 good morning y'all we are back in austin it is wednesday so it's probably just gonna be like a vlog of a bunch of days combined currently 7 30 a.m and i'm about to go um on a walk slash run slash jog we're gonna figure out what we're like feeling today with my friend nancy um on the auditorium no we're not going to auditorium shores we're going to like the ladybird league same thing but you know what i mean just different entrances um i'm a little nervous uh don't feel really great this morning i feel like i just got cramps so i took like some Advil good morning you look so cute you look so cute i'm wearing a t-shirt no way so i was like i'm like i'm gonna be so sweaty yeah yeah god bless okay so i have to not only on my little interval she's training me yes like in i mean i'm no trainer my god um but we're doing something yes just moving our bodies but we're doing a minute walk two minute jog and then 30 second push like a run or sprint whatever that means to you but we're just like picking up our pace we're not i'm not gonna do it so it's a lot more tiring than it sounds try it oh my god when nancy told me this like two weeks ago i was like wait i kind of want to do it like i'm a beginner sounds great it's so much harder than you think i also am stupid and didn't stretch so we were both ready after yeah after we have to but it feels good first time getting back into it until like yes it'll be a little while we're done guys we did it we did it i was suffering towards the end i didn't say who took no me too like that was way too much but i thought but we did it so now we get to reward ourselves i was saying now we get a treat uh-huh we're going to this new place called foxtrot well they have one on burn it but they like literally popped them up at the same time yeah that's wild yeah and i swear like last week before i left for my trip i passed by it and it was like not done okay that's that's great i think you like yeah the fact that when i saw it well everyone's house already open yeah you're like they really did a lot and we did it yeah so we're going to check it out inside it's like so cute and i want a treat yes guys look what you can't see in there oh my god it's huge it's so big our friend cackin lettuce it's so cute in here they have like a little cafe with all this healthy food all the healthy snacks oh my gosh is this our austin air one i mean i bet this is all like the cutest packaging i could only imagine how expensive everything is why is that packaging with that june shine really calling to me oh beach vacation it just looks so right you know yes wow this is cool vibes oh wow they even have like white claws i know it's such a good place to have a little drink i've never seen these in like real real life yeah it's a good place to get packed again so oh desert detox cheers cheers and kathryn says the coffee is really good she came here yesterday back again this is amazing it tastes like even vacation it tastes like almost like a peanut butter i'm back home i just showered and i feel so good like the sweat was like to ride up on me so i felt really dirty when i was at foxtrot but i am obsessed with that place like i will be back very often and i want to like look more in like the market in the cafe area because i just feel like there's so many fun snacks and i love trying new snacks but i feel like packaging sometimes can be a scam there's so many products i've tried because i've seen influencers just like try them online and stuff like that cookie dough i think i've tried it once and i really did not think it was that right but it's like very healthy you know so maybe that's why and maybe i just have like the biggest sweet tooth so i think it's like really disgusting because i know what real cookie dough tastes like you know um but i'm on the hunt for like actually healthy actually good snacks so i'll let you know if i actually find any um but their smoothie was really good too and i definitely want to go back and try their chai i didn't really feel like i wanted like caffeine that early but now i feel like i need an energy drink like a straight up like a lani new and i think i told you guys about this but my sister left like a bunch of alani news here and that's like my first time trying it it was the only energy drink that didn't leave me feeling anxious which was very nice and then i felt like a superhero after it because i was getting so much done so i think i might drink one of those because at 12 o'clock it is currently 10 30 so i have like some time to get ready but at 12 o'clock i'm doing my first ever podcast recording but it's not my own podcast it's my friends she's um starting up a podcast and i think i might be her like second guest i don't know if she's actually like publishing anything just yet um or if she's just like building up some episodes before she like actually publishes them you know so i'll ask her today but you guys have probably seen her on my vlog through my stream and so we are going to talk about all things influencing and just how i got started so i don't know what it's gonna be i wanted to do my makeup like really good because it is also being filmed which i did it now until a week ago so now i'm a little nervous like wasn't that nervous just like talk and chat which i know it's going to be the same thing but now i have to like actually you know set up straight just make sure i look good too so that would be interesting i'm kind