,
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Speaker 1: Like I love Korean food. Korean barbecue super fun. It's
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Speaker 1: done in small groups. Again, people are getting to know
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Speaker 1: each other, build those bonds of friendship. And I remember
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Speaker 1: someone came up to Monet that day and was like,
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Speaker 1: if the trip ended right now, I would have got
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Speaker 1: my money's worth. She said that twenty four hours later,
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Speaker 1: so we were like, that's amazing.
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Speaker 2: That's a freaking win.
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Speaker 1: The next day, which was day three, was well, we
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Speaker 1: got to Mexico.
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Speaker 2: So this was the port day.
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Speaker 1: Our team had a excursion, planned a private excursion through
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Speaker 1: a third party vendor to do private catamarans and this
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Speaker 1: is where we took like an hour bus to the
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Speaker 1: Baccalart Lagoon. But basically it was just like this environmental
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Speaker 1: protected area, this lagun is gorgeous it's freshwater. It was
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Speaker 1: just epic. We took three catamarans. You know, there was
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Speaker 1: mango and there was guacamole, and those who drank had
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Speaker 1: tequila and drinks and we just like were swimming for
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Speaker 1: hours on end. We went to two different spots. The
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Speaker 1: excursion was so lovely because we were not learning or working.
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Speaker 1: We were just like out in nature together, traveling like
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Speaker 1: our tour guides were super kind. We got really lucky
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Speaker 1: with weather. It was just beautiful on the catamaran, like
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Speaker 1: the water. A lot of creators got some epic drone footage.
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Speaker 1: So all in all, that day was just lovely and
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Speaker 1: I think really special because people got to travel together
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Speaker 1: and see a different part of Mexico that many of
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Speaker 1: us haven't been to. Now, this is where I think
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Speaker 1: the Sidewalker team got so lucky.
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Speaker 2: So we partnered with Earth Harbor.
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Speaker 1: So Earth Harbor is this beauty brand and when they
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Speaker 1: found out we were doing this retreat, they reached out
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Speaker 1: to us, which is always amazing when brands find you
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Speaker 1: and want to align themselves with you. We knew that
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Speaker 1: they were going to be a great fit because first
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Speaker 1: of all, we were going on a cruise like to
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Speaker 1: tropical destinations and they're all about like harnessing the natural
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Speaker 1: power of like the ocean and the earth. They are
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Speaker 1: a company that's ethical safe, They have sustainability at the
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Speaker 1: forefront of all their products, and they're just like plant
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Speaker 1: based skincare. They were founded by a toxicologist, so like
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Speaker 1: we knew their products and they small, delicious.
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Speaker 2: It's exactly the type of brand we would want.
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Speaker 1: To partner with. So this is where it was super epic.
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Speaker 1: So the guests are all in Mexico like doing all
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Speaker 1: their stuff, and we were able to arrange with Earth
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Speaker 1: Harbor and the Virgin Housekeeping team to like have gifts
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Speaker 1: for all the attendees like in their room. So when
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Speaker 1: they got back from like a day of being in
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Speaker 1: the ocean in the sun, they were greeted with this
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Speaker 1: beautiful like gift box that had all these lovely products inside.
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Speaker 2: And it's not just.
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Speaker 1: You know, hey, beauty influencers, like they wanted to be
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Speaker 1: a part of this trip support getting creators together in
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Speaker 1: real life and to getting involved like that to me
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Speaker 1: is just like really epic. So once we got back
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Speaker 1: around Costamaya, we had some downtime, like very little, and
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Speaker 1: then we had a photo shoot with Michael on the
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Speaker 1: top deck. So there's this epic Virgin sign on the
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Speaker 1: very top deck, and we knew this is Scarlet Night
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Speaker 1: because it's the third night of the trap, which is
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Speaker 1: they're all red party on Virgin voyages. Like we all
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Speaker 1: had our all red looks. We knew we were gonna
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Speaker 1: be like all dressed up in red and we wanted
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Speaker 1: these epic shots and Michael so graciously donated his time
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Speaker 1: to get photos of everyone on the top deck and
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Speaker 1: their red looks, and like we had a total fashion
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Speaker 1: show up there, Like everyone got their shots, which was
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Speaker 1: so lovely, Like I felt like a superstar. There was
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Speaker 1: crazy amounts of wind, but that did not stop us
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Speaker 1: because the photos turned out amazing. People were so grateful
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Speaker 1: and it was just fun shooting content all together up there.
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Speaker 1: So after we did our little photo shoot with Michael,
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Speaker 1: we all headed to dinner and that was, like I said,
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Speaker 1: Scarlet Knight, which was the big party on the ship.
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Speaker 1: It was I don't know, maybe it's like the inner
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Speaker 1: party girl in me, but to me, it was like
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Speaker 1: one of the most funnest I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: a word nights.
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Speaker 2: Ever.
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Speaker 1: We weren't dancing, people were in the pool. We were
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Speaker 1: just like having so much fun. Like when I tell you,
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Speaker 1: the energy was ten out of ten, Like I felt
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Speaker 1: like a kid again, Like this is insane. We just
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Speaker 1: connected in such a way. Now, mind you, we have
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Speaker 1: been together already for two nights. This is our third night.
