Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets.

Today we have O'Landria Carthin on a breakout star from Love Island USA Season 7, known widely as we were just talking about the Bama Barbie.

O'Landria played the long game in the villa and emerged as a fan favorite for her strength, poise, and genuine approach.

Not just in romance, but in life. She is killing it in the corporate

career too, working at Otis Elevator Co. She's proof that brains and business acumen and truth

to herself can lead to a breakthrough reality TV star. Post show she's balancing the corporate grind with modeling brand

partnerships and living out her personal brand rooted in southern authenticity. We're going to explore

how she's building business beyond the bungalow and here in Life Post Love Island.

Landra, how are you doing? That was a beautiful engine. I mean, you deserve it. You are, you are the, how's the field? You are like the queen right now. How is, like, that's crazy what's going on with this show and with you and everything. It's so surreal. Like, you know, like, obviously being in the villa, we have no connection to the outside world. I never knew how America felt about me. Right. So to come out

with all the support, it just literally trumps any negativity about me, right? My supporters are everything to me. So this support that I have, I don't know, just I'm on high right now. What did you think? Like, I know you don't get visibility to it, but when you, like, I remember when I was on reality TV, I was like, you know, I feel pretty good. Like, I feel like I'm being true to myself.

If they edit me that way, that's fine.

When you were in there,

did you feel like I think this is going to go well for me? No, for sure. I knew I was being authentic. I know I was being true to me. But at the same time, I didn't know if it was going to be perceived that way in America. So obviously when I get out, I was like, okay, not really how I was

being in there, but, you know, I knew I was still being true to me. So I was putting like a mean girl light. That wasn't really me. So now I'm trying to just clear that up, like everyone know, like, hey, I was like the mother of the villa. I was like the big sister to everybody. I was a therapist of the group.

Let me, like, just, I don't know, feed into what I'm saying instead of what y'all seen.

Yeah.

What, when you watched it back, what was the most? the therapist of the group, let me, like, just, I don't know, feed into what I'm saying instead

of what y'all seen, yeah. What, when you watched it back, what was the most surprising to you based on what you, like, you perceived to be the reality versus then what was the reality? So I haven't quite watched all of it back. Okay, okay. My family and friends just kind of told me who they've seen. I've just kind of like been online to see how I was perceived.

It looks like I was perceived as someone that's being thirsty.

Thirsty after someone

that didn't want me. I'm like, okay, that wasn't true. Obviously, I was, you know, one thing about me, if I'm going hard for somebody, it's because they're reciprocating the energy back into me. So it's unfortunate that it wasn't aired, but, you know, obviously Taylor, Taylor was a good guy and did everything right by me as far as treating me good as a woman.

When it came to, like, you know, obviously Taylor, Taylor was a good guy and did everything

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