of in a limbo right now because i don't want to get fully back into a routine like i do want to start like exercising more for sure um but literally in less than a week we are turning around and going on another trip and this one's a little bit longer and i was literally unpacking everything last night which i'm so happy i did because everything was such a mess last night we watched god forbid it's like some documentary about some affair with like political people i saw a tiktok on it and it sounded really good but it ended like really horribly and they didn't even like tell us like an update on like where everyone is i was like what the hell um but it was okay after we watched it i was so tired i was about to go to sleep but then literally something came over me i got like an energy boost of just seeing all this clutter and like the kitchen area all over the couches like my clothes were everywhere i was like no i will not be kind of asleep like this because also i knew i was going to be kind of just like out and about all day and tonight i'm having some girls over for like an italian dinner kind of thing it's going to be so fun we are basically calling it like a cookbook club kind of thing and like one person's bringing app one person's bringing an entree one person is bringing like a cocktail um i'm doing the dessert which i haven't started on which i really need to right after i do this podcast because it's crème brûlée and it has to cool for like four hours i believe but i guess dessert is like the last thing you eat so it's going to be fine because i want to like torch the sugar like while they're there so it's like nice and fresh and warm but i'm excited because it's an early grand crème brûlée and during the pandemic i had a phase of really making crème brûlée so often we were pulling from half big harvest recipes which i don't think i've ever made anything from her we're actually going home back to georgia for a little bit and well it's a whole thing pretty much i'm going back to georgia ryan is pat sitting for my dad back there um like for the whole month well the whole rest of the month of june and then a little bit in july i am actually going to come back here a week later to austin because there's an event a very very exciting event that i wanted to go to so i was like i'll fly back and then um i had my friend's birthday party here anyway so it kind of gave me you know another reason to be back here um so i'm excited to be able to go to that and then i'm going to fly back home or for the july because i didn't really want to say and my grandma's gonna be there so i'm glad i have like multiple reasons to like fly back and forth like it's not gonna be the most fun but it also will be nice because i won't have to pack for like a whole month but i literally had this like uh packing cube full of just like like basics tank tops and stuff that i packed for the beach and i was like why did i just unpack that like i could have just like left it there so i could like pack it for next week because i'm i know when i'm home i pack like such cute stuff i never wear it because i'm just sitting in the household i like it's more of the suburbs of atlanta like there's not much to do you know just quickly curl my hair and look at the difference is what it looks like right after you curl it i'm gonna brush it out and like add probably some like texturizing product i just need it to be a little bit more voluminous up here but i also just like to like flip my head over i don't even know if i need product yay i just put some jewelry on which i feel like i have not been wearing a lot of jewelry like i usually wear a lot of rings but i haven't been dealing it so i think i need to dress up like it's like too basic so i just needed to put on a little bit um but i'm gonna pick out a lip color i'm gonna be like a little bit more natural so either the make up forever mm anywhere caffeine or we can do hello there we go or we can do this one iconic nude from shoulder right i think i want to do make up forever and then one of my favorite freaking lip glosses ever is rupeline lip dirt loss in the color stung i don't want anything too dark or anything and obviously i need something on my lips we are ready to podcast i know senelli's teaching me all the tips and tricks because i need to use manual yes so she like well she has like a really good camera too and it's sony so i love that for her but this is our predicament so i was just really really too bright but we have the iphone setup it looks like actually really good and i always tell my friends that are getting into like youtube don't use your iphone but honestly i've been using it lately and it's pretty good but it's only the back camera that i like right not the front cam yeah it's just no the selfie is not good but then she has this really nice camera and i'm like shoot like i kind of want you to use this but i mean i don't think it hurts to like use both and then see which one you like yeah like putting it side by side yeah i feel like you should just run for hours that's what yeah that's the that which is good yeah that's what i'm saying like that's only downfall this camera pause clap yeah yeah that's fine i i rather get used to this yeah i start getting more comfortable yeah i can't control with this and then this is just like backup for sure maybe for tiktok or instagram yeah and then i get also when i'm sitting there shades don't interfere