You're listening to the Beautiful Mess podcast, your cozy comfort listen, and this week we're sharing the story of how we became influencers and why we decided to retire from it over the past few years.

There are so many pros and cons to this career path that we don't hear talked about often enough.

In this episode, we'll share

our experiences as well as any advice for anyone considering going into influencing.

I feel like this is going to be a fun episode. I've been looking forward to this one for a while

because past year, whenever I spend time, particularly on TikTok, I've noticed, there's just so much, it feels like it's such a dream job for people. It's just a very, very popular career path now. And a lot of people seem to see it as this like golden opportunity and kind of like a simplistic like if you go viral if you blow up

then you've made it and you will just be rich and have a secure career and that is not exactly

how we see it or what we believe in so I think this will be you know just kind of an interesting

episode to like add some context for people who are

considering it. I also think influencing makes an excellent side career. Yeah. If you are kind of on the

fence with it, I don't think it has to be all or nothing. I think it makes a great add-on to something

else. And then we're also going to talk about, like, the mental health aspects of that, which is huge and very important to talk else. And then we're also going to talk about like the mental health aspects of that, which is

huge and very important to talk about.

We're going to talk about some of our favorite memories and sort of like the highlights of

our experiences.

And we have like a unique experience because we did start pre-social media influencing.

So we like did it whenever it was only blogs.

So we have, I feel like we were there for, like, maybe, like, one of the very first brand trips that ever happened, which is really funny.

Maybe. Actually, maybe. For real, though. It makes us sound really old, but I'm like, yeah, actually, maybe. I own that. I own that. I think I'm like on the very last year, there's like one or two last years that you can even be a millennial. That's my age. So that's fine. And then, yeah, we're going to talk about the pros and cons. And we are going to give advice for anyone who is trying to do it. Now, I feel like the reason why I didn't do this episode in the past is like I felt like it leaned a little negative. And I was like, I don't want to make it seem like it's like because a lot of our close. It's terrible. No one should do it. It's like, well, no, we don't really feel

that way. Yeah. We definitely don't feel the way. Many, many of our close friends are

influencers professionally. I think it's a career. Like, so yeah, start off with this. Start off

with my big caveat because, you know, the, you love a caveat. It's our passion. I think that influencing is a career that deserves a lot more respect.

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