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Call Your Friends

Advice from Kristen Mcatee & Alex Koot: Body Positivity, Finding Your Passion, Making Money and more

Call Your Friends

Madison and Lauren Orlando

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Society & Culture

4.8837 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re joined by Kristen Mcatee and Alex Koot. Kristen is a YouTuber and social media influencer who has shared her life with an audience of over a million people online for the past four years. Alex is a talented web designer who balances a career in both the corporate and creative fields. Together, they host the podcast, Oddvice, where they share their life and career experiences and give advice to their listeners in a clever, yet approachable way. In this episode, we dive into both Kristen and Alex’s background and story and share some of our best advice with you as well. You can keep up with Kristen @kristenmcatee and Alex @alexkoot.jpg on Instagram, and can find their podcast, Oddvice, on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.    Produced by Dear Media

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production. Hi, I'm Caroline Stamberry and I am divorced, not dead.

0:07.4

Fresh off the back of my divorce, I'm bringing real stories, real life, real talk on all things that aren't said.

0:13.1

Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves for the happily ever after? Does our love story really have to be one great lengthy novel?

0:20.7

Or can we be happy with a book of short but exciting love stories?

0:23.6

I guess we'll find out on Divorce Not Dead.

0:26.6

And lucky me, you'll be joining me for the journey, so buckle up.

0:29.6

Hi, I'm Maddie Orlando, and this is my sister Lauren.

0:39.2

Hi. We have an eight-year age gap. So we don't always agree on everything, but at least we have

0:44.4

different perspectives. On this podcast, we discuss basically anything you would talk about with

0:49.0

your own sister. So, welcome to our fam.

0:57.6

Hi guys, welcome back to the podcast.

1:03.2

Today, Maddie and I are here with Alex and Kristen from the Odd Vice podcast, which you guys should definitely go check out.

1:05.3

Yeah, we had so much fun recording with them.

1:07.7

Alex and Kristen are both living in L.A. So we talked all about their careers, a little bit about their background and their

1:11.3

story. And then we ended off the episode with some of your questions and we gave you guys some

1:15.8

advice. So we love talking with them. We had so much fun. And I know you guys will all love this

1:20.3

episode. So let's get into it. I wanted to start by asking you guys like what COVID has been like

1:26.0

in LA and what you've been doing for the last few months when we were all kind of stuck at home.

1:30.6

Less doing more like internal doing.

1:33.8

Yeah. I feel like the past few months have been a lot of like self realization, a lot of self discovery, a lot of doing like projects that we always want to do. Yeah. We're lucky we have each other. Yes,

1:46.9

I would be going crazy. I've also cooked a lot. I like I can make pasta by hand now. Like I literally

1:53.4

I feel so legit. Wow. Fancy. A lot of internal stuff, which is good. I feel like this is one of the first times ever in almost all of

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