um i mean yeah we need to move this light can we move the lamp yeah like even if you moved it like a little over this like because it's just like sticking out of your head you know yeah no let's go there we go yeah okay guys we're doing it we're doing it we're doing it so i'm gonna go ahead and press this one okay wait oh no yeah yeah you're good i'm gonna press this and then one wait oh oh go no not yet actually you moved your cup a little closer but i do 24 just in case you can redo it okay ready sometimes look at the camera sometimes i'm gonna be looking at you okay i wasn't even like i don't even know where i was looking okay ready tell me one one two three hi everyone welcome back senali is a photographer she's a fashion icon and so much more and i always joke that she is my kim k because not only is she a bad bitch but she's also a hustler and just gets shit done and i wanted to bring her on to share tips on how to build real estate in social media by creating a brand and building a presence in social media so i'm just kind of we're gonna kind of just like jump into it okay and i can always do a better introduction like honestly i whenever i vlog and i stutter and i restart and now i'm trying to look really simple for my editing yeah so i can like whenever i do repeat it and i go back to edit and i see the repeated i always take the first version really yeah it's more started here yeah okay that's kind of i think that's how it's probably gonna be with podcasting too like you can't repeat yourself just in case the like now starting to realize like i said it the way i said it and it's supposed to be said like that you know that's true that's a good point okay so over the past few years that i've known you i've just seen you blossom in your career like you popped off especially during south by this year having gone to so many different events and then after south by you got to be a guest speaker for amazon i just want to go into that a little bit more i know we talked about it but i just was like geeking out for you when you like mentioned that was like ghost in holly like i love seeing people from like the beginning and i know you were already at your peak when i met you but just seeing how many more gigs you've gotten over time yeah i'm just like a proud little mother okay so basically let's rewind because i have been in the amazon influencer program for and when i was there i really tried to network like with as many people from amazon as i could i really want to know is it because i was like networking with the right people or do they already like have me in the pipeline or like already is yeah so i was like so curious on that but obviously you can't just be like so how do i like get this opportunity like i'm so curious you know um so anyways yeah so i went to new york and it was so cool because i was in a room with influencers well this goes for la too because there were so many la influencers that would come for just like the day but i was there like for the whole like three nights and so there was like people like um katelyn b i don't know if you she was like an og youtuber katelyn b oh yeah yeah i did just the morning eight yes yes morning dates was there i got to meet her um uh kate and sartan oh yeah it's like all the literally all the og youtube and we're like you like youtube girls so like i was freaking out when they were all in the same room as me and so the same thing happened in new york i was like holy crap these people are so big on tiktok instagram and stuff and um one of the biggest ones i saw was michelle schmoyer do you know yes she does the living alone yeah i should be too in general a lot of the people i was meeting they just like had so many more callers than me um and i was like oh yeah i'm like from texas and they're like oh you flew in for this like for the heck i was like oh yeah i'm speaking on the panel in like 10 minutes and they're like wait what the heck like and i just felt like a little bit validated yeah i said i belong here yeah so they're watching me speak no literally well i went to a dinner with crown affair and they gave us like two products but the one product that i really wanted wasn't like yeah getting back so i just reached out i was like hey can i have the dry shampoo like yeah sent it over um i did a video just because i was like wanting it and wanting to see how it worked yeah and um later i didn't even send them the video i don't even think they saw it and emailed me and they wanted to like white list it which means i just put money behind it to boost it yeah and in return you get so yeah and audience too well that too yeah i do and also they gave me like money i'm trying to negotiate higher but you know that's fine i'll tell you what i can get but it was cool because i didn't even like i did that for free yeah and i got like a little bit of money out of it that's true because i tagged the brand the brand so and that's something that we forget too it's like we're giving them free publicity yeah and i feel like everything now is kind of like marketing and you're like if you're using it you might as well talk about it if you really like it for sure and i think we can all be an influencer in our own little way and i think some people will share it sharing it's getting on instagram service in states and she's been putting on your close friends list guilty and i'm like this is like really great content like i love hearing