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Speaker 1: So people were just having a blast on the ship.
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Speaker 1: It was I think a ten out of ten experience.
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Speaker 1: And seeing people like in the pool, seeing people having
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Speaker 1: those moments and that fun together was really really special
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Speaker 1: to witness. I'm not gonna lie the inner dancer and
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Speaker 1: me came out. I was dancing up a storm. So
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Speaker 1: Scarlet Night was night three. The next day was a
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Speaker 1: C day again, so back to learning, which is the
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Speaker 1: big part of the trip, so we had a second
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Speaker 1: learning day. The second learning day was also really really
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Speaker 1: exciting and awesome because there was an interactive element to
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Speaker 1: the learning where we asked attendees to create short form
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Speaker 1: video and if they wanted to share it, they could,
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Speaker 1: like we were all cheering for each other, so it
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Speaker 1: was really fun to see the content people were we
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Speaker 1: able to create based off the skills that they learned.
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Speaker 1: So it's kind of like a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: show and tell. All the speakers did office hours, so
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Speaker 1: we all got individual time with all the attendees to
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Speaker 1: help them with their one on one situations, and there
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Speaker 1: was a panel that we answered like top level questions
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Speaker 1: that everyone could kind of listen to. So the second
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Speaker 1: c day was all about learning and it was just
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Speaker 1: really epic as well.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of just a lot of learning.
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Speaker 1: That afternoon there was downtime, people got to just kind
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Speaker 1: of chill. Obviously, we do dinner together as a group
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Speaker 1: every night, which was really lovely being able to see
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Speaker 1: everyone for group dinner. And then the last day, the
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Speaker 1: fifth day was in the Bahamas. We were in Bimini again,
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Speaker 1: so lucky with the weather. A few creators did their
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Speaker 1: own excursions, like some people did the Stingwray excursion where
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Speaker 1: they got to swim with Stingwrays.
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Speaker 2: I know Sandy and Jimmy did.
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Speaker 1: The Shark excursion where they got to swim with sharks,
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Speaker 1: so crazy, So that was really fun for the people
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Speaker 1: that were able to do those excursions. The water was beautiful.
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Speaker 1: The Sidewalker team and all the Creator Wave attendees like
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Speaker 1: we did our own we did like a photo shoot
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Speaker 1: at the back like we thought we were like freaking
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Speaker 1: celebrities over here. People are like, who are these people
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Speaker 1: like just taking pictures all the time. But it is
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Speaker 1: a creator retreat, like we are here to get content.
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Speaker 1: So there was lots of content being made at Bimini
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Speaker 1: on the beach because of course the water is gorgeous.
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Speaker 1: We had an amazing time at the beach club, at
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Speaker 1: the Virgin Bimini Beach Club, like food is included, so
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Speaker 1: it's kind of like an extension.
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Speaker 2: Of the ship.
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Speaker 1: And it was our last day, so there was kind
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Speaker 1: of just like some you know, it's kind of like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, it's ending, you know, but we just
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Speaker 1: had an epic day on the beach, Like it was
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Speaker 1: so amazing being in that blue water together, all of
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Speaker 1: us just having the time of our life.
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Speaker 2: We want to go back, take me back. It was
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Speaker 2: so good.
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Speaker 1: And after we did our beach day, we had a
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Speaker 1: group dinner and we ended the trip with a surprise
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Speaker 1: which I can't even share with you guys, because some
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Speaker 1: things are just not meant to be shared with everyone.
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Speaker 1: And that was kind of the statement that we shared.
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Speaker 1: There were no phones allowed, there was no video footage allowed,
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Speaker 1: and that's how we closed out the trip with a
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Speaker 1: very private, it exclusive event for the Creator Wave attendees.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, it was a surprise and a secret, and
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Speaker 1: I hope that it remains a secret so that if
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Speaker 1: we do it again, you know, you guys will not
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Speaker 1: know until you know. Speaking of doing it again, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people have asked, meaning, are you going to
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Speaker 1: do this again? And we do have a weight list starting,
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Speaker 1: so if you are interested in being a part of it,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and put your name on this weight list
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Speaker 1: if you want to meet creators in real life, if
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Speaker 1: this trip looked fun to you, if you want to
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Speaker 1: be a part of our next one. The people on
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Speaker 1: the wait list will be the first people to find
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Speaker 1: out and the trip will be first come first or
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Speaker 1: we sold out this time and we expect to.
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Speaker 2: Sell out now again. So yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: Hope you guys enjoyed seeing this epic trip that we did.
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Speaker 1: It was a huge blessing for our team to be
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Speaker 1: able to execute at this level. It was a very
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Speaker 1: highly high produced event in the sense that there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of logistics and a lot of coordinating for
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Speaker 1: a team, but it was up and we hope you
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Speaker 1: guys enjoyed seeing all the love that was poured into
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Speaker 1: this event. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. If you did,
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Speaker 2: Until next time,