you talk like you're sharing your favorite things like why are you not sharing it with just like everyone it's not like you're hiding anything it was like a grocery haul i think it's like hard to be vulnerable and like show that side of yourself now a lot of my boyfriend's friends are very interested in what i do is like i'm always asking questions which is like so nice and like they're very genuine about it too but it's so crazy because i like told right i was like wow they like actually care about like what i do and then they're interested in it like i feel like when i was in high school i you know i got mocked and like not like severely bullied but like for sure like we're talking shit and rag was like they're only interested now because you actually made it right so once you started your youtube channel did you tell anybody about it right oh i have so many questions actually like how did you make viral content and then was there a way that you could promote your videos yeah i remember the day that i like launched my youtube channel on instagram i remember because i had this like really cute picture from cabo and i was like with my cousin and she was like really into youtube too she like loves the British youtuber so um i was like okay i'm gonna actually like promote it on my instagram like you know words out i have a youtube channel also i didn't even tell my parents for like the longest time for they didn't have to what were they thinking i was doing in your room i just with the tribe i was like now that i think back about it i'm really in the videos no no have you always had this confidence or did you just honestly because it's like it's i can just even like when we first met you're just very confident you hold a presence that i feel like a lot of youtubers i think okay i think it so i'm thinking like 16 year old sonora it's like okay but i wasn't i wasn't this confident back then i just ended and we talked for like what like how many hours i was gonna say i feel like it was definitely more than one hour i know it was good we had a lot of good content so when is this gonna be up because i was gonna say i can link it but if okay so i don't really think i'm gonna be able to post everything until august why because i still have to film a few others i want to have like five or six that's good and then i need to do well i'm gonna post on my instagram stories yeah you'll see it eventually might be two months for that got home a little bit ago and i immediately started working on our dessert of the night which is going to be earl gray creme brulee i steeped the tea in this cream and it smells so freaking good like i feel like i want to eat that already which makes me think i could make like earl gray ice cream and the creamy which also brings me to this point i got the premiere proteins finally um i got this one in the birthday cake flavor and then i also got chocolate and i want to make a creamy with that and if you guys don't know what a ninja creamy is it's like this ice cream while it's right here this thing makes like ice cream sorbet smoothie bowls milkshakes gelato like it is insane ask me how many times i've used it though buying it which was like a month ago we've used it like once well twice technically because we made two like little ice cream flavors but i want to use it more so i'm excited to put the premiere protein in like the little jars because you have to freeze it overnight which is kind of annoying that's the one thing that sucks i mean i get it like it has to freeze itself but you have to make um your like concoction freeze for at least like 24 hours so it's definitely not like a spontaneous thing but that's why i want to have like a couple different flavors like ready to be mixed and like ready to be eaten so yeah i'm really excited about this dessert because it's a little different a little twist on just the normal cum brulee and then i think some other girls are bringing like a crese salad i think hopefully hopefully my brand kiana is making carbonara because that's like my favorite i also really wanted to get some flowers from Trader Joe's because i found this stunning little like milk jar face i don't know what they're really called i think they're called like milk glasses or something but i don't know if you can tell the texture on this is like really really pretty and i wanted to put some like flowers in it and do like the little grid tape method so that they look really nice so we might go in a little bit but i just feel like a little bit stressed for this crumb brulee because i forgot that it does need a good amount of prep time because after i bake it it has to cool for like x amount of hours which is like maybe three or four i want to remind me to get a ladle Trader Joe's got some flowers and they have such a good selection right now i got candies and renegulas which are my absolute favorite currently this is what they look like but they're gonna look even better when they're actually like fluffed and like not all in a bowl baby's breath obviously i don't know what these are called and then i got the little yellow poppy balls crass media and obviously we're using my stunning little milk glass what is it called why am i blinking these all go like really nicely together but i just prepped them and now i'm going to use the tape method okay guys it's done i mean i wish it was like more filled in some areas because you can like some really see the stems or maybe i should have like just cut it shorter but honestly for my first like little tape grid method thing i feel like it's not not too shabby i'm so sorry you're kidding me so we did a little dinner club supper club and this time we picked half baked harvest so everyone's gonna say what they brought i brought um it's zucchini um prosciutto burrata carbonara pasta so delicious it's crispy prosciutto so yum the okay um and then i brought the chicken pesto it's supposed to be on skewers for skiing girls so it looks so good i have to read mine okay i'm gonna forget i brought the marinated mozzarella melon skewers yum and also the frozen apral peach margarita literally so yummy wait so did you blend like p i got the biggest bag of frozen peaches so i'm like this big oh my gosh i didn't even use half of it and then apral margarita tequila and this one thing i can't pronounce i don't think i usually like like apral but i don't know if i can taste it as much right i like apral but i don't like a lot of it yeah i can get cough syrup in me yeah oh yeah no 100% i literally drink it straight no you should know that i wish i could do that i love it no i know people who drink are so chic i know but i'm also like are you lying to yourself yeah are you lying no i love it absolutely not at her pregame she was just straight up drinking i should have brought you the bottle that i had like i'm like i'm thinking yeah and then i made earl gray creme brulee that's in the fridge and i'm gonna torch them when we're ready for it fancy fancy okay i'm excited to eat let's do it first taste test there you go yummy good good the girls just left and the cookbook dinner was so good like so fun and kind of pushed us all out of like our elements of cooking and the earl gray creme brulee was like so delicious i will be making that again i also just got some packages downstairs because i forgot that i even had some waiting for me and this one's a good one i ordered from dish don't know if it's like australian or like what it's definitely not like a us brand but their clothes are just like perfectly neutral earthy tones and like linen vibes and so perfect for summer so i'm really excited to try that on i'll probably like try to do that tomorrow and then the pharmacy sent me something so let's go ahead and open that now the camera is very crooked my battery is like dying and i'm just trying to do this really quick that was not very efficient all these years of getting pr like i still have yet to buy a box cutter the pr moves around it literally like looks like it's empty okay where's this part though okay it's a cleansing balm i think i already have on their cleansing balm so maybe it's just like a different flavor i definitely have their cleansing balm let's see what they smell like then it comes with like a little scoop okay it's like very like clean smelling but also like a sweet strawberry flavor over here clarence sent me a box two these are the lip perfecters and i've been seeing these on my frenzy cows okay i really like this it also smells really good too but it's literally ploshing at me so i will talk to you guys tomorrow morning morning it is actually friday yesterday i was having a very bum day and just did some admin work nothing very exciting it is currently 6 57 a.m i have a morning shoot at 7 a.m with one of my blogger clients and then i want to like film a good bit today because well actually i'm not really sure because i think it's supposed to be raining at 3 so i'm gonna try to get ready really early and then like start filming stuff and i have just so many like tiktoks that i have had on my like editing queue to edit but i haven't edited them um but i'm proud of myself because i posted a youtube video last night that one was a support haul it was very chatty very chill so definitely check that out if you haven't already i'm kind of sad because i feel like we don't really have any major plans this weekend and i was like trying to like have something to look forward to but i think like a lot of my friends are just busy out of town um so i don't know what we're doing this weekend i definitely want to swim like somewhere sometime so definitely swimming and then i think we're gonna try a new restaurant tonight we have started to go to the same restaurants and i was like there are so many new ones here in austin like every week i swear they're like two new restaurants so it's kind of getting overwhelming but i'm so excited to try them all out like they look so good but honestly food here in austin is not cheap whatsoever even if you come and try to make it cheap like it's definitely gonna add up but we'll kind of wait and see what we're craving because we haven't really made a reservation we're just hoping we can get in somewhere early all right ready three slide over this way keep going keep going okay good ready three two one perfect walking yeah three two one go there we go two one go perfect ready three two one cute turn even more that way actually you've been turning that way this whole time with yeah switch up three two perfect play with sunglasses good three two one and even closer three two one maybe hold your hair like decent like almost like yeah yeah there we go yep look away look the other way good today i went for a more glowy makeup look and how i like it throughout the day i feel like that's the issue is like it just like starts to just look oily and not as glowy i actually just gave soky a little summer trim because she didn't really need like a whole haircut on her body because we like how she looks when it's long and then every time we take her to actually get groomed they cut so much off so i was like okay let me just try to order like an actual pet scissors on amazon and it worked out so well like i actually think i did a good job and i'm proud because now i don't have to spend like 60 just for like a base trimming ryan's downstairs and he's giving her a bath so we can like see it in full force we're gonna like give her a little blowout and everything um but i wanted to do an unboxing the first one is from um oh my gosh yes glow recipe this cream right here was my favorite for a very long time and then i just started using like ran a PR that i got but i'm excited to have this again because it's so good it is the plump plump hyaluronic cream and then serum oh fancy okay but butter london has a lot of nail polish and usually i don't just do natural nails i've had these for like a week or two and i'm actually shook at it this morning i did like a little makeup tiktok and me holding the products with my natural nails didn't look like amazing because i had just bitten them all off because one broke um but i'm excited to use this because that these are like nail treatments she said or if you want to do like natural nail or just need a little bit of repair oh okay melt away cuticle exfoliator mellow the yellow nail brightening treatment that's that's cool this is a nail tinted moisturizer what the heck i've never heard of something like that but it does have like a little bit of a color to it so i'm very curious and they set these really cool brushes for maybe like nail art or just like cleaning up around the cuticles which is nice because they do have makeup too because they sent me a blush and a mascara this one is also from clorecipe look at this pride packaging it's for the watermelon glow hortite toner be saturday last night we didn't end up going to try that restaurant but we're going to try a new cafe this morning and i don't know what time this was but i woke up because sofi was like shaking she hates the rain and it started like thunderstorming like super super bad and i was like damn there goes our whole day because we're supposed to like meet up with our friends later today and have like a grill out cookout thing but then i woke up and the skies were so clear blue so i'm very happy about that it's pretty hot out like i don't every time summer comes along i'm like how did we do it last summer because it's so hot peace test and ice tribe so creamy i'm actually good at this got a drape au bâté la colom right no it's just their own version of it i guess nice we're gonna talk about what are you like this one better than la colom in new york dang take it back it's a little bit better now then pass the phone you're not gonna want my review people need so theatrical yeah open well we got a lot of errands to run today gotta go to the boot shop pick up our boots they're stretched we're gonna go get soil for our boog and be that is blooming i need a bigger pot i don't think it'll i don't think it'll outgrow its surroundings though i literally spent $39 on a pot on amazon i thought it was gonna be so so much cheaper than like where we went to buy the big and can't fit no it wasn't and it was like what plastic or something like it wasn't stone sorry material yeah came to walmart to get some kawai caviar stuff and now we need to get some soil for our plant but unfortunately the boot shop wasn't open so because we'll have to go on a weekday just got home and i have like about two hours before we go over to my friend's apartment pool and i think i'm gonna do some marinated drumsticks that just sounds so good i know there's going to be like hot dogs and stuff but doesn't chicken just sound so good on a freaking pool day so i'm gonna do that i don't really know exactly what recipe i'm going to be using it's just going to be a mixture of like spices and yogurt yogurt is like this secret ingredient to making it so moist and good i'm gonna make kawai caviar and then cut up some watermelon i'm already i'm doing my monday swimwear of course this is like my absolute go-to swimsuit because it just really sucks me in when i needed the most which is today and honestly if i did but i'm also wearing this anthon linden um like button down shirt and it is one size but this is the length of it and i think it's perfect for like a swimsuit cover up honestly you can wear it so many different ways but i made the kawai caviar and kind of watermelon and marinated chicken i need to get that over the fridge actually before i forget but kawai caviar is so freaking good i actually met a subscriber in walmart and i was like oh yeah i'm just shopping for like a cookout and i'm making kawai caviar and she did not know what that was summer it went viral on tiktok and i feel like i heard about it for at least two weeks straight it's just so good so very excited to eat those with some chips we got some cookies and we're just ready to grill out and swim in the pool just be in the sun it's really hot outside so that's how we survived summer here in austin if you guys were wondering literally you don't leave the house unless you know you're going somewhere with like a body of water that you can swim in yeah it's like um red bell pepper red onion corn black beans plays like nonsense